Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-12-01

w. r. Marion has shipped 5000
sacks of oysters from Willapa bay to
San Francisco since October |.
Snow is 90 inches deep at Leaven.
worth, and deer are being driven down
the mountains in great numbers.
Sheriff Lathdrum, OF Whitman
county, gives the prisoners the Bible
only when they demand something to
read.
Two valuable draught horses broke
away from John Warren, at Winlock,
and dashed over precipice to instant
death.
Perpetual motion has been discovered
again by Charles Bramer, OF Orcas
Island, who has been working on it
for 10 years.
Rev. Mr.. Stayton has purchased a
half interest in the Kelso steam ferry,
and the Gazette hopes it will pay better
than preaching.
The county commissioners Of SnO-
homish county have been restrained
by the court from acting as such until
a hearing can be had.
William Inman, well-knOwn
miner, dropped dead of heart disease
at Colfax, aged 48 years. He leaves o
wife and four children.
Spokane county cannot legally ap-
propriate money for the Midwinter
fair, 80 the $1,000 warrant ordered
drawn will not be drawn.
Lake Cushman is covered with slush
so deeply that passage is alike i'm
possible for boats or horses. Mails
have to be carried on foot.
There was rare sport at the South
Bend church social the other evening.
The men folks did all the honors,
even to washing the dishes.
The famous big boulder of SLOGAN is
being broken up at Spokane. 1t con.
tanned $50 tons of galena and is
estimated to be worth $12 600.
To South Bend belongs the distinc-
ton of having man who declined a
nomination for councilman after it
was made. His name is Murdoch.
Whatcom has II oxen on hand and
does not know what to do with them.
The oxen belonged to ex-Tressurer
Isensee, and were attached by the
city.
o. A. Bernard, of the national
bureau of statistics, is gathering facts
and figures about the building and
loan associations throughout the
state.
A Sprague man wants to bet 500
that his town would vote in favor of
Wilson for the Senate and offers to
pay half the expense OF an election to
settle it.
The Whitman college football team
went down from Pullman this week
to play the Walla Wallas, and the
university of Idaho plays the Spokanes
at Spokane.
A pug dog that was in the recent
gasoline explosion at Spokane has so
active memory Of the occurrence
that he cannot be got within a block
of the place.
Thomas Kingston, a Seattle long
ehoreman, is about TO die from in
iuries he received in an electric Car he
WAS essaying TO run to destruction
down a grade.
Some astute burglars went through
a clearinghouse at Blaine, taking only
the trousers Of all the guests, except
the pair they really wanted, which
ontained 500.
The suit of Paul CASTOR against E.
H. Letterman ct al, over the ground
on which the Pullman Agricultural
college buildings stand, has been
amicably settled.
Work has been suspended for the
winter on the State wagon road in
Stevens county. The road across the
reservation will make some good farm
ing land accessible.
There was another immersion
service at Wallula Sunday. Nine wo-
men and two men went under the
water with the thermometer at Is deg.
and ice on the bushes.
Soft wheat from the Palouse country
is being put through dryers at Spo-
kane, at the rate of 1000 bushels
day. The mills are grinding it, and it
makes excellent flour.
A we'll in Minnehaha Park, Spokane,
is down $50 feet, and is going 30 feet
farther. There is water enough, but
it is proposed to drill 1900 feet in
hopes OF finding coal or oil, or both.
Somewhere on Gray's harbor, the
federal authorities think, ia a nest OF
expert and industrious counterfeiters.
Their principal output is babbitt.
metal, gold-plated IS pieces.
The La Games News is happy in the
expectation of a bridge across the
Columbia at that point. 1t says
surveyors are making o final survey,
and construction will soon commence.
They had lively time at the Ocosta
city primaries. Two rival chairmen
we're seated at a safe distance from
each other on the rostrum aud en-
deavoring to carry on business ut the
same time.
There is Q scheme on loot at Ia
coma for a Republican, Democratic
citizens ticket to 60 against the
Populists. There are offices enough
90 that each party can have rep
resentative.
Private James Miller, of D troop,
Fort Walla Walla, has been convicted
OF the theft of revolver and sentenced
to dishonorable discharge and one
year in tho military prison at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan.
B. F. Gilbert, q Union Pacific clerk
OF Walla Walla is thought to have left
town. ahead of the company his No.
vember salary and owing considerable
about town. He was good enough to
take his wife along.
Commissioner La Toilette, OF Lin
coin county, recently suffered three
amputatiOns, the result of a felon
which appeared on one of his fingers.
First his finger was amputated, then
his hand. and lastly his arm below the
elbow.
Town Marshal Neil Hurley, of
Steilacoom, and Frank Guese were ar
rested last Friday for breaking up q
ball at Steilacoom. They entered the
ballroom while drunk, and with drawn