Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-04-29

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TIE following curious case is reported
from Los Angeles, about Lewis G, Cabanis,
notary Of that city, who has just been
granted pension by the United States Goy>
ernmcnt During the var he was stationed
as quartermastcr at Walla Wala, Washing
ton Territory, and during an official rip was
thrown FROM his buggy, landing on his head
and producing conclusion of the brain.
When after two months, he partially rccov-
cred consciousness, lie was asked to sign the
rcgimental report, he found that he had for
gotten his own name IN consequence Of the
accident Asking a short postponemcnt he
managed to crawl ont Of bed, and in his
camp>chest found some papers which had
his name written upon them. Before the &C,
cidcnt he was good linguist, speaking four
! or five languages, but has not been able since
to recall more than one or two of them.
THE Victoria C0loAist, Of the 10Th inst
contains the following: On the 9TH Of last
| January there appeared in the columns of
the Colohia a card signed by George White
which card reflects injuriously upon the
! private character of Mr.. John Collins Of
Seattle, Washington Territory. Since the
! publication we have been assured that the
charges contained in said card are untrue;
that the writer was and is labOring under an
| hallucination, and that this paper was made
thc vehicle or ar unjustiiiable assault on Mr.
Collins character that had been refused in
| sertion in the press of Washington Territory
| Cndcr these circumstances we have no hest
! tation in saying that we regret the publica-
| ton and are extremely sorry that the card
/ reached the public eye through these col
umnS
| TIE dispute about the Maynard claim in
the city Of Seattle has been before the Land
! office for some time 4 new element in the
contest now appears. The City Of Seattle
made application to enter the land under the
| Town site Law, and letter from the Com
missioner was recently received directing the
| Register and Receiver to take testimony in
the case Notices were sent down for publ
cation last night, and the case will come up
! for hearing sometime next June.
ACCORDING to the telegraph the Provincial
| Legislature, now in session at Victoria, has
zone 20 legislating against 0lack cattle. They
never had any prejudice against people of
that color, and for the life of US We can't
understand this sudden animosity to the
sombcr-hucd bovines Maybe it was stock
cattle.
MARRAGEs-Ye yesterday Mr.. Chas. Clark
and Miss Ida Thalhcimcr were united in
marriage by Squire Marsh In the evening,
Mr. Geo Z. Smith and Miss. Ida Guess were
joined in marriage by Rev. j. T. Wolfe.
| \ PRIVATE letter from the Head of Hood 5
| Canal informs US that they organized their
first schoolmccting in that district on the
1st of April, 1876, by eecting A. Whiteman,
| L. Fraser and II. jackson, directors, and
Alfred Jones, clerk
BEARING the stock of Pacific Mail CON
tinucs Last Friday the coal and stores of
the Company in San Francisco were attached
| by the Panama Railroad Company.
ACCORDING to a Seattle paper men shoot at
| each other in the business part of the town
and the authorities make no efforts to punish
the would-bc murderers.
| Mr. ANDREW CHLBERG, a brother of the
| gentleman of that name in this city, made
this place visit Saturday. lie came out
recently from Iowa.
Mr. f. L. Finch, Of South Bay has been
unloading, to-day, ascow-load of very fine ce-
dar lumber, brought up for different parties
| in town.
THE HtraArs Washington special of the
| 2Gth inst, says there is a prospect that the
Indian bill will be passed by fair majority.
HE waters of the Willamette are unusu-
ally high for this season of the year. y
damaging freshct is feared.
THE bond of Mr.. c. 3. Mann as Town
Treasurer, was approved by the City Fathers,
last Saturday night.
TIE fruit and grain crop in California is
unusually promising this year.