Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-07-28
STATE NEWS.

Tacoma's schools last year costs
$249,942.
John Orling was killed near Black
River junction last week while at
tempting to jump off moving train.
On piece OF ground less than a
tenth OF an acre in extent, Mr.. McMil-
Ian, of Lake Padden, has picked this
year by actual weight, 100 pounds of
Strawberries, and this amount does not
include the berries picked by visitors
and given away, probably more than
80 pounds.
John Ryan of Portland, foreman for
J. f. Howard, the government con-
tractor at Hoquiam, was found dead in
his bed ut that place Sunday afternoon.
He retired as usual Saturday night
about 9 o'clock in good spirits. He
was 40 years old and leaves wife, now
at South Bend.
David Shelton of the town of Shelton,
has filed with clerk Alexander, Of the
tide land commission, protest against
the right of e. NJ. Sheafe to purchase
certain tide lands lying north of the
track of the Washington Southern
railway at Shelton, and alleging that
he, David Shelton, has the prior right
to purchase.
The dead body of A. Nelson, a rail
road laborer, As years old, was found
under Great Northern trestle near
the Pilchuck bridge, near Snohomish,
last Friday morning. While drunk he
had fallen head foremost from the
trestle. The neck was broken and the
head was driven up to the ears into
the sand.
John II. Haynes, has sued the
Chronicle for $4,000 for libel. The
skeleton of an Indian was dug up On
Haynes property at Peaceful Valley,
near Spokane, and the Chronicle made
out that the bones were those of a
man who mysteriously disappeared
some time ago, limiting that Haynes
was concerned in the disappearance.
At Garfield horse belonging to Mr..
Laird ran out on the railroad bridge
and fell off. She fell on fence post
and was literally disemboweled, Mr..
OVERLY saw the accident and ran with
his axe and chopped the post off.
Even after this, in horrible condition,
the horse got up and ran several rods
before falling, when Mr.. OVERLY dis
patched her with his ak.
William Welsh, an engineer in the
mill of Weatherwax & Co., at Aber-
deem, was instantly killed by the
collapse of a tlue OF one of the boilers.
Four other men were seriously injured.
Welsh leaves a wife and had been
married about one year. The re-
mains are in horribly mutilated con-
dition. The COroner's inquest re-
turned a verdict that no one was to
blame.
A package of papers, bearing the
name of Peter Stanup, which it is
assumed were taken from his pocket
OH the night of his disappearance, has
been found floating in the bay about a
mile from the mouth of the Puyallup
appearance of having been in the water
the two months or over that have
| elapsed since Stamps death, and the
conclusion drawn is that they were
stolen and recently thrown into the
river. This belief strengthens the
conviction that Stan up was murdered
Abraham Hibler, a German rancher
of Hutton, Adams county, blew out
his brains with q rifle in fit of
dependency. The entire top of his
head was torn away, the bullet enter
ing near the eyebrows, ranging upward.
From appearances, he had risen from
his slumbers and, with calm and de-
liberate intent, placed Che muzzle of
the Winchester to his forehead, strik-
ing the trigger with stick he held in
his hand. Death must have been
instantaneous. He loft bills Of sale of
all his property to yario1s persons to
secure debts which he owed.
w. c. Wheeler, OF Tacoma, who has
just returned from the East, has been
absent six weeks, and being in the
lumber business in Tacoma, looked
into the lumber proposition OF the
East. Mr.. Wheeler has been san
guine believer in the East as market
for Washington lumber, but during
this trip he has learned that his
anticipations were more than realized,
and that the present demand for Wash.
ington lumber in the States, even east
Of the Mississippi, is sufficient to war
rant great and continued prosperity
for the lumber trade in this State.
Maggie l.. Hand, by her father James
Hand, has commenced suit against Me
Northern Pacific Railroad Company to
recover $500 as damages. The
complaint states that in February,
1891, Maggie who Isl years of age,
took second-class passage from st.
Paul to Seattle, and, by reason of the
defendant failing to provide necessary
heating apparatus, contracted pleuro-
pneumonia, from which she suffered
for several weeks. James Hand files a
similar complaint and prsys for II .999
damages by reason OF a coal contracted.
He also appears for 5.yesr-old child,
Athena Bell Hand, and for a like
reason asks 81 600 damages.
A collection of Walla Walla county's
products is being made. and many fine
samples have already been secured
from this years crop. "Among them,"
says the Union, " is q bunch of wheat
heads from Chris Ennis farm that
causes considerable wonder. The
heads average 6 inches in length, and
l56 grains have been found in single
head. 1t is the winter Fife variety,
recently introduced into this country.
Mr.. Ennis has 1000 acres of wheat,
which is estimated will 60 40 bushels
to the acre. Another remarkable
sample is single stool OF the white
club variety, containing 102 heads,
each head containing 50 gruins, or
7,O3s grains to the STOOL.
1t has been found that the site
selected for the Ellensburgh normal
school is imWacticabie because of
lack of hardpsn upon which to rest
the foundation. The Register says
that hole sunk eight feet has bot
tom of soft mud with wa,er within