Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-01-15

tons, and the freight charges on the
same from Wallace to Denver, its des
tinatiJn, was $6,927.5j
/ Daniel Brown was found almost
! frozen to death Saturday morning, in
a hay stack, at Walla Walla He was
taken to the hospital, and DIR. Blalock
found his right hand and both feet
badly frozen. They will probably
have to be amputated He went from
Seattle, and when he reached Wallula
had % cents, which he gave the brake
man for Il ride to Walla Walla, be-
tween two box cars on the numbers
When near the city, he got SO cold he
jumped off and went to the hay stack
Mrs. Thomas Brooks, who lives near
Pomeroy, caused the arrest of her hus.
band for assault with intent to kill
She claims he assaulted her and
Knocked her down and attempted to
stab her with carving knife, and
struck her over the eye i'll two or three
places. She managed to get away
from him and lie called to one OF his
sons to bring him the gun and he
would finish her She is his second
wife and the children are by his former
wife.
a runaway team near Latah
Wednesday threw James Wilcher and
Lee Stone from II sleigh, the former
striking telegraph pole, MASKING his
face i'll a horrible manner. The latter
struck in barbed wire fence, cutting
him severely about the body. Mrs.
Wilchcr who is is an aged widow, was
waiting at home for her son. Hear
ing some one coming up the road, she
went to the door, and. the threshold
being icy, slipped and fell, breaking an
arm.
Several claimants to the TOWNSHIP of
the new town of Everett have sprung
up. There is a lot of litigation ahead
for the TOWNSHIP company. \ colorcd
man claims to own the $50 acres in
the very center of the town and as
serts that the deed held by the COM
pany is fraudulent. This lG0 acres is
valued at 81 000OC0.
An unknown disease has lust be-
come epidemic among the horses ut
Swauk Prairie, eight miles east of Gle
Elum. Many valuable animals died
within twenty-four hours. William
Mack has already lost seven, and
thirteen more are dying in the neigh
borhOod. There is no veterinary sur
geon nearer then Tacoma, and the dis
ease is hard to combat, as nothing
like it has appeared among the horses
Governor Ferry has been telegraphed
to furnish immediate relief through
the State Board of Health. If the
ravages of the disease are not checked
Immediately it will work incalculable
hardship to every rancher in the upper
Kittitas valley.
Arrangements have been practically
completed for the visit of eastern lum-
bermen to this section of the country
next month, and from present indca-
tons it is estimated that there will be
about 100 gentlemen concerned in the
lumber business who will come here
from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois,
Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and other
States. The excursion has been
planned mainly for the purpose OF
bringing eastern lumbermen to the
Pacific slope. and to the Pacific north
west in particular. The lumbermen
will arrive in Seattle on the evening
of February Ii. The Chamber OF
Commerce and the local Iumbermen
will see that the visitors are properly
entertained while in that city.
A cold wave struck the Inland En-.
pire Saturday night, and Sunday was
the coolest day experienced so far this
winter. In Spokane the thermometer
registered five degrees below zero, but
in the Polouse country and Stevens
county it was much colder. At Col
fax change of iifty-tive degrees in
twelve hours was reported, the mer-
curry dropping twenty-five degrees be
low zero. At Garfield it was even
colder, thirty degrees below zero being