Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-08

Waila WaIla brewery, 1uesuay evening,
when dispute arose between two of
the men and fight resulted, in which
John Rompre was struck, over the
head with beer pitcher, cutting a
long cash in the scalp. His head was
sewed up and the assailant was arrested
and fined.
The Chinese residents of Port Town
send, reinforced by the Mongolian
population of the Sound generally,
are about to petition their government
for vice-consul for the State. Should
such an official be appointed, which is
doubtful at this time, the place will 60
to mandarin Chinese. The office
would probably not be worth over
$500 year.
Edna Morton, of Spokane, Is years
old, eloped with Bud Taggart, a
waiter. They were located at Spangle
and the girls mother brought her
back and reported at police head
quarters that Taggart was arrested and
given a hearing at Spangle and will
be brought to Spokane. The offence
charged is very grievous under the law
of the State.
Salmon have been running up the
rivers and streams in the vicinity OF
Port Angeles in enormous numbers
during the last few weeks. In one
haul of his net on the Elwha. s. Good
win caught 5000 large salmon. 1t
took a team Of horses and eight men
to drag them out of the water, and it
took nine trips of a large farm wagon
to carry them away.
Footpads are swarming on the Nat.
chez and Ahtanunl rivers. They are
becoming source OF much trouble to
the farmers in those sections, having
become so insolent and bold as to
make it necessary for residents to arm
themselves and threaten violence. 1t
is reported that a farmer on the All
tanum fatally shot a tramp, but the
report aannot be verified.
John Danko, of Roslyn, met with a
rather serious accident. He had been
out hunting and when lie returned he
hung his cooked and loaded gun by
the lockguard on a hook. The weight
of the gun on the trigger set it off.
The charge struck a keg OF blasting
powder and fearful explosion re-
suited. The house was badly wrecked !;
the two ends being entirely blown out.
Mr.. Danko was severely burned on his
breast, arms and face.
The number of children between 5
and 81 years of age in Walla Walla
county is 1865; number enrolled in
public school, 3,405; number OF
teachers employed, "a; value of school
houses and grounds $152,535; all
school property, $l72,Os5; insurance,
$69,6l5; Indebtedness, exclusive oi
bonded. $26,l3 bonds outstanding
$42, 600; districts, 81, school houses
frame so, brick 8; teachers, 1873. Re.
ceipts show $34, 600 less than last year
while expenditures are $4,000 less.
Mrs. Eliza Watson, aged 6S years
was examined by the Yakima county
court as to her sanity, and ordered
committed. The old lady's case is pc
culiarly sorrowful. She has been 8
source of trouble to the commissioners
however, during the past three or foul
years. She claims to have lost nearly
all of her relatives in the Johnstowr
flood, and that circumstance, together
with the loss Of her husband, seems te
have dethroned her reason. She ha,
OF late years beerl addicted to the ust
of intoxicants.
George Roberts, of Puyallup, has in
vented a hop-picking machine, bu
has not sufficiently tested its working,
to know whether it will be profitable
affair for practical working in tn,
yards. The vines are showed into .
cylinder and the leaves are separated
from the hops by the breeze generated
from the rapid revolution of the
cylinder. 1t performs this function
to q nicely, but the question i.
whether or not the lupuline escape,
from the burr, or the blossom i.
materially injured in the operation.
Dan Wood was found on the street.
of Spokane in an intoxicated condition
and arrested. Upon his person w,,r,
some of the finest speciments of fre
gold, in decomposed quartz, ever Sc. 81
on this coast. There was also a bucl:
skin sackful OF the yellow medal tina,
had been worked out with mortar and
pestle. The collection weighs about
three pounds and the miner said il
was worth $1,000. Old Californian
estimate that the quartz would rur
$S5,OOO to 100000 to the ton. He
declined to state where it came from.