Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-10-18

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lail. Deputy sheriff Paulhamus found
several steel SAWS, new file and u
handkerchief tied around stone
making dangerous >ling-,hot.
TIE IrcuLc ". :. Ladd il taking
ont the bar near Martins bluff and
,d-pu>!tlng the mud Just above ka-
ana. The kalama Buiictiu says the
City Marshal should put a stop to
this
Charlie Taylor, a l3-year-old boy,
while hunting on the Ncwaukum river
last week, accidentally shot his arm
almost to pieces. After the accident
he walked home, two miles, carrying
the gun.
An ordinance was introduced in the
Montesano Council last Tuesday even
ing reducing the salary OF the City
! Marshal to 81 month. The night
watchman's salary was placed at $33
month.
The Champion newspaper plant at
New Whatcom has been taken posses
sion of by the sheriff, under chattel
mortgage. The Champion was the
organ of the Populist party OF What
com county.
Morris & Whitehead, the Portland
bankers, who purchased the $4,000
bonds issued by the Ballard school dis
trict to fund its floating debt, have
rejected the issue on the ground OF ir-
regular proceedings by the school
board.
The $4,000 bond required by the
State Supreme court in granting an
appeal to the United States Supreme
court in the case of exCity Treasurer
krug, of Seattle, has been submitted
to the prosecuting attorney OF King
county.
Mrs. Esther w. Livesly, who re-
Gently died at North Yakima, was IS
years old. Her brother was one OF
the officers in Lord Nelson's famous
fleet to which Napoleon surrendered,
and which carried the latter to st.
Helena.
Bella Smith was given a verdict
against Spokane city by a jury last
Saturday for $4,000 damages. The
plaintiff slipped and fell on sidewalk
last winter, when the sidewalk was
covered with ice, and by the fall her
leg was fractured.
Auditor Taylor, OF Spokane county,
has completed arrangements whereby
the Traders Exchange bank, of Spo-
kane, will take the entire issue Of Spo-
kane county salary warrants at par
Spokane county warrants are now sell
ing for 90 and 80 cents.
Philip II. Kohler and Thomas II
Elliott, who are believed to be about
the last of the famous Rock Creek
gang of cattle-thieves, will be tried in
Spokane county. Only their convic-
ton in that county will prevent their
being tried in Whitman.
A representative of the Northern
Pacific railroad has served notice on
those who have buildings ON enclos
ures or land that the company claims
inside OF the 2OO-foot strip at Chehalis
and suit is being instituted by the
company to settle the title.
David Levin was appointed receiver
last Monday OF the firm Of NJ. Cohn &
Co., OF Tacoma. 1t is estimated that
the outstanding liabilities of the firm
in addition to the amount covered 10y
chattel mortgages, will amount t
! $4,000. No estimate is made of tn,
: assets.
: The crop OF broom corn in the vi
cinity OF Sunnyside, Yakima county
is being harvested and will soon b
= ready for market. The yield has beel
fairly large, and as usual, will probs
bly, prove profitable to growers. VIII
. are shipping to Spokane and Portlan
this season.
Seward Day, of Wilbur, the Registe
says, was carelessly hammering a
h ordinary looking pieces of basalt roc
y q few day since, when it suddenly
Il parted into several pieces, exposing
k beautiful opal stone over a quarter {
q an inch in dinmeter. Only a small
. piece of the opal was saved, as he ha
no idea what it was.
The Castle Rock schools opene
Monday morning with an enrollmer
of 1873 pupils. This number will b
materially incr eased during the ne,
two weeks. 1t is expected that by til
+ middle of October 200 or more will |
r enrolled. Quite q large number al
+ yet in the hop fields, who will retur
d" in time to enter school next Monday
nc. Colver, the grainbuyer of Ar
Il acortes, says the present crop OF oa'
is the largest ever known in til
Skagit country; that is, the countr
from Edison south to Stanwood wi
yield 100000 sacks. The weight
% greater than usual also. Some of TIL
/ fields have produced enormously; a
occasional few acres running as hig
AS 140 bushels to the acre.
u Among the exhibits at the Ne
Ii Whatcom Fair was cabbage weigl
=. ing sixty pounds. From point