Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-03
and no one was injured. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.

and no one was injured. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
The Tacoma Globe says: The at
tention OF the Pierce county delega-
ton i'll the legislature is called to the
fact that the description of the west
boundary of this county is SO OBJ
scurely wOrded as to leave in doubt a
strip of territory about five miles in
length and with an average width of
about one mile on Cases inlet or
North bay. This strip is alternately
claimed by Mason and Pierce counties.
Walter Cakes, a son OF President
Cakes, of the Northern Pacific, has
been appointed Secretary and Treas
urer of the Puget Sound and Alaska
Steamship Company. This is the new
line which, it is claimed, will compete
with the Union Pacitic's Sound steam
ers. {. H. Prescott, the second Vice
President OF the Northern Pacific, is to
be President OF the steamship line, and
ID. b. Jackson, general manager, with
headquarters at Seattle.
The Slaughter Sun gives the results
OF years work as reported by Mr..
Hooper living near Stuck. The gentle
man rented twelve acres of ground,
giving onethird OF the crop as rental.
The produce already sold amounts to
$1,000, and there yet remains to be
disposed of one hundred loads, worth
at very low estimate, $1,000. This
makes the gross result $4,000, giving
- 900 to the owner of the land as
rental, or $l60 per acre.
A few days ago a stranger mailing
from Minnesota and claiming to be
hunting for a runaway wife and child
came to Walla Walla and exhibited a
photograph of the man whom he sup
posed had taken his wife from him. 1t
was soon discovered that the photo
graphed face was that of a Methodist
minister, giving the name OF Bond.
and stationed at Dixie. Somehow the
minister obtained word and with the
derelict wife, Immediately vanished.
Bond had charge in the circuit named
and had been every way exemplary
and successful.
Three children were drowned Tues
day afternoon at 3 o'clock while skat-
ing on Johnson's lake, near Port Lud-
low. They were Edward Oliver, aged
9 years; Francis f. Johnson, aged 9
years, and George Johnson, aged ii
years, children of Edward Oliver, who
was step-father of the johnson girl
and boy. The children were skating
over the lake, when the ice gave way
and all were engulfed in the water,
which was only about seven feet at
that place, yet they persisted almost
instantly. The bodies were recovered
in half an hour after the sad accident
by c. V. Anderson and Mr.. Oliver and
conveyed to the home near by. A
strange coincident is the fact that
VIM. E. Johnson, father of the two
last named children, was drowned ex-
actly two years ago near Port Ludlow,
on WILDLY Island.
The people of the city of Sehome
have raised $50 for the baby born on
the steamer Seh0ne, on the afternoon
of the 10Th ult., as the vessel was en-
tering their harbor. The check was
made payable to the baby Sehome, the
name given the child by passengers of
the steamer. The people of Sehome
considered it, however, that the child
was named for that city. The child's
history is an interesting one. Its par
ents, Frank Donovan and Ray Morris,
were lovers at San Francisco. Several
months ago the girl grew enceinte,
and Donovan, becoming alarmed,
skipped for Seattle, telling the girl
that he left he would send for her af-
ter few weeks. Several months
passed, and Miss Morris, receiving no
word from Donovan, in her desperation
came to Port Townsend. She then
took the boat for Seattle, but the
child was born before her arrival here.
The mother was taken to the Phoenix
hotel, where Donovan met her the
next day and married her soon after.
The handsome New Years gift to
Baby Sehome is greatly appreciated by
the parents.