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

Since the Inauguration of the State
the Governor has appointed l,19O no.
taries public.
J. l.. Lewith is on trial at Chehalis
for setting fire to his store underneath
the Fife hotel in Tacoma, by change
of venue.
The Whitman county prohibition SITS
will hold a convention, and nominate
a full county ticket at Colfax on
June 7th.
The machinery at the Bellingham
mill was started last week, after lying
idle for five years, and was found to
be in perfect order.
While John Cairns, an employee at
Blackman Bros mill, at Port Town
send. was feeding the trimmer, saw his
left hand was caught by it, sever
ing the first three fingers.
w. F. Mccoy, a farmer living near
Snohomish, who lost his residence by
fire two weeks ago. was on Saturday
caught under falling tree, which
crushed him SO badly that his recovery
is doubtful.
Sarah A. Buxton, aged eighty seven,
died in Seattle on May 4th. She was
the first known white woman in WASH
ington, making the overland trip OH
horseback in the summer of 1889 with
Father Griffin and DR.. Geiger. She
devoted her life to missionary work
among the Indians.
Charles E. Stevens who has been on
the Sound for the past eighteen years,
has been taken to Providence hospital
at Seattle to be treated for paralysis,
which has attacked his right side. Mr..
Stevens for six years was foreman of
the Port Gamble mills and for ten
years was manager for Stetson & Post.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Clarkson, who is on his way to this
section of country, says the State of
Washington has more coal than
Pennsylvania, more pine than Maine
land more fish than Massachusetts.
He advises young men to come here,
asserting that it has room for 600 600
people.
Eugene Shogland, proprietor of a
small dry goods store at Tacoma, was
found dead among a pile of logs in
the center of the street, Sunday morn
ing, with bullet in his head. 1t was
evidently caseaof suicide. Deceased
had been drinking heavily of late and
had neglected his business, it is said,
ON account of unrequited love.
The hop crop in the Puyallup valley
promises to be as large, il not the
largest ever known. Mild weather and
gentle, warm rains have brought them
forward wonderfully. Buyers are al
ready there, also several English brew
ers, purchasing from owners. They
claim that Washington hops are supe-
rior to any other.
Wingdams are to be built along
both sides of the Puyallup river at its
mouth, to confine the stream as it
crosses the mud flats to a space 800
feet wide. 1t is calculated that when
this is done the rivers channel will
contain six feet of water at low tide,
enabling vessels to run up the river
and alongside the docks to be construc-
ted on both banks.
A number Of Indians have lately
been in Chehalis on legal business.
The assessor, it seems, assessed them
and they paid their taxes. According
to the United States law an Indian
who becomes q citizen and takes up
government land is not subject to tax
for twenty years. They discovered
that their taxes had been collected lille
gally and appeared before the court
to have the matter rectified.
P. H. Redmond, the aeronant lost
his life at Snohomish City, few days
ago, while making descent from one
of his trips to the clouds. 1t seems
that the balloon was drifted by the air
currents towards a grove of tall cedars,
and that to avoid striking he leaped
from the trapeze and attempted to
grasp limb, but it snapped under his
weight and he fell over 100 feet to the
ground. He died almost Immediately
after striking the ground.