Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-12

Saving bank, and Leon Phipps, ex-as-
sistant manager, who were arrested
at Walla Walla last week for
forgery, subsequently furnished 1000
bonds each and were released. The
alleged forgery is supposed to be con-
nected with certain mortgages much
| has been said about.
In the case OF G. w. Hunt ct al,
claiming $I,OO0,OOO from the North
ern Pacific particulars of which are
familiar to the public, Judge Hanford,
of Seattle, has appointed Mr.. Yelling
ton Clark to take testimony at Walla
Walla. The defendant was allowed
four months to reply to such testimony,
and the plaintiff two additional months
thereafter to answer.
About 100 meu are now employed
OH the Congdon ditch, Yakima county,
and the earth is being thrown up in a
lively manner. A quarter OF a million
feet OF fine lumber has been received
for the fumes and trestles, and Alfred
). Congdon, OF St. Paul, is superintend-
ing the work. If there are no unlock
editor delays the ditch will be COM
pleted by the LIST of December.
Mrs. Oliver Wsrmoth is reported by
the Colfax Gazette to have caught a
trout in the North Palouse
river that measured 81 inches in length
and weighed pounds. The big fish
broke the line. but Mrs. Warmoth
pluckily waded into the water and
rescued the line, the corks on which
kept afoat, and succeeded in landing
the finest trout caught there for several
years.
Charles o. Parsons, a mining en-
gineer OF international reputation, died
at a Spokane, hospital, Friday OF
typhoid fever. He was consulting en-.
gineer OF the Boston & Montana
Smelling Company at Great Falls, and
constructed the works there. He rep
resented some of the heaviest copper
investors in the United States, and
had been operating in the West for
many years.
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last week with 243 cattle from the Nez
Perez reservation. Mr.. Kalouse says
that he was over large part of the
reserve, and finds greater portion OF
the tillable land taken by sauatters
holding it down until the opening Of
the reservation to settlement, and that
many others are living with the In.
dams, so as to be near the lands &C.
lected by them.
]. C. Mills has this season in the
Yakima valley $50 acres in potatoes,
and estimates that the yield will be
1875 carloads of 20 tons to the car.
He has contracted in st. Paul for the
sale Of the entire lot at figures that
will net him about $4,000. The freight
will be 60 cents per 100 pounds, and it
will cost him 81 600 for hauling them
to the depot. He is gathering the
crop with new potato digger, that
cleans up five acres day.
Louis Corbeille and F. X. Cote, OF
Everett, have patented q knot saw
guard to protect the fingers of knot
sawyers. The guard is attached to the
under side of the receiving table, which
is over the knot saw. This guard is
made of steel, and comes down over
the circulur saw within five-eighths Of
an inch OF the carriage. No matter
how hard the sawyer tries, he cannot
run his fingers against the saw. There
are two OF the guards in operation at
Halter City.
The theory that free gold quartz
does not exist on the Western slope OF
Cascades has been exploded by the dis
covery of the Leroy group of claims, a
short distance southwest of Monte
Cristo, says the Snohomish Eye. A
nugget valued at about IS cents was
picked out OF piece of the quartz.
The ledge is said to be mammoth
one, and is located at an elevation OF
over 5000 feet. 1t has been prospect.
ed with several tunnels, in all of which
the free gold quartz is shown.
Seventeen experienced smelter men
arrived in Spokane one day last week
and quitely betook themselves TO the
big smelter on the Spokane river, and
are now preparing q hugh furnance
for the reception of the raw ore. In
all 35 men are reported to be employ
ed about the plant. Engineer F. d.
Stanley has completed the location oil
the track centers for the new smelter
spur, and the setting of grade stakes
will begin at once. A number OF car
loads of rails are reported to have ar
rived. The examination Of the old
grade shows it TO be in good condition,
only needing slight repairs.
The Montesano Vidette says that
agents of an Eastern. syndicate are
negotiating for the purchase OF about
1900 acres of tide land on Gray's
harbor, from H. C. Cooper, and Glenn
and Frank Peterson. The above gen.
tlemen have put the price of the land
very low, SO that there is not much
doubt of sale. The purchasers will
divide the land into small tracks to
settle it with German families, who
will dyke the land and devote it to
gardening, raising cranberries, etc.
The late railroad strike stopped a
similar deal. Two hundred families
from Pennsylvania were on the way to
purchase land from Messrs. Peterson.
They were stopped at st. Paul, and To-
Gated in Minnesota.
Early this morning of the 9th the
body of James McCann was found
half submerged in slough opposite
Seahaven. He has been missing since
last Wednesday afternoon, when in an
intoxicated condition he set out from
South Bend to row to the Rose ranch,
three miles down the Willapa river,
where he was working the farm on
shares. He was found face downward
just as he had probably fallen in an
attempt to land from his boat. His
body had caught in the painter and
anchored the boat, which led to its dis.
covery. There was no signs of foul
play. He was about IS years old
He was q sailor in the United States
navy during the civil war, and a mem
Der OF the local Grand Army post, by
which he will be buried tomorrow.
| A dust explosion occurred in breast
35, of the fifth level east of the Oregon
improvement Company mine, at New
Castle, Wash, at 8 o'clock, last Friday
with the result that one miner is dead
and 10 severely burned, two probably
fatally. The explosion occurred at an
hour " len the second shift changed
for the third shift, and all the miners