The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-08

There = an auts-ciEzrctf9 cft1A00 -
fore chs Oregon tegis1aturc
Stevens county ID about TO Issue $8soo0
Of b1s1n 70 Say coErfy expenses
Tsse SrcsfsSa Investment COMPANY wSa
become the owner OF TIE Portland Exp0s1-
ton property. xne exposition company -
tng u1abie - redeem -
Jcse<sn Wilson. 3 rnfner w1G found dead
n o msne 81 Naaalxno last Monday. IT -
supposed ne was kiSted BY . shock from
m electric light wire.
Spokane waseeaneu are planning to con-
etrx7ct one q thu ffnewt nEcycie tracks In
the NORTHWEST. arsi want TO form . CIR
cult comprising several good racing towns
The bag Norwegian iron steamer Peter
Jehse1 wEkch sacceets the WRECKED
Crown Of England In the Nanaimc-Sa
Francisco coai trade, has . capacity cf
4.Sn9 tons.i
Mrs Helm. q Puyalfup, took laudanuzu
with suicEdza :rteul last Sunday. A doc
tor was called and found the woman IN .
conlatase state. Remedies were applied
AMI her Efe was saved. she came from
Waiia WaIla receukly.
protracted reviyal meetings are being
held b. the Methcdists ID Spokane. They
ha~e already tasted i've weeks. the
mourners' bench Il fiIied nightly and hum
dreds have been converted THIS speaks
etoquensfy Of the hard Zines IN the FataD
City.
A bin has passed the federal senate and
~ pending in the house. appFoprfatan So
COO to carry On timber tests. II the beI
becomes . law an experiment station viii
be established on the Pacific coast and In
vestigationa begun on the Gmbers OF Pu-
SCI Sound.
The shed under which the stone cutting
h being dome for the state capitol at
Olympia h the ouay one Of ;ts kind In the
United States. e - circular. and one
derrick and three men do the work OF
four derricks and sixteen men under the
Old system.
H. A Bier. Of Nebraska, Is making an
investigation OF Adams county In the sn-
tenest OF q number of Nebraska farmers
who want to como to q country where
there are no billiards. no droasths, and
where crops are certain He Will pruba-
bly, bring out q colony.
Hoss Sodt an Iu1aan OF the Umasiiia
reservation, Oregon, had mis- hair cut or
by the Indian court last week Tor drunk
enness. He bore one same afiiictaon egh-
teen months ago. but since then 1t has
been decided that Indians to Kisom hands
We're allotted in seyeraEty we're American
cirs.sens- Holt Soft comes under this head.
and so he brought suit against the Indian
officer who cut hiss hair for 500 damages.
He WON his case. but the defendant wiz
appeal 10 the higher courts.
Mrs. Lizzie Miller. an odd lady Of 81
years, living somewhere In West Virginia,
being i'll and unable to care for herself.
received letter from the widow OF her
nephew, Mrs. Mary Miller. who is living
at some point between WaAla Waila and
Spokane. urging the old lady to come out
here and live with her. She purchased a
taken with paralytic stroke, and for
twenty-four days was laid up somewhere
on the road. she lost her liece's letter
and could not remember where she lived
After being taken TO Portland. Seattle and
Eilensburg, she was sent 10 Waala Waiaa
where she Is being taken care OF and eff
forts are being made to discover her
niece.
Hon. A. c. Edwards yesterday received
the official notification OF his aproint-
ment az commissioner Of the territory OF
Alaska. Mr.. Edwards win now prepare
and ile his official bond and viii proba-
bly, depart for the scene OF his new du-
ties before March / The more Mr.. Ed
wards hears OF his appointment the more
gratified he becomes. It seems That for
tune delayed smiling ON him unstai it had
something good 10 offer. He has received
the plum OF pltnnS from the Cleveland adj
ADMINISTRATION. Spoaaa9e Times. Tbs plum
OF TauTns is Punishment to Kodak, place
which receives mail once in six months
There is no work TO do and the salary il
several hundred dolsars year, with no
chance to spend 1t.