Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-07-11

The House committee on Indian
Affairs have under consideration the
Senate bill creating commission to
visit the Puyallup Indian reservation,
in this State, and report as to titles
held by the Indians, tie boundaries OF
the reservation, and other questions
OF Importance.
Arrangements have been perfected
for the immediate construction of a
narrow gauge road between the town
OF Laidlaw, on the south side Of Gray's
Harbor, to North Cove, on Willapa
harbOr, distance of about twelve
miles A road is also talked OF along
the beach from Peterson's point to
North Cove.
Last Saturday evening, some Dayton
boys came very near killing a Chinese
gardener. The boys were helping
themselves to strawberries, when the
Chinaman tried to drive them away.
He succeeded in capturing one of
them, but was made to release him by
the other boys, who stoned him nearly
to death.
The electric light plant for Blaine
has been shipped from Seattle. Ex-
Governor Eugene Semple, manager OF
the branch Office of the l.. II. Grit
fifth Realty and Banking Company at
Blaine, who has charge of the matter,
says the city will be lighted by the LIST
of August. 1t is expected that there
will be demand for seventy arc lights
| and 600 incandescents.
Eddy Pare, II years old, a boy from
Spokane Falls, who was recently ar
rested for stealing $40 in money in SIS
in drafts from the Grand Central
Hotel in Tacoma, was tried before
Judge Allyn Tuesday and allowed to
plead guilty to the charge OF petit lar
ceny. On account of his tender years
the sentence was suspended until his
parents could be heard from.
A little son of William Stringer, of
Aberdeen, was drowned last week. He,
in company with others, had gone
down to the river to battle, and while
walking out on some boomsticks
slipped and fell. He was not able to
swim, and although his companions
threw planks within his reach, he
seemed to be too scared to catch hold
Of them and soon sank.
Puyallup is bobbing up as candi-
date for State Institutions, and it is
possible that the State Soldiers Home
will be located there. The committee
appointed to locate the home, at Il
meeting held at Seattle late last week.
received proposition from Puyallup,
which is now being considered. The
committee will meet in August to de-
eide on one of the several sites offered.
There is some delay in the compile
ton Of the public building at Port
Townsend. The supervising architect
has informed Senator Squire that the
present contractor was the second low
est bidder, but his bid was higher than
the estimate of the department., con-
sequently they were inquiring into the
reliability OF the lowest bidder, to
whom the contract would be awarded.
John Let's, an Italian merchant of
Port Townsend, was found murdered
in his room on the Sd inst. with his
head nearly severed from his body.
Let's was known to have $1,000 in
money about him, which was gone,
while one of his clerks named Smith
has also disappeared. 1t is thought
Smith committed the deed for revenge
and money.
On the morning of the Fourth an
Indian was found near the railway
bridge in SnOhOmish with his throat
cut from ear to ear, but yet living.
Sheriff Tompkins took the case up and
in n short time located the perpetrator
of the deed, another Indian, and took
him into custody. The wounded In
dian is hourly expected to die. Whisky
was the cause of the trouble between
them.
The Board of Regents of the State
University met at Seattle, last Mon
day, and drew lots for terms of office
with the following result: One year,
Richard Osborn, of Seattle; General J. |
w. Sprague and John p. Judson, of !
Tacoma. Three-year-term, John Leary,
OF Seattle, and John F. Convey, of |
Olympia. ive.year-term, P. b. john
son, Walla Walla, and J. ]. Brown, of |
Spokane.
Seattle had Fourth of July fire
originating as follows: A young man |
had been smoking cigarettes in the
Northwestern Printing Company's Of !
flee. In lighting fresh cigarette he
threw the burning paper on top of a
can of benzine. An explosion resulted,
setting the Office on fire. The damage
to the stock will be in the neighbOr-
hood of $1,000, and to the building
about $500. Both are covered by in
surance.
The Committee of Garfield citizens
appointed to solicit subscriptions for
the Christian State University, report
that enough pledges have been Sc
cured to give the institution two
hundred acres Of the choicest lands |
adjoining the town, which, at very
reasonable estimate, is worth $500 per
acre, or $4,000. The chairman and
one other of the locating committee
have been there and were favorably
impressed.
The PalOuse country, embracing
forty-eight townships in Washington
and twenty-eight in Idaho, and cover.
ing an area 40 miles broad by 100
long, is believed to constitute the rich
est wheat belt in the known world. 1t
is estimated that the crop of this re-
gion will aggregate 100000 bushels
of wheat. The greater part of this
wheat will be shipped to Tacoma.
Spokane Falls will probably get 1,OOO,-
600 bushels for her mills.
r. ID. PassmOre, cashier of the Sc
curity Bank of Tacoma, committed
suicide Monday morning. He caused
his own death by cutting his throat
and stabbing himself to the heart with
a small pen-kniie blade, which was not
over two inches in length. Passmore
had resided in Tacoma for about a
year, having come from Milwaukee,
Wis, to take charge of the Security
bank, OF which he was one of the in
cOrporators. About three months ago
his wife and two small children went
back to Milwaukee on q visit, and
were expected to return in August.
The schooner Guide, which loaded
lumber at Port Blakely, and sailed for
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