Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-09-09
STATE NEWS.

Mrs. Mccartney, wife of DIR. McCar.
ney, of Shelton, has been stricken with
paralysis, with small hope OF recovery
Judge w. H. Calkins, of Tacoma,
expects to be a candidate for State
Senator from the Goth senatorial dis
trict, Pierce county.
1t will require, according to an esti.
mate made by the City Controller OF
Seattle $541,674O3 to run that city
Tor the coming year. This viii neces-
state tax of al mills.
More non-union bakers have arrived
in Tacoma, and the contest between
the union bakers, who have been try.
ing to oust the non-union bakers, and
their rivals promises to be hotly fought.
Union labels will be placed on union.
made bread.
The postoffice at Dieringer, two
miles from Sumner, was entered by
burglars about midnight Sunday and
$50 in postage stamps and about $50
worth of drygoods from the store
were taken. There is no clue TO the
perpetrators.
A sale OF 120 acres of school land at
Sandy point, north OF Seattle, at $75
and $50 per acre, has been disapproved
by the State Land Com mission, on the
ground OF collusion, the commission
having been offered 500 per acre ioI
the same property.
The supposed varioloid patient,
Frank Warner, two and one-half miles
south of Snohomish, turns out TO have
smallpox, though the case is light
Warner is 80 years old, q farmer, and
contracted the disease at Snohomish
where he was working.
Guide Bailey, while ascending
Mount Rainier with Judge Van
Trump and others, fell into q crevass,
and three ribs were broken. He had
to be carried nearly eight miles on Z
litter, to the Kernahan ranch, before
he could receive surgical aid.
The Northern Pacific has decides
that it cannot carry Worlds Fair flag
stats over 125 feet long, but the Wash
ington Worlds Fair Commission /,
prepared to supply staffs $50 feet long
Tomorrow it is expected an order vii
be received to send poles $50 feet lon,
in two sections, to be spliced at Chi
cago. Forty poles in all are required
The bones OF the head OF some large
prehistoric animal were taken out o.
the ground at Ruby Greek last week
at a depth of $50 feet. This great
mastodon, judging from the depth
the bones were found, must have
lived at an early period and Is q,
present extinct. The shape OF the
head resembles that of COW, only II
is much larger.
The threshing season has begun In
the vicinity OF Coupeville, and the
yield OF grain is larger than was ex.
pected. John Gillispie estimates the
number OF bushels that his machine
will thresh at $4,000. Ed. McCrahan
of Oak Harbor, put the amount that
he will thresh at 5000, which will
make yield of ll5,OOO bushels for
this part OF the island this season.
Nels Johnson, a Swede, aged 35, was
killed at the Cascade oatmeal works
in Tacoma, by an elevator, on which
he had been raising baled hay 10 an
upper story, falling upon his head and
crushing it. He was alone at the time
and when discovered was unconscious
dying shortly after being removed 10
the hospital. There is no account ting
for the accident except by the conjec-
ture that Johnson slipped and fell un-
der the elevator as it came down.
Only his head was caught and the rest
OF bis body lay upon the floor.