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

Ihe citizens OF Centraila are agita
ing for better police protection.
Assessor Moore has just complete
his assessment for Lewis county. Tb
total for 1890 is 50, ,7O3, 1854, an increas
of $4,000.
A young man named Tunis M. Bea
yer was instantly killed on Seminary
hill, on the east side of the railroad
track at Centralia while handling logs
Lewis county is making Il stron,
move to have another judge elected il
that district. owing to the rapid in
crease of business in the different
counties.
A petition representing 70 per cent
OF the tax roll was presented to the
City Council of Waitsburg, praying
that 81 900 be expended in drilling for
artesian water.
Messrs. Knapp & Sutton, of Sno-
homish, have cut out q section of q
tree twelve feet in diameter, and will
charter car to take it to Minneapolis,
st. Paul and other Eastern cities and
exhibit it at the different fairs throug gl,-
out the East.
The passage of the land grant rail-
road forfeiture bill will release an i'm
mense amount of land in Klickitat
and Clark counties along the line oi
the Northern Pacific, as originally
projected down the north bank of the
Columbia river.
Complete returns from the census
enumerators in Chehalis county give
the following population: Aberdeen,
1898; Montesano, 1929; Hoquiam,
1907; Gray's Harbor City, 523; Cos
mopalis, 39l. The population of the
county is 1926.
John G. Mcbride filed a libel suit
in the superior court against R. F.
Radebaugh, proprietor of the Ledger,
asking damages in the sum of $780,.
600 for articles published concerning
McBride's celebrated mineral" claim
to school section 16.
Tunis M. Bearer, of Centralia, met
with frightful death at that place
last week. His lead was caught
between two logs, and jammed so
badly as to make death instantaneous.
He was a young man, well liked, and
leaves wife and child.
Completing the contract OF Griggs
& Huestis on the Tacoma, Olympia &
Gray's Harbor railroad, are 1000 men
and 475 teams, representing $50 head
of horses and mules. The grading is
completed to Black river, and the road
is ironed distance of fourteen miles.
V. NJ. Smith, OF Snohomish, met
with painful accident last week. He
was out riding and ran against log
sticking over the bank. The end oi
the log struck him just below the
groin, making an ugly cash in his leg,
which, if quarter of an inch deeper,
would have severed the artery.
A fire at Roy ON the 10th burned a
hotel and two other buildings before
it was extinguished. The loss will
amount to $4,000, insurance 5000.
The fire started in the room of a lodger
named William Adams, who was
burned to death. He had gone to
bed intoxicated and left the candle
burning.
The second shipment OF Alaska ore
to the Tacoma Smelling Works ar
rived this week ON the steamship
Geo. W. Elder. 1t consists of 1910
sacks, sixty five tons, of salphurets
from the great Treadwell mine on
Douglas Island, and n sample lot oil
seventy-nine sacks, two tons, from the
Big Basin.
William Delaney, who has been
working logging camp. up the Ho
quiam, was drowned last week in the
reservoir used to collect water to drive
logs. 1t is supposed he either became
dizzy and fell, striking his head on
something. or that he was seized with
a fit, as he was an expert swimmer
and could easily have reached the
shore.
A new town has been laid out in the
Okanogan country and named Lead
vile. A force of men are now EN-
ployed in clearing the brush and tim
ber off the streets. 1t is located abou
four miles below Ruby, in the Salmon
river valley, through which tho com
pany will build their line of railroad
ia connect with the Washington Cen
trail at the Columbia river.
The enterprising citizens ofSpokant
Falls have engaged the Nationa
Hungarian Gipsy band to be in attend
ance at the exposition. This will be 0
great attraction at the exposition
In fact, it will be one of the leadin,
features, as this hand is known the
world over, and considered by music
lovers as one of the best. 1t will in
deed be rare treat.
Captain Parker, of the steamer Gen
eral Candy, reports a heavy Chinese
passenger business. Each trip ht
takes about forty pagans over en- route
to the front on the Chehalis & Soutl
Bend railroad. There are at presen,
about 1000 men in the construction
crew of the line, and tools, etc., are
being sent forward by the carload.
1t Is expected that fully 5000 peo
pie will attend the Democratic meet
ings in Tacoma ON the 26th and 27tf
inst. Besides the Governors of Ore
gon and Montana, there will be pres
ent Hon. Jefferson Chandler, OF Mis-
souri,. Judge Charles F. Flaneur, o
ST. Paul, and Hon. Robt. +. Smith. OF