Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-04

pany and the Stimson mills are run
ming with nonunion men. The union
men still hold out for their former
scale of wages. To all appearances,
things are quiet, but there is a deep
feeling among union men against the
nonunion workers.
Artesian water has been struck in
Spring valley, five miles southeast OF
Colfax, at depth of go feet. The
flow is strong, throwing a six-inch
stream 20 feet high. This is the
westernmost artesian we'll in the
county and will be great help to Col
fax. The city council has already
taken informal action towards piping
the water down to supply the reservoir.
Yakima is to-day unquestionably
the leading hop growing district in
the State, and not only in acreage,
prospect of yield, freedom from YER
min or other blight, but character of
the product placed upon the market.
From about 400 acres devoted to this
crop in 1891, it is approximated that
there are now $500 acres, and the
cost of picking at 81 box, is esti-
mated at $4,000 for this year.
A resident of Gilman was startled
late the other night by the appearance
at his door of a boy, about 13 years
old, in state OF complete nudity,
shivering with cold and fear. He
stated that his father had stripped
him stark naked with the intention of
beating him. The boy ran away, and
though his father gave chase, succeed
ed in distancing him. The father is a
laborer, but the Seattle papers do not
give his name.
]. Austin, of Fairhaven, recently
sent snma tin,oth,- ..-Il.. 80 DusLun
which measured 81 inches in length.
Mr.. N. X. Jeffries, Of Clearbrook, re-
Gently cut some timothy which puts
Mr.. Austin's deep into the shade.
The stalk measured 974 inches in
length, and was cut on upland which
had never been fertilized, while a
number of other stalks measured from
so to S7t inches. Hay over eight
feet high! Think OF that!
DIR. Hill, of North Yakima, igniting
a match to light his cigar, deposited
the charred silver of wood on o cigar
box and went into the kitchen for a
drink. After waiting for cool water to
run he returned to the room he had
just quilted and found his bed en-.
veloped in flames. The match had
dropped from the cigar box upon the
coverlet, which had Immediately
caught fire. No great damage was
done, but it was narrow escape.
The men engaged in building a
wagon road near Madden's saw mill,
about four miles north of Conconully,
discovered the bones of monster bear
in an advanced stage of decay, says
Okanogan Outlook. Laying close to it
was the skeleton OF a man, also much
the worse for wear and tear of natures
elements. Close by was also found
an old hunting knife, the blade OF
which was over half-rusted away and
the bone handle nearly rotted off.
Charles Myers, who was charged
with burning the Asotin Hotel, in
which a human being was burned to
death last March, has been having his
trial this week at Asotin, and has
been convicted OF murder in the first
degree and sentenced to be hanged on
the first day of September. A new
trial was asked for, but denied by
Judge Sturdevant. 1t is likely an ap-
peal will be made to the Supreme
Court, but the verdict is generally ap-
proved.
On their trip up Salmon river, says
the Spokane Rerieio, George H. Doerr
and his friend Mr.. Burtt came across
q monument erected to an old trapper.
1t was slab OF wood nailed to a tree,
and on the slab, old and weather.
beaten, were the words: ain memory
of c. Tinling, died 1860. Erected by
the Hudson Bay Company" There
were was no trace Of a grave near by.
In the annals OF the Hudson Bay
Company, Tinling is described as a
veteran trapper.
No milk goes to waste in the Kitti.
tas valley. The Ellensburgh Register
says: "The entire product OF milk in
the valley is used in the manufacture
OF butter and cheese. This is a very
different use made OF it from what it
was several years ago, when scrubby
calves were allowed to run with the
cows on the range and no attention
paid to the milk. The grade of milch
COWS has been improved correspond
ingly, until now the dairy business is
the best-paying product of the valley"
The case of Drs. Coleman and Mer-
rill, of Tacoma, charging Mrs. Captain
William Dwars with assaulting them
while they were performing a post
mortem examination upon the body
of Patrick McConologue, has been ap-
pealed to the Superior court by the
defendant, against whom a judgment
was found. Mrs. Dwars says the slay.
er of McConologue, whom she believes
to be Larry Clabby, will suffer. She
has additional evidence, showing that
Clabby was the cause OF Nc onologue's s
death.
A valuable find of camel coal
said by Geologist Woodhouse to be
the first ever discovered in this State
or in the Pacific Northwest, is re.
ported from the Hagermann Brothers
homestead, two miles west of Palmer
and within 300 yards of the Northern
Pacific Railroad. There are seven