Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-10-09

oil wells are being bored at Balm
and Sumas.
John J. Calhoun, one OF the bright
st lawyers of Port Townsend, Is deal
The pnstoilir,- ui Whatcom and
New Whltcom viii soon he c"n>oH
dated.
carp are being ruthIe>~ly >laugi.
tered in a lake near Cheney with
dynamite.
IIorSethieyc, are again at work ia
the vicinity oi Spokane. Five animals
were stolen during the past week.
The Tacoma smelling and refining
works shipped l.213 bars OF bullion,
valued at 5000, during September.
The Yakima Indians are reported
To- hc willing t" take up farms and
throw open the reservation to settle
mrnt.
The shooting in the Zorn family
near Walla Walla, ON Saturday last, Is
liable To- result in the death OF AL three
victims
Tacoma's wheat receipts now aver
aging 100 cars daily, or about $1,000
bushels; Seattle, thirty-tive cars daily.
or about 2I.000 bushels.
The Steilacoom asylum trustees let
the contracts Saturday To Tacoma and
Seattle firms for that institutions sup
plies for the ensuing year.
J. {. Schaetler, new employ at the
shaft of the Lake Tnion sewer tunnel,
was caught in the elevator Monday
night about 9 o'clock and crushed to
death.
Timothy Lynch, "A Switchman on the
Northern Pacific railroad at kalama,
was fatally injured Wednesday evening,
while switching cas-. He died at
Tacoma next day.
The fall meeting of the Puget
Sound LiVe>tuck Association will he
held at Stanwooi, October s and 10.
Several good races lave been arranged,
and good time is assured, weather
permitting.
Silver lake, one nile east of Medical
lake, is becoming quite fishing resort,
the German carp put therein a few
years ago having increased so fast that
they now furnish excellent sport for
fishermen
Mrs. Joe Shannon, of Tacoma,
bought a pistol and fired it at her
husband, who was in in bed drunk,
and then took her child and fled, Civ
ing herself up 1t was found that She
did not hit him.
The State Board of Horticulture
will hold its semi.annual meeting in
Tacoma, October IL. At this meeting
regulations will be made to inspect all
fruit trees shipped into the State and
for cleansing fruit trees
Corporal Arnold and Private Trum-
power. who were concerned in the
lvnching of gambler Hunt at Walla
Walla. have been sent to Alcatraz
island, in the bay of San Francisco,
To serve sentences, the former of eight
years and the latter OF five.
The Kcy city Graphic, weekly
newspaper, published by George L.
Shoalcs, late of the Lcadcr and for
merlv of the Seattle newspaper frater-
nifty. has made its appearance at Port
Townsend. The first issue seems to
be devoted entirely to politics.
Arson &. Allen, iateiy engaged in
the mercantile business i'll Astoria,
Or. died ut Port Townsend Saturday
lie was ailing for some months with
an abcess on the brain, which ulti-
matcly caused his death. lie is a
brotherin-law to Senator Frank W.
Hastings.
The steamer Emma Hdywdrd, at
one time n crack boat ON the Column
bia river, which has been in service
on Puget Sound the past eight years,
will he taken back to her old place on
the Columbia and do service as Il
trImp'-odd jobs of freighting and
towing.
Lieutenant Cabell and fifteen l.. s.
regulars from Vancouver are still en-
camped on the Puyallup river bank
guarding the Indian reservation. The
soldiers have now been here four
months, and Lieutenant Cabcll saws
he did not know how much longer
they might stay.
4 dress, apparently copied after
those adopted 10y the Rainy Day Club
OF ladies' in Boston, but without the
wrap and rubber hat. was seen few
days ago on the streets of Ellensburgh.
The wearer attracted great deal of
attention and was an object of much
curiosity wherever she appeared.
The cornerstone oil the Pacific
Lutheran university was laid Sunday
ut University Place, six miles south of
Tacoma. The Rev Baade, of Seattle,
delivered an address. Three hundred
people were present, including the
Bev. G. Hoellc and Fred Blamberg, of
Seattle.
The new President of Whitman col
lege, at Walla Walla, Rev. James f.
Eaton, is expected to arrive from the
East about the middle of October. He
is an experienced educator, and under
his management the college will keep
the high standard it has already at
tanned
Secretary Snowden, OF the chamber
of commerce, is sending out inquiries
to proprietors of the country press,
asking if, in event Of a plant being
started in Tacoma for furnishing
patent printed insides for weekly pub