Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-03-13

over 1000 mining locations have
been made in tho Okanogan mining
districts. which include Conconully,
Ruby and Wanicutt. \ number of
these locations have developed into
mines worth from $4,000 to 81 ,0000o0,
and have ore exposures worth double
the amount asked for them.
Wait,turg (Wa>h.l TmcH: The main
work done ~ our legislature was to
build and whtrwa>h Mctcalic, and to
have a ! | ,uVl picnic with JNdge Sachs.
The Mctcalfe investigation cost the
State Ju.: 81 1927 or SG93.97 more
than Mctcalie got and turned over to
the tate.
Cgptain J. W. Symons, United
state engineer. is on his way to the
upper Columbia river He and his
party will start in at the British
boundary and make an inspection and
survey OF the river for 400 miles down
the stream. with the view to the re-
mOVal 81 Instructions to navigation.
Brigadier1icneral Curry, OF the Ma
tional Guard. Colonel Haines, and Adj
Jutant-General O'Brien visited Orting
"Wednesday To see if the ground there
would Toe suitable for the next en-
campment of State troops. If they
find that the grounds are suitable, en-
campmcnt will hc held there next
summer. Ia fact they will make that
place the permanent camping grounds
Last week Thursday, two United
States prisoners, Charles Olsen, of
Seattle, and Charles Barrett, OF North
Yakima, with J. {. Arnold, prison
guard, set out from McNcil's island in
Il small sail boat, for Stcilacoom.
When half way across the interyen-
ing water n sudden squall came up
and their boat was capsized. The
men were thrown into the water and
drowned.
A bold robbery was perpetrated at
Port Townsend Sunday morning, the
post-otlice being the objective point of
attack. Twenty men started in pur-
suit soon as the fact became known,
but no trace could be found. The Of
ficers are of the opinion that the work
was done by an organized gang, who
have for some time been in this Vi
cinity. While the job was bold one
its execution was not the work OF pro-
fessionals.
The new Convent of Mercy, building
10y the sisters, ut Snohomish, will be
nponoI forr,oIl,, obout E,ctnr N; In IN
propriate exercises. \ bishop OF the
church will oiliciate. This school will
be the most important OF its kind in
the State, for it will be what is known
in Catholicism as Novitiate, or
Mother House, for the apprenticeship
of young ladies wishing to become sis
tiers. Already there are two admitted
on these terms
The last stroke of work was done on
Whitman county's elegant new court
house Wednesday, and the doors were
locked preparatory to the inspection of
the commissioners. The edifice is
large and cOmmodious one, containing
well-lighted Offices for all the county
officials, and large and elegantly fin
ished and furnished courtroom, Jail, etc
The total cost of the building was
about $l50,OOO, and the furniture, all
of antique oak, cost $4,000. Steam
heating and electric lighting are ex-
clusively used. 1t is doubtful if there
is as fine an edifcc of its kind in the
Northwest.
The steamer Edith, which was the
mail boat to Seattle until March |,
was submerged at high tide Friday
night while lying at the Port Ludlow
wharf. She was not securely fastened,
and the hull filled with water. She
was lying on her port side, stern to the
beach, her pilot-house being half I'M
der water. Sailors were engaged YES
terday in an effort 10 raise her. The
mail since March 1st has been carried
by the Eliza anderson. The Edith is
boat with history. She was built
by w. c. Ralston. the San Francisco
millionaire, who died some years ago,
and was intended to be a private
yacht. She was not fast enough, how
ever. and was sold, remodeled, and
finally brought into service on the
Sound.
A prominent Tacoma physician has
made horrible and startling revela-
ton. He alleges he was called about
two months ago to the death bed of a
poor Swede, living in the Sixth addi-
ton Of Tacoma, named Lars Peterson.
He told the physician he wished his
dying confession written and it is as
follows: He had worked in Armour's
pork house. Chicago, until 1887, then he
went to Sioux City to work in SLIDER
horns packing house. He worked
there until the Spring of 1889, when
he killed man named Lars Harm
strum. who worked on the night shift
with him cleaning floors in the kill
ing rooms. He killed Harstrum with
a large knife he found lying about.
He stat bed him many times and his
life blood flowed down the gutter to
the fertilizer. mixing with the blood OF
the swine killed that day. He then
put him in the chute and ran his
body in among 10000 carcasses killed
that day. Near morning. he took the
body to the chopping blocks. cut it in
pieces, covered it with salt and ran
them to the freezing rooms among the
piles Of pork left there for months. He
then burned the clothes in the furnace.
Nothing more was heard of the matter,
and there is no doubt this human flesh
was packed as pork and distributed
throughout the country. Peterson
lived in Sioux City for two months
after the murder and then came here.
He says that if the body is not packed
they will find in the northeast corner
of the cooling room all that remains
Of Harstrum. The physician is anX-
ious that Silberhorn's Packing Com
pany made an examination of the
cooling room.