Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-07-28
WHOLE NUMBER l,752.
STATE NEWS.

II. d. Woods, news dealer of New
Whatcom, is missing. He sold his
stock Of goods and some other property
at sacrifice, and abandoned his wife
and young child. He was indebted to
the Seattle Telegraph to the extent of
$500.
According to order of the court,
Receiver Sprague has sold the rolling
stock of the Tacoma & Puyallup rail
road to the laborers who interviewed in
the case of Radebaugh against the
road, the laborers having claims for
wages. The laborers' claim amounted
to 2,463 35 and the stock was sold
for $500. The Mason Mortgage
Company, which bought the road under
a mortgage, will test the legality Of
the sale to laborers.
During the races at Pataha City
William c. Cumbacker and Charles
Mochel attempted to cross the track
as the horses in a running race were
coming down the stretch. The last
horse struck Mochel, throwing him
against Cumbacker, telling him TO the
ground, and the horse fell on Cum
hacker and rolled over him. He is
unconscious and will die. Mochel is
badly hurt but will recover. The
jockey was not seriously injured.
The extension OF the Tacoma
Eastern railroad is expected to open
up an extensive and rich coalfield in
T. 16, r. 6 E., and in portion of T.
II. Surveyors are now in the field
locating lines in that direction. The
distance is 40 miles from Tacoma, and
the vein of coal found in the sections
mentioned is said to be the best yet
discovered in this State, as it comes
nearer than any yet found to anthra-
cite coal. The vein is believed to be a
continuation of the Wilkeson-C Car
bonado coal veins.
Eben E. Ebey, who died recently at
his home in Lynden, aged Al, was the
son of Col. Ebey. who was murdered
on WILDLY island by the Indians, and
after whom Ebey's landing, on the
west side of the island, is named.
His parents moved to WILDLY island
when he was s years of age. He lived
there q years, during which time he
was elected to the legislature from
Island county. He afterwards moved
to Seattle and engaged in the general
mercantile business. Mfr Ebey WAS
the discoverer of the Bennett coal
mines in Skagit county, now owned
by the Fairhaven Land Company.
A pet canary bird in Fairhaven has
always had an aversion to his natural
dress, and has industriously pulled out
every feather he could reach. The re-
suit is that he has now q smooth,
shiny skin, which looks like polished
parchment, two or three lonely tail
feathers and trifle of plumage on the
head and neck. In summer he is all
right, but the cold of winter bothers
him. AS soon as frost comes he is
clad in a warm flannel jacket, which
he admires immensely. At night he
lies down on bed of cotton batting,
submits quietly to be covered up. and
sleeps there contentedly till morning.
One of the important needs of
Puget Sound is large tannery. 1t is
believed that such an industry would
return an immediate profit on the in.
vestment and would open the way for
q mandatory of boots and shoes.
Hides can be purchased in this north
west country cheaper than in any
other part of the United States. Hides
are now shipped 10 the East, manu-
factured into leather and returned to
US. The East is also compelled to get
its extract OF white oak from California !,
while the supply of hemlock of the
East will be entirely exhausted within
few years. We have enough OF the
finest kind of hemlock in this State to
last almost a century.
In the superior court of Whatcom
county the First bank OF Sumas has
commenced suit against the town Of
Sumas to recover $3.50 on repudiated
town warrants. 1t appears that about
three years ago the town desired TO
incorporate, but had no money to pay
officials, and for street grading, etc.
Officials went to the First bank Of
Sumas and entered into an agreement
to give town warrants TO be redeemed
when the next taxes came in. The
bank advanced the money, which was
used for salaries and street grading,
but when the taxes were collected the
city refused to redeem the warrants
on the ground that the city had no
right to do what it had done,