The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-30

A receiver has been appointed for J. D.
Mcleod & CO., general merchants, I'd
monds
The Miners Union Of C1nr d'Alene
and District Assembly No. Is. knights OF
Iabor. have placed 8 boycott on the spo-
kane Recissr.
William Gum, young seaman. native
of Colorado. was killed at Staye valley ..
C.. June .. while chopping IN the WOODS,
BY being struck By tree
The 3-year-old daughter OF Hugh ellis.
living on the upper North FORK Oh the
StiIlaguamish river was drowned last sun
day, having fallen into the stream while
at play.
walla walla is shipping nearly 1900
pounds of produce per day. New potatoes
are in great demand and beets and turnips
find ready sale, while there Is always
market for fruit
In February last Charles Brown and
John Dolan, prospectors. left Nelson, u.
c., and were never after heard from
Search was made for them In VAIN On
June IL the melting snow uncovered their
bodies on Bear creek. There had been no
decay.
George Edwards died June q at Yelm,
Thurston county. of cancer, aged al years
He came TO the Pacific coast in early man-
son Bay Company. He settled al 1elm
prairie in 1850 and married an Indian
woman.
Original pensions have been issued TO
John C. Burns. of Pomeroy, CARRIED
county, and TO the minor heirs OF ROBERT
BOLTON, of Winthrop, Okanogan county.
An order has been issued by the comm s.
sioner of pensions for the reissue OF PEN
sion to William II. Elliott, OF Port An
geles.
Cd timers protest against the change
in the spelling of the name OF the ianulng
where passengers by the Canadian racine
railway now take steamer for the Coest-
Cats" Landing is its proper name tnes
say, not "katZ," as Ii has been spelled
lately. Cats Landing received its name
from the following incident; In the early
days, when the steamers took freight ana
passengers as far as Yale. cat domiciled
on Capt. -Irving's steamer went ashore al
that point ian Indian reserve). and had .
litter of kittens in the bush. A few weeks
latter, when the steamer made another
stop there, the old cat and her kittens
walked aboard. The stopping place was
cnristened Cats Landing" then and
there. and has been known by that name
ever since.-Net0 Westminster Columbian.
The squirrels have actually devastated
the grain fields and in fact all vegetation
Endicott TO the Snake river. The grain
fields look as though heavy hail storm
had passed over them; hardly stalk Is
left standing. Mr.. Fudge, of Waitsburg,
had 400 acres of fine grain about twelve
miles the other side of Riparia, and he
purchased $40 worth of poison, being de-
termined to make fight with the squirrels
for his crop. He had two men and him.
self lighting like Trojans for two weeks,
but every night the squirrels destroyed
from twenty TO thirty acres, and Saturday
night, despite all their efforts. only about
twenty acres of the grain was left, and he
gave up the fight and abandoned the re-
mainder TO the voracious pests. The
ground is literally covered with dead
squirrels, but for every one killed three
take its place. They eat everything green,
vegetables of all kinds, and they even dig
below the surface of the ground after the
young potatoes The squirrels seem to be
travelling toward the Snake river, and the
effects of their presence can be noted in
the grain fields between Alto and Prescott.
-Watla Walta Statesman.