The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-06-28
THE EVERGREEN State.
Chronicles Of Recent Important Events
10 The Northwest.
RESULT OF The OREGON ELECTION.
Nerdssrsm, the Murder, ssen %
Hang at seatie-Tscema,s Misc.
ing meney-w. q. Jones Elected
Commander OF the Q. sfv.


j. r. Wallace, formerly city marshal Of
Ellensburgh, will be q candidate for
sheriff Of Okonagan county this fall.
W. II. Peterson. Of Ellensburgb has at
last received his commission as postmas
ter and will assume the duties OF office on
July l.
Amos Bowman, funder OF Annacortes.
is dead. The town was named after hi,
wife whose maiden name was Anna
Curtis.
1t is said that Sam Davidson and ]. NJ.
Ready Of Ellensburgh are working to get
the nomination at the hands of the popu.
lists for the supreme bench.
Charles Garrison, a resident Of Kittitas
county, aged between so and GO years,
committed suicide June l4th by shoot.
ing himself through the head. The act
is accredited TO sufferings from asthma.
Dolphus B. Hanna, of Tacoma w, c..
p. Adams, Of Seattle, and W. r. Rogers,
OF Puyallup, are out as candidates for the
nomination for congress on the populist
ticket, and A. N. Jordan and Guvnor
Teats are making a play for the state su.
preme court judgeship.
The ground that Spokane county &C.
cupies consists Of l.l34 ZOO acres. The
Chronicle says that Register Logan, of
the land Office, has received patent
granting the Northern Pacific Railroad
company a title to 9,2l9 SO acres of
that land, or over one-third Of all the land
in Spokane county.
Ira Cogeswell, the oldest pioneer of
Tacoma, died June %, aged 70 years. He
located in Old Tacoma in 1873 and erected
the first livery stable on the site OF the
present Northern Pacific headquarters
building. He leaves an estate vslued at
5000, 900. which will be inherited BY his
only son.
At the encampment Of the G. A. H.
and auxiliary organizations, Just closed
at Olympia, Yakima got away with one
OF the plums, w. l.. Jones being honored
by being chosen commander Of the Sons
Of Veterans. J. N. Scott, OF Port Town
send, was elected department comman-
der of the G. A. r.; Mrs. Anna Watson,
Of Spokane, president OF the Women's
Relief Corps, and Mrs. +. L. Melton, OF
Olympia, president Of the Ladies' Aid
society.
The result of the election in Oregon, SO
far as governor is concerned, is about as
follows: Lord, 4o,75s; Pierce, $3.50;
Galloway, 1869; out OF total OF about
$4,000, which is an increase OF 10000
votes as compared with the election OF
'92. Irwin receives l3,400 plurality for
school superintendent; Ellis $500 plu.
rality in the Second district, and Her.
man 9087 plurality in the First district.
The legislature will stand: Senate--Re.
publicans, 10; democrats, 8; populists,
8; total, 80. neutrality-suspicious., 81 !;
democrats, l populists, Z; total go.
The Tacoma News asserts that there is
a growing suspicion almost amounting to
conviction that Ex TreasuressBoggs can.
not produce the funds which. according
to his statement, he should have on
hand. The new treasurer has been in
Office nearly two months and hasn't yet
been able to see the color of the five or
six hundred thousand dollars which
should have been turned over to him.
More than 100000 Of the city funds
placed in banking institutions is prosen
to have no real existence, and the News
wants the suspense ended and to know
II the balance is also gone.
Charles w. Nordstrom will, at Seattle,
on August 81, pay the fullest penalty OF
the law for the brutal murder he COM
mitted on the night OF November q,
1891, when, to satisfy an old grudge, he
crept up to the cabin OF William Mason
at Cedar Mountain and shot him through
the heart while he was eating supper
with his wife. He was convicted OF muir
der in the first degree on January IS.
1892, but an appeal to the supreme
court was taken. That body affirmed
the judgment of the lower court, and
Judge Humes fixed the date for Nord-
strom's execution by hanging for August
81.
Walter Rowe, young man whose
home In The Dalles, has surrendered 10
the sheriff of Wasco county. He was
wanted for burglary, highway robbery
and horse stealing, and was one OF q
gang Of three. One OF them, named
Hayes, was shot by Sheriff Baker some
months ago, and the other John Hew-
thorn, is badly hurt by a shot in the
groin from an Indian who was hunting
them for a 500 reward. Young Howe
went as cowboy after leaving school,
few years ago. and. falling in with Hew-
thorn and Hayes, became a thief and
now gives himself up, having freed him
self from their evil influence. He was
crack shot and easily fell into the bandit
mode Of life when out of reach OF home
and other proper influences.
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