The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-06-07
THE EVERGREEN State.
Chronicles Of Recent Important Events
In The Northwest.
ARREST OF TWO POPULIST EDITORS
Conconnuiiy Destroyed By water
suicide OF q Kittitas Pioneer
Ringsters Control the Popuiist
Convention OF whitman County.

-Four bridges over the Spokane river
we're swept away by the recent foods.
Frank Mccain, who was arrested ON
the charge Of forging and issuing to him.
self warrants of the city Of Tacoma, has
been found guilty.
OF the eleven papers which existed on
Gray's Harbor year ago two are now
dead, and Of the remaining nine only
three have the same owners they had a
year ago. e., the Montesano Vidette,
Aberdeen Bulletin and Ocosta Pioneer.
Since the first Of the year King county
has paid taxes into the state treasury to
the amount Of SOL ,3l035; Pierce, $685.
274.44; Spokane, Sos, 75O.17; Yakima,
SIC, 096.3s. Okanogon county paid the
least, 1887 AS. The total amount received
by the state treasurer is $3.50 $500.
The National Bank OF Commerce of
Tacoma has recently obtained judgment
against J. NJ. Buckley for 1888, Charles
E. Laughton for &c. l5 and Ben r. Ev-
erett for $l0,9l5. These judgments re-
suited from suits growing out of the Co
lumbia River Milling and Mining com.
pany OF Okanogan county.
Parsons Egbert and L. f. RAIDER, OF
the populist sheet, the Tacoma Sun, have
been arrested, charged with criminally
libeling Thomas Warrington, one OF the
special deputy United States marshals.
Warrington was cashier Of the defunct
Orting bank, and the Sun refers to him
as the "Orting bank thief"
A. A. Munson, an old resident of the
Kittitas valley, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head on
Thursday Of last week. Dependency
is said to have brought about insanity
and then self-destruction. He was the
owner OF large amount OF farm land,
estimated at 500 acres, and had no near
relatives.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
company, which is part of the Union
Pacific system under lease, has twice de.
faulted 10 interest on its bonds, and in
consequence a separate receiver will be
appointed on the 18th instant. The de-
falcation is said to have been intentional,
for the purpose OF breaking the lease.
c. II. Prescott will probably be appointed
receiver.
Two murderers met their death at the
hands Of Judge Lynch at Colfax, Whit
man county, on Saturday last. One was
Ed Hill, who, without provocation, killed
an old and respected citizen named Lang
ford Summers, for which he was con-
convicted of simple assault and battery (;
the other was George F. Parker, who
was on trial for killing A. B. Cooper.
The mob, numbering fifty masked men,
took the prisoners from their cells and
hanged them to the Jail porch.
The HERALD is in receipt of the fol-
lowing report from Warden Coblentz of
the Washington State penitentiary at
Walla Walla: There were made in the
iute mills during the month Of May
1sO,OO3 grain bags, 1,76l wool bags and
2,239 oat bags. The price of grain bags
has been reduced from 7 to o. cents
each. We have now on hand, subject to
sale, l,0S4,3S5 grain bags at 6la cents
each, $50 wool bags at 80 cents each,
2,I00 oat bags at cents each, 500 ore
bags at cents each, 1878 yards of hop
cloth at 934 cents per yard, 6, l6l pounds
Of fleece twine, 5-ply, at cents per
pound.
The populists had a merry old time OF
it at the Whitman county convention. It
seems that even in this new party Of
progression and reform there are "ring-
sters," and as ringsters Ahira Manring
and G. w. Young ran the convention to
further their own interests There are
lots OF sore-headed pops. Manring wants
to go to congress, and Young, who was
the populist candidate for governor two
years ago, expects to enter into contest
with Pat Winston for the United States
senate. At the primaries held previous
to this convention there were $50 votes
cast, and 40S of the voters placed them
selves in nomination for the thirteen
county offices. It is supposed that the
other 44s voters held themselves in re-
serve as dark horses.
The town Of Conconully, in the Okan-
ogan country, was almost totally de-
stroyed by cloudburst last week. Con-
conully was built in a canyon and the
food was within a half-mi of the town
when it was first discovered. All es-
capped to the hills excepting A. Spencer,
who was swept into the lake, where he
was rescued, and A. w. Tullock, who
was carried down stream 200 yards and
landed in log jam, from which he man
aged to escape alive. All the houses be-
low the concentrator, miles above the
town, were lost, including those Of A. J.
Dictator, w. NJ. Suffelt, II. A. Harris,
Mollie Hicks, II. Quickly, DIR. Z. p.
House, w. S. Hall and many more resi-
dences; also these business houses John
Proestel, grain; G. w. Moore, meat; H.
A. Harris, blacksmith; d. +. Wilson,
merchandise; N. Hunter & Co., mer-
chandise; G. F. Ham, hardware; II. w.
Thompson, the Outlook, and A. w. Tul-
lock, drugs,
Speculation about the Seattle Post
Inteuigencer is put to rest by the an
nouncement by that paper that it has
passed from the hands OF Leigh s. ].
Hunt into those OF George II. Heilbron,
Iamaa ID Hodna liz and Erad L l1rant