Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-01-02
WHOLE NUMBER 1.617.

Hereafter clergymen will have TO
pay full fare on all Sound steamers
belonging to the Puget Sound Steam
boat Association.
The Stanwood water works, which
were established in 1887, cost $4,000.
The supply of water comes from
Young's lake, about four miles dis
tant. The lake is $50 feet above the
sea level, giving the water a fall OF
about $50 feet. There is a filter OF
the most approved design constructed
at the lake which clears the water of
impurities as it enters the mains.
There are about eight miles of pipes
which are always kept in good repair.
The Steilacoom hospital for the in
sane has at present APO inmates.
There are every class of lunatics con-
fined in the institution. Some are
not violently insane, and are allowed
10 wander about the grounds. Some
times they are given easy tasks to
perform. 1t is necessary that the
keepers watch them carefully, as in
sanity seems to sharpen some of the
faculties as well as to destroy others.
The desire to escape from the institu-
ton is the one which causes the Of
ficers more trouble than anything
else.
Seattle fire department is composed of
the following: Including the fireboat
firemen and those in charge of the
chemical engines, 68 men, % horses,
two second-class Ahrens engines; two
Gould engines, third and fourth class !;
one double SO-gallon tank chemical en-
gine; two double 50-gallon chemical
engines; two hook and ladder trucks !;
three two-horse hose wagons; one two
horse reel; $1,000 feet OF hose, in
cluding 10000 feet ordered but not de-
livered. 1t has cost since June 1889,
$159,3O0. The salaries paid annually
to the fremen, exclusive of those on
the fire-boat, amount to $51, 900.
Miss Nosling, a waiter girl in a
Pasco restaurant, poured out for her
self cup of coffee, and sweetened it,
as she supposed, with large spoonful
of condensed milk. The can into
which she dipped her spoon, how
ever, contained concentrated lye.
She drank the coffee hurriedly, merely
noticing that it had a queer taste. A
few minutes afterward she fell down
unconscious. AS her symptoms were
those of poisoning, and emetic was ad-
ministered and she will recover.
"The northwest will have the
largest ferry boat in the world, when
the one recently built by the Northern
Pacific is in operation at. Kalama," /"
said M. A. Daniels, of Portland, late
ly. "For the past ten years the
Solano, crossing Carquinez strait, in
California, has been the largest. A
dozen different trains can be accom-
modated on her broad deck, and with
this tremendous load she trots off
across the strait as merrily and un-
concernedly as you please. She sports
four paddle wheels, with big engine
for each one, and the surges thrown
up by the blades of the wheels are
sometimes six feet high. The boat at
Kalama will be of similar construc-
ton, but will larger in every particu-
lar"
On the 18th instant, at twilight,
while house-warming was in progress
at Thomas G. McAdams' farm house
on the Nooksack, tremendous
splashing was heard in the brook hard
by. All rushed to the stream, where
cougar was found eating fine sal
mon he had just caught. The men
without alarming the great cat went
for their guns, and when about to fire
heard the crack OF rifle and the
cougar leaped high in the air and fell
in the brook dead. A bullet had
passed through the left ear into the
neck severing the spinal cord. Miss
Maud burning had done the deed
from the second-story window, at a
distance of It's yards. 1t is only 8
| few days ago that Miss Burning killed
a huge bear, that is now being stuffed.
Wenatchee apples are OF good quail
ity this season, and some of them arr
finding their way over the mountain'
into this market. They are wortl
from two to two and half cents a
| the orchard, and it is worth that o
more to haul them to the Sound b.
the most direct route. The appl
crop is not large, as the most of tn
orchards are quite young yet. In
few years there will be plenty of al
Piles in that locality. This is the frs
time the apples of Wenatchee hav
reached this section. They are yer
we'll liked and there is steady de
mand for them. Their flavor is bette
than that of almost any other apple
that are arriving from distance.
number of orchards in the Metho'
and Wenatchee valleys are just bt
ginning to bear.-Telegraph.
John T. Laidlaw, who recently sue
the city Of Seattle for $4,000 damage
and lost the case, has failed to get
new trial. Laidlaw fell through
hole in the sidewalk on the night
January IA, which he claims WI
carelessly and neglisently left open
| the city. He was then a resident
, Tacoma, and was in Seattle on tri
and it was while going to his hot
, that he met with the accident II
+ which he demands damages. In RI
,rov, tbo motion for a new ar;