Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-06-26
STATE NEWS.

school were from Seattle, each being
II years old.
Frank McKernan, Tacoma team
ster, was terribly crushed the other
day by one of his horses falling upon
him.
The infant child of Charles Emer-
son, of Seattle, fell out of its carriage
while being wheeled by its mother,
and broke its neck.
A committee of citizens has been APP
pointed ut Dungeness to solicit sub
scriptions to induce the Port Angeles
Southern Railway to extend its lines to
that place.
The assessable property of Lewis
county this year will be about ~ ,OOO,-
900. This will not increase the taxes,
but will reach class who have here
tofore practically escaped taxation.
The commissioners of King county
have instructed Auditor Twichell to
order the saloons at Franklin closed,
pending the results of anticipated
trouble, consequent upon the black
miners receiving their pay.
A young Russian named Lopateki,
of Tacoma, has fallen heir to $4,000
600 left by his sisters husband, of
Fedorowitz, in Poland. A woman of
Seattle wrote to Lopateki letter ask
! ing him II he did not want a hand
some housekeeper. He declined.
W. T. Meigs, while visiting the poor
farm at Gray's Harbor recently, found
several Indian implements in the shape
OF pestles and dressing stones. He
takes a great interest in collecting an
tiquarian relics and already has credit
able showing gathered from around
Gray's Harbor.
There were two distinct earthquake
tremors noticed in Seattle last Wednes-
day morning at 2:45, the movement
Of the earth being from east to west.
About one minute interviewed between
the two shocks. A rumbling noise
accompanied the tremors that were
heard above tho rain storm that pre-
vailed at the time.
A prominent lumberman OF Seattle
says that timber in the northwest is
hardly considered merchantable if it
goes under $4,000 feet to the acre,
while it is q very common occurrence
to find timber that will 60 100000 feet
TO the acre. He recounts recent sale
of q forty acre tract OF timber that went
9lM Oln fact IN tho aero
Not long ago a couple in Ohio were
married in the midst of a tennis
game, and last week couple liv-
ing at Avon, WASH, were married on
ferry-boat while It was crossing
river. Other freaks in the selection
OF the place for tying the matrimonial
knot will not be likely to multiply,
until greater variety are invented.
The family Of N. II. Hodgerson, of
Seattle, father, mother and four chill
dren, are destitute of all means. The
Seattle Telegraph says the father is
bedridden and the other members of
the family nearly dead from starva-
ton. Days at a time they are COM
PEELED to subsist on shell fish such as
can be caught off the wharf and on
what kindly disposed neighbors send
in.
It is said that the late spring has
proved OF great benefit to Lincoln
county, as the grain had not become
so far advanced that the hot weather,
which, Immediately preceded the late
rains, hurt 1t in the least. Residents
of that section claim that the yield
this season will surpass that of any
previous year, and the blockade of
last fall may, after all, be repeated
this fall.
The st. Johns Masonic Temple As
ISOLATION, of Seattle, have filed articles
of incorporation and will erect in that
city Masonic temple. The capital
stock of the corporation is SO, 900, d.
vided into 1,4OO shares. The term of
existence is fifty years and the trustees
are Jacob Furth, James R. Hayden,
William V. Rinehart, Robert H. CALI
gan and Laban II. Wheeler, whose
names also appear as incorporators.
Wheat buyers are still! endeavoring
to persuade farmers in the vicinity OF
Pullman to contract for their coming
crops at 20 cents per bushel. The
latter, however, anticipating still
higher prices, refuse to do it. If the |
yield this year is as enormous as it is
expected to be, and the prices are as
high as are hoped for, Eastern Wash
ington farmers may we'll believe them
selves the most favored of any in the
world.
John NJ. Burke, the well.known
Ceur d'Alene mining man, George E.
Pfunder, of Okanogan, and George
Darby, of Spokane, own an interest in
what appears to be a bonanza in the
way OF a coal mine on the line of the
Northern Pacific. thirty-three miles
from Tacoma. The vein is ten feet
thick, and the men are in eighty-fve
feet, carrying the entire ten feet all |