Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-04-06
WHOLE NUMBER, l,249.

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patch of ground 100 feet square, raised
last yeal over ten tons of beets, which
are marketable at S. ton, and this
without special cultivation. He after
wards stated that an acre of like ground
he could raise one hundred tons of
beets, and liberal estimate for the ex-
penses of cultivation would be 500
and the beets being worth at present
price S. a ton total $3.50, thus leaving
S4OO for profit from the product of one
| acre.
Sunday, at McNeil's Island, work.
men were engaged in digging a foun-
dation for wharf, using giant powder
to aid in removing some rock. A pre-
mature discharge ensued, with the fol-
lowing result: Henry Anderson's arm
was broken, and was amputated at
Steilacoom. August Hanson, one of
the stockholders, had his fingers
crushed and an eye burned, but not
seriously. Peter Simpson was slightly
injured.
A correspondent of the Oregonion
says that the farmers of the region ly-
ing north of the Snake river have to
pay twenty-One cents 4 bushel freight
on grain to Portland. This region
embraces as much fine agricultural
land as is contained in the Willamette
valley. The average yield of wheat
last year was over forty bushels to the
acre. Not one fifth, certainly not one
fourth of the arabic land in that coun-
try is under cultivation; yet the trans
portation companies have been taxed
beyond their capacity ever since last
harvest.
Sunday, says the Tacoma Ledger, q
drunken laborer tempted to have
some fun with a bear. He got a
wheelbarrow and was having immense
sport wheeling it toward bruin to
frighten him, when the bear evidently
thought it was about time that he took
hand in the game. Playfully lifting
one of his immense paws, he brought
the man side-winder across the back
below the middle, knocking him over
the bank. The barrow and man played
leap-frog down the seventy-foot en-
bankment to the railroad track, where
the man lay as though dead. Specta-
tors thought the awful fall must have
finished him, but before assistance
could reach he picked himself up and
painfully limped away.
The machinery ordered by the Sal
mon River Mill and Mining company
will be shipped the latter part of the
week, via Sprague, and will be in
transit two or three week. 1t is ex-
pected that the concentrator will be
started up about June /. C. E..
Laughton, of this city, will accompany
the outfit to Conconully and remain
at the mines as general manager of
the works in which he is interested.
DIR. c. o. Higbee, who is largely in
terested in the concentrator and min
ing property in the district, will 60 up
to the mines about the time the works
get in operation and remain for some
time. The concentrator has a capac-
ity of fifty tons daily, and will doubt
less have to be enlarged after the dis
trict begins to be opened up. All re-
ports from the Salmon river country
are favorable, and the more the prop
critics are developed the better they
show up. Thomas L. Nixon, of this
city, yesterday purchased the La Una,
which is located on Mineral hill, for
$40, 1000 cash.-Ledger.
A great irrigating company has just
been formed, capital $500, 900, to re-
claim 4OO, 600 acres in the lower Yak
ina valley known as Sunnyside. The
principal place of business is North
Yakima. The canal running along
the north side Of the Yakima to its con-
fluence with the Columbia river, will
be fifty-two miles long, forty feet wide
and twenty feet on the bottom. The
Sunnyside has long been known as
one OF the finest bodies of land in the
Territory, and this scheme will attract
an immense number of people who
wish to settle on government land.
Work will begin at once and the city
is jubilant not only with this and other
great improvements, but no less with
the establishment of steam ferry on
the Columbia, ten miles below Priest
Rapids, by the Yakima & Salmon
River Road & Ferry company. This
is now an accomplished fact and
established beyond doubt. This is
the only practicable all-the-year
around, level and snowless route from
the Northern Pacific to the Mines
Yakima Republic.
The Bob Irring, a small steamer
built at Tacoma some years ago, and
engaged in the general transportation
and towing business on no particular
route, was blown to pieces Sunday on
the Skagit river by the explosion of
her boiler. The small steamer Lilu
happened to be in hearing distance at
the time, and went to the Irping's as
sistance. 1t was found that the latter
was wrecked, and that by the explosion
the master and owner, Capt. Olney,
and his fireman had been killed. The
engineer, deck hand and Chinese
cook were badly injured. The steamer
WAS laden with hay and oats, which
We're scattered in every direction. The
boiler was hurled completely out of
the boat, and lodged on the bank of
the river. The head of the captain
was severed from his body, but no
traces could be found of the remains
of the fireman. There is some doubt
as to the cause of the explosion, but it
is believed that the water in the boiler
was allowed to get too low. The re-
port of the explosion was heard for
some miles in the surrounding coun-
try.
AN umbrella that was brought to
this country from Holland in 1880 is
on exhibition in Albany. 1t bears the
name of an Italian maker. 1t has
been asserted that umbrellas are a
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