Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-05-27
Local and News Items.


\ HORRIBLE accident. The particulars of
a horrible occurrence near McMinnvilIe, on
Friday Of last week we CLEAN from the
Portland papers: The neighbors had turned
out to help Mr.. Carr ison finish sowing his
grain. During the day some of them set fire
to pile of brush which burnt down and re-
ceived no more attention. About four
o'clock in the afternoon the unfortunate child
went to where the fire had been, and in his
play walked back and forth through the
ashes and fire on one of the larger sticks
which had not burnt. Four men were at
work in the field at the time. One of them
heard the child scream, and said he thought
he had burnt his finger. His father looked
up and said "Oh! he is burning to death"
The men were twenty rods distant Mr. J.
VI. lIibbS was first to reach the poor little
boy. The burnt clothes We're quickly jerked
off and the child immersed in water The
Mortified mother, after hearing the screams
of her child, run forty rods and tainted at
the sickening sight II> ears were burnt off;
has eyes We're out; his throat and lungs were
raw and bleeding; his wh0lt body from his
knees to the top of his head, was cooked till
the skin and flesh hung in crisped string"
Life fingered but three hours after the oc>
CurrenCe.
We observe that the repairs on the cstern,
at the intersection of Main and Fourth
streets, have been moore extensive than at
first contemplated. The curbing was found
to be rotten and new lining of four inche
fir plankhas been, placed inside, reducing
the dimensions somewhat, but making it
nrm and secure for several years longer. The
water in this cistern stands but few inches
over the floor, and rs it is not water-tight,
we do not see how ii is to be of much real
service in case of fire. The supply from the
water mains would prove totally inadequate,
even if it was always possible to turn it on
when fire occurs. The workmen inform
us that it would have been a task of several
hours to turn on the water if needed, when
the repairs upon the ciStern made an inSpec-
ton necessary. 1t will be seen from these
facts that our security from fire is more
fancied than real. Il fact which may not be
dGccd TO smouldering ruins.
GRAND ENCAMPMENT OFFICERS AT the
annual meeting Of the Grand Encampment
of Odd Fellows, held in Portland, on Mon
day the 10Th instant, the following officers
were elected: NJ. W. Or. Patriarch, J. f.
Backensto, of Orgeana Encampment No );
NJ. E g. II. Priest, T. A. Davis, of Ellison
Encampment No. /; r. w Grand Senior
Warden, J. s. Drummond, Vancouver En-
campmcnt, B. C., No. l; r. W Grand
Scribe, j. NJ. Bacon, of Falls Encampment
No. 4; r. W. Grand Treasurer, l. T. Moores,
of Willamette Encamnment No .; r. W
G. Junior Warden, E. H. Stolte of Ellison
Encampmcnt No. l. The following are the
officers of the Grand Lodge, l. O. O. F.,
elected at Salem on the 10Th: J. n Dolph,
NJ ". G. NJ; o. n. Denny, D. G. NJ; W
j. Snodgrass, r. W. G. "; J. ~ Bacon
r: w. c. S; l. r. Moores, X. w G. r.:
G. Wallng, II, G. Strive. Grand Reprcsen-
tatiyes. One hundred and fifty present
CRANBERRY STATISTICS In round num-
bers the area under cranberry culture in New
jersey is set down at 5000 acres, and the
cost at three years from planting-the fruit
bearing AGES estimated at 81, 80 900, or
$3.50 an acre. New England and New York
are set down for about the same acreage and
cost, and Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michi
gan at about 5000 acres costing 1919 900
The whole being summed up at Il, 900 acres,
costing $4,3115, 900. The whole crop was es>
timated for 1872, at 2,5, 900 bushels; for 1873,
30. 900 bushels; for 1874, $50, 900; for 1915,
100000; the average production in the IVES
tern States in 1915 being only about half that
in the Atlantic States, or eight bushels to the
acre, against seventeen in New England and
New York. In many instances on the At
lantic coast, irrigation is accomplished by
means of expensive pumping machinery.
AN unusually high tide last evening