Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-07-22

which have proved to be far above the
average, He has discovered a quality
of clay that makes brick OF whitish
color when burnt, which is pronounced
by the laading contractors OF Portland
to be the best on the coast.
For some time past there has been a
large school of man-cating sharks at
Port Orchard bay, near the Narrows.
On Wednesday, Mr.. r. E. MCLEAN
captured one Ii feet in length and
as large around as big barrel. The
gentleman says they follow his boat
and are very dangerous fish to deal
with. Last year, Mr.. Mclean caught
one in dogfish bay, but these are the
first he has ever seen in Port Orchard
bay. Bathers should take warning,
for shark is bad thing to come in
contact with.
Mr.. Sayres, of Seattle, agent OF the
New York Life Insurance Company,
stated that there were more cases of
smallpox up North than had been re-
ported. He had just finished a two
weeks trip to the northern Sound
cities, and states that he knows what
he is talking about when he states
that there are ~ or II cases of the
disease in Snohomish. The local au
thorities do not wish to exaggerate the
scare, but are determined to take
needful precaution to see that small
pox obtains no foothold at Seattle.
OlOf Johnson, OF Stanwood, an old
gentleman about 70 years of age,
while walking down the Great North
ern track to board a north-bound
freight train for Mount Vernon, fell,
striking his head on rail, cutting
deep cash. H. o. Norman, who was
walking with him at the time, picked
him up, but either the blow or heart
disease caused immediate death.
Johnson leaves an aged wife and thee
children. two of them married. He
lived, about three miles from Stan.
wood, and was highly respected
farmer.
The windstorm in Lincoln county
last week did much damage. The
houses OF w. +. Walker and Will Fo.
ley, directly north of Wilbur, were
blown down. There happened to be
no one home at the time. A stock
shed on Luke Hale's ranch, near Cres-
ton, was demolished, and Fred VOL
verton lost part of load of lumber.
Mr.. Odenrider was painting the roof
on the engine-room of the mill, and
just rs he was about to step on the
ladder to descend, it blew down, and
he had to stay on the roof, with both
arms around the smOke-stack, until
storm was over.
At Loomis, Okanogan county, July
4th, Coya Kiah, an Indian of the
Moses band, was killed by Dan Whip
pie, miner. A large number OF In
dams were in town celebrating the
Fourth, and INDUCED in drinking and
fighting. COya Kiah was knocked
down by Whipple, and vowed ven
geance. At 2 o'clock in the morning
he came at Whipple, knife in hand.
Whipple ordered him to stop, but he
still advanced. when the white man
drew his revolver and killed him. For
whlie the people OF the town feared
a general uprising, but the Indians
finally Gained down and buried their
dead brother.
A house, 10 miles from Latah,
owned by an Indian, was struck by
lightning the other day. which tore
hole about two feet long and five
inches wide in the roof, and passing
into the house struck squaw on the
forehead and following down the body,
passed into the ground, making two
small holes lin the floor, one under
each foot, one being five or six inches
long and about an inch wide, while
the others resembles a bullet hole.
Both mOccasins were torn from the
woman's foot, but otherwise her cloth
ing was uninjured. The woman was
rendered unconscious, and will always
be deaf in one ear.