Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-12-19
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Captain Kinney has a pear tree in
his yard which up to three weeks ago
was loaded with fruit. To-day it is in
full bloom again, as though getting
ready for a second crop.--Anacortes
Progress.
G. c. Anderson, the man implicated
in the murder OF Mrs. Hister, at Day.
ton, Wash, is still at large. Men are
securing the country for him. There
is great excitement at Dayton over
the affair. If he is caught, from the
talk, their will be necktie party.
Two hundred pounds of opium val
ued at 81, 900 was seized on the steamer
Olympian at Tacoma, a few days ago.
1t was hidden in the coal, and John
McCarty and John Studder were arrest
ed for smuggling while digging it out
from the place of deposit.
Eleven deputy sheriffs, from Pierce
county, in charge of thirteen prisoners
for the penitentiary, arrived at Walla
Walla last Friday night. Among the
prisoners were four Indians, one a
squaw. They were all shortterm men,
the longest sentence being for five
years.
Colonel Peel, of Montesano, on Tues
day last tried to ascend the golden
stair by the arsenic route. But the
doctor and stomach pump would not
have it that way, and the colonel still
inhabits this mundane sphere, and
wonders why he was so foolish as to
want to leave it.
James Jones, prominent business
man of Port Townsend, died on the Sd
inst, from the effects OF a cancer in
the throat or stomach. He had been
sick some time, and death was expect.
ed. He was the Canadian Pacific
agent and engaged in the real estate
business. He leaves q family of six
children.
gentleman living in Lynden, Wash
ington, this season dug 101 bushels Of
potatoes from one-eighth of an acre Of
ground. These potatoes we're plant
ed three and one-half feet apart one
way and twenty inches the other, and
received only ordinary cultivation.
Comments upon the fertility of the
soil in that section are unnecessary in
reporting such fields.
The Hoquiam Baptist church is in
peck of trouble. Some OF the MEM
bers are dissenting from the orthodox
teachings. A meeting was recently
called, the pastor acting as moderator,
at which there were present about
seven members of the church. Charges
were preferred against four or FIVE OF
| the dissenting ones, and, being sus-
tanned, they we're accordingly ex-
PEELED.
The celebrated custom-house eases
against Quincy A. Brooks, ex-collector
of customs at Port Townsend, and his
chief-clerk, John Harmed, who were
some time ago indicted for extortion
and embezzlement, during the regime
of William H. White as United States
attorney, came up before Judge Han
ford at Seattle last week, and were
ordered erased from the docket for
want of sufficient evidence to justify
prosecution.
William Stewart, farmer living
about mile east of Snohomish
brought to town quartette ol
potatoes which would cause the eye,
of Eastern farmers to open with sur
prise. Their aggregate weight is ter
pounds and twelve ounces; the largest
three pounds and seven ounces, ant
the smallest two pounds and seyer
ounces. They are fair samples of lo
raised on half an acre of land clearet
this spring and cultivated only with I
hoe.-Snohomish Eye.
Miss Neal Clarke, of Wooster, o.
has written to Tacoma for descrip
ton of w. C. Clarke, who committed
suicide at the Halstead house, Noyem
Der 27, by swallowing carbolic acid
Miss Clarke thinks the unfortunat'
man was her father, who she says has
been i'll the West several years, ant
was last heard from at Pilot Rock, On
She says further that her father haa
met with reverses. 1t is said of Clark
that he lost $4,000 in real estate il
Los Angeles. He had no money whe,
: he committed suicide.
There is considerable excitement il
the vicinity of Port Orchard over thu
report that the drydock is to be locat
) ed there. The vicinity is flooded will
real estate spectators, among whom
are many from Portland and Tacoma
Arthur A. Wright sold his homestea.
for SIS, $50. Edward Curtis and JohI
Gorst sold ia acres for SIT 400
Daniel Ross sold 165 acres for $25, 600
Sackman brothers sold 600 acres o
outside property for $4,000. Besides
there are numbers OF small deals which
; we're cOnsummated on the side.
POSTMASTER General Wanamaker ha