Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-11-23
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Aliens majority in Clarke county is
$40.
Walla Walla county gave Allen a
majority of 270.
A Skagit county physician reports
that of seventeen births in his neigh
borhood this year sixteen have been
boys.
Fred A. Simpson, night clerk of the
Northern Pacific Express Co., at Ia
coma, bas skipped with 10000 that
was passing through the Office for
Benjamin E. Snipes, Ellensburg.
Antoine Baroni, an Italian, % years
OF age, an employe of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company, was struck
by a switch engine, at Tacoma,
Wednesday morning, last week, and
instantly killed.
Smallpox is reported in the family
OF Henry Bishop, four miles west of
Chehalis. Also in Mr.. Fisk's family,
three miles west of Winlock. These
families were exposed to the disease in
Puyallup. The houses are quaran-
tined.
Fred. E. Simpson, defaultiug North
ern Pacific Clerk at Tacoma, arrived
at Port Townsend on the 18th, Oh the
steamer Katie, from Vancouver, in
charge of Detective Sullivan. He had
$4,000 in his possession when cap
tured at Kamloops.
The largest sawmill owned and
operated in Lewis county is that OF
GIfchrist Bros, located on the railroad,
one mile north of Centralia. That
firm owns large wholesale numbering
and coal establishments at Helena
Montana, which place they keep sup
piled with lumber from Centralia.
They cut 10000 feet per day.
A man named Davis was murdered
near Walla Walla, on the 16 inst, and
his head nearly severed from the body.
A dispatch says: The supposition is
that the murderer struck Davis in the
face with the sharp edge of hatchet,
mashing his nose, crushing the bones
of the face and piercing the skull. In
falling, the body struck tie, produc-
ing a bruisc on the right shoulder.
Then the murderer attempted to sew
er the head with the hatchet. The
width of the cut corresponds with an
ordinary hatchet. The vertebrae show
a number of hacks. The head was so
nearly severed that if the skin were
cut slightly ON the back of the neck,
the head would drop of. The remains
were deposited in the city cemetery.
1t is supposed he had about $50 on his
person when killed. The County
Commissioners have offered reward
of $500 and Sheriff Bowles one of ST.
600 for apprehension of the person
committing the deed.
Reliable private information from
Whatcom announces that Nelson Ben
nett has purchased the townsite of
Fairhaven, also the Stenger water
power and mill at Whatcom for $50 900.
Fairhaven is he most southern of the
quartette Of towns adjoining each
other and encircling the Bellingham
bay on the east. Beginning with
Whatcom and running down the meri-
dian we have in their order Whatcom,
Sehome, Bellingham and Fairhaven.
The water power and mill are located
on the creek meandering through
Whatcom. The Importance of this
transaction will be better appreciated
when it is understood that Mr.. Ben
nett, who recently rejected bids for the
sinking of shafts at his coal mines on
the Skagit river, has force of men ON
the ground at work sinking the shafts.
1t is unquestionably his purpose to
bring his coal road to Whatcom and
give that locality the benefit of all the
coal shipments from the Skagit coun-
try. This means, if it means any
thing, big boom for Bellingham bay
property.