Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-06-07
WHOLE NUMBER 1909

The man White, who is on trial a,
Seattle for several forgeries, is wanted
in Montana for u similar crime.
Lightning struck at Ellensburp
Wednesday afternoon for the first
time, shivering the residence of C. 1
Helm.
John NJ. Palmer, son of the wal
governor OF Illinois, has arrived at Ia
coma, to assist in the defense of Judge
Wickersham, in the notorious Sadie
Brantner case.
The business men of Wateryille, as
sisted by many prominent farmers
throughout the county, have organ
lied Board of Trade which promises
to be very efficient means OF organ
izing and carrying on many new and
needed enterprises.
The contractors and their men and
teams have arrived, and will commence
working on the Puget Sound & Gray's
Harbor railroad, Monday morning, be.
tween Elma and Summit, working
both ways from the engineers camp,
which is located about half way be-
tween the two places.-Elma Chronicle.
-W-P Wallace, Of Starbuck, is con-
ferring with Hunt, in the interest Of
an extension of the system from Pleas
ant View, the head OF Eureka Flat, to
Fields Gulch, where it would obtain
the products of $4,000 acres of fine
land. The distance is only about
three miles from the present terminus.
Seattle has organized a Canoe Club
with c. Haines as Commodore. 1t
strikes us that his title is too modern
and civilized. 1t should be Hya scutus
or Skookum Esick. The list of officers
is mainly made up of "tenderfeet."
The Pioneers, who assembled here this
week could give the organization point
ers on canoe service they never dreamed
of.
A party made hasty prospect of
the hill east of Chehalis, Friday, to To-
cate the coal veins which have been
talked about so much. They found
eight veins crossing one ravine, in a
distance OF not to exceed quarter of
a mile, some of them from five to
eight feet wide. The samples took
to town burned freely in stoves and
have the appearance OF being of good
quality.
Alex Ferguson, head sawyer in the
Port Discovery lumber mills at Port
Townsend, met with painful acci-
dent this week. In running the car
riage past the saw, a log entangled the
machinery in such manner as to
make it necessary for Ferguson to
reach down alongside of the gang saw,
which just at that moment began to
move. His hand was caught and
horribly mangled.
Snyder Brothers & Frost will i'm
mediately erect large shingle mill on
the river at the north edge of Chehalis,
which will be the largest mill along the
road from the Columbia to the Sound.
1t will have a capacity of 10000
shingles per day, and be fitted up with
the best improved machinery. These
men spent a week in examining the
supply of timber to be obtained at that
point and satisfied themselves that it
was practically inexhaustible.
The Washington Biochemic Medical
College was incorporated at North
Yakima May 22d, by DR.. VIM. Chap
man, of Columbus, Frank L. Tappan,
of Seattle, b. A. Grover, of Colfax, and
G. w. Carey, c.. L. Gano, J. B. Chap
man, J. w. Beck, A.V Gano and G.
w. Goodwin, of North Yakima. The
object of the organization is to teach
the principles of biochemistry and con-
fer the degree of doctor of medicine ON
students who may become qualified.
Captain +. H. jefferson, who has
been in charge of the government
snag puller Skagit for the past six
months, pulling out snags and drifts
on the NOotsack, Snohomish, Stella
gaumish and Skagit rivers, Gays the
appropriation for this work is expen-
ded and the boat laid up. He states
that the navigation of these rivers has
been improved considerably. The
Skagit is nasigsble for 100 miles at
high water. but the snagging is never
completed. as after every lreshet more
snags come iown the river an.' have
to be removed.
A San Francisco paper says that a
new attempt is being made to.enlarge
and widen the scope of the lumber
trust, SO as to embrace all dealers,
enabling them to shut down large
proportion of the mills, reducing their
production at least three-quarters. A
recent decision of the Supreme Court,
in which combinations to defeat COM
petition were declared against public
policy. stands in the way of the lum-
bermen, and may defeat their project
altogether. 1t is not probable. how
ever, that all of the Puget Sound mills
can be brought into a combination OF
any kind, as some of the large mills
are independent of the California ring.
La Camas News: What beautiful
stretch of country lays along the
Columbia river, between Washougal
and Vancouver, particularly on the
Washington side. We were the more
impressed with this feature while o.
a recent trip to Vancouver by steamer
All along the broad river, on the gently
inclined plain were interspersed modest
homes of settlers with cultivated gar
dens and fields, adorned more or less
with the most important fruits of the
temperate regions of the world, such as
strawberry, raspberry, blackberry and
the apple, pear, ounce, cherry, plum
and peach trees, all exhibiting unmis-
taxable indications of thrift, that will
in the future develop into an elysium
that shall be far-famed for its liveli-
ness.
Married, at the court house in
Shelton, May 10th, by Rev. Myron Ellis,
Tyee Bob or Go-qui-had and Mary or
Ga-yal; Tom or Smithkum and Molly ;
Old Man John or Qui-a-tence and
Lizzie Aliai Jane; Peter or Klbsh and
Abbie Ya-a-beth. From the names it
will be seen that this wholesale joining
Of hearts is among the Indians. II
was not the Union of young hearts
and hopes by any means, but Of old
hearts and affections, as we noticed
one old and sightless groom being led
by a shawl in the hands OF his dusky
spouse. These couples have lived to.
gether many years, legally married
from the Indian standpoint, but there
is some doubt whether Uncle Sam will
in the future, recognize the legality Of
their aboriginal transaction, and to
protect the interests of the rising gen.
Grafton the Indians have procured
licenses and are married like theil
white brothers. Doubtless great