Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-01-30
WHOLE NUMBER 1921.
STATE NEWS.

streets of Centralia for several wears
made his appearance last Saturday.
The people followed him about and
frightened him so that he departed on
the first train that left.
A young woman named Birdie
Jones was found dead last week in a
pond in the rear of notorious dance
house i'll the outskirts of Port Town
send. 1t is learned that the woman
had been on a drunk for some time
past.
The Eastern Washington Hospital
for the Insane is expected to be ready
for the reception of patients in about
thirty days. The commissioners ask
the legislature for $4,000 to COM
plete Improvements and for current
expenses for 1892.
A party of ten or twelve persons
from Tacoma are on the Menastash.
where they are at work developing the
Buchanan coal mines. 1t is claimed
that the prospects for more and better
coal than has yet been discovered i'm
the State are quite fiattering.
The Centralia Furniture Manufac.
turing company now has 45 men in its
employ, and the number will be in
creased to GO in about a month. The
company has many orders ahead, and
their product is being shipped to Port
land and various other points in Ore
gon, as well as to Tacoma, Seattle and
other Sound points. Several additional
buildings will be erected in the spring.
The farmers shipped a carload of
wheat from Pullman and another from
Moscow last Tuesday, the freight on
which was paid under protest, and a
test case will be made before the inter.
state commerce commission. The
cars were billed one each to Portland
and Tacoma, and were sent over each
road, the Northern Pacific and the
Union Pacific. One thousand dollars
have been raised among the farmers to
defray the expenses of the suit.
There has been something of a sem
sation created in realty circles by tile
rumor that the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Co. would soon claim title TO
every odd section in the Puyallup re-
servation by virtue Of 1t, ,.Ud grant
from Congress. The Puyallup reserva-
ton has become, by its proximity to
Tacoma, the most valuable reservation
in the United States, and the property
which it is alleged the railroad will
lay claim to is worth ten millions of
dollars.
DIR. McCutheon, on behalf of Pierce
County Medical Association, has caused
the arrest of VIM. Duenkel, druggist,
OF Tacoma, for compounding prescrip
tons without medical authority
Duenkel will be defended by the Drug
gists' Association, and it will be made
test case. Some time ago the Medi-
cal Association gave notice that it
would arrest and fine $50 every drug
glst detected compounding prescrip-
tions without having passed medical
examination.
The new steamer to be built by Cap
tain U. B. Scott, of Portland, will be
l76 feet long, 81 feet beam, the ma
chinery to cost $4,000, and the boat
complete $4,000. Captain Scott says
his boat will be ready for business on
the Sound July 1st, that she will make
twenty-four or twenty-five miles per
hour, that she will carry 400 passen.
gers ordinarily and 700 excursionists,
that no freight will be carried, and
that she being prospectively the fast
est boat on the Sound he will name
her The Flyer.
The case of Humphrey Jones We.
William B. Jones and wife, was on
trial before Judge Litchenberg at Se-
attle, few days ago. The plaintiff is
the father of defendant, and until last
April they were in partnership in the
shoe business under the name of
Jones & Son. The father alleges that
for years his son had systematically
defraudcd the firm, taking over $40, 900
from the proceeds of the business to
invest in real estate without rendering
any account of the money drawn.
The father sues for an accounting and
decree. making the real estate of the
son assets of the firm. The case will
occupy several days.
The celebrated Seattle harbor line
cases, involving over $4,000, 600 worth
OF property, were decided in the Su-
preme Court at Seattle, on the 23d.
The State Constitution provides for a
Harbor Commission to be appointed
by the Governor to locate and estab-
lish harbor lines in cities fronting on
the navigable waters of the State.
The lines located included numerous
wharves, mills, factories, railways and
other property built on trestles and
piles along the shores of Elliot bay
within the city limits of Seattle. A
number of writs OF prohibition were
sworn out in the Superior Court to
prevent the Commission from estab-
fishing the harbor lines located. At
torney-General Jones, On behalf of the
State, moved to quash the writs of pro-
hibition in order to enable the Com
missioners to complete their work.
The court denied the motion to ouash
the writs, and the case now goes to
the Supreme Court. Among the
plaintiffs interested in the cases is
Henry iesler, one of the pioneers who
homesteaded the land on which the
business centre OF Seattle now stands.
The Northern Pacific, the Puget Sound