Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-05-22

structures, and the coffin was exposed
to view when the excavators got below
the foundation OF the Albeit building.
A church building has just been
dedicated i'll the Mckee valley, with a
seating capacity of 200 and costing ST.
$50. This leads the Yakima Times to
recall the fact that according to the
Indian legend, an evil spirit ruled in
the Mckee valley and the night never
caught a red man encamped there. A
daylight journey was always planned
across the haunted valley.
The Dawson divorce case, in Seattle,
has been set for trial June 10. The
hearing will probably be placed in the
hands of referee. From inter.
rogatories for the defendant it APP
pears that Mrs. Dawson has "a wit
nesses in California, of whom eight
are in San Francisco, one in Oakland,
three in Alameda, four in San Jose, nine
in Los Angeles, and one in Sacramento.
Among the timbers cut at the Skam-
okawa mill for the schooner Louis
cargo is monster, ITO feet long 24x24
inches, and there are eight l0O-foot
timbers that square from 24x24 to
1Sx18 inches. There are also quite
number Of heavy timbers running
from 70 feet to 80 feet in length. She
also carries four handsome spars 100
feet long and "a inches through the
center.
Near Lacrosse. Whitman county,
jack-rabbits are causing great deal of
annoyance to the farmers, and a great
rabbit drive is expected to take place
this week. Some difficulty will be ex-
perienced in finding suitable
rendezvous for the tinal bunch.up, but
several old hunters express the belief
that the Dummies can be successfully
cornered on some of the large bluffs
bordering the Palouse.
p. C. Wick, of Muckilteo, was struck
by Great Northern train last Satur-
day night, while walking on the track
between Everett and Edmonds. He
was taken to Everett, where he died
three hours later. Wick was intoxi-
Gated. He left widow and seven
children at Muckilteo. When Wick
was picked up, it was found that his
skull was fractured, and he was oh err
wise bruised and mangled.
The Big Bend Enterprise is proud of
its domain. Hear it: "Spring is on
in all its glory through Central WASH
ington. On the Big Bend plateaus
the green of the plains extends away
from Waterville, set like a jewel at
the base of pine-clad Badger, to I'M
measured distances, and along the
valley OF the Columbia every bit Of
shrubbery, the orchards, the gardens
and the alfalfa fl lids are marvellous in
beauty"
Peter Stineman, aged 40 and single,
was instantly killed Saturday after
noon while walking to Puyallup on the
railroad track. He stepped from one
track to another 10 avoid a freig hit
train, when the Carbonate cannon
BALI express, eastbound, dashed
around curve and hit him. Papers
in his pocket indicate that he was a
Christian scientist teacher. The
whereabouts OF his relatives are I'M
known.
The body OF Peter Pecarty, the man
who two months ago put 76 sticks of
dynamite under the hulk of the old
smuggling steamer Idaho and then
stood on an improvised scow almost
Immediately over to watch the result,
was found floating last Friday, at Port
Townsend, $50 yards from the scene
of the explosion. The corpse still
wore all the diving paraphernalia
when found. Pecarty came here from
San Francisco, under contract to
wreck the hulk.
Last week, an express wagon from
Aberdeen, carrying two drummers and
their samples, met with an accident on
the ferry slip, at Hoquiam. The driver
had driven off the lerryboat aud nearly
to the top of the slip, when trace
broke and the wagon started to run
back, but turned over and spilled
drummers, trunks and all. The boat
had just started and WAS hardly off the
landing, but was stopped in time to
catch the wagon and contents, which
would otherwise have landed in several
feet Of water.
The Washington grand lodge OF For
esters of America elected these Off
GERS: Chief Ranger, ]. A. Wister-
berg. of Seattle; Sub-Chiet Ranger,
John Hasking, of Wilkeson; Treas.
urer, G. M. Stewart, of Seattle; Secre-
tary, j. w. Slayden, OF Tacoma; Re-
cording Secretary, J. A. Bradbury. Of
Roslyn; Senior Woodman, w. H.
Jones, of Black Diamond; Junior
Woodman, James Buchanan. OF Gray's
Hsrbor; Senior Beadle, G. H. Lusby,
OF New Whatcom; Junior Beadle, F.
G. Carlisle, of Elma.
Hall Bros, OF Port BIakeley, have
laid the keel for the first tive-masted
schooner ever built on the Pacific
coast. 1t is being constructed for
Captain Birkhoern, q well.known