Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01

Wateryille land office, has gone to
farming near Larene, Lincoln county.
One OF his fads is broomcorn. He has
planted five acres Of it, and has a
Recommending plant he will use TO
make the product marketable.
/ Young Tucker, who shot and killed
Wash Wear near Oakesdale. was
given preliminary examination be-
fore a justice OF the peace and dis
I charged from custody, as the evidence
Of witnesses of the tragedy was that he
acted in self-defense.
Spokane's home industry crusade
numbers among its triumphs this
That the State roofing for its new
courthouse will come from quarries
near by, being just across the Stevens
county line. The sum of $4,000 will
thus be spent at home.
In order to give more time for
thorough organization, the conven-
ton of the State Taxpayers League at
Yakima has been postponed from
June . to June 80 A round-trip rate
of one and one-fifth single fare has
been made by the railroads.
A Shaker camp meeting has just
been brought to close on North beach,
Gray's harbor, at which nearly all the
Indians Whereabouts were converted
The church took in Is from the
Quinault agency, IA from the Humptu-
lips, and 8 from the Oyehut.
1t is reported that the Canadian
Pacific will again utilize steamer lines
on the Sound in the near future. The
Sehome and North Pacific will, it is
said, cover the Seattle-Port Townsend,
Whatcom route. This will give Port
Townsend another steamer line.
Professor James Gammage, OF
Hoquiam, has q genuine George
Gemunder violin, which cost small
fortune. 1t was built from Stradi-
varus pattern, and there are only three
more of the same make in existence
that are for sale, and they are held at
startling figures.
John Hudson, a South Bend
taxidermist, intends shortly to enter
upon the very Odorous job OF cleaning
and mounting the bones of the whales
recently stranded on the beach near
Tokes point and on the ocean beach.
lie thinks he can sell them to ad-
vantage to some museum.
Representatives OF the United States
coast geodetic survey are at work es-
tablishing the exact longitude of Ia.
coma. Obervations will be taken of
passing stars every night for three
weeks and by telegraph with Seattle,
whose longitude is established, the
desired end will be accomplished.
Experiments will soon be common
ced on the lands OF the Pro.ser Falls
Irrigation Company, with the canaigre
plant, with view to the establshmen mt
OF a tannin extract mandatory at
Prosser. The plant has been found
wild on some Of the bottoms situated
on the Indian reservation, which leads
to the conclusion that the industry
will thrive.
Mrs. Helen Grier and her son, David
Minor, are in Jail at Spokane charged
with poisoning James Grier, the hus.
band and stepfather. When Grier
died nothing unusual was suspected.
Afterward it was noised about that
this was the woman's sixth husband,
and that all was not right. The body
was exhumed and poison was found in
the stomach.
e. L. Curtis started down the Cow
litz from Toledo on raft Sunday, in
tending to 60 to Castle Rock. He has
undoubtedly persisted in the rapids.
Curtis was an old resident and
thoroughly familiar with the country
and the river. His home is at La
Camas, but his family, consisting of a
wife and one child, are supposed to be
visiting sister somewhere in Oregon.
Owing to copious rains of the past
week, the crop outlook of Okanogan
county is excellent, although some of
the more delicate fruit blossoms were
injured by frosts occurring earlier In
the month. Nearly all the crops are
planted and the increase OF acreage
has been about % per cent. over last
year. Several hop yards have been
set out, and yards started last year
have vines up the poles 10 or u feet.
Isaac Walk, an old settler of Gar.
field county. was found dead in his
house in Meadow gulch. The cause
OF his death was strychnine poisoning.
He had strychnine on his premises,
and had been poisoning squirrels.
When his body was found cup con-
tanning some of the poison and bottle
OF liquor were found on his table. It's
impossible TO ascertain whether the
poisoning was accidental or otherwise.
The sale of big tract of timber land
in Chehalis county has recently been
consummated, involving large sum
OF money in the transfer. The tract
consists of about 1900 acres in the
Humptulips country. 1t was sold by
ID. A. Blodget to Friedrich Nehf and
John W. Prestel, of Michigan. The
price paid, according to the deed on
file in the auditors office, was $50 600
and other valuable considerations.
The same property was sold about two
years age for $4,000.
B. A. Knapp was arrested at Seattle
Tuesday under nine indictments by the
Spokane grand jury. Knapp was for
merly trusted employe in the County
Treasurer's Office. He grew dissipated,
was discharged, and then elOped with
Miss Ollie Muson, the woman who
tried to kill herself at Seattle recently.
Some weeks ago number of forged
school warrants turned up at the
Treasurer's Office for payment. Inves-
tigation showed that they had been
sold late in 1898, and that Knapp had
identified an unknown man as the
person named in the warrants. So
far, $500 of these bogus warrants
have turned up.