Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-13

Nlnc"d that Western aShingtOn can
grow excellent tobacco.
\ Jury was drawn in the Spokan,
superior Court Dccembrr "a and tn,
names O: the Jurors kept secret. Now
the attorneys have discovered the fact
and are much worked up, claiming
that secrecy l. contrary to the law.
1t is stated that the farmers in and
around Leham. in the Nillapa valley,
are ahuu, 10 form a stock company
To purchase the creamery building and
equipments put III there last summer
To prevent the plant being moved
away.
Eugene France returned to Aber-
deem last week, from a trip to the
woods, in Il badly dilapidatcd con-
d:tion. While walking log he slipped
and irll. striking his head, cutting his
face badly, breaking rib and hurting
his leg.
Two miles Of railroad iron that was
used III the Centralia street-car line
system, has been unloaded at Aberdeen,
and will he used toy Alexander Poison,
who hodght it for Use on logging
road which he will build on the
iloIuiam.
George III. Emerson, manager of the
Northwestern Lumber Company, has
been advised by Senator Wilson that
Congress has been asked for Il 81 ,000,-
OOO appropriation for improvements
on the Gray's harbor bar, and for no.
600 for harbor imprc vements.
Sturgeon fishing is now taking the
place OF salmon fishing on the Upper
Columbia and Snake rivers for n few
months. Nets will be used more than
ever this year. The nets run from GOO
to 800 feet in length, and the meshes
vary in size from II to - inches.
The general land Office has notified
the Yakima office to reopen for trial
the contest case of Baxter VS.. Mclean,
involving $40 acres on the Columbia
river i'll Yakima county. The case
has already been tried three times,
but seems no nearer a conclusion than
before.
The City Council of Fairhaven has
received an oiler to square up ac-
counts in full from ex-Marshal Parker,
who defaulted some years ago for a
large amount and went to Bueno.
Ayres. He offers to pay $4,000 and
the Council is inclined to regard the
proposition favorably.
The Rev. Sutton has challenged
Patrick Henry Winston to a public
debate over the question of Catholic
loyalty to the United States, Sutton
taking the negative side. He proha-
bly, will not stipulate that the debate
shall be held either in South Bend
or Oysterville, says the Willapa
Pilot.
At Vancouver yesterday two in
toxicated soldiers went TO the gov
eminent wharf, and one of them,
Private Scaldenbrand, Company Z,
Fourteenth Infantry, deliberately
jumped into the Columbia river and
was drowned before assistance could
reach him. His body has not beeh
recovered.
The big barn on the Chehalis In
dian reservation, near Gate City, was
totally destroyed by fire q few days
ago. All the stock and contents of
the barn. consisting ten cows, five
horses, 40 tons OF hay and number
of farm implements were total loss.
The fire is supposed to have origi-
mated from an incendiary.
Montesano has been without a Jail
for about three years, and the hoodlum
element has had its way about long
enough, so thinks the City Council.
At the meeting of the Council, Tues
day night, the Street Committee was
instructed to procure lumber with
which to build Jail. The old Jail
was saturated with coal oil and burned
by an incendiary.
Erskine Laraway, father OF Post
master Laraway, of Centralia, died
Wednesday of nervous prostration.
He was a native of Peattsville, Green
county. N. V, and was IS years of
age. He had resided here since 1889,
and was at one time the head of the
firm of James Laraway & Stocking,
general merchandise, which did large
business in that city.
Glen Roundtree and Alice NJ. Mil
Ter, supposed to he cousins, were mar
ricd at sea Wednesday on the tug
Traveller, out from Hoquiam. They
gave their home as Boisfort. Lewis
county, and have complied with the
laws of this State. The ceremony was
performed by Capt J. C. Reed, of the
tug, and Capt. G. b. Hughes, of the
schooner; J. NJ. Weatherwax, acted as
best man.
Sturgeon. fishing is now taking the
place of salmon-iishing in Gray's
Iarbor, and there is every prospect
of a large number of men engaging in
the work. Heretofore the fishermen
have not been inclined to pay much
attention to sturgeon.fshing, owing
to the irregularity of the demand, but
now there is steady demand, and
good prices paid for these fish, and
fair to middling wages can be made
in the fishing.
The creditors of the Bennett Ma
tional bank at Whatcom are being
asked to sign an agreement to accept
the amount OF their claims in INSTALL
ments running over period of three
years, 20 per cent. at the time of re-
opening and II! per cent. each six
months hereafter until paid. If ex-
tensions covering 80 per cent. of the
deposits can be obtained it is said that
the bank will be reopened within two
weeks thereafter.
Tom Jesus, mate of the bark Spo-
kane, which arrived at Port Townsend,
Monday, from Honolulu, met with an
accident that afternoon which will
doubtless result in death. He was
climbing the rigging when the ropes
broke, letting him fall to the deck,
distance of thirty feet. He struck on
his head and broke his Uranium, ex-