Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-02-22
WHOLE NUMBER 1892.

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mill two miles east OF Machias, ant
the S. L. S. & E. road will run a spu1
to the mill. Fir, cedar, spruce ant
hemlock will be cut.
Two carloads of Hollanders will
soon arrive on the Sound from Michi
gan and settle on WILDLY Island
where $4,000 acres have been pur
chased for the colony.
The Port Townsend Chamber oil
Commerce has sent letter to Repre-
sentative Doolittle soliciting his aid in
an effort to have the military barracks,
recently burned, rebuilt.
Joseph NJ. Pfahl, a rancher living
on Wolf Island, Lake Washington,
was drowned in the lake Friday night,
while returning home from Seattle
under the influence OF liquor.
Gus Smith, of North Yakima, was
sentenced to 60 days in the county
Jail for cruelty to his two little
daughters and bestial practices. The
children were taken away from him.
William Mclaughlin, a rancher
leading solitary life near South Bend,
was found sick and helpless and near.
ly starved. He was taken to South
Bend for treatment, but died Monday
last.
Two Hoquiam druggists were ar
rested Friday for selling liquor with
out license. Que of them pleaded
guilty and paid fine, and the other
decided to take his chances with the
grand jury.
There is great alarm along the
Idaho border, about disease resemb-
ling blsckleg that had broken out
among the cattle near Latah, Idaho.
A Spokane veterinarian has gone to
investigate the matter.
Albert Sherman, who opened the
first loan Office at Fairhaven. was q
member OF the Legislature in 1898,
and became City Attorney, resigning
last year because of i'll health, died at
Ashtabula. Ohio, last week.
Thankful Hosford, living near Hat
ten, Adams county, and 81 years of
age, made final proof on her home
stead last week. Her memory is un-
impaired and she testified to every date
connected with her proof without
memorandum. .-.....
Mrs. J. NJ. Robinson, of La Center,
placed some wood in the oven to dry
and when she opened the door 10 zee
now it was getting along. it burst into
flames and set her clothing afire. She
was badly burned before her husband
could extinguish the blaze.
Two of Spokane's colored popula.
ton had duel with rocks in an alley
before large crowd Of bowling spec
tators. The one who was hit in the
head drove the one whose shins suf-
fered off the field, and was himself led
of, though an exultant victor, BY . DO
liceman.
Landlord Price, At Newberg, would
like to know something of the where
abouts of the stranger Stevens, who
was in town last week claiming to
have the ready cash with which TO buy
Just such tract Of land as he wanted.
Just enough 10 settle his board bill
will satisfy Mr.. Price.
The Commissioners of Clallam
county have employed an expert at
$SOO to examine defaulting Treasurer
Clumps accounts, and an attorney at
$l,5OO to settle with his bondholders.
An injunction will be a.ked by citi-
zens who do not think it good busi-
ness to pay $500 to recover $1,000,
the amount of the shortage.
Samuel Kenny, one of the Oldest
and most highly respected citizens of
Seattle, died in that city Wednesday,
aged IS years. He was born In Ire.
land in 1929, came to New York in
1851, to California in 1854. and to Sc.
attle in 1868. He Was . large real
estate holder and mine owner.
The Hoquiam fire company met
last week and smashed the old or.
ganization and began q new one. The
officers were elected for . period of 80
days, or until the new organization
gets on its feet. They were ~ follows
H. M. Cochran, chief; G. Bsall, presi.
dent; A. Bruce, treasurer; I. W.
Fritzinger, secretary.
A South Bend paper says: "The
peninsula's new railroad scheme has
fallen through. The Oregon Railway
& Navigation Company wanted q sub.
sidy of $4,000, terminal grounds
rightof-way, etc. The peninsula peo-
pie will give no such subsidy as Ions
as the Ilwaco Railway & Navigation
service is as excellent and accommo
dating as at present"
Senator F. G. Deckebach SAYS h,
will shortly form a company to worl
the newly.patented machines built te
extract the gold from the black sand
on the Gray's harbor beach. The first
machine has worked to his satisfsc.
ton, separating the gold at an ex.
pense of Is to 20 cents per ton of sand
The sands contain from 25 cents "a
several dollars worth of gold per ton.
Hazel Flynn. the 5-year-old daug ghter
OF Thomas Flynn, of Ballard, died
on the 11th inst. from the effects OF
eating poisoned canned plums the pre-
vious day. Two children OF Mrs. Ray
and another one OF Flynn's children,
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