Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-03-01
Territorial Items.


Spokane Falls is infested with sre j
thieves.
North Yakima is to have a ney
school-house
Z. IL. DdnfOrth, prominent lawve
OF Tacoma, died in that city, Monday
The banking capital of Spokan.
Falls has been increased half "a millior
dollars.
Henry Ripley, well known in Sno
homish, has disappeared, and Henry.
friends declare he is insane.
Peter Coonitch an absconding pett,
larcenist has been captured at Bay
Center in Pacific county.
David Wilson, of Tacoma, has sued
the N. P. r. r., to perfect his title te
fti1s ofiginxf- f-H6xdalfE- 81 Dar6nport.
L. c. Hedges, who was injured al
the late railroad accident ut Hope
Junction, is not expected to recover.
Joe Ives, of Kelso. assisted by two
companions, shot and killed three
cougars near that place few days ago.
The artesian well at Pennington was
completed Saturday. 1t is 80 feet deep,
and fine stream of water is the result.
Judge ]. G. Swan is writing Il histo-
ry Of his explorations of Queen Char.
lOtte's Islands, for the Smithsonian In
slitution.
James Patched. of Ruby City, who
recently killed an Indian while the
latter was trying to break into his
cabin, was discharged.
In Walla Walla, on Wednesday last,
Carlotta, daughter of Captain Charles
Rawell, U. S. A., was married to Lieu
tenant P. d. Lo. kridge. U. S. A.
Last Wednesday there was shipped
from Kelso $500 pounds of smelt.
The run has set in in earnest and the
price has fallen to cent per pound.
The Wickersham trial, with all its
disgusting details, drags its weary
length along in the Seattle court with
the baldheads, as usual, in possession
of the front row Of seats.
w. T. Wilson, a Justice OF the
Peace, and Treasurer of the Roslyn
Knights of Labor Assembly, has been
declared to be defaulter to that So
ciety to the amount of $142.
N. N. Lyon, one OF the pioneers of
Washington and Oregon, died of heart
disease last week in Kittitas county,
aged Ga years. Mr. Lyon settled on
the Yakima twenty-one years ago.
At Pullman, last week, r. Bryant
swallowed 16 drops of aconite and
came near exploring the unknown
beyond. A stomach pump and a
vigorous physician alone saved him.
An eye witness to the expulsion of
Chinese from Tekoa says some of the
yellow people wept like babies when the
citizens told them they must go. The
celestials took refuge in Farming ton.
A tramp attempted to hold up
Henry Shaw, barkeeper of Snoho-
mish, who would not have it tha& way
and pulling his little gun, covered the
would be Jack Sheppard and marched
him to Jail.
Two barrels OF alleged sour krout
were seized at Tscoma, NJ 'nday, and
found to coatain $50 poands of opium,
which some enterprising individual
pas tiyin5 10 smusglc within U Gle
SIMS &, m iin-.
At Port Angeles the residents are
having a lively war over incorporation
of a town. Injunction and counter
injunction has been applied for to
Judge Burke and the chances are
some one will get hurt befure the 10
ceases.
Fred Smith, an employe OF the
bridge force on the Palouse branch,
was thrown from hand-car last
Wednesday, and the car loaded with
twelve men passed over him. He
sustained no injuries to speak of, but
reports have it the wheels of the car
we're broken.
The school muddle in Spokane
Falls is drawing to close with Prof.
B. Volverton, the late superinten dent,
deposed. The citizens Of that burg,
have, in large petition, asked the
Board of School Directors, TO reinstate
Principal Heaton and Miss North. the
former teachers.
Wednesday evening last, d. T.
Huston, contractor, arrived in
Pennington to purchase teams and
material for his work. The banks be-
ing closed he deposited his money on
retiring under his pillow. Next morn
ing he discovered his money was gone,
and he now mourns the loss of 81 800
A Tacoma dispatch of the 22d says
The lumber trust operating in the
Puget Sound country to-day ordered
the Port Gamble, Port Ludlow, Port
Blakely, Port Discovery, Utsala ~ and
Port Madison mills down for period
of eight days. The cause assigned is
over production and dullness of the
market in Southern California. This
throws l 800 men out of employment
and curtails the production of Puget
Sound mills over 100000 feet per day
The steamer Fanny Lake, Captain
E. w. Smith, was loading oats at ::
landing OH the north fork of ia,
Skagit river, a few days since. About
seven hundred sacks had been placed
OH board when it was discovered that
the vessel was sinking. The steamer
had been moored directly over a
stump, and as the oats sunk the hull
the stump pushed its way up through
the bottom about the center. The
vessel filled and careened over on
one side. Some 500 sacks of oats
were saved without y wetting and the
remainder was floated ashore.
The ship Indiana, we'll known in
Sound waters, arrived at Port Town
send, Saturday last. Captain Morri-
son reports that while in Acapulco, on
January 4th, the third officer shot and
killed the first officer, named Donovan
The men had previously been the best
of friends and the murderer remarked
when the deed was done, II have killed
my best friend He was taken ashore
by the Mexican authorities and is now
confined in Jail ;here awaiting trial
Ford, the murderer, was new man on
the ship, but Dunavon was an old
hand and had large acquaintance on
the Sound.
BROKE HER RuDDER.-Friday night
last, as the steamer Potter was ap.
preaching Second Street Dock, in