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

Lilley as President of the State Agri
cultural College.
According to the Seattle Post In
teliigencer track laying on the Great
Northern will be completed before
Christmas, The work is being pushed
to the extent of one and half or two
miles day.
Rev. Mr.. Nutting, of Seattle, is
creating quite ripple of interest in a
crusade against the saloons. He pro.
poses the establishment of coffee
houses in the grocery stores where
men who have no families can 60
and imbibe coffee.
There is to be a fine creamery
started in Vancouver. The city do
mates 10 acres Of land and the parties,
who are from California, put in a
100000 plant. Thus one by one are
the blocks being laid in the dairy
building of the Northwest.
The reports OF smallpox at Quilcene
have been much exaggerated. Only
three cases of the disease have been
known to exist, of which two, the
Ackerman brothers, soon recovered.
The other patient, daughter of NJ. F.
Hamilton, had mild attack, but is
now nearly recovered.
Rev. Pearl, a veteran Lake Chelan
trapper, during the summer succeeded
in trapping a couple OF goats, which
he endeavored to domesticate; but,
after weeks of pining for their native
freedom, the white haired denizens OF
the mountain peaks gave up all In
terest in affairs material.
Mrs. Christianson, the mother OF
Mrs. Boyd, who shot her husband,
Thomas Henderson Boyd, arrived at
Seattle on Sunday night from Butte,
Mont. She visits the county Jail and
spends a good part of the day in the
company OF her daughter. She ex-
poets to remain in the city till after
her daughters trial.
George Mullen, who has been living
on railroad land in the Satsop valley
for the past two years, attempted sui.
eide Saturday. He first fired his barn
and then shot himself in the head.
At last accounts he was still alive.
Solitude and liquor are the only causes
ascribed. He was about 60 years old
and worked ON the railroad several
years.
A monster cougar attacked ranch
er named Nesbitt, living at Chain
Lake, Snohomish county. He would
probably have made . meal for the
wild beast had it not been for two
travellers who heard his cries for help.
They had no guns and the beast,
though afraid to attack all three,
followed them a distance of two miles
along the trail.
Bert Hamilton, a lad, on the City of
Kingston, lying at Port Townsend,
caught dog-fish salmon last Monday
which weighed 97a pounds. The fish
pulled the boy into the water, but he
was game, and wrapped his fish line
around pile and held ON until help
came. The unusual size OF the fish
may be judged from the fact that an
average dog salmon weighs less than
20 pounds.
The election at Spokane Tuesday oi
last week to select Q water site was
hotly contested and resulted in 1,406
votes for moving the waterworks up
river five miles, and 1872 votes for
leaving them in the center of the city
where they are now. The best legal
talent in the city is divided on whether
the proposition carried, some claiming
that three-fifths vote was necessary
The case will be taken to the Supreme
Court.
Andrew Matson, residing on q farm
near Quilcene, is about to bring suit
against the Port Townsend Southern
railroad for $25,OOO damages for the
company's responsibility for the death
of his 6-year-old daughter. The little
girl was killed on the 3Oth of last July
while playing with other children near
a high embankment of the road. A
heavy log fell from q rear car of the
moving train, and rolling down the
bank crushed the child to death.
The work of building $50 logging
cars at the Edison car shops for the
Northern Pacific railroad will begin
probably next week. Workmen are
now engaged in constructing the
sample car, after which all the others
ale to be patterned. Master Mechanic
H. H. Warner said this afternoon that
the cars will be forty feet in length
and weigh 10000 pounds. When
these cars have been finished, the
company will begin building coal cars.
The bedrock flume now building
along the Swauk river, it is expected,
will develop great wealth. Wherever
it strikes the old channel the pay will
be big. This flume may be the means
of bringing to view the mother lode,
which is undoubtedly fabulously rich.
Quite number of large nuggets have
been taken out of the Swauk. The
Ellensburgh Localizer calls to mind
one of $70O, one of $444, one of $500.
one of $500, and from that down to
$40. and $12 and $6.
Three or four weeks ago H. E. Jen-
kins, OF Seattle, took up claim of 100
acres near the mouth of the Hoko
river, built house and proceeded to
make improvements. He was warned
by several settlers in the vicinity that
the claim belonged to Mrs. A. Colby,