Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-08-22
WHOLE NUMBER 1888.

e. +. Mack, a prominent business
man of Aberdeen, has been missing
: since last Saturday. He has been act.
ing strangely for several weeks, and
complained of Al severe pain in his
head. 1t is supposed that his mind is
temporarily affected and that he has
wandered off into the forests. Search
ing parties have been sent out but re-
turned without finding any trace of
him.
They have a smart horse at Walla
Walla. He was lately neglected at
dinner time, and after waiting until
Forbearancc ceased to be a virtue" !"
the intelligent equine proceeded to
the feed-box, raised the lid and dined
to his hearts content. He then went
to the hydrant, turned on the water.
filled the trough, turned it off, drank
his fill and quietly returned to his
stall for nap. If that don't indicate
the possession OF "horse sense" it GER
tainly shows the possession of so high
an order OF instinct as to be very close
ly allied to reason.
On Tuesday of last week, at Ocosta,
son of Mr.. Case of Bucoda, Lewis
county, and the nephew OF DR.. French,
was drowned. The little fellow was
about six years old and had never
been near any large body of water be-
fore, and all the way down on the
steamer was talking about the water
and saying he was going in swim
ing as soon as they got to Ocosta.
When the party landed at the town,
they went up to dinner. While the
rest were waiting for dinner, the boy
slipped out, and going to one of the
sloughs, jumped in to have a swim
and was drowned.
Last Thursday night as passenger
train was running along at the rate
OF thirty-five miles an hour, about two
miles south of Grants Pass, the Union
Pacific engineer saw a man lying
across the track, his head and arms on
one rail and his feet on the other.
The brakes were set, but too late. The
pilot OF the engine struck the man
and he was thrown to one side of the
track on a pile of rocks. When he
was picked up it was ascertained that
beyond few bruises about the head,
ne was uninjured. He refused to give
his name, and made away for the
nearest saloon.-Statesman.
The Commissioners of the general
land Office has decided that the en-
abling act of this State repealed all
laws in relation to indemnify lands,
and that the State is not entitled to
any indemnity selections in lieu of
land lost by reason of sections 16 and
36 being fractional from natural
causes. This decision was made in
case appealed from the decision of the
Seattle Land Office which denied an
application made to file claim upon
tract OF land that had been selected
by the commissioners of Whatcom
county as indemnity land. The de-
cision has been appealed to the Secre-
tary of the Interior, and should it be
sustained the State will lose large
amount Of valuable land that has been
selected by the various counties.-Ta-
coma Erery Sunday.
Relative to the trackage arrange
ment between the Union Pacific and
Northern Pacific, the Tacoma Globe
says: Assistant Chief Engineer H.
V. Gates, of the Union Pacific, knew
nothing of the deal until apprised OF
it by wire from Olympia, Wednesday.
This telegram, or rather, more proper
ly speaking, the startling news it con
veyed, is what hurried Mr.. Gates pell
nell back to Portland from Olympia,
when he had made arrangements OF
importance here before he went to the
capital. Put there was really no se-
cresy attached to the arrangement.
1t was made at st. Paul and Omaha,
headquarters of the Northern and
Union Pacific companies respectively,
July %, by Vice-President Holcomb
and General Manager Smith of the
Union and Mr.. Oakes of the Northern
Pacific. Its terms are that all freight
in transit from any point Oh the
Union Pacific or from any point on
any of the eastern, southern, western
or northern connections of that line.
to points on Puget Sound or other
places in this State shall be carried
over Northern Pacific tracks north
from Portland either in Northern Pa
cific or Union Pacific trains, whichever
the last named company may elect.