Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-10-25

600.
l.. w. Hills dwelling at Puyallup,
was destroyed by fire Monday night.
Loss 81 800 besides furniture. Insur-
ance 81 goo.
The residence of Dave Ellison at
New Kamilchie was burned to the
ground last week. The loss was partly
covered by insurance.
The Champion newspaper plant of
Whatcom was bid in at foreclosure
sale Saturday by the MORTGAGE, Mrs.
Wellmarth, of Fairhaven, for 5000.
Sixty-two bales of hops were shipped
East from Puyallup last week. The
hop market at Puyallup is dull, and
buyers are Offering from to 6 cents.
Centralia is to have glove factory.
The product is to be made from buck
skin of native deer and the gloves will
be for men engaged in logging camps.
The School Superintendent of Lin
coin county has apportioned among
the school districts 81 ,59375. This is
S3 60 a teacher and 33 l-3 cents for
each pupil.
w. b. Allen, ex-President of the
Bank OF Tacoma, has been placed be-
hind the bars for contempt of court in
failing to produce the books of that in
stitution On order of court.
r. J. Welsh, 80 years old, dropped
dead while walking in the street at
Tacoma Wednesday morning. 1t is
supposed heart disease was the cause.
He had son in South Dakota, aud d
daughter in st. Paul, both well-to-do.
the jury in the Straub murder trial
at Friday Harbor brought in a ver-
dict of murder i'll the first degree last
Sunday morning. Straub evinced no
emotion when the verdict WAS an
nounced. A motion for new trial
WAS argued Monday.
The farmers in the nor theastern
part of Whatcom county have formed
stockmen's protective association.
They believe there is an organized
band of thieves operating in conjunc-
ton with butchers at a distance, and
they are in frame of mind to try and
put an end to the thievery by drastic
measures.
The Walla Walla Union says that
while Mr.. Green's house, that recently
burned, was all in blaze cat came
running out from under the doomed
structure, and she was Il sirged cat
sure enough. She rushed on about 50
yards, and then suddenly turned, and
undaunted, rushed right into the
flames again, where she roasted IL
death in sight of the fire department.
An order for q ship-load OF spars il
being furnished by Sol Simpson, and
some by Mason County Logging Co
They go from here to Port Blakely
and will then be towed to Tacoma
where they will be loaded on a ship
which will also take on a deck-load o.
lumber. Part of the spars go to Bos
ton and part to New York. The or
der consists of over 400 pieces
Shelton Tribune.
Quite a stir has been Occasione,
, recently by the arrest OF a number O
persons living in the mountains cas-
of Garfield, charged with cutting tim
Der from the government lands. TIL
trouble arises in connection with tb
ties cut there last spring and summer
and between the parties interested an
those wanted as witnesses, that regio
bids fair to be nearly depopulate
whenever the cases are tried at Moscow
2 The site for the army post in Spokan
D consists of I,025 and a fraction acre'
t 1t has about three miles and half {
river front, and the distance betwee
the two extreme points is five mile
/ There are $50 acres Of contiguous Ian
as level as parlor floor, making
;. parade ground large enough for the Ell
q tire army of the United States
!. maneuver upon. In addition to tn
:. there are 300 acres of fairly level lane
. and 300 acres too much broken &c
ordinary drill practice, but which ca
be utilized for long-range taret
. practice.
A horrible suicide occurred at Ne
Whatcom about 4 o'clock last Satu
day afternoon. Peter Carlson.
Swede laborer, about % years of ag
blew his head off in a vacant lot clos
to the principal business streets OF ii
city 10y discharging about half site
of dynamite in his mouth. His brair
and fragments OF his head were sea
tered over hundred feet. BesiG
him lay about half bottle of whiske
and newspaper upon which he Ina
written that he had pain i'll his lie
side, was tired of life and wishe
everybody happiness. As far as know
he had no relatives in this country.
In the Superior Court at Chehali
Tuesday morning, Joe Heitstuman
or Heisdaum was sentenced to
years in the penitentiary for assaultir