Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-12-23

lp,l,u,k \ HuiTc, wrll-known
uu4,itn 81 Spokane, fell dead at his
toWr i~t Monday, aged 90. Rhcuma-
tI-m "l the heart was the cause.
Tie recent school election at Col'al
t..ult,d almost unanimously in fay r
.I a new aud connexions school
Nmidiug. The next movement will
b" an election TO bond the district
.ut 40 VoO to pay for it.
Ray lIuntoon is the name of the
-.oHulrl vino cntiCel Is year-o,d
tiHnpr Ripley from her home n
iutua'cn, aud. having accomplished
h,r rum. forced her to- enter house of
90 lam" IN Seattle. Huntoon is still
q large.
o.'l,v Is infested by thi,ves, and
.uum'r"us small depredatinns are
reported. The recent reduction of
lhc police force, it is believed, has
h''u taken taken advantage of by
tm'Nr- IN other cities TO congregate
ma COLLAR.
The Tacoma syndicate organized to
develop the glass making industry
near ~una~ is NJ n standstill 1t has
uu utlr to the land from which the
silica deposit was to be obtained, and
the owner, now realizing the value of
hl. property, refuses To sell at any
rri,c.
" l.. Laurence, of Lyndcn, the
w'li-knoNn pioneer, imported the first
Wagon ever brought to Whatcom
county. He drove IN it from Oregon
to SuilAcoom aud shipped it from
There To- lIcllIngham bay by steamer;
from here he took it mp the Nooksack
~ 4 canoe to his ranch, near Lynden.
\ company with a capital OF $780,
Wo. with the chief engineer of the
! Northern Pacific at its head, has been
organized to dig ditch for irrigation
purposes in Asotin county. A major
| ily Of the farmers have already agreed
To- take certain amount OF water at
! fixed price ~ soon rs the ditch is COM
/ plctcd.
The state Board OF Equalization
and appeal have set the time for hear
ing tile land contests in Olympia as
follows. Thurston county January
10th To- 18th. 1893; kitsap county,
January 2lst to 10Th, 1888; Jefferson
county. January eth to 2S,h, 1893.
SnohOmiSh county cases were heard
at Everett, December 10, 1892.
The hulk Of the old steamer Beaver,
the first steam vessel 10 ply on Pacific
waters, il tO be converted into worlds
fair souvenir canes The plan of TAX
| ing her entire 10 the fair was aban-
doucd because she would not hold
together The old shin was built in
! 1883 and was bought around Cape
Horn by the Hudson Bay Company
The residence of Joseph Mcdonnell,
ten miles west of Walla Walla, was
blown up Thursday 10y giant powder.
Mcdonnell was engaged in digging
well and WAS using giant pow
der The powder became wet. and to
dry it lac placed it on the stove, when
it exploded. completely wrecking the
house. but fortunately Mr. Mcdonnell
was not injured.
Tho Indians have given Agent
| Lynch. Of the Yakima reservation,
a., 600 for investment in canals for the
| improvement of their lands. The Re
tuhiic says: AS near as can be
put into small canals taken from the
main ditch Of the Sunnyside Company,
which il to be constructed on the
reservation, they holding grant from
the government for that purpose"
Samuel Bcnn, the founder of Aber
deem, and once its Mayor, has gone to
Tacoma, armed with notes to the
amount of 5000. and a property sub
scripiion list OF about $50 900, to treat
with officials of the Northern Pacific
for the completion of that railroad into
Aberdeen II the offer is not accepted
IL will he Withdrawn and not one cent
will hc offered to that road in the
future.
| Ex.Mayor jenkins, of Whatcom,
has received notification from the Uni
ted States fsh commissioner that
black bass miunows with which to
stock Lake padden will be sent with
the carload which will be sent to the
Pacific Northwest in the spring. APP
plication for fish to stock lakes in this
State can still he made. before the car
II loaded for shipment, to State Fish
Commissioner J. q. Megler, of Wahkia-
KUN.
The farmers Of Eastern Washing
4 I1aI~ izI
Ia meet with the Farmers Warehouse
Association at Garfield on December
~. for the purpose of considering the
proposition of n terminal warehouse to
he constructed either at Portland or
At some favorable point on Puget
Sound. The advantages OF terminal
warehouse and the saving it would
bring so the grain-raisers of the inland
wheat belt are fully realized by them.
Captain A. NJ. Simpson, Of San
franciHco. the millionaire lumberman,
ia interesting "A number Of capitalists
IA building n road from the end of
the Northern Pacific to the Humptu-
ups country. about 30 miles north OF
Gray's Harbor. Arrangements have
been made for placing bonds for two
thirds OF the amount needed to build
the line. This branch will open up
one OF the richest sections in the State
and will I've paying one from the
| start.
Joe Cooper is in jail at Tacoma on
suspicion Of having been concerned in
the Wcnatchee killing scrapes, rob-
berries 81 various sorts, and possibly a
confederate Of the Hot Springs train
robbers George Green, another all.
around thief aud robber, was taken in
at the same time by Detective Flanni-
gan. Five suspicious characters ar
rested Sunday night are supposed to
be members III the same gang OF des-
poradue- They had just arrived from
east o. the mountains.
The people OF Garfield county are
greatly enihuscd over reports of a
mineralogist who recently visited
there aud examined the onyx mines
II Is claimed that Garfield county is
possesscl oi the only onyx mines in
the United States, and if such is the
case. considering the value of such
stones, Garfield may look for thrifty
growth, both in population and wealth.
| The lndy al these mines comprise T.
tAh acres and are opened for one mile,