Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-06-30

1hc uauhiilS MUSE Ol ben T..
Snipes & Co., at Ellensburgh, will
soon resume business. Depositors
will be granted the privilege of taking
secured notes for their claims, or leav-
ing them for the bank to collect.
DIR. Richardson, of Wenatchee, having
received bequest, from an aunt who
died short time ago, to the amount
OF $4,000, sold out what property he
had in Wenatchee and has gone to
New York to take charge of the prop
erty willed to him.
Below will be found an accurate
statement of the area OF vacant gov
ernment land in the several land dis.
tricts of our State: Seattle, 5, 5,6OS, ,9l5;
Waterville, 5,05l ,O56; Yakima, 2,455,-
$50; Spokane, 2,351,751; Vancouver,
1867 ,524; Walla Walla, 1,3SO,5G4;
Olympia, S72660.
The famous wheat yield of IO1 bush
els, grown by Mr. f. J. Northcutt, of
Whitman county, is attracting much
attention at Chicago, where it is now
ON exhibition. A number OF letters
have been received by that gentleman
regarding the country. The display
has already done much for this Sec
ton.
On the eve of his marriage death
came to Walter Halroyd, at St Joseph's
hospital, at Tacoma. Typhoid fever
was the cause of death. Halroyd, who
has been in Tacoma four years, COM
ing from England, was to have mar
ried this month the daughter of g.
Taylor. of the firm of Hewitt & Taylor.
The lady is a niece of the ex-city
controller.
In Garfield county yield OF grain,
such as was never before known, is
expected this year. The Pataha City
Democrat says that if no unforeseen
accident turns up, farmers of Garfield
will revel in paid-up claims this fall
and be placed upon a solid basis.
Wheat buyers are already making
preparations for the handling of an
immense crop.
Raising sugar beets promises to be-
come an extensive industry in the
agricultural, districts of Whatcom
county. George Yaeger, VINO has a
fine farm near Drayton harbor, has
tested these beets with most satisfac-
tory results. He has had experience
in the sugar business in Germany, and
thinks Puget Sound soil and climate
superior to the German quality.
Four years ago some Ellensburgh
citizens built an icehouse on the Ma
mum and filled it with ice of an ex.
cellent quality. The Capital says:
" 1t was put up as reserve, and it
has been kept as a reserve, notwith-
standing the roof and sides have been
wrecked. There are tons of it still
imbodied in the sawdust, fresh and
solid as when taken from the pond"
The body of Earl Thompson, who
was drowned about three months ago,
was found few days ago, afloat in
the river opposite Aberdeen. The
body was badly decomposed and the
features unrecognizable. but the body
was identified by the clothes. Word
was sent to Mr.. Thompson at West.
port and the body was buried the same
evening in the cemetery at this place.
Mrs. Mollie Brown, wife of ]. M.
Brown, of Willapa, fatally shot an i'm
mense bear last Monday evening. Her
husband went out next morning and
found the animal only q few yards
from the spot where it was when the
lady shot it. 1t was unable to get out
of the way, so showed fight. The hide
was seven feet wide by ten feet long
and will probably command big
price.
Thomas Griffith, who lives near Cliff.
ton, Kitsap county, was recently awak.
ened in the middle of the night by the
bleating of his calf in the barn. He
Immediately rushed out with his Win.
chester and found cougar in the call
pen devouring the calf, which it had
just killed. A shot from his trusty
rifle dropped the vicious brute by the
side OF its victim. 1t is the largest
known to have been killed in the
country, measuring IL feet 10 inches.
A petrified fish has been found I'M
bedded in solid bedrock % feet beneath
the surface OF the ground on William
Fudge's ranch, near Pampa. This pc
culiar formation has every appearance
of being a petrified salmon, as the lay
ers OF rock are in the same position
and look like the formation of the
flesh in salmon. At the time OF
finding the petrification it looked the
shape of an entire fish, but on being
exposed to the air the head crumbled
away.
E. T. Vernon is one of Whatcom' $
most progressive citizens. Besides
running logging camp. a woodward,
a meat market and chicken ranch,
he proposes going into hog g-raising on
an extensive scale. He has already
5O pOrkers at his ranch, and will im-
port some thoroughhreds for breeding
purposes. Mr.. Vernon is of the opin-
ion that this is great country for
pork-raising, and he will import corn
from Kansas to fatten the pOrkers.
And he says he can make it pay, too.
One of the Oldest landmarks in
Northwestern Washington has been
torn down to make way for improve
ments in New Whatcom. 1t was a
small frame schoolhouse, the frs,
erected in Whatcom county. A cor
respondent says: "1t was built in
1867, OF cedar lumber, the roof bein.
composed OF hsnd-shaved cedar
shingles. These shingles do not SHOW
speck OF decay, but the action of the