Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-03
STATE NEWS.
The work of rebuilding the Kalar

The work OF rebuilding the Kalama
railroad inclines has begun.
Mrs. George Freeman, OF Tacoma,
died at the asylum at Stcilacoom, Dec.
&c.
The Denny Hotel has its walls up to
the fifth story. One more story re-
mains
Collector C. NJ. Bradshaw, OF Port
Townsend, has gone to Washington
City on n months visit.
L. NJ. Raisin, prominent lawyer OF
Seattle, died in that city, on the 3lst
ult., OF typhoid-pneumonia.
Riley Koontz, aged "A, a pioneer of
the coast, died at Walla Walla, Mon
day. He came to Oregon in 1850.
The body OF Ferguson, the carpen
ter, drowned in Like Washington,
Christmas night, has been recovered.
The late DR.. T. T. Minor left an
estate valued at 100000, and G.
Morris Halter one which figures about
a third Of a million.
August Erickson, an employe OF the
n. 2. K. X. Co., was struck by switch
engine and instantly killed, at Taco
ma, on the 31st ult.
John Hyart, who went to Eastern
( Washington about the time Whitman
did and has lived there ever since, has
been adjudged insane.
The steam schooner Signal has been
chartered to run between Portland and
the Sound, as freight packet. She is
expected in few days
Washington Peck, who died at Cen
tralia on the 9th inst, was SO years of
age and had been a resident of WASH
ington for over quarter of century.
John Gaffney, of Kamilchie, was
severely injured last week, by being
struck by passing train He is in ST.
Peters Hospital, this city, and is doing
we'll.
George w. Stinson's residence, about
a mile north of Fremont, King county,
was burned midnight Sunday. Very
little was saved. The loss is 81, 800;
insurance, $500.
The first chinook salmon of the sea-
son has been caught at Astoria and
sold in Portland for six dollars to the
Arlington club. This is the earliest
catch ever known.
A row of tents on Riverside Avenue,
Spokane Falls, were destroyed by fire.
on the last day Of the year, involving a
a loss Of $4,000, with insurance to the
amount of $4,000.
Martin Shafer died at the Fannie
Paddock Hospital Tacoma, Tuesday
evening, from injuries received by
dynamite explosion, which occurred
last Sunday morning.
J. NJ. Ogle, of King county, was
awarded one of the prizes offered by
the american Agriculturist, for the
best crop of potatoes per acre, his ag-
gregate being AGO bushels.
kalama's Board OF Trade is irving
to secure a saw mill for that dity. Ne
gotiatiOns with three Eastern saw mill
men are being carried on with hopes
OF a successful termination.
Charles N. Senter, well-known law
yer of Tacoma, and formerly a Justice
OF the Peace, died in that city on the
3lst ult. His remains were embalmed
and will be buried at San Jose, Cal.
The contract for the superstructure
of the Puget Sound University at Ia
coma, has been made for $42,656, to
be completed June 18th, 1890. The
foundation is completed at a cost of
$4,000.
Two farmers of Shaw's island are re-
ported to have been drowned on Sun
day after leaving Friday Harbor for
home in a small boat while intoxi-
Gated. Their names were Elliott and
Anderson.
The price of salmon for the fisher
men is already agitating the public
mind on the Columbia. The cannery-
men don't want to pay as much rs
last year, $1.25 per fish, and the fisher
men want more.
DR.. ]. H. H. Turner, of Walla Walla
has begun action against Ward Doug
las, an insurance agent. of that city,
for criminal assault on his daugher,
Fanny Turner, December 9Th. The
trial began on Monday.
Hiram Dexter, at Spokane Falls,
last week accidentally shot and killed
his young son. The father was in the
house and the boy on the outside, the
bullet passing through the wall and
striking the child in the head.
A number of saw mills on the Sound
have been obliged to shut down for
lack of logs, which are very scarce at
present. The price before the Seattle
fire was $3.50, but the demand has in
creased to $3.50 and logs are scarce at
that.
Appointment OF postmasters: K. b.
Harrison. at Arctic, Chehalis county,
vice A. s. Sanders. resigned; o. S.
Curtis, at Centerville, Klickitat coun-
ty, vice II. f. Cleaves, removed; S. w.
Walker, at Gray's River, Wahkiakum
county, vice Julia A. Walker, re-
signed.
The opposition line from Seattle to
San Francisco have commenced cut
ting rates, their charges being $l4 for
cabin and 81 for steerage. 1t is re-
ported the P. G. s. S. Co., will meet
this rate by a lower one, and cheap
fares to San Francisco may be looked
for.
A most cOwardly attempt ut murder
occurred last Sunday night at Ellens-
burg, when an unknown Frenchman
fatally stabbed a young man named
Frank Fisher. The Frenchman is in
Jail, and Fisher by this time may be
in his grave, for he was not expected
to live.
Capt. T. P. H. Whitelaw, the wreck
er, left San Francisco for Puget Sound
last week to begin operations on the
old iron ship Barnard Castle, which
was wrecked three years ago on Ben
timex Island, Puget Sound, which is
within short distance of Race Rock,
where the Idaho was lost.
The surveyor-general estimates that
there are 1916, l6D acres of valuable
land in Washington, of which about
1000 600 will belong to the schools
$4,000 for public buildings: 10000
state university; $4,000 agricultural
college; 100000 for scientific school
100000 state normal school; 100000
for charitable institutions.
One of North Yakima's policemen
became somewhat fuddled by repeated
doses OF tanglefoot and concluded to
lie down in a caboOse standing on a
side track until he felt better. When