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

-Four small residences and Il grocery
store were burned at Lowell Sunday
night. Total loss, $500; insurance,
$500.
\ dog poiSoner is abroad at Sprague,
and a is usually the case a number of
valuable animals are dead, while the
worthless ours still abound.
Michael Day. called Charles II. Lee
Balli>tcr. OF Mount Vernon, a thief.
LeBallistcr sues Day for $4,000
damages. Both men are well-known
loggers Of Skagit county.
Mrs. Storm, OF Toutle river, Lewis
county, in attempting to split kindling
wood with an AK, cut large artery in
her left wrist, and had narrow escape
from bleeding to death.
John Burchett, "A 7-year-old lad at
Dayton, while playing with other boys
around railroad turn-tablc, fell upon
the track and both legs were horribly
manglcd. Amputation may be neces-
.ary.
Prof Olaf Bull, OF Tacoma, and
Photographer Lindahl, of the same
city, are now ascending Mt. Rainier,
and Harry nj. Sarvent and c. b.
Talbot are investigating Carbon glac
Ter. on the north side Of the noun
tain.
Mrs. Wellman, living near La Camas,
was helping her husband work his
grubbing machine, when the rope sud-
denly broke, flew back and struck Mrs.
Wellman on the head, knocking her
senseless and cutting a cash about six
inches long.
The lumber business on the Sound
ia said to be more quiet now than it
has been fT years. Many large mills
have closed down and others will fol-
low their example in the near future.
Lumbermen are not anticipating much
improvements before next spring.
o. p. Anderson, the engineer, has,
by triangulation, established the height
of Glacier peak, Snohomish county, as
| 800 feet; Mount Rainier is 4,4H
feet high; Mount Baker, ii 900 feet.
Mount Shuksau, Whatcom county, is
said to be taller than Mount Baker.
The Smith & Hutchcraft single
mill at Ferndale has been completely
destroyed by fire. The plant was
complete in every detail, with double
block machines, dry kiln, etc., and the
loss will be $4,000. Quite number
of men are thrown out of employment.
A band of Esquimaux from the
Arctic regions bound to the Worlds
Fair are stopping at Port Townsend,
awaiting the approach Of cool weather
at Chicago. They take great delight
in sitting on cake of ice. They can
hardly realize how warm the weather
is.
July 80 whale of the humpback
species, 81 feet y iuches long, was
washed ashore at Long Beach. From
all appearances it had been struck by
some vessels, probably the Monterey.
His head is mashed and part of the
under jaw is gone. The full-moon
tide washed it high and dry.
F. NJ. Shinn OF Wenatchee has con-
ceived the idea of digging q canal
mile and quarter long, by which he
expects TO create water power that
can be utilized for many local pur-
poses. He expects to get from it 25,.
GOO horsepower; enough to water the
n Mt ,trxr oh
the way down the Columbia.
Careful estimates place the probable
yield of grain in Walla Walla county
this year at the following: Wheat.
1906, $50 bushels; barley, 7f5,OIO
bushels; oats. 90,2lO bushels; rye,
2S,1S0 bushels, and corn, 10000
bushels. 1t is thought there will be
4,l32 tons of timothy and 600 tons
of alfalfa hay harvested there this sea-
son.
Captain George B. Debney, of the
City of Puebla, celebrated his 65th
birthday in Port Townsend the other
day. Captain Debney brought in the
first cargo Of lumber that ever came to
Port Townsend, when he was first mate
on the schooner Blum. That was "a
years and months ago, and the lum-
Der was used in the construction of a
Catholic church and the old Pioneer
hotel, now the Cosmopolitan, and ex-
Mayor Harry Tibbals was born there a
few months later,
The dressed hide and tusks of
monster sea lion have been received
by a taxidermist of Seattle. The hide
alone weighs 225 pounds. The
monster, which was u feet long, was
shot with rifle while running after
the salmon in the traps, by Olof
Aklund, July "a, near the mouth of
the Columbia river, and weighed when
caught 1900 pounds. The animal
will be mounted and will probably be
placed on exhibition at the coal,
mineral and lumber palace.
Judge Briscoe, of Willapa, is almost
totally blind barely being able to dis
tinguish daylight from dark. For
some time the judge has been pain
fully aware of the gradual decrease of
his sight, and has tried various
remedies to ward off the misfortune
that has come upon him. 1t is all the
more remarkable. because the Judge,
although over so years of age, is
perfectly sound in every other respect,
being afflicted in no manner with any
infirmity that usually accompanies old
age.
Several salmon have been caught at
Ilwaco recently which differ from any
before seen in the Columbia. In
describing one of these fish. the Journal
of that place says: From its head to
the tip of its tail it has every appear
ance of steelhead, the only difference
lying in the formation OF its mouth.
The lower part extends fully two inches
father than the upper, which has the
appearance of parrots beak, only