Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-08-07
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Eva Hart, 1G years old, was drowned
at C~ur d Alene Friday, while bath
ing.
The retrenchment ordinance has
passed one branch OF the Seattle City
Council.
The new hotel of J. 5. Parry, at Tolt,
was burned Friday, together with its
contents.
The RAYMOND party numbering
95 prominent Eastern people, visited
Tacoma Monday.
The safe of w. NJ. Fell, at Hunt
vile, was blown open Thursday night
and robbed of $4,000.
Councilman X. f. Whitney, of Ana.
cortes, was thrown from u wagon Fri
day, receiving injuries that it is feared
may terminate fatally.
Tacoma hotel was crowded with 200
Alaskan guests Monday, who had ar
rived the previous evening. They re-
mained the greater portion Of the week.
Sixty-eight OF the y Seattle iircmen
have resigned because they say their
salaries are too little to live on, having
been reduced from $50 to $Gj per
month.
Marshal Shcrill, of Ccntralia, is be-
ing taken to task by the Council Of
that city for not having promptly
turned money collected over To the
treasurer.
Willie, the little son of Peter Kra-
mer, OF Elma, died last Saturday and
was buried Sunday. His death was
caused by pneumonia contracted
through falling into the satsop river
and getting chilled.
A petition is being circulated, TO gc
to the Western Union Telegraph Com
, pany, to induce them TO extend theil
, line to Hoquiam. Free Office rent Il
, offered them and an operator for on,
r year for Is per cent. of the receipts O
: the Office.
, The body of George Martin wa
e found in Hylebes creek, a small strean
: on the Puyallup Indian reservation,
e short distance from this city, Sunday
4 Martin had been working for the Ind
e ans for some time past 1t is though
J, he fell into the creek while intoxicated
e There is lively prospect OF grea
, hop-growing company being formed ;
i operate in Yakima county. The pre-
e jectors are not residents of this plac
r but are foreign capitalists, who are Ia
II vestigating the advantages offered b
II Yakima, and looking up virgin Ian
l. suitable for this purpose.
Ii The Northern Pacific has made r,
. duction in their freight rates to con
pete with the rates on the Soun
steamers, from Seattle to America
1t Lake, Murray, Nesqually City, Ma
oi field, Woodland and Olympia. I'll
r, tariff is a supplement to tariff "
III 1,5l1, and is to take effect from Angu
a. l, 1891.
u Last Monday afternoon Ira Tresco
~ met with an accident while workil
ie on a threshing machine about sew,
miles northwest of Dayton, which W
lay him up for some time. He W
II feeding grain into the machine and
III some way his left hand got caught
&c the cylinder, and before he could wit
III draw it, the teeth had entirely sever
III the thumb and badly lacerated the {
IL tire hand.
David Hume, who is collecting sp
y, linens for the Western Washingt
=. exposition, brought home with h
from Neah Bay, Friday, portions O
whale taken there by the Indians |
days ago. Besides the whale J
Hume brought with him an anci,
on
80 mussel-shell harpoon, one of the en-
80 est implements of the tribe tnat
- habits that locality, with its long r,
of sedge grass.
len The prospecting craze has str'
100 kalama, and the excitement is q
,rs fever heat over the discovery of so
,;tc very rich free milling gold ore in
ver hills about IL miles east OF tn
Of Half dozen parties haze gone
for fully equipped to prospect and deve
A pack-train came in the other nj
bringing the report tha. prospec
ers have exposed true fissure vein OF "
ms Experienced miners say is very rich
oes Many citizens are outfitting and
orc leave for the hills.
ped. Bears are very plentiful in the
and kim, according to the Cathlamet
,eze zette. The warm weather and lusc
GAL salmon berries are cn:icing Bruin I
gar, his winter quarters. A strictly Y
half table diet is not relished by the ave.
half bear, so, by way of changing the bi
lful fare, sundry hogs have been devou
ped. One day last week Mrs. II. NJ. Tia
less heard a hog squealing near the no
nall and on going out she saw the bear
the ing the hog and attempting to carr
this to his lair. Just then Hans Hous,
ii is employed on the place, seized a
$ of and started for the bear, foliowin
we'll about two miles, but was unsucces
in demolishing his lordship. Recel
Charles Page had one of his fine
,out porkers, of the Page species" "a
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