Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-05-20
STATE NEWS.

| tiilo spring lou OI DeeC SceQ amOnj
the farmers along the Snake and CO
lumbia rivers, who report that so far i
is doing fine.
A petition for the removal of tn
comfy seat of Pacific county has beer
circulated among the voters of tha
county and is receiving quite a mum
Der of signatures.
The ground this spring arount
Coulee City is soaked to a CREATE
depth than before for many seasons
and summer suns are only now needed
to put the finishing touches to thu
grandest harvest yet recorded for the
Big Bend.
The first steel wire ever drawn in
the State of Washington was drawn at
the nail works at Everett, last Thurs
day. The machinery worked to per
lection. Superintendent Campbell
took the wire to his home and will
keep it as curiosity.
An effort is being made to secure a
pardon for Kehoe, who was sent to the
penitentiary from Cowlitz county
three years ago for the shooting OF
Osborn. KehOe is expected to live
but short time. Osborn was not
killed.
A man named Harlow claims to
have killed a rattlesnake three feet
long and with eleven rattles in the
hills near the mouth of the Samish
river one day last week. 1t is a popu-
lar belief that rattlesnakes in Western
Washington are, in number, like the
snakes of Ireland.
Rev. John Brown died at the house
of his stepson, H. A. Burke, at Ta-
coma, Thursday morning, aged SO
years. He had been a minister for
over thirty years, laboring in the Con-
gregational and Presbyterian denomi-
nations, the last six years being in
southwest Manitoba. He was a twin
brother of Rev. Robert Brown, of Roy
and a brother of Mrs. ]. w. TAFT, OF
Tacoma.
The first case of lightning injuring
any one in Klickitat county occurred
last week. Cd. Thompson, who lives
on bench of land along the Big
klickitat, was at work on the roof o
new house, which he has nearly
completed. During slight storm
one day last week he was suddenly
blinded by sheet of flame and thrown
from the roof. His injuries are severe
but not fatal.
The Skagit County Board of Trade
has petitioned the County Commits
sioners to appropriate 81 500 for open.
ing trails into the mining regions. AT
present prospectors are obliged to &c
away around in British Columbia and
strike a trail at Hope, and come
eighty-fve miles back to Skagii
county. The opening up of trail up
the Skagit valley will shorten the
distance by over $50 miles in all.
Farmers in the Walla Walla valley
are jubilant over the crop prospects,
Plenty of rain has fallen and the
wheat is up from eight to twelve
inches. The fruit prospects are also
fine, and one of the best harvests in
years is predicted. The good harvest
of last year enabled the farmers to get
out OF debt, and should the crops con.
tiuue good every farmer in the Walla
Walla region will be rich next year.
All are laying aside a good bank &C.
count.
Dennis Holland, while driving cat.
tie along Snake River last week on
which ! is known as the Hali-moon
trail" discovered the dead body of q
man on the bluffs below. The Spo.
kane Rerie,c says that examination
disclosed that man and horse had
evidently rolled off the trail. The re.
mains of pack saddle, a sawed-ofl
shotgun and a silver dollar, minted in
1866, were also found. The man had
evidently been dead about twenty
years. The remains were given de.
cent burial.
The whereabouts OF H. L. Compton,
the missing Tacoma supervisor, has
been ascertained. The body of Peter
Levine, which was found in Spanaway
Lake last Sunday, was thought at first
to be that of Compton. Since then
the Chief OF Police of Joliet, ILL.,, has
telegraphed that Compton committed
suicide in that city on May l. On
the day that he committed suicide
Compton wrote to his wife, stating
that he was penniless, out of work and
out of friends, and would end his life.
Colonel George G. Lyons, who has
been confirmed as Receiver of Public
Moneys at Seattle, is we'll known. He
has been a resident of Seattle for al
most nine years. For about two
years he was editorial writer on the
Post-InteHigencer. In 1885 he became
police judge, and held that position
for two years. He then became editor
of the Erening Times, and continued
to direct that paper until it merged
into the Press-Times. Colonel Lyon:
is member of the Grand Army o.
the Republic.
An important piece of work ha,
been commenced on the PuyalluI
river opposite the Naptha launch
works, and east of the St. Paul mill
property, under the direction of Engi
neer c. o. Bean. The object is tc
straighten the course OF the river and
prevent another overflow like that oi
last fall, which undermined one end