Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-05-25
STATE NEWS.

/ North Yakima works its Indian
prisoners on the streets.
Spokane will observe Decoration
Day by 10-mile bicycle race.
subscriptions are being made at
Starbuck to build public hall.
Yakima county will ship 100000
pounds of wool from Prosser this year.
Tho school for defective youth at
Vancouver, Wash, contains lO5 pupils.
Mr.. Blandford is to deliver the an
nual address at the Pullman College
commencement.
All the Ellensburgh public school
teachers but one have been subjected
to horizontal reduction in salaries of
s. per month each.
Pretty good cayuse ponies change
hands at Ellensburg at an average
price of So.
Puyallup will save about $500 a
year by recent reductions in teachers
salaries.
A sailor, name unknown, fell from
the yard of the Lilliboon last Friday at
Westport and was drowned.
The mill at Geneva has cut $4,000
slaves for the New Whatcom water
work, this being only half the contract.
An artesian we'll at Hoquiam is
down 142 feet with a fair supply of
water, but not enough. Boring will
be resumed.
The railroad iron that was recovered
from the wreck of the Abercorn is be.
ing shipped from Cosmopolis to Port
land, to be used by the Terminal Com
pany.
A number OF people in Hoquiam are
anxious to learn the whereabouts of
George kinsey. He suddenly left that
town last Friday evening, leaving
many bills unpaid.
Ross Chesney, 17-year-old student
of the Puget Sound university, while
riding a bicycle in Tacoma. Saturday,
ran into post, the collision almost
breaking his neck and injuring him
internally.
Near Endicott Sunday the 15.year-
old son of President Moore, while rid
ing fractions horse, was thrown. He
was riding in saddle with his feet in
long stirrup feathers. One foot caught
and the boy was dragged to death.
A floating body, supposed to be that
of ID. Scheidelman, Of Seattle, was
found near North Yakima, Sunday.
On the corpse was found $50 in money,
gold watch and conductors pin.
He was probably drowned while ford.
ing.
B. B. Fowle, Of Anacortes, is in
receipt Of letter from his brother at
Fargo, N. d.. saying that the Northern
Pacific let contract for the erection
of large warehouses, one Of the condi-
tons of the contract being that only
Washington fir was to he used in the
construction of the buildings.
Chehalis county, having exceeded
the limit of legal indebtedness, is IN
able to hold terms OF court or issue any
warrants for current expenses, except
those on a contingent fund created on
the supposition OF payment of 1891
taxes and those for previous years.
AS those taxes are paid these warrants
are called in.
An old squaw, Familiarity known as
"Old Lucy" was found dead in her
squalid hut at Columbus on the morn
ing of May 8. Lucy was one of the
Modoc tribe and has lived with the
people of Columbus for many years.
She has had two white husbands, and
once or twice has narrowly escaped
being murdered by Infatuated or
drunken Indians. She must have
been very old. but no definite idea of
her age could be derived. Her first
husband was. y Modoc chief who
"memaleused" half century ago.
John C. Browner, a well-known
millwright and mining carpenter, was
found hanging in an empty ore bin
at Monte Cristo, early Thursday morn
ing Of last week. He had arrived the
previous day from Seattle. He has
relatives at Walls Walla and Weston,
Or. There was no cause for the sui
eide. His tools were ready for work,
and he had regular situation in view,
and there was $500 on his person,
when found. The deceased was head.
man OF the Savage mine, and men,
Der of the Legislature from Lincoln
county, Nevada, in the session of 1877.
Two hundred barrels of tannin ex-
tract were shipped last week from
South Bend to so around Cape Horn
and across the Atlantic to Hamburg.
This consignment is the result of
sample sent six months ago to Ger
many to be tested. The results ob.
tanned were highly satisfactory as the
order above described shows. A small
order has also been received from
Toxic, Japan. for some ground bark
and extract. The Japs have started
tannery in that city, and tannin
material is scarce in Japan. The con.
signment was sent to Tacoma and will
60 to Japan by the Northern Pacific
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