Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-10
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

D Judge l.. 3. Nash, of Spokane Fall
! is at Walla Walla. 1t is authenticall
! stated that he will be a candidate fl
j tsupreme judge. a- -.o----'r '-''ss
The Democrats at Ellensburg hay
nominated T. L. Mcdonald and w. +
} Peterson delegates to the Constitution
} al Convention.
The comptroller of the currency ha
authorized the Browne National ban
Of Spokane Falls to begin business, wit
a capital of 100000.
4 For the first time in many years n
fatal accidents have occurred amon
the fishing fleet in April below Tongu
Point, on the Columbia.
| On Tuesday lump purchase o, 25
600 bushels of wheat was made by
Walla Walla buyer; price, 55 cents
the regular market price being but s.
cents.
| The men arrested for breaking opel
and plundering an 0. r. & N. freigh
car, when the missing property wa
found, have been tried and bound owe
to court.
Clerk w. E. Ledgerwood, who ha
oficiated under Chief Justices Jones
Boyle, Burke and Hanford successive
ly Tuesday turned the Office over tC
r. M. Hopkins.
Tuesday, T. C. Griffith, of Spokane
Falls, obtained from Judge Langford
a temporary restraining order against
the building of new court house fol
Whitman county at Colfax.
Mrs. Ella Cowan, who was terribly
wounded by shot from q rifle in the
hands of her husband, on the Duwam-
ish last Sunday, died Wednesday at
Providence hopital, at Seattle.
AT the ry-Hankins sparring
match for a 5000 purse at Learned's
Opera House Saturday night at Port
Townsend, Hankins was put to sleep
in the early part of the third round.
Sunday J. H. Haskins, a stockman,
found three of his finest colts on Gill
bert mountain, east of Walla Walla,
with their necks broken, and piled to-
gether, the work of mountain lion.
Seattle people are at present edited
to great degree by the fighting of two
factions of railroads for the possession
of the mud flats. Some fun and pos
sibly blood may yet be tie result OF
this business.
The Bellingham Bay Lumber and
Manufacturing Company has incor-
porated. The company will at once
build a planning mill and sash and
door factory. Some of the machinery
has already arrived.
Kehoe, found guilty of shooting
George Osborne, bridge foreman at
Olequa, some time ago, was sentenced
by Judge Allyn, at Kalama, Thurs
day, to eleven years in the peniten-
tiary, with hard labor.
Articles of incorporation were filed
Saturday to build railroad from
Spokane Falls to Rockford, twenty-five
miles, there connecting with the Or
ogen Railway & Navigation and Union
Pacific systems. Work commences in
fifteen days.
Edward B. Rundlet, manager of the
Occidental hotel, at Seattle, died We'd
nesday morning, after short illness,
of pneumonia. Mr.. Rundlet came from
Boston, last August, having. been en-
gagged by the Seattle hotel company to
conduct the Occidental.
A house occupied by q Portuguese
family named Silvey, at Ashtabula,
O., was burned Friday morning. The
parents had gone out, leaving three
small children in the house. One boy
was burned to death, and the others
so badly injured that they will die.
Parties recently returned from along
the line of the survey now being made
by Surveyor Ogilsbe, for the railroad to
North Yakima, report that an excel
lent pass has been found, and that vast
deposits of good coal have been dis
covered along the line of the proposed
road.
The Democrats in Skamania and
Clarke counties comprising The Twlfth
District, have nominated Geo. H.
Stevenson and H. M. Knapp delegates
to the Constitutional Convention, and
the Republicans have nominated
Louis Sohus and A. A. Lindsey, for
the same position.
J. B. Pitts, property master in Cort's
Standard theater, at Port Townsend,
was arrested Thursday for attempting
to rape a 4-year-old child, Louise
Frazier, daughter of L. NJ. Frazier, at
the Bartlett house. Pitts was detected
in the same crime previously on the
child, and begged of.
In United States Commissioner G.
D. Emery's court at Seattle, Saturday,
Fredrick Garman, a fireman on the
ship Mexico, was bound over to await
the action of the United States Grand
Jury on charge of opium smuggling,
and was sent to McNiePs island il
default of $500 bail.
Anew kind OF feed, called stone clover,
is being raised in Walla Walla valley
very successfully. The seed came
from Germany last fall, when it was
sown, and is already three feet high.
1t has the appearance OF clover, the
leaves being trefoil, and grows straight
up from solid root.
The surveyors of the Pasao, Golden
dale & Columbia Valley Railroad ar
rived at Spokane Falls amid the
firing of cannon. Engineer r. A..
Habersham reports an easy grade the
entire distance. The length Of the sur
veyed route from Goldendale to PascO
is 105 miles.-Reriew.
The special election in the city of
Cheney, Saturday, to bond the city for
water works, resulted almost unapi-
mously in favor, only one vote being
cast against the bonds. The Holly
people are already beginning on the
lob, and Cheney will have water works
before the summer is over.
Alexander Peters, young Scotch
man, was shot and fatally wounded at
Hadlock Saturday night, by young
man named Harry Hadlock. Peters,
who had been in this country only
eight months, was exhibiting A-cal-
ibre Smith & Wesson revolver to his
friend. Hadlock took the pistol, and
while examing the mechanism of the
weapon, accidentally discharged it, the
] ha11 Iodvinc in his 1,,au