The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-05
NORTHWEST NEWS.

John Lux. a Walls Walls pioneer, died Noyen
Der 80. aged e. years. He came TO wsila Wallis
in 1862
There are seven canneries in Wahkiakun
county, and their combined pack in 1882 wa
81. 800 cases of salmon.
j. NJ. Crummey, proprietor of the Royal
saloon, az Aberdeen, has assigned. Assets, $u,'
COO; Liabilities, 5000.
George Francis. a boatman, aged 63 years, was
drowned in Esouimalt harbor Friday morning.
He was British Columbia pioneer.
The total amount of taxes to be collected on
real property ia Chehalis county is $l45. oll-39;
on personal property, $l6,7526s, or grand total
of sl6l,764oT.
Mrs. Emeline c. Roundtree, pioneer OF Lewis
county, died at Dayton, Or, last week, and was
buried at Centralia November g. she came to
Washington in 1852
A farm hand employed by John Gales, seven
miles southeast of Slaughter is i'll with small
pox and will probably die. He was until re-
Gently Great Northern grader.
The forced sale OF Russell B. Harrison's paper.
the Helena Journal. brought $4,000. 1t is not
likely that the paper, which, like its owner, was
very unpopular, viii be resusci,ated.
The Yakima Republic estimates the Yakima
hop crop at s.3l6 bales. The largest producers
are: Mckee Company. 2lo bales: A. D. Egiin,
Dos; ]. II. Carpenter. 173; T. J. Lynch. ila.
Miss Janet Howsan, who lectured in Seattle
recently On Robert Burns" is IN New West
minister. The police scott at q story that she
had gold watch stolen from her Wednesday
night.
The dead body OF Chinaman was found in a
stump near Sedro last week. He had been with
the gang of coolies recently captured by Gus
toms officers, and had died OF exposure in the
woods.
~;oSn IN
Wahkiakum county, with nearly 500 pupils en-
rolled. The population of the county by the
1892 census was 2,761 The total vote cast at the
election this fall was $40.
Lewis and G. W. McAllister. of snohomish,
have bought the Geiger ranch of 574 acres, just
south OF Lake Spanaway, Pierce county, .or
$2S.700 There are five great springs and valu-
able clay deposits on the place.
The horse market is unusually dull, and evil
IDENTIFY hard winter is looked forward to, for
at Cleveland, Klickitat county. band OF horses
was sold under the hammer the other day, and
some OF them failed to bring more than so .
head.-Ydkim Herald
Elem snipes, father of Ben E. Snipes and Mrs.
J. N. Smith, of Seattle; Mrs. II. H. Allen. Of
North Yakima; Mr.. George r. Snipes, OF The
Dalles, and Mr.. Ed Suipes, of Goldendale, died
at Goldendals November ~ aged 81 years. He
had been . resident of Klickitas county since
1863
During the past season q. J. Bicknell picked
ana shipped $500 boxes OF fruit He planted
500 additional trees this fall and expects to in
crease the area of his orchard by from fifteen to
twenty acres in the spring. Mr.. Fred Thomp-
sons shipments aggregate $500 boxes. and he
sold a vast amount of fruit in the orchard
Yakima Herald
The smallpox epidemic in Blaine Is becoming
alarming. The worst feature OF the matter 10
that the Blaine authorities are trying to keep
facts OF the ravages of the disease from the pub
lie, and strangers visiting the town know moth
ing of the danger that they run. One death
from smallpox occurred in Blaine this week,
and two cases have been reported since Monday.
Last week the record was two cases, making 1--WE
in all that have been heard of by the public,
though the number kept quiet cannot be ascer-
tained.-NcS Westminster Columbian
Johnny Wyano, an Indian, is in Jail at North
Yakima, charged with the murder of Team.
inini-Kotohen. On November II James Sheo-
wit, also an Indian, took some liquor on the
reservation, and after Wyano had got properly
loaded with the stuff he tied q rock weighing
several pounds in a handkerchief with which
he beat Kotiohen's head to q Jelly. The as
saulted Indian died on the following day. He
was tyee of the wild faction of the tribe. and
TIE red men are considerably excited over the
case. sheowitt is also under arrest, charged
with taking liquor on to the reservation.
The proprietors OF the townsite OF Chelan
Falls have commenced the construction Of
large ditch and fiume for the purpose of con.
veying water from the Chelan river and con-
verting it into motive power. The ditch and
fums is to DO about two miles long and will tap
the river short distance below the foot Of the
lake. The ditch will be twelve feet wide on top,
five feet deep and lined with timber. The iiume
will be built V-shaped and twelve feet wide on
top. 1t will have capacity of sixty square feet
of water per second BY giving it fall of $50
or 200 feet the power thus obtained will be i'm
meuse,