Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-05

In n Sprague court, Sheriff De
| Rackin was ordered before Judge
Mount to show cause why he did not
deliver to the publisher of the Sprague
Herald eight notices of sheriti's sale
as ordered by Attorney Hilgard, oil
Spokane. After listening to the testi.
mony, offered by f. NJ. Winship, pub
Usher of the Herald, and Sheriff De.
Rackin, the court made an order that
the legal notices in ques ton should be
handed forthwith to the Herald
The Ellensbnrgh papers say thai
potatoes are moving pretty lively to-
ward the Eastern markets. The
Northern Pacific has orders Tor &C
more cars than are available for ship
ping potatoes. Manager Shinn, of
Snake river, recently received orders
for 10 carloads of potatoes. He is to
receive the pay for them as soon as
they are loaded on the cars He pays
% cents a hundred for them. Mr..
Shinn will buy all the potatoes offered
until lie gets the 10 cars loaded. Some
of the farmers are hauling them 20
miles.
The Holland colony, which asbeen
making arrangements to settle on the
Sound. has purchased GAO acres OF
land from U. Stinson. The purchase
was made by S. Ellens, OF Seattle, and
the land is the fertile marsh between
French slough and the Snohomish
river. The Hollanders are negotiating
for another piece of property, and are
planning to go into the butter-making
business on large scale. Some oil
the colOnists are on their way from
the old country, and others will follow
when they receive the cablegram say.
ing that the land has been purchase.
Professor Spillman gave the result.
of feeding wheat to hogs at the Pull
man Agricultural College. recently
With chopped wheat. an increase o
II pounds was made for each bushel
for each bushel fed, until the animal,
weighed about 200 pounds each, aftel
which the increase was not so great
Whole wheat produced about two
pounds less per bushel, while wheat
fed in the sheaf was almost entirely
wasted. He did not advise any on,
to 60 into hog.raising extensively, bu
he advised each farmer to raise few
Hi. remedy for weeds, as we'll as every
other evil to which the soil is heir, j.
rotation of crops. That of itself com
pels mixed farming.
Manager Chase, of the North Pacific
Fish Company, gives the Seattle Post
Mtelligencer this tish-stOry: Iester-
day morning, when he entered the
tish-hOuse, he heard a Tustling in &
box of CLANS. Investigating he found
that q monster rat had invaded the
box and large clam had shut down
on its tail. Mr.. Chase carried the
clam and rat away for exhibition pur.
poses, but the rats tail was severed
by the jaws of the clam and the rodent
escaped. Returning. Mr.. Chase found
another rat had gone into the box and
another clam had shut on its fore foot
Mr.. Chase wanted to put the pair on
exhibition in Chilberg's window, but
Mr.. Chilberg objected. The rat Was
accordingly killed and the clam pried
loose.
A $500 span of horses belonging to
Mr.. G. b. Durbin met death last Tues
day in very singular manner, says
the Antelope Herald. Charley and
George Dodd were up on the plateau,
about two miles southwest of the
Meadow Lawn farm, cutting down
juniper trees, hauling them to the
edge OF the steep bank and dumping
them over, so that the wood could be
procured from the canyon beneath.
In hauling n large tree up to the
dumping place the team got a little
too close to the edge, and over went
horses, tree and all, over precipice
nearly 300 feet in height. When the