Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-06-27


Oyehut by Sam, shooting them from
his canoe.
At an early hour one morning last
week the Tacoma cracker factory, the
largest factory OF the kind in the State
was destroyed by fire. Loss about
$4,000. Insured for $4,000 1t will
be rebuilt.
Last Monday a fatal accident oc-
CURED in the iron tunnel at the Ia
coma mill, on the water front near
Old Town. John Miller, railroad
laborer, was crushed to death by a
gravel train.
Fremont Cole, formerly of Watkins,
New York, and ex-speaker of the New
York State Assembly, has been APP
pointed resident attorney of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, with head
quarters at Seattle.
The oat crop in the Palouse country
this season is estimated at 100000
bushels, being an increase of 80 per
cent. over last years crop. The value
of the barley yield for 1890 in the same
district will be 81 100000.
A large number of fishermen are
engaged among the San Juan Islands
catching halibut and cod. They are
caught at depth of $50 feet. They
are very large and find ready sale at
from 6 to 10 cents per pound.
The name of the new town, know as
New Walla Walla, has been changed
to Freewater. The town is beautifully
located and has good water facilities
for irrigation and manufacturing pur-
poses as any town in the Northwest
Another, steamer the Portland, has
been brought around from the Will
lamette to run on the Sound. She is
now at Seattle, undergoing repairs,
and will be devoted to general jobbing.
She is 70 feet in length with II feet
beam.
w. H. Bush, of Montesano, has
telegraphcd to the congressional dele
CATION at Washington that he cannot
accept the Office of Receiver of the
land Office at Olympia. He is Sheriff
of Chehalis county, and finds that Of
fee more lucrative.
Frederick r. Strong has secured the
wreck of the steamer J. B. Libby for
81 500. The steamer belonged to
Captain Herbert Beecher, and was
badly burned in the Straits last fall,
while taking q carload of lime fro m
Seattle to Roche Harbor.
The case of the o. r. & N. VS.. Berry
man, at Walla Walla, suit for $780,
COO damages for injuries to the plain
tiff's child, has been settled. The
railroad is to pay $1,000 and costs.
The child was run over by an engine
two years ago, and an arm and leg cut
off.
1t is reported that miners at the
junction of Williams creek with the
Swauk are making from $50 to $50
per day. While this is, perhaps, some
what of an exaggeration, there is no
doubt whatever that the miners on
the Swauk and its tributaries are doing
very we'll this year.
The children of Chehalis are suffer-
ing from ringworms. large number
of them being so afflicted. They are
decidedly epidemic, being of a most
infectious nature. When once they
get into o school it requires the most
rigid precautions to prevent the dis
ease from spreading.
William Clark, engineer of Farquar-
sen & Bard's sawmill, at Hot Springs,
was killed by Geo. H. Redmond, an
employee of the same place. The MUIR
der is the result of feud Of long
standing. They both formerly worked
at TeninO, in this county. Redmond
has been held 10 answer for the crime.
The enumerator for Lewis and
Clarke, Mr.. George Bell, had a narrow
escape in the discharge of his duties.
for he was chased by o crazy woman
armed with q shotgun, who wanted to
shoot him. He dropped his books
and blanks, but afterward recovered
them, damaged considerably by con-
tact with the mud.
Fred Lilligreen, q young man from
Pennington, who was adjudeed insane
Wednesday, hung himself in Jail at
Colfax with o handkerchief. He was
discovered and cut down, and then
butted the cell doors with his head in
an attempt to suicide. He was badly
cut, but the skull was not fractured.
He goes to the asylum.
The Spokane Falls Globe has been
sold for IS 900 to q political corpora
ton composed of Thomas C. Griffitts,
Col. Feighan, ]. q. Moore, Postmaster
Thomas Warren and several others
whose names are at present unknown.
Tom seems to be in very peculiar COM
pany, if the paper is to be q political
one, as it minated.
The specifications for the Northern
Pacific car and machine shops in
Ellensburg have been received. They
are to be completed October 18th and,
will cost 100000. The round-house
will have fifteen stalls; the machine
shops are to be 62xl12 feet; u, IN
CINE house for machine shops, 23x4O
feet; the blacksmith shop will he 39x
40 feet, and coal storehouse will also
be erected.
Sam Moritz, q Columbia county
man, hurt one of his fingers and tied it
up in . rag. He used plenty of rag
and saturated it with turpentine to
hasten the healing. Shortly after he
had occasion to strike q match, when
the rag took fire, the turpentine blazed
up vigorously and the finger was almost
burned eff before Sam could extinguish
the fire. The second hurt was worse
than the first.
Two street railway companies at
Spokane Falls are fighting for the
right-of-way. The sheriff gathered $50
deputies and going to Division street
tore up the tracks OF the Transit COM
pany and relaid the tracks of the Spo-
kane Street Railway company, thus
leaving matters where they were at the
beginning of the struggle, and placing
it in the superior court for determine
ton.
The steamer Eastern Oregon is to
be put on the Portland-Puget Sound
trade. She belongs to the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company and is
now running between San Francisco
and San Diego. She will carry
passengers, the fare to be $18 for
the round trip from Port Townsend
and Victoria and $40 from Seattle or