Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-18
WHOLE NUMBER I,CGS.
STATE NRWs.
Port Angeles will sell $50 600 worth
OF bonds to the highest bidder.

OF bonds to the highest bidder.
Peter Johnson, a railroad laborer
committed suicide in Tacoma the
other night.
Ivan Chase has transferred his in,
terest in the Pennington Newspaps,
to o. Il. Moore.
Walla Walla is growing. A number
of new brick blocks are to be built in
that city as soon as the work can he
done.
New Whatcom has sold $2S7 600
worth of municipal and funding bond.
to Rollins & Son, OF Denver, Col, at 7
per cent. discount.
The Yakima Land Company has
let the contract, and thirty men are
at work in clearing l 500 acres Of sage
brush land in the Mckee valley.
Warned by the damage by the Puy.
allup river during the recent high
water. parties interested have decided
to straighten the channel near the
mouth.
E. Meeker & Co, of Puyallup, on
the 10th inst. shipped a .rainload Of
hops, consisting Of LOO bales, to Lot
don, England. Two shiploads, Of 3,4l7
bales. have just departed from Balti.
more, Nd, for London. This com.
pany estimates that they will ship
this year somewhere near 10000
bales.
c. P. Eggan, Of Seattle, has libelled
the steamer Sarah M. Renton, claim
ing Sis, 900 damages because the gang,
plank gave way and he fell into the
bay, while he was going aboard the
steamer. Such suits are q travestry
on justice, but their frequency indi-
Gates that some degree Of success
must attend these endeavors to extort
blood-money.
Mrs. Gilbert M. Ward, OF Oakvilie,
Chehalis county, attempted suicide
Tuesday night at the Olympia hotel
in Montesano by taking twelve NOR.
phine pills. By free use Of sntidotes
and continued exercise she was saved.
To no motive other than temporary
insanity can the act be attributed.
Mr.. Ward says they have always lived
happily together.
OF the $4,000 taken by Albertson,
the Tacoma bank robber, about si2,-
600 o: which was in currency At
the time of his departure, $500 is
still missing, and il is believed . por-
ton, at least, of that amount was
cashed, although the prisoners offer no
further explanation than that all ex.
cept what was found upon them when
captured had been spent.
F. w. Middaugh, . local typo OF
Tacoma, has secured caveat on q de-
vice for holding type in q stick, which
he believes will answer the place Of
the thumb OF the left hand. He also
has a device for holding the stick 10
the case. He claims that by this de-
vice GO per cent. more type can be set
in day by reason Of having the left
hand free to assist the right.
Herbert P. Kendall brings suit In
Seattle against Nathan A. Cornish 70
recover 5000. Kendall lives in the
State of Maine, and year ago last
June he employed Che defendant. %
he alleged. to invest 5000 for him In
the stock OF the First National OF
Blaine. The money was paid over,
but never invested in that bank, and
when Kendall demanded the return oi
the money Cornish gave him no sat-
isfaction. Cornish answered that the
bank had not been organized when the
suit was brought, and said the agree
ment would be complied with a. soon
as the business was in operation.
The grain trade in Palouse markets
is about closed for the present season
and by the shipments that have been
made from the various stations, an &C
curate estimate places the total pro-
duct of Whitman county At II, 3,50O, ,O0G
bushels, with wheat - tho chief factor
at 1O,75O,OO0 bushels; barley, 1850.
600; oats, 10000; fax, 10000; rye,
100000. The money received for this
grain has added $l0,l72,500 10 the
county. for the average price Of wheat
since the beginning Of the harvest has
been 70 cents bushel; Of barley, 90
cents; Of oats. 80 cents; Of FAX, 81,
and of rye, $l.lO, making the whea,
worth $8,O62, $50; barley, $4,000
oats, $64O,OOO fax. $500, 900, and ry,'
100000.