Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-04

The same confidence men who
swindled one or two Oregon farmers
with the tin box fraud attempted to
get $1,000 from Isaac Jennings. a
farmer living near LaConner. Jen-
nings went to the bank to get the
money, but fortunately made conf
dant:: of the banker, who explained the
swindlers' mode of working, and Jen-
nings did not take out his money.
There is economy in Lewis comfy.
The County Commissioners have dis
pensed with a clerk each for the
County Clerk and Treasurer; also q
Deputy Sheriff and Jailer. The
County Superintendent, having no
clerk to discharge, they have attempted
cut off his fees. They also refuse to
pay the bill presented by the coroner.
But still the commissioners continue
to draw their 50 day.
Charles Clifford was riding past the
ranch OF Elliott G. Beal, near Hart
line, when he saw team coming
from the field with load of hay with
out driver. He suspected that
something was wrong and he followed
the wagon tracks to the field, where
hei found Beal insensible. By some
mishap he had fallen under the wagon
and the wheels passed over his bowels,
injuring him internally go that he
died Monday. He never gained con-
seriousness before he died. The de-
ceased was a native of Terre Haute,
Ind, and settled near Hartline dur
ing the summer of 1888.
1t is one thing for city to vote to
issue bonds and another to sell them.
Seattle offered for sale in the home
papers and in several financial papers
in Eastern cities, bonds to the amount
OF 1915, 900, of which $630,0O0 was to
fund the present Indebtedness of the
city, $25O,O00 for sewers and $95, 900
for sewer tunnel. No bonds were
better advertised than these, yet when
the board met on Monday to open
bids there was not even one bid. A
letter from w. ]. Hayes & Son of
Cleveland, o., explains the attitude of
all bond buyers. The letter says:
ave cannot make bids on further
issues until the Sherman bill is re-
pealed."
By an explosion OF giant powder
John Barto, a well-digger at Seattle,
was burnt and injured so about the
head and face that he will probably
lose the sight of both eyes. He WIS
digging a we'll and put in charge OF
powder which failed to explode. Two
days later he decided to try another,
and did so with better success. In
time he descended into the well, which
had been dug to a depth OF about 10
feet. He had not been down more
than 10 minutes when the charge put
in two days previous went off, throw
ing him almost out of the we'll. He
was left in an insensible condition and
had to be hauled up. One could
scarcely have witnessed a more fright
full looking object.
INV Va viz oui We OAo INV at WI n VI
the Colville reservation writes as fol-
lows to a friend at Colfax regarding
the country the party has traversed !:
" IN some respects the work is much
worse than / expected to find it. The
timberis not as heavy or underground
as dense as l had expected to find it..
But had no expectation of finding a
country which the government had Or
dered surveyed as mountainous as
this. We have had one continuous Sc.
ries of mountains to cross from the
very beginning of our work up to the
present; some Of them l have mea-
sured. The steepest yet noted is 1000
feet above a stream running at its foot
and is probably 1000 feet above the
Columbia. would not have all that
l have yet seen if it was given to me.
1t is utterly worthless for agriculture,
very little good for timber, poor for
grazing, and with very poor mineral
indications. 1t is simply not worth
owning. We have not averaged a
mile day since beginning our work"