Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-11-20
tree showing nine grains which meas
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tree showing nine grains Which meas
ured eight inches.
Charles Bouck. an Englishman, aged
Is, and Artillio Guargneri, an Austrian.
aged u. were drowned in Henderson
bay Saturday. The bodies were not re
covered. With James Morrison and
Lorenzo Leonard they attempted to
row across the bay from Mintcr. The
waves ran high and the boat sprang
leak and sank. Frank Norton and
Herman Jones went to the rescue, but
Bouck and Guargncri were overcome
Just as the rescuerS arrived.
During a fire yesterday morning at
Tacoma, Chief Iillis and driver II. NJ.
Packenham OF the chiefs wagon, were
injured in a collision with the hose
wagon on Ninth and Pacific Avenue.
Packenham's right arm was amputated
at the hospital. Chief Lillis was bad
ly shaken up and there is danger OF
conclusion OF the brain. If such is
the case the chief may die. Packen-
ham is doing as well as could be ex-
pectcd. The loss by the fire Will not
exceed 800.
The Northern Pacific people have
been having lively time at Bucoda
and have applied to the court for relief,
the railroad claims right Of way, 900
feet wide on each side of the track, or
an entire width OF 100 feet, and a. the
land on both sides is used extensively
for grazing purposes, the company pro-
posed to erect fences along the track.
Owners of the property in question,
claim that the railroad is entitled to
but 100 feet for the right OF way, and
look upon the railroad employees as
trcspassers.
Ever since the expenditure of large
sums OF money on the old Fuca Strait /
coal mine, in Clallam county, pros
pecting for coal has been continued in
that section of country. Last week !
several fine veins were struck about
five miles back of Clallam bay. They !
promise to develop we'll The old |
Fuca Strait mine was opened twenty
five years ago, but, as the vein was
faulty and the coal inferior, it never
paid. Frequent efforts have, since
that time, been made to unload it on
strangers, but they have failed.
Three seamen belonging to the bark
entine North Bend, lumber laden from
Port Blakeley for the Fiji Islands, were
drowned at 6 o'clock tonight in the
bay. The men had been ashore and /
were intoxicated when they attempted
to return aboard with the second mate
and one seaman, August Linqui.t and
Lend Foster. The names of the
drowned men are: Robert Talbot,
Frank Martin and Charles Tonquist.'
Talbot was an American and the other
two were Swedes. They shipped in
San Francisco and nothing is known
their relations.
James Bowler, n seafaring man,
about 30 years of age, was struck by
shifting engine on the Northern Pa
citic railroad about 8 o'clock Monday
night, short distance north OF the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
building, and killed. Bowler had
started to cross the track when he
was struck by the engine and knocked
down. He fell between the ties on
the trestle and was crushed. His left
arm and right leg were crushed into
pulp and his head was badly torn.
When he was picked up he was not
dead, but expired half-hour after
ward
The Haines cOurt-martial after cost
ing the State nearly $1,000, is " indef-
nitely postponed" in order no doubt
to leave loop hole of escape to one
or other of the carpet knights engaged
in the scrap. So far the N. G.. w. of
Puget Sound has been of no earthly
use to the State and if there Is any
ornament about them anywhere we
would like to be informed. 1t is
simply outrageous to the tax payers
that they should be sweated to such
an extent when the whole affair could
have been settled on the spot BY
O'Brien hitting O'Haines back
Statesman.
Ten out OF the fourteen Chimes re-
Gently captured near Point Wilson by
Collector WATSON, who pleaded guilty
Of bringing Chinese laborers unlaw-
fully in the United States, and who
were ordered deported to China, the
country from whence they told the
Commissioner they came, have ap-
pealel from the decision OF United
States Commissioner Ballinger The
case will come up for hearing before
Judge Hanford at Seattle. The de-
PENDANTS. through their attorney,
claim that the commissioner has au-
thority only to deport the Chinese
back to the last foreign port from
whence they came, Victoria.
A gold and silver-bearing lode has
been discovered on Orcas Island, near
the town of Olga, by J. H. Christie,
the man who headed a much-adver-
tised expedition to explore the Olym-
pic mountains last year. Christie,
who is practical miner, says that the
geological character of the rock all
through the island is indisputably of
the Laurentian and Cambrian periods,
as well as the carboniferious, lime.
stone and grits. The vein in question
is of granite or gneiss rock, and fully
3 POO feet across the face. The dip OF
strike is about so deg. and the trend
northeast. The outcropping assays
we'll, but it is expected that much
richer ore will be found when the
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