Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-02-24

trous flood is to be anticipated.
The biggest story Of the biggest
onions comes from Mr.. Latta's ranch
on Hunter Creek, where he raised
nearly 2,4O0 pounds of onions from
one ounce of seed, thereby win ming
the prize offered by the seed house for
the greatest amount raised from that
quantity of seed.-NetiicH Luke Led
ger.
j. p. D. Lownsdale, cf Portland, who
has large timber-land interests in the
Humptulips river, has succeeded, at a
cost OF $1,000. in cutting a portion ol
the jam away, which is located about
three miles from the mouth of that
stream, making it possible for light.
draft steamers to so up the river 10 OF
II miles.
Business men of Seattle are in favor
OF having another Judge appointed
by the Legislature. There are $4,000
people in King county, or one Judge
to every 10000. Judge 1. ]. Lichten-
berg, who has just gone off of the
bench, and whose opinion ought
therefore, to be valuable, asserts that
there should be five Judges.
The Oakesdale Fraternal Company
has been formed for the purpose Of
building an opera hall, or hall for the
meeting of fraternal societies and
public gatherings in that city. Arti.
cles OF incorporation were filed with
the County Auditor by the trustees
Messrs. V. Hexter, w. C. Mccoy, ID.
Fish and George C. McWilliams.
The City Council of Hoquiam is
considering a proposition of bonding
that town and putting in a $4,000
water system, the present supply not
being sufficient for the demand. The
new plans call for pipe line 4! miles
long, running toward the headwaters
of the Hoquiam river, where a large
supply OF pure water can be had.
The body OF d. L. Evans, who was
drowned in the Snake river near Lew
iston on Thanksgiving day, has just
been recovered near Almota, 80 miles
below. Owing to the extreme cold
ness of the water, the body was we'll
preserved, notwithstanding the fact
that it had been in the water about so
days. Mrs. Evans will take the body
to Philadelphia for burial.
A Valleur wants $4,000 damages
from the Seattle Coal and Iron Com
pany. He claims that he was caught
in the cave of an embankment and
hurled 60 feet into a fire which was
consuming refuse. His right arm was
broken and he was badly burned, and
for these injuries, claimed to be due
to negligence on the part of the COM
pany, he prays for damages.
The County Commissioners King OF
county have been informed that many
OF the Indians on Samamish lake are
starving. The heavy snowfall has
made it impossible for them to hunt
game and unless the county comes to
their relief great suffering will result.
Many are entirely without bread and
meat and are subsisting wholly on the
charity of their white neighbors.
A. ]. Patterson, a prominent Snake
river fruit-grower, announces that the
cold weather. greatly injured the fruit
crop. Peaches and apricots are en-
tirely killed. Plums, cherries and
other small fruits are badly injured
and there will not be over half crop
under most favorable circumstances.
1t is severe blow to that great fruit
growing country. 1t has been the
coolest weather experienced on Snake
river for several years.
L. E. Dole, of Centralia, is in the
Lewis county Jail, charged with having
kidnapped a child from its parents.
The child is his own, Dole says, and
the trouble began when he went to
the Bucknell hotel to get it from his
wife, who is now divorced and married
to one McAllister. Dole took the
child from its mother Sunday. As he
left the room McAllister knocked him
down. Then they had him arrested
for kidnapping.
The Chehalis & Newaukum River
Boom Company filed articles of incor-
poration in the Auditors Office last
week. The objects of the company
are to engage in the lumber and log
ging business in general, to improve
the rivers and their tributaries, etc.
The capital stock is 100000, divided
into 1000 shares of the par value of
800 each. C. NJ. Mcintosh, E. A.
Frost, Alex Mealy, E. P. Snyder and
w. A. Reynolds are named as trustees.
John Garrick, who was killed near
Chewelah, Stevens county, last week
was 61 years old, and was born in
Scotland, whence he came to America
in 1850. In 1852 he and Mr.. Hudson,
who still resides near Colville, while
iii the employ of the Hudson Bay
Trading company, came to the COM
pany's fort, near where the town of
Marcus now stands. He was mail
carrier between this fort and Portland
for number Of years, and was after
ward stationed at Fort Vancouver for
short period. He took an active
part in the Rogue river war, which
occurred in the early sos. During
the last 90 years he had resided in
and near Chewelah.
The recent tide-land surveys in
Hood canal bring out some interesting
facts are regarding the natural oyster
beds OF that region. The natural oys.
ter beds in North bay, examined by
the appraisers, comprise about 4OO