Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-01-27
STATE NEWS.
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STATE NEWS.
j. b. Stewards fruit farm at Puyal-
lup yields him $1,000 TO each acre OF
trees.
There is scarlet fever at Orting, and
the schools have been closed OH that
account.
The revenue cutter Wolcott now
spends most of the time watching the
straits, in the hope of overhanling
small schooners which leave Victoria
with opium or Cinnamon aboard.
Sound platforms should be made in
State which has sawed plank so
inches wide, 20 inches thick and 33
feet long. Reduce the width and
thickness and you may increase the
length to anything under 200 feet.
J. S. Mundy has been appointed by
the Skagit County Shinglemakers'
Association as their Eastern agent,
with headquarters at Kansas City, Mo.
He will represent about % mills, with
with a daily output OF Is car loads
lOol-siz,i frei ,ht train.
The contract for the extension of
the Northern Pacific railway from Su-
mas City, Wash, to Vancouver, b. c.,
has been awarded to Percy Dickinson
4 Co., of Tacoma, and work will COM
mence Immediately. The length of
the road is about 40 miles.
The city of Seattle will hereafter
employ all idle men who wish to work
They will be furnished with tools and
will be paid so cents for every cord of
wood they chop for the city. This
undoubtedly will have the effect of
thinning out the ranks OF the vagrants
in that town.
The brightest and ablest young In.
dams on the Puyallup Indian reserva.
ton have organized land company
to make business-like disposal of any
lands which they may wish to sell
should Congress pass the bill provid-
ing for the sale of the Puyallup In
dian reservation lands.
Whitman has been raised from a
county of the eleventh class to the
tenth class and the officers are accord
ingly entitled to an increase of salary.
One hundred dollars will hereafter be
added to the salaries OF all county
officials, with the exception of the
School Superintendent. who will re-
ceive but $50 additional.
The four Aleutian islanders belong
ing to the sealing schooner C. H.
White, which was seized by the Rus.
sian government last August in Boring
sea, and brought to Port Townsend on
the bark Majestic, are still in that
city, and are wards OF the county.
They are penniless, destitute, and I'M
able to speak the English language.
The ministers in the various
churches in Snohomish have COM
menced a crusade against the gamb.
ling places and houses OF ill.fame.
They have presented a memorial to
the City Council calling attention to
the increase in the vices above men,
toned, urging their suppression and
citing sections Of the penal code OF the
State governing such evils.
Champ Payne, one of the defend
ants in the Garfield murder case,
now awaiting trial, has been re-
leased from custody on $5,O0Ol
bonds. furnished by Joseph and
Martha Hill and AL. and Mary Phelps,
who live near Garfield. JOseph Hill
is the father Of Ed Hill, the chief &C.
tor in the killing of. Lsngiord Sum.
mers, and now q refuge fir ON justice.
Judge J. G. Swan has forwarded an
interesting lot of Indian curios to the
Peabody museum of Harvard Univer-
sity. The collection consists of Indian
masks. reed shawls and a perfect
model OF q Makah house, with all OF
the utensils attached. The collection
was taken from among the Cape Flat.
terry Indians. The lot was forwarded
to James Deans, Victoria, who is pro-
curing q similar collection from the
British Columbia Indians.
Eccles, the man who shot Benjamin
Franklin at Whitworthy's ranch, At
Quillayute, one day last week, is still
at large. There is warrant for his
arrest. The shooting was the result
of an old quarrel between the men,
although they had not met for some
months until they happened together
at Whitworthy's ranch last week.
Without saying q word Eccles pulled
. revolver and shot at Franklin,
wounding him in the right arm. The
injured man is recovering.
Near Dayton, Saturday, q lad
named Abbott, aged Is, tried to blow
up a log in his fathers yard by filling
piece of gas-pipe with powder, which
he inserted in the log. He attached
. fuse and touched it off, and after
waiting some time for the explosion
supposed the fuse had gone out. He
approached the log and took the fuse
out to examine it, when it exploded,
and fragment three inches long en-
tered his leg above the knee, SCATTERING
the bone 50 badly that it was necessary
10 amputate the leg.
The city of Pullman is suffering
from the prevalence of scarlet fever
and diptheria. The dangerous dis
eases have spread with such alarming
rapidity that an epidemic is feared,
and in order not to jeopardize the
lives of children, or even put them in
unnecessary danger, the schools of
Pullman have been closed and no
services are held in the churches. In
this way the doctors may succeed in
combining the disease to certain quar-
tiers. Flags are out in the infected
district, and people are duly warned
OF the dangers that exist.
By becoming entangled in a trestle
near North Yakima last Thursday
night, q band of horses delayed the
Northern Pacific overland train. Two
of the animals broke their legs between
the ties, but the majority Of them es-
capped in various miraculous ways.
One was found hanging to the trestle
by one leg. Its hoof had become
fastened between a spike and the side
OF the rail, and it then flOundered over
the side OF the track, II feet above the
bottom of the gulch. After its foot
was released it was allowed to fall to
the ground, and aside from o good
shaking up, it was no worse for its
experience.