The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-08-01
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS
News and Comment From Adjoining
Counties and the State at Large.
JUDGE CATION ALASKES GOVERNOR
short Sketches of Suicides and MUIR
ders Which Have startled the
Evergreen state During the Past
Week.

The Ellensburg Butter and Cheese
company, with a capitalization of $l0,-
900. has been incorporated by J.B.
Schultz, J. G. Fritch, G. Watts and Fl.
d. Brothers.
A prisoner in the county Jail at What
com, known as Harry Barrett. tried to
commit suicide on Saturday bv piercing
his skull and brain with nail. His re-
covery is said to be doubtful.
Willis V. Morris, of Dayton, was the
successful aspirant for the cadetship at
West point, having secured a grade of
900 out OF possible 100. Ii. G. Belt,
of Spokane, was chosen alternate.
William J. Whites drug store at Gold
endale was burglarized one night last
week OF $50, which was taken from the
safe. Strangers who passed through that
town en- route for Yakima are suspected.
Walter o. Eggan, Swede about 80
years of age, committed suicide at the
furniture factory in Chehalis last Wednes-
day afternoon by placing his neck across
ripsaw and cutting his head nearly off.
Fred Hamburg who was terribly in
iured at the Blue Canyon bunkers Sun
day by being crushed in four-inch space
between logging truck and the apron OF
the log slide, died Thursday morning at
st. Josph's hospital. He was 81 years
old. and left q young widow and infant
son.
A case has been submitted to the SUI
preme court on a brief from Thurston
county, the result of which will settle the
exact intent and effect of the law passed
by the last legislature requiring county
surveyors to compile q record of high
ways in their respective counties to be
filed in the office of the county surveyor.
b. P. Cheney Of Boston, one of the
bfOnOtcio anu carly ulTtttOE6 Vi
the Northern Pacific railroad, whose
death was reported from London the 9TH
er day, is the man for whom the town of
Cheney, of this state, was named. He
gave $40, 900 to found an academy in that
town, which has been converted into a
state normal school.
Hon. n. T. Cation has received COM
munication from United States customs
official at Juneau, Alaska, stating that ex-
Gov. A. p. Swineford recently informed
him that the appointment of Judge Ca
ton as United States district Judge for
Alaska was an assured thing, and that
the appointment would be made in the
near future, says Sprague correspondent
OF the Spokesman Review.
Locksley Hall Lucas, who at one time
gained considerable notoriety as an anti
Chinese agitator, has been arrested in
Westminster for seducing his wife's L.
year-old sister, Kate Bushby, and also for
administering noxious drug to cause
miscarriage. The crime is all the more
henions because it WAS committed at
time when Lucas wife was confined.
Lucas has been remanded. The girls
family live at Blaine.
Several members OF the Early expedi-
ton, which left Whatcom, short time
ago to search for practicable route for
trail through the Baker range north of
Mount Baker to the upper Skagit, have
returned and report having discovered
an excellent pass. 400 feet high, between
the head waters of Big Beaver creek and
the Chilliwack river, and from which
they believe there is a good route to the
Skagit, either by way of Big Beaver or
Little Beaver.
At Palouse recently George Tempsro
assaulted and brutally beat s. A. Kegley,
of the Palouse Mercantile company, who
is crippled, because suit had been brought
against Tempero to collect bill for mer-
chsndise purchased at the store. The as
sailant was arrested, pleaded guilty, and
the intelligent country justice imposed q
munifcent fine of 81, remsrking that he
considered it sufficient provocstion for as
sault to sue man these hard times. The
Palouse News refers to the decision as 3
bad precedent.
The badly decomposed body Of William
Bloomfield, who formerly kept small
grocery store in Puyallup, was found in
the brush just out OF Old Tacoma on Sat-
urday. The clothing, watch and money
found on the remains made Identification
easy, but the body had lain SO long that
no mark could be found that would dis
close the means OF his death. Bloomfield
disappeared several months ago. He
was in arrears to a wholesale grocery
company in the city, and when pressed
for the money due the house turned over
the store to them, and since then has not
been heard from. He was supposed TO
have left the country. A revolver lying
by the body shows that in all probability
he committed suicide. Bloomfield has a
wife and family residing in some small
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