Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-07-13

the harOOr.
Ollie Feathers, a seven-year-old girl
in Colfax, was burned to death on
Monday of last week, by coal oil, with
which she endeavored to light fire.
The census of Seattle, which has
just been completed, shows that city
to have a population of $4,000, an in
crease of 10000 in the last three years.
DR.. Y. C. Blalock and Rev. E. G.
Mclean will soon leave for the East
with stereopticon, to exhibit West
ern views and advertise Eastern WASH
ington.
At caucus of the eight election
judges of Walla Walla on the 7th, it
was decided to make no objection to
women voting at the municipal elec-
ton last Monday.
The Royal City logging camp. on
the Nicomekl river. has just received
. new locomotive for its new logging
railway, and expects . steamer load OF
iron in q few days.
The wheat crop of the Walla Walla
hasin viii average At least thirty bush
els an acre. Thisssis but one-quarter
less than last year, wher thers WAS
planted 125, 900 acres.
There were shipped by the mills of
Puget Sound to Foreign, Coastwise
and Atlantic ports last year, total Of
2O6, ,l7S,673 feet of lumber, and FIVE
mills shipped l55, ,74ls 1893 feet.
The old soldiers of Eastern Oregon
and Northern Idaho will hold q re-un-
ion on the Tukanon, near the mouth
of the Tumlum, commencing July
18th and lasting until the 21st.
Henry Vanover, of Tacoma, familiar
ly known as Hank, the hack driver" /"
died suddenly in his bed at Freeman's
stables on the afternoon of the 9th. 1t
is thought the cause of his death was
apoplexy.
On the night of the 9Th inst, the
burglars who entered several stores at
Chehalis, . few weeks ago, sawed
through window and made their es-
cape. Diligent search was made, but
no clue to their whereabouts could be
obtained.
United States Attorney White says
that the decision OF the Supreme
Court make all the school lands pub
lie lands, that no one mas right to en-
close the same and that those who
have done so are liable to fine and
imprisonment.
A general strike has been ordered
among all coasting sailors by the Coast
Seamen's Union. The trouble arises
from an order issued by the Ship Ow.
ner's Association reducing wages from
$40 TO $S5 per month. The strike will
occur when the reduction goes into ef
feet.
[ About Ritzville the rains have made
the crops look fine. 1t is estimated
there are FIVE times as many acres
sown to grain this year a. last, and the
yield is expected to be much heavier
per acre and Of far better quality
There win be two bushels Of wheat
oats and barley threshed this yeal
where there was one last.
| A party has been organized, con.
sisting of Messrs. Maurice McMicken
Herbert McMicken, J. II. McGrcw
w. A. Hasbrouck and A. w. Engle
to visit Lake Chelan, in the Cascade
mountains, northeast of Ellensburgh.
Reports from the lake are to the effect
that the trout are three feet long, ani
that around the shores the deer arr
30 thick that they have to be driver
of to make room for the pitching OF
tents.
| John Wagner, an employe at Johr
Leck's galvanized iron works, at
Seattle, became deranged on Satur
day Last. He seemed to be imbuet
with the idea that some one wanted
to kill him. Late in the afternoon he
swallowed dose Of rat poison and
then walked out to the end of Col.
mans wharf. He handed q purse
containing 81 to bystander and ther
deliberately jumped of the dock. HI
was fished out by a spectator namet
Applebee. He was partially uncon
scious and was taken to Provid enc,
hospital in carriage.
II A statement has been prepared b.
the commissioner of the general Ian,
, Office which shows the compensation
earned at each Of the different Ian,