Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-01-26

last month
Vt Spokane. Judge Buck has sus-
tanned the demurrer III the case of the
First National hank against \. NJ.
Cannon. The action WAS based on a
personal obligation of \. NJ. Cannon tu
the Palouse bank for $4,000. The
effect of the decision is that no suit
can be maintained against \. VI.
Cannon for any community debt while
the estate l. IN the hands of the
executors under process of admini>tra-
ton.
\. F. Moore, engineer on the work
train between Tacoma and Portland,
was killed, Saturday, evening, near
Chehalis. The train ran full speed
into a landslide. overturning the
engine and cushing the engineer
beneath it. Tie fireman escaped by
jumping. Nom OF the rest of the
trains crew we're injured, although
several cars were badly smashed. Mr..
Moore leaves awife, who resides at
Tacoma.
\ farmer living near Harrington,
Lincoln county, helped steal his own
pig the other night. He was awak-
ened from his seep and asked by two
men to assist item in loading a hog
which had tumHed out of the crate in
their wagon. He willingly gave a
helping hand, and returned to quiet
slumber. The next morning he went
out to feet his lorker, but there was
no porker to fed. 1t then dawned
upon him that lie had helped load his
own hog into the wagon the night be-
fore.
Billy Fay, the gambler who shot and
killed Jack Detnore in Spokane, early
in June, 1892, in self-defense, went
through the Haymarket theater, Butte,
the other night carrying two 44-caliber
Colts revOlyers, and threatening to
kill Frank Donghcrty. The crowd in
the theater fled, but Dougherty could
not be found and Fay was arrested.
Doughe-ty is also we'll known in Spo-
kane. Say claims Dougherty threat
ened tC kill him, and he "loaded mp"
with whisky and started out to get
first shot.
There is pretty row at Walla
Walla over the proposed construction
of IA water works system. The council
has ISSUED an advertisement asking for
bids 70, $3.50 600 bonds, to be used in
the construction. The paper contain
ing the advertisement contains also
one from the water company announc-
ing its Intention to contest and prevent
the Issue of the bonds. In addition to
this advertisement the water company
has employed a Spokane law firm to
take such legal proceedings as are
necessary to prevent the issue.
At the three-price charge made by
the Ledger for the Tacoma city print
ing, it will cost this year over 5000
to advertise the delinquent tax list
The list covers III bolumns, and in
cludes about 2,340 inches, which at
so cents per inch for the first inser-
ton amounts to $2,106. Each subse-
quent insertion at so cents per inch
costs 81, S72. The list will be published
three times. Exorbitant charges of
this kind cause taxpayers to ridicule
any movement to curtail expenses
when advocated from any source now
interested in fleeing the city.
The schooner Norway, en- route from
Tacoma for San Quinten, Mexico, was
wrecked in the straits by collision
with the schooner Fannie Dutard, dur
ing o violent storm on the night OF
the 1lth inst. The Dutard was en-
route for Nanimo, and very little in
jured by the encounter. The Norway
had on board 100000 feet of lumber,
valued at $4,000, fully injured.
The vessel was valued at $4,000, and
insured for $4,000. She was COM
manded by Capt. Carlyon who, with
his wife and crew, took to the boats
and reached East Clallam after an
hours hard pull.
"Tommy" Anderson, noted
character in early days on Puget
Sound and for twenty years a resident
of Seattle. was burned to death on the
night of the 10th, in fire at the head
OF the bay, which also destroyed his
home. The origin OF the fire is I'M
known, but it is supposed to have
caught from the sparks of Anderson's
pipe rs he lay in bed smoking. 1t il
said that the old man was under the
influence OF liquor, and this probably
accounts for his inability to escape
from the flames. A large Newfound-
land dog, which was chained near the
house at his kennel, shared the same
fate as his master. Anderson was
never married and, as far as known
has no relatives in this country.
Charles NJ. Fox, of Seattle, was in
st. Louis the other day, and in dis
cussion at the Lindell hotel lac took
occasion to uphold the Evergreen
State. Niagara Falls" he said, care
not going to have monopoly in the
way of wholesale power creating.
There is proposition we'll under way
in our part of the country to make
use of the Snoqualmie Falls for gener-
ating electric power. These falls are
within 20 miles of Seattle, and al
though they are not of the Niagara
order they may be regarded as phe-
nomenal in any country but this. Ex-
perts have decided that from 10000 to
5000 horse power can be obtained
from the falls easily, and this would
be ample to run the street railroad
and electric lighting plants at Seattle
and of other smaller towns, besides
leaving a surplus to be rented out for
manufacturing purposes"
These estimates shows that Gray's
harbor cut 65,925,170 feet, or q
monthly cut of 100000 feet, and the
monthly cut of the Puget Sound mills
was 100000 feet; or, in other words,
Gray's harbor, with its so miles Of
shore line. cut nearly one-third as
much rs Puget Sound, with its 1900
miles of shore line. This is accounted
for in part by the fact that one-fourth
of the standing timber Of the entire
State is directly tributary to Gray's
harbor. According to the Puget
Sound Lumberman the total standing
timber in the state is 4l0,00O,0O0,OOO
feet, OF which Chehalis county is
credited with 39,O0O,O00,OOO, the
largest amount of any county in the
state. Jefferson comes next with
nearly 32,0O0,OO0,00O, and Lewis has
10000 100000, nearly all tributary to
Gray's harbor. Portions of Mason,
Thurston and Pacific, with 33,OOO,OOO,-
600. are also tributary, and more than
make up for the small portion of JEFF.
ferson which is tributary to the Sound.