Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-18

Another hOld-up was added IN Sc
at tleto the long list of crimes COM
mitted in this city during the last few
months, Frank c. Van Nice, col
lector, was stopped Sunday night at 8
o'clock on a dark street by two men,
who put a sack over his head, and
went through him, getting $12.
A disastrous wreck occurred on the
Pleasant Valley branch of the o. r.
& N. Tuesday, 20 miles west of Cakes
dale. The engine and IL cars were
ditched, as result of rail spreading.
A continued rain has made the road
bed so soft in many places that the
track is in dangerous condition.
Citizens of Colville are afraid that
they have had case of black diphth-
eria. Michael Lenier died of disease
closely resembling black diphtheria,
and the body was buried Immediately,
and not taken to the church. AS a
result, long-forgotten laws of santa
ton are being enforced in Colville.
One of the biggest days work in the
logging camp that has come under the
Skamokawa Eagles notice for some
time was that of Rod Morrison and
Henry Workman, last Wednesday, at
J. r. Blaney's camp near Bay View
The boys felled, sawed, barked and
helped put into the river, 21,750 feet.
And the days are short now, too.
The steamer Howick Hall sailed
Tuesday from Tacoma with a wheat
cargo for St. Vincent for orders. She
carried the largest cargo sent from the
Sound this season, and marks a new
departure in wheat shipping on the
Sound, being the first steamer to carry
a cargo of grain to the United King
dom. Her cargo amounted to $500
tons.
The Chehalis Nugget is informed
that there will probably be a new de-
parture in the matter of the bonds of
county officials the coming year.
Some of the newly elected officials, if
not all of them, will offer bonds signed
by guaranty companies, and will not
ask private citizens to 60 on their
bonds as has been the custom here
tofore.
The dead body found near Harring-
ton point, Wahkiakum county, was
buried by the county last Tuesday.
The body was that of a man, badly de-
composed, and some of the bones
broken. The coat found on it was
made of navy-blue material, and was
removed by the coroner. 1t is the
only clue to the identity of the de-
ceased.
The contract to supply leather to
the penitentlary in Walla Walla was
awarded to Patrick Mastick & Co., of
Portland; that for dry goods to
Schwabacher & Co.; for groceries to
Gardenour & Sim. There was tie be.
tween H. Macarthur and the Schwa-
bacher company on bids for the supply
of tobacco. 1t was decided by the toss
of a penny, and Macarthur won.
Cattle and hog-raising is again com.
ing to be an important industry OF
Lewis county. Ten years ago it took
a good start, but other things appeared
more profitable, and there came time
when farmers brought to market hardly
enough fat stock to supply the home
demand for fresh meat. This year at
least 1900 cattle will be shipped out
and probably 5000 or 5000 hogs.
Miss Celia Conley, daughter of Mrs.
Jas. Conley, of Auburn, died very
suddenly on the train from Seattle to
Auburn Tuesday. The young lady had
been i'll in Seattle for some time, and
her mother was having her brought
home, where she could have more
quiet. When the train was a short
distance this side of Black river she
suddenly threw up her hands, gasped
once, and all was over.
Dennis Ryan, the St. Paul million
aire, was quietly married at Spokane
Wednesday morning to Miss Mary
Campbell, also of St. Paul. The cere-
mony took place at o'clock on that
morning. Efforts were made to keep
the affair quiet. The marriage license
does not appear in the records at the
court house. Mr.. and Mrs. Ryan left
the same day on the east-bound
Northern Pacific train.
Tuesday 100 men and boys turned
out to a coyote hunt at Garfield. They
walked n total of $50 miles. When
the final roundup was made on a
butte, and each member of the ever
narrowing circle drew closer to a patch
of buckbrush, that formed the center,
there was no evidence of anticipated
coyotes. The thicket was thoroughly
heated, resulting in the capture of one
poor little white rabbit.
A petition to the legislature was
circulated last Friday in Spokane, says
the Spokesnsan-Reuiep, as follows: al
am thoroughly in harmony with and
respectfully request the passage of a
law so amending the revenue law of
the State at your coming session as to
Drovide for an eyemntiOu from taxation