Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19
WHOLE NUMBER 1902.

pany's mill, Tacoma, next week. Tht
total cost OF the boat is $4,000. She
has compound engines and will make
ten miles per hour with 800 tons oil
freight. She will be the largest craft
OF her kind on Puget Sound. 1t is in.
tended that the new boat will do a
general transportation business on the
Sound during the winter, and in the
spring will enter the Alaska trade.
Citizens of Hoquiam have organized
a fire company. with the fallowing Of
ticers: Foreman, w. Fl. Sitton; first
c. F. Rowland; second as
sistant, A. M. Holman; secretary, I .
II. Chambers; treasurer, C. II. Beall.
The company is full, and the organi-
zation has been approved by the mayor
and council. They have a new steam
fire engine ordered, which will arrive
in few weeks.
Senator Sanders has prepared an
other bill, which is intended TO
straighten out the question of what
lands the Northern Pacific Railroad
is entitled to in the mineral
country under the terms Of its grant.
1t will contain essentially the same
provisions rs are embraced in the bill
reported to the House by the commit
tee on mines and mining. This called
for re examination OF all the lands
supposed to be mineral. Coal and iron
lands will not be included in the de-
tinition OF the word mineral.
A new building to cost 1925, 900 is to
be erected in Tacoma by the Young
Mems Christian Association of that
city for the accommodation of its men,
bers. Special features of the structure
will be a gymnasium provided with all
modern appliances, running track, ETC.,
a monster swimming pool, hot, cold
and shower baths with all the convent
ences necessary thereto. As a means
of Fastening subscriptions to the
building fund, the executive board will
give life membership to every young
man who subscribes and pays in 500
to the fund.
The stern-wheel steamer Mabel, the
regular Snohomish river boat, struck q
snag and was sunk in that stream OIL
the afternoon of the 4th inst. She lies
right in the way of navigation in about
two fathoms Of water. She was loaded
with about twelve tons of general mer-
chandise for Snohomish, which al
went down with her and will prove a
total loss. tits stated that an effort
will be made Immediately to raise the
craft. The Mabel is q small tug about
four years old, but was recently refit-
ted and renovated throughout. She
cost about $1,000.
The Commercial Electric Light &
Power Company, composed of New
York and Tacoma capitalists, was in
corporated at Tacoma last week. The
capital stock is placed at $25O,OO0. A
large plant for supplying both light
and power will be erected in Tacoma,
which place is named as its principal
place of business. though by its articles
oil incorporation it is empowered to
transact business elsewhere. In ad-
dition to the business above mentioned,
it is authorized to build and operate,
to purchase, lease, or consolidate with
owning or operating, steam
boats, warehouses, wharves, docks,
canals, locks, fumes, telegraph lines,
steamships, street railways, etc. The
duration of the corporation is fixed at
fifty years.
The principal topic on the streets OF
Walla Walla is the sudden disappear.
ance OF Bently, of the Slime house. 1t
has ttanspired that his defalcation
amounts to considerably more than
was supposed at first. 1t was made
known that he had overdrawn his
bank account at the Walla Walla
Savings Bank 81 400, and that he had
given notes as collateral security at
the same bank for $Sl2.S3, which he
drew before his departure. He took
1913 from the safe and ninety dollars
from the drawers in the hotel. Three
attachments have been filed at the
county Auditors Office, amounting to
about $4,000, on the furniture and
fixtures OF the hotel. 1t is estimated
that he is defaulter in the sum of
about $4,000. 1t has also transpired
that Attorney Deapeatt, who had the
bill of sale OF the furniture knew all
about the escapade of Bently, as the
bills OF sale were made out and dated
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