Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-04-25
STATE NEWS.

Saturday after brief illness.
A large number of mail contracts
for service in the four new States will
be awarded, at Washington, next Mon
day.
Jennie Knapp has sued Samuel L.
Crawford, of Seattle. for breach of
promise, laying her damages at $780,
600.
C. NJ. Potter, printer, committed
suicide at Seattle, Tuesday. Drink
was the cause. He leaves wife and
child.
Stuart Rice is the Democratic NOM
inee for Mayor of Tacoma, and w. B.
Allen will head the Republican ticket
for that Office.
The House Commerce Committee of
Congress has reported favorably on a
light house for Gray's Harbor, also for
a new customs district to comprise the
State of Washington.
A postoffice has been established at
Allyn, in Mason county, with VIM. E.
White for Postmaster, and NJ. H.
Thompson has been appointed Post
master at Coinmo, in Thurston coun-
| ty.
Sedro, on the Skagit, is four months
old and has about forty houses 1t
will soon have National bank and u
fine hotel-three stories high. 50x94
feet-is to be completed within sixty
days.
Nelson Boulton, an old time resi-
dent of Columbia county has commit
ted suicide. He was found dead one
morning in his bed, with two bullet
holes in his left breast. A 80 caliber
revolver was found by his side. His
family were away from home at the
| time.
The Centralia people are excited
over the reports of prospecting party
lately returned from the Black Hills.
They assume to have found gold bear
ing quartz, and specimens have been
sent away for analysis. Nothing of
this kind is new to old Olympians.
Quartz and placer gold have been
found in those regions years ago by
many of our older citizens, but not as
was then supposed. in paying quanti-
ties.
In October, 1880, very full census
was taken of the Skokomish tribe of
Indians, in this State, and they num-
bered 243. In the nine and a half
years since that time ITO have died,
but the increase has been such that
POI are left. A large share of these
deaths have been among the children,
so that there are comparatively few
children on the reservation. Out of
sixty-six Skokomish families, few of
whom are off the reservation, twenty
four have not a child, some have lost
ten or twelve, and seventeen more
have only one each. Among the Puy-
allup Indians more of the older In
dams have died. In the fall of 1886,
l67 heads of families there received
patents to their lands. Since that
time thirty-eight Of those receiving
patents have died. About the same
time forty-nine patents were granted
to heads of families on the Skokomish
reservation, but among all the deaths
only three have been of those who re-
ceived patents.
Monday afternoon while John Taft
, was walking along the railroad, few
, miles south of Castle Rock, he was at
tackled by three men supposed to be
tramps, who relieved him of about $25
and a silver watch. The robbers then
: compelled him to take poison and
) left him to his fate. Fortunately two
+, boys who were out hunting, came
} along and discovered him i'll serious
t condition and carried him to Castle
2 Rock where medical aid was had. The
. injured man, though suffering severely
from the drug, was taken to Tacoma
ION Tuesdays train to identify two
: men, who had been arrested on sus.
\ picion of having committed the as
sault.