Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-04
WHOLE NUMBER 1926.

by Captain Symons for the removal OF
the North river jam, and the contract
awarded to l. NJ. Kelly and NJ. C.
Rudder for $2,l75, or $2J less than the
amount available for the work. A
subsidy in logs will be contributed by
interested settlers.
The Everett Herald announces that
the Rockefeller interests will begin
operations to develop the Monte
Cristo camp on a large SCALE Hun
dreds of men will no doubt be given
employment as their plans materialize,
while the Everett smelter will receive
the product and increase its output.
The dwelling of Abe Drescher, at
Colfax, was burned to the ground
on Christmas eve while the Dres-
cher family was attending a Christ
mas festival. The loss on the
building and contents was about
1000. The house was insured for
$3.50, and the furniture for $500. The
cause of the fire ia unknown.
Ex-Mayor ]. C. Phelps, of Anacortes,
was arrested at Seattle last week on a
warrant sworn out by the Oregon I'm
provement Company, charging him
with emblezzlement. Phelps was the
company's agent at Anacortes, and
during the boom times was prominent
real estate operator. His alleged short
age amounts to less than 5000.
At Colfax, J. w. Rice, the man who
was convicted last. week OF assault
with intent to rob F. P. Dean, OF
Tekoa, was sentenced to a term of II
years in the Walla Walla penitentiary.
Rice is hard criminal. His real
name il Samuel Miles, and he is a
brother of the man Miles who was shot
some time since by Sheriff Pugh OF
Spokane county.
The bark Southern Chief from Ia.
coma for Adelaide, Australia, sue
cumbed to the fury OF the recent
storm. She went to pieces and was
abandoned ffty.two miles southwest
OF Cape Flattery. Her captain, w.
w. Plumb, and crew of fifteen per-
sons all told, were taken off the sink.
ing vessel by the bsrkentins Skagit
and brought to the Sound.
Ellensburgh can now draw her coal
supply from three sources, all of
which are located at no great distance
apart. The Cle-Elum mine is in the
town limits, and all three are in a
radius OF four miles, the deepest of
which is on the claim Of Judge Gamble
and is within the town limits of Gle
Elum, and is the best that has vet
been developed in the country.
Captain C. NJ. Maltby, of Whatcom
has received letter from prominent
scotsman and tobacco expert, stat
ing that his samples of tobacco are
very fine, and equal to any raised on
the coast. The captain himself has
no hesitancy in saying that the soil and
climate of the Nookssck valley are
more favorable to the growth of choice
tobacco than any other portion of the
country.
Charles England, OF Kelso, who is
running logging camp near Olequa,
has long chute, just one mile long,
and when log is placed in it at the
top of the mountain, it reaches the
bottom. plunging into the Olequa
creek, in just IA seconds. The chute
is q perfect one, MS there never has
been a case where one jumped the
chute. The water at the mouth OF
the chute is of sufficient depth that
the logs are not injured in striking the
bottom of the stream.
John Cyr, of Skamokawa, has ap.
piled for a patent for seagoing raft
in other words, a method of rafting
logs so they may be taken to San
Francisco from the Columbia river
and not meet the same fate as the
raft made up on the river last fall.
Mr.. Cyr's method Of fastening the log.
together excludes the possibility oI
any log working out, thereby weaken.
ing the raft. Those who have ex.
amined the model believe it would be
next to impossible for a raft 50 con.
structed to break to pieces.
L. T. Erwin, the Yakima Indian
agent, has just returned from a visit
to the Wenatchee Indians, for whom
$4,000 has been set apart by the
government. Erwin says: "With
scarcely anything to wear, with starva.
ton staring them in the face, and
with snow two feet deep, these In
dians refused to accept cent or give
ME single name SO that the new
lands could be allotted to them. The
money is ready for them, but they will
not take it, saying that, as they were
the original settlers, they want re-
served lands along the Wenatchee
; river, already settled by the whites
They are the most remarkable people
ever met"
The session of the State Teachers
Association, at Everett, have been
occupied with various discussions, and
the attendance was good in all the de
+, partments. Between the sessions the
visitors inspected the noted industrie.
{ of the city. A large assemblage
} listened to the lecture by c.. w
, Bean, State Superintendent oI
. Public Instruction, on the subject
, "The Teacher as a Citizen" After
the lecture brilliant raoan,;o,, ,,.s