Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-03-07

J.. A. Stratton and 7. J. Humes, OF Sc
attic, additional Superior Judges for
King county.
Wednesday, Gov. Ferry sent to the
Senate the nomination OF o. c. White,
of the Partisan Company, as public
printer. to hold office until July, 1893.
The Joint Committee on Adjourn
ment has fixed March 2Sth as the day,
but there is considerable opposition to
accepting this date.
A number OF tents were torn down
by the Street Commissioner at Seattle,
Monday, occupying ground that had
been condemned for widening and
Strengthening the streets.
John J. Jackson, Il young Swede,
was instantly killed in the western
suburbs OF Tacoma, last Monday, while
employed in pulling stumps with a
large gang Of men near Hatch's mill,
on Ross Avenue.
Says the Yakima Herald: In champi-
oning the division of the Yakima land
district, Congressman Wilson is not
only doing Yakima an injury, but he
is also doing a great injustice to the
people residing in the upper part OF
Kittitas county.
The contract for carrying the mails
from Port Townsend to Whatcom and
intermediate postoffices has been
awarded to Morgan & Mann, OF the
steamer Evangel. The contract is for
four years, at $1,000 per annum, and
begins July list, 1890.
Albert TAFT, who attempted to black
mail Pendleton, Or, hotelkeeper,
was convicted and sentenced tot
two years imprisonment for fornica-
ton, at Tacoma, this week. He is
still under indictment, charged with
trying to obtain false Indictment
against DIR. G. E. Case, of that city.
Quite a chapter of accidents oc-
CURED last Saturday at Hornby's mill,
Chehalis. Walter Carnsew, timekeeper,
had his leg crushed between logs at
the rollway. The sawyer attempting
to help him, received a severe cut in
the arm by the lever breaking, throw
ing him. Casper Carr, at the same
place latter in the day, cut his foot
open with an AK.
A dispatch from Gray's Harbor says:
G. w. Hunt, railroad builder, has made
proposition to the people of Aber-
deem to build road from some point
on the Northern Pacific through their
town. He asks for $4,000 in lands
at present value and depot and freight
yard grounds. and promises that the
road shall pass through Aberdeen. 1t
is doubtful if his terms will I've ac-
copied.
David Denee, the young desperate,
lately sentenced to II years in the
Penitentiary, last Friday attempted to
fire the King county Jail, and in the
effort inflicted injuries on Jack Gay,
fellow convict, which resulted in his
death Tuesday. Denee will now
doubtless have to stretch hemp in
stead of manipulating jutc, as he will
be Immediately tried on a charge OF
murder.
Monday night, at Spokane Falls, fire
broke out in a row OF frame buildings
at the north approach OF Monroe
bridge, which caused loss of about
$4,000. The flames were first dis.
covered in the Eepiew Job printing Of
fee and spread in both directions. No
wind was blowing at the time, which
was very fortunate, as the whole block
of large frame buildings would have
surely gone.
Gov. Ferry, Auditor Reed and Treas
urer Lindsey constituted, by a law just
enacted, commission to secure loan
of 100000 on State bonds, have de-
cided to advertise in Seattle, Tacoma
and Spokane Falls papers for bids for
the purchase OF bonds, which, by the
terms OF the law, shall bear interest at
the rate of not greater than 5 per
cent. Bids will be opened on March
II, and it is believed bonds can be is
sued and the loan made available by
April LIST.
A man named Perry Cox is mysteri-
ously missing from Gray's Harbor
City. One day last week he awaited
at the outer end of the long pier for
the tide to rise sufficiently that he
might take in a rowboat moored there.
A companion walked in and left Cox
in the boat, and here all trace of the
man and boat is lost. The disappear
ance is more mysterious than that of
Rostel, whose body has not been re-
covered. What may have happened
can only be conjectured.
The contract has been closed for the
location of large sawmill and sash
and door factory at Geneva Lake,
Whatcom county. The mill will en-
ploy about fifty men. The builders
calculate to spend about $4,000 on
the plant and commence saving on
the 18th of April. The company has
deposited money in the First National
Bank of Whatcom as a guarantee that
the work will go forward as per con-