Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-08

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| A vein of coal has been found nea
Wenatchee.
Dayton officials have broken up ;
Chinese opium Joint.
Another carload of apples has beer
shipped from Garfield.
Wheat in the Palouse country is re
ported in splendid condition.
Charles ID. Rakestraw, a special In
dian inspector, has spent week in
specting the Colville agency.
As soon as the weather is suitable
the prisoners in Spokane county jail
will be set to work on the roads.
Goldendale citizens have petitioned
the council for an S o'clock curfew
ordinance for children under 16 years
of age.
The LAWYERS OF Chehalis county,
after holding three meetings, have
abandoned the effort to organize bar
association.
NJ. b. Mercer, Mayor OF Wenatchee,
has resigned, and will remove to
North Yakima, where he has purchased
a drug store.
At fire drill in Seattle school,
600 children were marched out OF the
building within 30 seconds after the
alarm sounded.
Ballard will hold a special election
on the question OF levying a special
tax of 3 mills to keep the schools open
three months longer.
The Salvation Army treasury, of Sc
attic, was robbed last week of 1925.
The room was burglarized and every
thing turned topsy-turvy.
A subscription is being taken among
the sportsmen of Walla Walla for the
importation OF 400 pairs of bobwhite
quail to stock that section.
The residence of John Kelly, be-
tween Whatcom and Fairhaven, was
destroyed by fire last Tuesday night.
The loss was about 81 900.
A Tacoma firm is making large ship
ments of eggs to Montana. This is a
result of the Eastern billiards cutting
off the supply from that direction.
William Box, ST., Of Tacoma, died at
Port Townsend, Saturday. He was a
contractor, 64 years of age, and a
prominent Mason and Odd Fellow.
The 5000 rails at Cosmopolis, rescued
from the wreck OF the Abercorn, are
being put into marketable condition.
They are heated. scraped and dipped.
A little son Of Conrad Heimbiger,
who resides near Bickleton, fell into a
kettle of hot soft soap on the 18th
inst, and was so badly scalded that he
died next day.
The sternwheel steamer Florence
Henry, built for the Snohomish river
trade, has been sold by Shepherd
Henry & Co. to Mrs. Jennie E. Fair
bairn, of Everett.
The citizens OF Elberton have vol
unteered to do the grading and furnish
the ties for a sidetrack from the Ore
gon Railway & Navigation line to the
saw and -four mills of that place.
An Ilwaco young man undertook to
extract the powder from a cartridge
with match. 1t was flaring sue
cess and the powder was afterward.
extracted from his face with a needle.
George Mansfield and Girard Clark
two Colfax ranchers, after emptying .
shotgun, Winchester and six-shootel
at each over lieu land feud, will ap
pear before justice to settle the mat
ter OF which should be fined for as
sault.
The incorporation of the Waverl!
Beet Sugar Manufacturing Company
has been completed at Spokane by E
A. Morrison, Miles c. Moore, ant
George Turner. The stock is $500
600. The factory is to be located a
Waverly.
The affairs of the Aberdeen banl
are shaping themselves so that settle
ment will probably be had soon
Eugene France has been appointe
Joint receiver with ]. 2. Carson. TIL
business of the bank will now b
settled as rapidly as possible.
i Frank Bernard and young French
man were drowned in Snake rive
, near Denim Brothers ranch, Monda
, morning. They were crossing th
: river in a skiff, and had several shee
in the boat. The sheep becam
frightened and capsized the craft, a
the occupants being drowned. Be
rard's family resides at Walla Walla
, Olive Branch Rogerson, at Seattl
. is seeking a second divorce from Il
o same husband. The first was granite
because he broke her nose. After Il
> divorce, true to her name, she extende
, the peace offering, and married him
. second time, on the promise that
would not do so again. He kept h
q word and did not break her no
again. Instead, he blackened her ey
, knocked her down and stamped {
,f her. She now wants to take her 9th
r olive branch and go.
e Two hundred people at Whatco
t, assembled to hear a lecture by one
Vt those pedestrian, moneyless worl
n encirclers, on the subject OF his e
'. citing adventures. The jist of h
Y lecture, after the Mayors introdu
e ton of him, was that he had left En-
It land six months ago and had not IN
a with any incident worth mentionin
" These travelling bummers" shou
,e be introduced by the police to wo