Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-06-23
STATE NEWS,
Scarlet fever has broken out in Ia
coma, and the health department is
making every effort to stamp it out.

Scarlet fever has broken out in Ia
coma, and the health department is
making every effort to stamp it out.
VIM. Lindsey. of Tekoa, aged GO,
was thrown from wagon by a run
away team and striking on his head,
was probably fatally injured.
Twenty-Five slOops and four schoOn-
ers compose the fishing fleet of the
lower sound. and 60 men of Port
Townsend are furnished employment.
An artesian we'll at Roslyn has de-
velopee flow of "a 900 gallons every
twenty-iour hours, with depth OF l75
feet This solves the question of city
waterworks.
Funds for the new road from Ia
coma to Mount Rainier have not vet
been raised. In case of failure, the
road will be built by private parties
and toll charge for its use
The ladies in Kitsap county have
forwarded to the Worlds Fair two
furniture carloads of perfect rhododen-
dron plants which will be poisoning
finely by the time they reach Chicago.
Geo. C. Clark, OF Everett, was en-
gagged in repairing a boiler, when a
valve burst and the hot steam and
water came rushing out, scalded him
so badly that he lived only few
hours.
The city of old Yakima rather got
the start of its younger and larger Off
spring, North Yakima, last week, by
raising 5000 bonus for the WOODEN
mill plant, which has been negotiating
with North Yakima for some time.
David Shepardson, aged II years,
was accidentally drowned in Coal
creek last Saturday while bathing in
company with number of companions,
near his fathers. l.. D. Shepardson's,
residence, five miles west OF Kelso.
Dick Head, lawyer of Tacoma,
has been arrested for assaulting his for
mer partner, Henry G. Beach. He is
also awaiting trial on the charge of
Incorporating $50 entrusted to
him by client to be paid into court.
The citizens of Yakima county are
endeavoring to raise $4,000 by public
subscription to purchase a tract of
land for the State fair grounds. The
Yakima Republic prophesies that the
amount will be subscribed before the
LIST of July.
Hiram Frye, child whose father is
Il Il
him, died of brain lever at a hospital
in Seattle. The mother is still living
in Seattle and. although informed of
the boys illness, did not even once
call to see him.
Last week the captain and crew OF
the steamer Edison secured II large
white pelican while at Coupeville. 1t
measured from tip to tip 3 feet 10
inches and from end of bill to end of
tail feet 10 inches. The bird will be |
sent TO Seattle to be mounted.
Lincoln county will probably en-
ulate the example of Yakima in send
ing an exhibit of watermelons to the |
Worlds Fair. Melons weighing sixty |
five pounds have been produced along |
the Columbia river. and POO fine
specimens will be sent to Chicago.
A number of farmers in the vicinity |
OF Davenport have planted sugar-beet |
seed this spring, and will make prac- |
teal test to see with what success |
sugar beets can be grown in the soil of
that county. Many believe that quite !
an industry can be built up in the
beet trade.
Mr.. Owens, aged Sc years, tie
father of Mrs. NJ. Ungerer. of Walla
Walla, is dangerously i'll from blood
poisoning. Last week, while trapping |
gophers on Eureka Flat he scratched |
his right hand on a barb wire fence |
and as result blood poisoning set in,
and he is now in precarious condi-
ton.
About two weeks ago S. II. Kennoy-
er, of Dayton, captured two young |
eagles at the head of the Touchet. |
He has them so well tanned that they |
will take food readily from any one.
He brought them to town and sold |
them. kennoyer says their nest was |
about 100 feet from the ground, in a
tree, and covered space OF about II |
feet square.
In reference to the county printing
Since New Whatcom and Whatcom
county are putting on Eastern airs it |
might be we'll to state that ain the
East" it is the paper with the larger
circulation, not the lowest bidder, that
is awarded the county printing, and,
usually, they must have certain |
number of subscribers before they can |
even compete.
Riding over the country, says the
Pomeroy East Wdshiagtonidn, one is
impressed with the wonderful benefit |
that comes from the heavy rainfall of |
spring. Never such fine looking pas
lures and fields of rapidly growing
grain were seen. No spring for some |
time has terminated seeds of all kinds
as we'll, and never before had we bet
ter prospects for an abundant harvest.
Twenty horses were driven on the
wire cable ferry at the mouth of the
Walla Walla river the other day.
When in the middle of the stream the |
animals became frightened and rush.
ing to one side of the boat capsized it.
The men were fortunate enough to
extricate themselves without receiving
any damage beyond. a thorough wet
ting, but the horses were all drowned.
o. p. Hubbard, special agent of the
United States department of justice,
has been at Port Townsend investi-
eating the Indian war claim Daniel J.
Gent, at present located at Oak Har-
Dor, Wildly Island, who during the
BannOck war in 1870: resided near
PendietOn, Or, where he had large
cattle ranch. The indians swOoped
down upon him asl destroyed his
stock, the family barely escaping with
their lives. His claim against the
government, which has been hanging
fire for years, is $4,000. Another
ranchor named Holbrook, also located
on the islands, has similar claim.
Work is to be resumed in the Fourth
of July mine, Okanogan, after partial
suspension of operations for more
than a VAR Worc waS rooup,oJ unit