Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-02-19

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\ new Catholic church and a sis
tors school are the latest improve
m,ut- proposed At Culiax. The trus
t'r- 81 the Catholic church held 6
meeting SUNDAY afternoon to consider
~, matter aud make preparations FOL
Go, work
i . lIurhmau. special agent OF tn,
Lombard Inv, stmcnt Company, was II
t'nualm "Wednesday and took splr
along the ChchaliS river. His purpose
Wa 70 make a plat OF the fifty-sever
n,r.- Of mill-ltc bought by the st
ltul Lumber Company.
Every indication points TO renewed
activity 10 the logging business mex
spring and summer. Already severa
camps are preparing to start up theil
-unm't'- work. and the output of the
-u'lt,uomi-h tins season will be full,
ur to the previous year.
san Juan county has rival to the
Whnl,hack city in the shape of Por
stanley located on the east side of LO
pc Island. The town is all plated
and will start with a substantial wharf
a -aWmill aud a newspaper, and ex
poets other institutions to locate there
There are 40 children in the In
dian school on the Puyallup reserva
ti"n, about forty-iive i'll each Of the
schools ut Chchalis and Snohomish
tmriy at Quinault and twenty ol
twenty five at each of the day school:
~ Port Gamble and jamestown, neal
hngcucss
W,nlock Pdof A Sunday-schoo
superintendent not many miles from
Muluck, Mortified his school 10y re
marking. Yes. children, and nearl,
al the kings army when they woke il
the morning found they were dead
The last who woke up must have beer
thu hnpriost.
\ map Of the survey OF Gray's Har
luf made hv the United States coast
anl r,ulctic survey in 1891, has just
l,cu Published. II shows that max
lmum depth uf sixteen feet ut low tide
MAY be- carried across the bar, or about
twenty four feet Mt high tide. This i:
about five feet higher than the old sur
Nry Indicated.
Constable Sargent and DIR. Schlem
l,lu went To the John Baker farm
near Oakcsdalc, and ordered another
horse shot. One was killed last
Acck and this makes two killed
hy the veterinary surgeon. The horses
hnd the CHAMBERS, II very dangerous
and iucurahlc disease.
\ branch oi half grown apples of the
Romantic variety was left at the Mon.
trsanu lhi'Hc Office n few days ago by
James Glccsun, sr., of the Satsop
The fruit was solid and had not been
irosthiltcn. The tree from which they
we're plucked was quite green, thus in
dicaiing that no severe weather has SC
far been experienced here
The namcless steamer captured a
few days ago in Deception Pass, while
acting suspiciously has been towed to
Port Townsend. A man giving the
name oi Benjamin F. Cole owns the
craft. and had two other men on board
Tho boat will he turned over to the
United States Marshal and sold for vi
olnting customs regulations.
The Tacoma & Roche IIarbor Lime
Works ut Roche Harbor have started
their kilns in full blast and expect to
burn considerable lime this summer
The plant has capacity of 300 bar
rcl- day, aud the president, J. S. Me-
Millin. il at present in California Sc.
curing market there, and is also bid
ding for the Hawaiian Island trade.
\ schooner has been fitted out at
Pr! Townsend To search for the wreck
81 the steamer Brother Jonathan
which went down off Point st. George
twenty years ago with a large
amount of treasure aboard. Several
unsuccessful attempts have been made
tu locate the wreck, and thousands oil
dollars have been spent in that effort
William Edwards and Emmet Man.
ming. neither over Ii years, escaped
from the Chehalis reform school, DIES
piie the fact that their clothes were
locked up for the night. Then they
went To clothing store and stole two
complete outfits To cover their naked
ness. and boarded freight train
They were recaptured at Roy and sent
back.
Albert II. lIcwing was badly scaldeG
at East Everett one day this week
Mr.. iIcwing has no relatives or init
mate acquaintance TO take care o
him aud il quite destitute. He ha.
been working about Everett since las
October. lie lay on board in one o.
the Everett saloons for day or more
when hc was sent to the county poor
house.
Captain John A. Sloan is at Aber
deem buying salmon and paying
cents per pound for them delivered al
the wharf. Five cents is considered {
high price and probably will not b,
paid long. About fifty men are EN-
ployed IN the business and they are
making money. AS the fishing is done
IN the harbor and river no danger
attaches 10 the occupation.
Ia her room at the Bellinghan
hotel. at New Whatcom, Friday, Mrs
J &. McFadden was severely burned
hy the explosion of a coal oil lamp
The lamp was standing on the center
table and by some means was knocked
on and exploded. Mrs. McFadder
gfaspcd il and threw it out of the
window into the bay and in doing sc
both hands were painfully burned.
Yakima county claims to have more
land under irrigation than all the rest
oi Washington put together. The cost
of the irrigation work already com
plcted. under way and 10 be commenced
at once. IL estimated at $2,500,000
Land thus reclaimed will aggregate
$4,000 acres. And as yet but be
ginning has been made in this direc
ton. M the county contains over 3,
OnO.V0 acres.
Mr. A. Wright. the little Englishman
found paralyzed in the empty Tower
avenue store building, at Centralia
some seven weeks ago, has not been
able to leave his bed yet, though slow
~ recovering the use OF his limbs. He
is just In receipt of letter from On
tario, Canada. informing him of the
death Of his daughters husband, leav-
ing her alone in the world with legacy
II seven children.