Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-12-26
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Several cases of chicken pox are re-
ported in Seattle.
The captain on the steamer Queen
City has on exhibition q strawberry
measuring five and one-half inches
in circumference, picked on ranch
on WILDLY Island.
A man in an unconscious condition
was found lying by the railroad track
near Centralia the other night. He
was picked up and taken to the hotel.
Doctors think it case OF poisoning,
and the man may not recover.
1t seems that the bankers, Harris &
Co., who contracted for the Tacoma
city bonds now decline to accept them
and another election has to be held to
legatize new issue. This defers re-
alization of the money till April.
Josephine Miller, a domestic in the
family Of Thos. B. Harding, the at
torney, was found in dying condi-
ton in her bed, early on the morning
of the 18th inst. Her symptoms re-
sembled those of poisoned person and
it is thought she had taken dose of
powerful some drug with suicidal in
tent.
The Spokane National Bank, of Spo-
kane Falls, has failed with liabilities
aggregating 100000. 1t is said that
the cause is directly attributable to
mining speeulations of its cashier,
Warren Hussey, who has used many
thousands of dollars of the depositors'
money in developing the C9ur d. Alene
mines.
1t is not generally known, says the
Yakima Herald, but there exist great
beds of moss agate between North
Yakima and the Columbia river. They
were discovered by w. w. Minner,
who secured many specimens of this
translucent stone, as large as the palm
of hand, and distinctly showing the
vegetable formation within.
w. A. Jennings, a travelling sales
man for the Northwestern Cracker
Co., of Seattle, committed suicide in
that city, on the 18th inst, by shooting
himself in the head. He was married
man and his domestic relations, so far
as known happy, and his business af-
fairs in an excellent condition. The
motive is. therefore, unknown.
The steamer Ferndale was wrecked
on Lopez Island, on the 18th inst. It
seems that in heavy sea she lost her
smoke-stack, and sparks from the
furnance set her cargo of hay on fire.
Sails were raised and she was headed
for the shore where she arrived just in
time for her crew to escape death from
either burning or drowning. The
Ferndale was owned by Capt. A. @.
Benjamin and was valued at $1,000.
A surveying party are at work in the
hills back of Washougal City. They
are setting the grade-stakes for large
flume that will run parallel with the
Washougal river for about twenty miles.
It will give an outlet to one of the
finest bodies of timber on the Pacific
coast. The company will build large
sawmills in this timber. The planning
mills and wharfs will be at or near
Washougal City, on the Columbia river.
The people of Whitman county are
rejoiced at the election of w. ]. Nc
Connell to the United States Senate
from Idaho. Mcconnell is q member
OF the general merchandise firm here
OF Mcconnell & Chambers, and he also
owns several wheat farms in the fer
tile Palouse valley. All the people
believe that it as good as another Sem
ator for Washington. The new Sena-
tors interests here are equally as great
as those in Idaho.
Contractor Heustis, of Griggs. &
Heutis, who are building the Northern
Pacific extension to Olympia, was in
the city Tuesday, says the Tacoma
Globe, and was in consultation with
Principal Assistant Engineer Huson.
The latter stated that trains will be
running into the State capital from
this city within ten days. One hun
dred additional men have been placed
at work on the Lake View road, and
everything is moving along swimming
ly.
A couple of months ago. the police
Of Sacramento, Cal, received letter
from Chehalis, WASH, requesting him
to search for Henry Mason Gates, a
young man who has been missing
from there, and was last heard from
at Sacramento, nearly three years ago.
Gates was one of several heirs to q
$4,000 estate. Chief Drew found
persons who had seen Gates, but none
within the last year. He finally dis.
covered that Gates died in the county
hospital in 1888.
Private Gjerdwine, of F company
Fourteenth infantry, at Vancouver,
committed suicide on the 18th inst
He took his gun to the rear of the
guardhouse, and untying one shoe and
placing the muzzle of the gun in his
mouth, deliberately pulled the trig'
ger with one Of his toes, liter
ally blowing his brains out. 1t is un.
derstood he had a short time ago in
herited over $1,000 from relatives in
the old country. The cause of the
suicide was not ascertainable.
Among the passengers on the steam
er Premier, which arrived at Tacoms
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