Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-04-12

The munici al election at Chehalis,
resulted as fo lows: Mayor, James T.
Berry; councilmen, John Dobson,
Henry Lawrence, T. i. Devereese, B.
II Shearer, w. B. Maultsby, G. F.
Bassett, T. w. Newland.
Tuesday, near Perry, Columbia
county, an Indian while drunk killed
ano her, mashing his head to jelly
with a rock, after which he dragged
the body to bluff hundred feet
high, over which threw il.
When Mr.. Singleton first landed in
Wal'a Walla, he paid man $500 in
cash for his right to 160 acre tract
adjacent to the city. Recently he was
off red $1,000 for two acres of this
kland, and he. refused. the bsibe. -as~-sz.s
Mis- Ida Burbee returned TO her
home near Chehalis last Sunday. She
has been visiting the past two months
al the capital and says the old town
seems 10 have taken a new lease of
life, giving promise OF bill ant future.
On Monday last, at Whatcom, w.
VI. Leach ami Will d. Jenkins were
elect d delegates, and DR.. Hopkins and
George Douglas, allernates, to the
meeting of the Grant Lodge, I. o.
O. F., in Port Townsend next month.
A fight has been arranged between
Tom Cleary, of Seattle, and Charles
Hankins, of Port Townsend. Cleary
agrees to stop Hankins in ten rounds.
Both men are in training for the
match, which comes off in about two
weeks.
All the Northern Pacific trains now
meet at Pasco, instead of Wallula,
hereafter. There is talk that the o. 4
w. I. trains will also 60 to Pasco to
make their Northern Pacific connec-
| lions, instead of stopping at Wallula,
as now.
James F. Bergman, OF Walla Walla,
has instituted suit against the o. r. &
N. Co., for $4,000 damages for inju-
ries sustained by his little boy, who
was run over by a train last summer,
causing him TO lose his right foo: and
left hand.
Creegan, who was killed Sunday
near Green river, was buried at noon
Thursday in the Odd Fellows GENE.
terry in Seattle. Nothing has been
heard from his relatives, nor has any
clue to the perpetrators of the deed
been discovered.
On Saturday, at Easton, o railroad
statioa about 70 miles northwest of
Yakima, a man known as "Blsck Jack"
while under the influence of liquor,
shot a section railroad hand named
James Dalton in the stomach. The
assailant is under arrest.
Last fall, near Berryman's Station,
during a fierce dust storm, an o. r. &
N. engine ran over small child OF j.
E. Bergman, cutting of ole hand and
foot. Wednesday, sui. was brought
against the o. r. & N. Co. by Berry
man for $l5, 900 damages.
| Work was commenced on Ellens-
burg's big hotel Wednesday afternoon
and contracts are bsing let for the
completion CT the structure by July.
The only change is that the project
ers concluded to make it 100 feet
square fronting on two streets.
Mr.. Baldwin, who lives O couple of
miles below town on the river, pur-
ch sed six acres of land two years ago
for 81 400. List year he picked five
tons of hops, clearing therefrom ST.
200 in one season, snd then sold the
place for A,OO0-Orting Oracle.
In the case of Blanchard vs.. the
w, stern Milling and Lumber Co.,
whose place of business is at Port
Haolock, a decision was rendered last
Thursday, at Port Townsend, in favor
OF the Blanchard r. r. Co., for $4,-
2S3, and in crest vt 10 per cent,
amounting to about $500.
H. F. Beecher was dismissed from
the service of the Treasury Depart
ment Saturday by the order of Secre-
tary Windom, and was instructed to
vacate the office of Special Agent on
the 10th instant. The grand jury is
in session, and a full investigation OF
Custom House matters is imminent.
Ira N. Krutz, the new register OF
the U. S. land office at North Yakima,
which district incluces the Big Bend,
has assumed the duties of his office.
Mr.. Krutz, although young man,
has been in public life for a number of
years during which he has held many
official positions of responsibility and
trust.
In Port Townsend handbills are hung
conspicuously all over the town an.
nouncing that the Union Pacific and
Oregon Short line are ready to sell
tickets from Puget Sound to all points
east. The tickets will be for sale TO-
morrow. This is the first time that
the Union Pacific has entered into
competition with the Northern Pacific
for the trade OF the Puget Sound basin.
| At the Sehome city election for
trustees 1876 votes were cast last Mon
day, Carmi Dibble received 179 votes
C. H. Showers 174, ]. L. Quackenbush
Isl, A. r. Campbell 129. Henry George
14S. The issue was made against grant
ing franchise tothe street railway COM
pany, which wants ten cents bl ,ck for
carrying passages. The defeat OF the
street car company was overwhelming.
The chamber of commerce of Taco
ma have decided to petition the North
ern Pacific railroad tor a better train
service in and out of Tacoma, and to
have Tao, ms made the terminus OF
the railroad in reality. The chamber
wants the trains between there and st.
Paul made continuous ones, without
the change now made at PascO, and TO
have the rains male up and started
from there instead Of at Portland.
1t is announc. that Judge Nash
has sent 8 resigna ion 10 the Pref
dent, and that it will Undoubtedly be
accepted, and that r. B. Blake, of the
Jaw firm of Blake & Redpath, will be ap-
pointed lis successor. Judge Nash
will bolI q term OF court at North
Yakima, which will close hi. present
judicial career. Juige Blake will
probably be appointed in time for the
May term.
A public convention is to be held
at Whatcom on the 9th Instant TO dis
cuss the question of public roads. 1t
is proposed to establish a 70 d system
for the county, and the alternative
question appears to be the incOrpOra-