Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-03-27
STATE NEWS.
The Puyallup opera house is to be
fitted up with elecric lights.

htted up with elecric lights.
Seattle has 134 miles of main
sewers, Z miles OF which are 12 inch.
There is proposition on foot to
bond Fairhaven city for $500, 900 for a
complete sewerage system.
The bar of Lewis county blame
Governor Laughton for failing to ap-
point the Superior Judge OF that dis
trict from that county. Judge Hun
ter, the appointee, is Pacific county
lawyer;
The publication of the new CITY
charter cost the taxpayers of Spokane
Falls $f,315.92. the Chronicle charging
$1,O47 AZ for doing the same work for
which the Reriew asked $3,26S.4O. In
Tacoma the cost of similar piece of
work was about $1,000.
According to the report of the bu-
reau statistics the State of Washing.
ton will show the largest percentage
of increase in international commerce
of any Pacific coast State or Territory,
though the business OF California in
bulk will equal all other parts of the
district.
A petition signed by between thirty
and forty members of the State Legis-
lature, most of whom voted for Sena-
tor Squire i'll the late Senatorial con-
test, has been forwarded to Washing
ton, requesting the State delegation
to secure the appointment of Judge
w. ii. Calkins, of Tacoma, to the new
Circuit Judgeship recently created by
act OF Congress.
The Board oi Health at Seattle con.
demned ninety-eight head of live hogs,
brought from Omaha and consigned
to local butchers, because they had
the cholera. The hogs were slaugh-
tered under the inspection of the
board and the carcasses taken to the
rendering establishment, where the
board will see that they are disposed
OF in such a way that they cannot be
used for food. 1t is said that other
cars of hogs hive been shipped for
Portland and Tacoma.
There is intense intense feeling at
Oysterville over the decision of the
Supreme Court in the Rose and Ed
wards cases, but the Sheriff says he
has no fears of any attempt at VIC.
lence. The prosecution has applied
for u rehearing before the Supreme
Court, and all the people here are dis
posed to wait patiently until they
hear from that tribunal. Consider
able talk is going on, but it is believed
that pending the rehearing asked for
there will be no lawless move made.
Eugene Boardman, bookkeeper for
NJ. Seller & Co., committed suicide at
C@ur dAlene City on the 18th inst.
by jumping into the lake. Mr.. Board
man was sufferer from overwork,
and went to the lake for his health.
His brother missed him from his side
in the night and went in search of
him, finding his body in the water.
Mr.. Boardman leaves family here.
During the day he had been in good
spirits. His rash act is believed to
have been the result of an attack of
temporary insanity.
Johanna Staff, a Norwegian woman,
was terribly and fatally burned at Sc
attic, Sunday, while attempting to
start fire in a kitchen stove with oil
from a kerosene can. The can ex-
ploded, and the woman, enveloped in
flames, fled into the street, where she
was caught by her husband, Ole Staff.
In his endeavor to smother the flames
he burned his face and arms, and his
hands were charred. Before he could
tear the clothes from his wife the un-
fortunate was blacked and scared
from head to foot. The attending
physician says she can hardly live.
A dispatch from Spokane Falls says
Politicians in this city say that Sena.
tor John B. Allen is u candidate for
the new Circuit Judgeship and that
he is likely to be appointed by the
President to the position. Mr.. Allen
assigns as his reasons for seeking the
office that he is loath to enter the
Senatorial race again, owing to the
expenses; that he is a lawyer and
would prefer the judgeship, which is
for life, with salary of $4,000. 1t is
understood that Senator Squire has
indorsed him. If Allen should be ap-
pointed judge it is generally admitted
that Calkins would succeed him in
the Senate by appointment.
James Beickles and Oliver S. Hins-
dale, both clerks for the Puget Mill
Company at Port Gamble, left there in
sailboat last on the I6 inst. for hunt
ing trip to Races Cove. The next day
the boat was found on the beach mile
north of Port Ludlow half filed with
water, and in it was Beickles' body,
which had become fastened in some
way to a seat. The Puget Mill Com
pany at Port Gamble was at once no
titled, and the steamer Yakima went
in search OF the remains of young
Hinsdale. James Beickles was for
merly from Cosmopolis, but it is be-
lieved his parents reside in St. Louis.
Oliver S. Hinsdale was q nephew OF
Capt. &. S. Hinsdale, the shipowner OF
San Francisco.
One OF the foulest deeds ever perpe-
trated in Tacoma occurred in that CITY
on the 18th. A stranger carrying a
small valise called at the house of Ed.
Hanson, No. GIG j. street, where he