Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-10-27

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Orders for l0) carloads OF shingles
ar placed at Snoh1mish and waiting
for cars.
Contracts have been awarded for
four new bridges in Whitman county,
costing S4,l0e.
W. B. Aris is planting 10000 Italian
pruue trees on his ranch near Meyers
falls, Stevens county.
The street cars of Walla Walla have
stopped running, and the superinten-
dent declines to explain.
They have new pavement on Pa
cifc avenue, Tacoma, and pedestrians
prefer it to the sidewalks.
Walla Walla's Salvation Army's
official quarters have been burglarized
70. the third time recently.
Large numbers OF sheep are dying
in the heavy snowstorms on the
mountains Of klickitat county.
A grand jury has been empaneled
at Port Townsend to investigate
charges against ex-county officials.
o. c. OttersOn's store at Spokane
wa burglarized of 800 in money. A
posse OF citizens is after the robbers.
The boiler OF the steamer Wishkah
has been recovered in 40 feet of
water at Aberdeen by deep-sea diver.
Evidence is now accommodating
against George S. Parker, who is in
Jail at Colfax, for the Pullman murder.
The insurance on the burned Spo-
kane city hall has been adjusted at
$3i, 800 and rebuilding is to begin at
once,
George S. Parker, the Pullman muir
and lodged in the county Jail for
safety.
A snow-slide occurred few days
ago at Monte Cristo that carried three
miners more than mile, killing one
of them.
The State will not be represented at
the American Federation of Labor
convention, which meets at Chicago
in December.
Some $1,000 bushels of wheat have
been marketed at Ritzville, ont of g.
OOO,O in the county. The threshing
is not half done.
The midwinter fairs nail order to
the Port Orchard mill is for 5000 kegs,
and it will take the mill about six
weeks to make them.
According to the Elma Chronicle
the farmers around that place were
damaged by the recent storm to
the amount OF $4,000
A 6-year-old boy of Colfax took the
train unknown to his parents and got
off at Pullman. The city marshal
sent him home next day.
George s. Taylor, of Larene, had
three fingers and the thumb of his
left hand cut off last week while feed
ing a threshing machine.
Grading has been begun on the
Great Northern depot site at Seattle.
The sight was once covered by the
notorious Whitechapel."
A man was hired by citizen of Sc
attic to keep the snow off roof until
the storm ended, and he has now sued
for $267, six months wages.
| Burglars entered the postoffice,
at Garfield. Monday night, blew the
safe opened and took $500 in cash and
81 800 in notes. There is no clue.
The next term of court in Whatcom
county has 1926 civil and "a criminal
cases on the docket. This is the larg-
est calendar on record in the county.
The Bellingham Bay & Eastern
railroad have completed hauling the
GOO, 600 feet of logs purchased by the
st. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company.
The coroner's jury on the body OF
the Everett suicide, White, could find
no motive for the deed. He was an
Odd Fellow and will be buried by the
order.
A. S. Legrow, H. C.. Adams, Edwin
Weary and w. G. Johnson are loading
5000 head of sheep at Wallula which
will be shipped to Omaha and Chicago
to be sold.
Charles Fritz had his right arm torn
off at the elbow and received q severe
wound in the back by being struck
with a piece of saw at Whatcom
single mill.
The Tacoma Gas & Electric
Company has been incorporated with
a capital stock of 100000. The
trustees are Robert C. Elliot, Edmund
Rice, w. A. Rice and Truman w.
Enos.
Richard T. Morehouse, young and a
comparative stranger, fell from a
loaded wagon nine miles west Of
Pullman, and the wheels passed over
his abdomen, injuring him so that his
life is despaired of.
The Tacoma School Furniture Co.,
OF which G. w. Peek is president, will
build II factory in Tacoma this winter
The factory will turn out school
furniture and will be the third largest
in the United States.
Private Connors, of troop HI, who
was recently court-martialed for
burglary of officers quarters at Fort
Walla Walla, has been sentenced to
six years in the military prison at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
A 10-per-cent reduction in the
salaries of clerks and duputies in all
Kittitas county offices has been made
by the commissioners, aggregating
about $500 per year. The county
attorneys deputy is dispensed with.
Neville Tumner and Charles
Holmes, the two Discovery farmers
caught smuggling opium few days
ago, were bound over at Port Townsend
in $500 each to appear before the
United States district court at Seattle.
| Robert Hays, OF Little Falls, was ar
rested on the Northern Pacific train
at Winlock and forced to marry a girl
on pain of prosecution. He did so at
once, but took the next train, presum-
ably to ride out his ticket to Kansas
City.
A Walla Walla drug clerk signed
an agreement not to work within two
blocks OF a given store. He did so,
and the one he offended had him ar
rested. The charge was not pressed,
however, and was dismissed before
trial.