Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-18

lured III the Granger lumber camp, /
near Shelton, last Tuesday by flying
hook and cable, died Friday morning
from his Injuries. Both legs were
amputated below the knees Wednes-
| day, and the injured man survived the
operation a day. lie was about 80
years old, and came from Fort Quebec,
Canada.
! Walla Walla's famous Salvation
Army soup house has closed down.
For long time they fed 1G0 every
day, but owing to the harvest many
went to work and finally the number
dwindled down to G5. OF this number
there are many who never would work
as long as they could subsist without
doing so.
William L. and l.. f. Thompson,
John F. kincaid, William A. Homer
and Elijah G. Meade have begun an
injunction suit against the city council
of Sumner to restrain it from placing
and floating SIT 900 worth of bonds to
provide system of water works. The
action is based on alleged Irregularities
in proceedings.
Whitman county's expenditures for
the 10 months just closed were: Tol
State fund, $64 ,439 o.; military fund,
$500 %; interest fund, 1865; county
fund, 1892 ,G97 -; school fund.- S92,-
66G O4; special school fund, $73 l99.-
81; road fund, S5O,557 73; bridge
fund, 81 ,450 Sc: salary fund, SOS, 932-
IA. There is balance on hand of
$Sl,725 80.
Forest fires have been raging for
some days along the line of the Everett
& Monte Cristo railroad and on Thurs
day Stillaguamish canyon was found
blocked by trees that had burned
down and fallen across the track
Underneath one OF the largest trees
was found the crushed and horribly
mangled body OF William Mahoney, a
section hand.
The Cheney Sentinel says the yield
of wheat in that section will be simply
enormous, averaging perhaps 40
bushels per acre. While Il rain might
benefit growing grain, it is not needed
to such an extent that the country is
suffering from the want OF it. From
all portions OF the great grain belt of
Eastern Washington comes the same
encouraging report.
Considerable excitement prevails at
Cle-Elum over news of the discovery
of an immense deposit of native copper
on the Upper Tennaway and in the
Peshastin and Trout lake mineral
belt. Tests indicate the presence of
considerable silver in the copper ore.
The discoveries were made by N. f.
Beverly, of Seattle, and William
Branam, Of Cle-Elum.
The Bellingham Bay improvement
Company have donated lumber for
bridging Clearbrook creek on the west
side of the railroad, where the county
road is soon to be opened. This will
be an important change, as it will
place the public road on the opposite
side Of the railroad from the school
house, instead of Immediately in front
of it, where it now is.
Thurston county's assessment, just
completed, is not as high as for several
previous years. The list develops the
fact that there are 6S taxpayers in the
county assessed for $4,000 or upward.
The Northern Pacific railroad property
in the county is assessed at between
$500, 1000 and $500 600, the Port Town.
send Southern at $4,000 and the
Union Pacific at $4,000.
The wregon Improvement Company
is sinking new slope at the Franklin
mine on the Mckay vein, near the No.
II mine of the Black Diamond Com
pany, for the purpose of getting better
air and ventilation, and at the same
time working back to the existing
workings from the old slope. 1t is ex-
pected that it will take nearly two
years to connect the new with the old
slope.
Work on Cheney's new $4,000
school-house is progressing rapidly.
The granite foundation is completed,
and the brick walls have reached q
height OF several feet. One can now
obtain fair idea of the size of the
building, and it is evident that the
structure will be an ornament to the
city, as it will be large. we'll built and
of handsome design. 1t will be COM
pleted about September 20.
At New Whatcom 7. J. Parr went
to the ice factory and took with him
his large shepherd dog. The dog saw
a kitten in the factory and Immediately
started after it. The kitten jumped
through the rapidly revolving belt
which runs the condenser, and the
dog followed but was caught in the
belt and carried over the pulley.
When he was gotten out he was about
III feet long and dead as q mackeral.
]. L. Comstock, a rancher at Elbe,
In the Succotash valley, went outside
the house to small clearing where
he had been burning trees the day
before. Several trees were burning
and were about ready to fall. Shortly
after Mr.. Comstock went out the fam
lily heard an awful crash in the timber,
and looking out saw that two large
trees had fallen. They called for Mr..
Comstock, but received no answer.
The wife hurried to the fallen trees,
and was Mortified to find that her
husband was lying across one tree
with another on top of him. His
body was horribly mangled and COM
pletely disemboweled. The neighbors
were called, and it was necessary to
saw the tree in two before the mangled