Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-06-02
STATE NEWS.

uohkey engine 10 draw logs in a
Wishkah lumber camp suddenly broke
and flew back, striking and breaking
Philip Hickey's thigh.
Oakesdale farmers have fully I25 900
bushels of wheat on hand. Prices
range at 40 to 45 cents q bushel
against 90 cents at the opening of the
season, which they refused.
+. IL. McHenry, principal assistant
engineer OF the Northern Pacific rail-
road. has filed a claim at Tacoma for
the water power of Lake Tapps. For
what purpose it will be used is not
stated.
1T having been decided in the Su.
perior court of Spokane that all
amendments to the charter, passed at
the last election, are void an appeal
has been taken from this decision to
the supreme court.
Nels Bystrom, of Spokane, who was
shot through the head by one of
party OF masked men who entered his
saloon, is still alive, and will probably
recover. The police think they have
a clue to the desperadoes.
Garfield county will pay $4,000 for
squirrel scalps this month Should
this prove true the farmers will harvest
$oO,OOO worth OF wheat this fall that
would have gone down the squirrels
throats, if the commissioners had not
continued the bounty.
United States Marshal Brown has
filed in the Office Of the county auditor,
deed for the transfer Of the property
OF the Puget Sound & Chehalis rail
road company to the Puget Mill
company. The transfer covers proper
ty to the value OF $31,9l5.
The new state reform school build
ing to be erected at Chehalis, will cost
about $4,000 and will be ready for
occupancy about December l, will con-
tain rooms for so inmates besides the
superintendent and matron. There
are now 103 inmates, OF which number
Is are girls.
The Nez Petce Indian commission
has been dissolved and the treaty sign
ed by about $50 adult males of the
tribe. Only 204 were necessary. The
documents have been forwarded to the
department at Washington, and the
throwing open of the lands for settle
ment will no doubt soon follow. The
price paid for $4,000 acres of land is
$I.652 ,222.
A valuable ledge OF rich graphite
has been discovered in Lewis county,
near the upper Cowlitz. Eight filings
were made, three OF which were by
residents of Olympia. They were
James Radcliffe, R. E. Graham and w.
| N. Wetmore. Each claimant gave his
claim name. Radcliffe calls mis- Little
Tammany," Graham, Grace Keene,"
and Wetmore, Little Eva.
Edgar Matson, OF Port Townsend, a
9-year-old boy, has been awarded
judgment for 5000 against the Port
Townsend Southern railroad for in
juries received by timber falling from a
passing train. The case had been on
trial two days, and was bitterly con-
tested. A smaller child was killed at
the same time, and the court awarded
the father 81, 500 damages.
The prospect for wheat in Eastern
Washington this year is tiattering.
The yield, it is confidently expected
will be larger than it has been for two
or three years past. There was so
much snow and it has melted so
gradually that the earth received most
of the moisture. The wheat is grow
ing splendidly in most sections, and
farmers are elated at the bright pros
poets.
Seven suits have been filed at Ia
coma by G. E. Hart and Herman
Jewell for $4,000 insurance. A mill
belonging to the plaintiffs on the
school section was burned down last
November and the insurance companies
sued refused to pay the insurance,
limiting that the mill was set aire.
The companies sued are the Hamburg
Bremen, Providence, Washington,
Majars, American, Phoenix and New
Hampshire.
Charles Miller, of Colfax, is the
owner of buffalo overcoat which takes
the eye of thieves. 1t has been stolen
three times within the present month,
and each time it has been recovered,
while the thief has been caught, con-
victed and sentenced to the county
Jail for 30 days. Tramps with pen.
chant for thieving who expect to pay
a visit to the Palouse country this year
will do we'll when they see Mr.. Miller's
coat to pass on the other side.
Peter Irving, has been elected
president of the Western Washington
Exposition Company, to succeed SAM
ual Collyer, who had not time to
fulfill the duties Of the office. C.. F..
Hale as vice-president and Isaac w.
Anderson are the other trustees, no
one having been elected to fill the
vacancy caused by F. F. Lacey's re-
moval from Tacoma. Mr. Whiting,
secretary and manager, has moved to
Portland, and it is not known as vet
who will act in this capacity next fall.
/, Lizzie Kassel, daughter of Peter
Kassel, of Pomeroy, met with a serious
accident while riding in a cart a few
days ago. When turning the corner
at John Sacknitz's residence the cart.
wheel struck the fence, breaking both