Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-03-15

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for the present year foots up $647 1925
an increase of $26 200 over last year
The assessments for both years wer'
made at the ratio of one-third the ac
tual value. On this basis the value @
city property would be fully $1,000,
600, an increase of about SIS, 900 ovel
last ye r.
No wonder the Seattle papers op
pose Tacoma washing her dirty liner
down there. The Wickesham seduc
ton case it is estimated cost King
county $50, 900, and now Wickersham
is to be tried for subornation of per-
jury, and doctors Miller and Brown
are to enjoy a matinee. There is nc
telling where the extravaganza will
end.
Edward Nolan, : boy living at PEN
dleton, has been suffering from long
lines. Doctors recently extracted
several worms from his body. Five
were taken alive from eruptions or wet
like formations ON his limbs. They
resemble worms sometimes seen in Wa
ter, and it is supposed got iAto the
boys stomach from water drank, and
thence worked their way to the suface.
When the newly elected sheriff of
Walla Walla county,J. w. Mcfarland,
took possession of the Office Monday
last, the deputy sheriff turned over
only the prisoners and keys of the
Jail. No b joks pertaining to the office
were found, nor can any be found yet.
The ex-sheiiff has departed fer Stella
COON with demenn person, and un-
til he returns nothing can be done.
Considerable hard feeling is expressed
for Sheriff Bowlcs acting in this man.
ner.
The Seattle Electric Light Company
has just raised the hair of the city dads
by presenting bill for 81 ,478 for
lighting that city during the month Of
January. A llrge portion of this was
for repsirs to lamps and fixtures,
which the city seeks to Iepudiate.
For lamps of thirty candle power the
city pays IS per month. In view OF
the great cost and bad service Seattle
as city proposes to vote on the ques-
ton whether or not the city shall own
her own light and water works.
We were anxious to have the new
State called Washington, yet if we
had it to do over again, and our in
fuence could effect the change we
would Call it Olympia. We notice
that government envelopes have Wash
oh oeI
Now that abbreviation knocks all the
enthusiasm out of us, and we wish we
had advocated the name of Olympia,
for with the help of our contemporaries,
we might have succeeded, but now
alas, it is too late, for the die is cast
-Wdlla Wallo Journal.
Wilson, the Roslyn justice OF the
peace, is in for q heap O. trouble. He
now lauguishes behind the bars fer
embezzling the funds of the Roslyn
Knights of Labor, and when he gets
through with that scrape the county
will be ready to prefer a charge. In
bis official capacity Wilson was q ter
ror to evil doers, for he laid on the
fines with much freedom, but when it
came to dividing up the assets of the
business of the county his generosity
all took one direction, and that was
towards himself. His peculations are
said to cover q pretty figure.
Last Sunday on the Oregon Short
Line coming west, man named Green
and his wife, accompanied by their 10
year old daughter, were passengers en-
route from Greeley Col, to Portland.
As the train dashed through the cut q
short ways west of Weatherby, stone
became detached from the moun,ain
side and came through the car win
dow, carrying parts of the glass with
it and striking the young lady full in
the face, severely cutting it. One Of
her ears was nearly severed and it is
feared the signt Of one of her eyes will
be lost by being cut with the glass.
Attorney A. P. Sharpstein, of Wal'a
Walla, has secured some affidavts
here from persons who, in 1886, took
up coal lands for the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company in the vicinity Of
Roslyn. It seems that a number of
citizens of Ellensburg relied ON The
old sections of coal land held by the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
some weeks since, alleging That the
att RS title to them ha been acquired
by fraud. There is 10 dispute as to
the tile Of the Nor.hera Pacific to
the even sections, as the title to these
came from the Government rs part Of
the land grant. The Ind recently
taken up amounts to some 3 200 acres.