Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-02-14
STATE NEWS,
North Yakima has 10 newspapers.

proposition To bind the district for u
school-house.
Commander Herbert Booth, of the
Salvation Army, is expected TO arrive
at Spokane on Feb. 18th.
Forty-two foreigners were made
citizens of the United States during
Judge Graves last visit to Roslyn.
There will. it is estimated, he from
5000 to 1900 bushels of apples
shipped from Orcas island this year.
The Board of Directors of the Che
halls school district has determined
upon full term Of nine months
school.
Elk Sheriff DeRsckin, OF Lincoln
county, has purchased the Pupnlist
paper at Davenport. the Peoples Ban
ner, from G. ii. Scott.
Ella, the wife of Mayor John Brin-
ing, OF Dayton, was buried Tuesday
afternoon. The business houses were
closed out OF respect to her memory.
There is a scheme on foot to have
the southern row of townships in Lewis
county set over into Cowlitz county
and the Lewis river country given to
Clarke county.
Estimates on the amount of wheat
in the Kittitas valley place it at from
10000 to 10000 bushels. Wheat at
Ellensburgh last week was 4S cents a
bushel, sacked.
Joseph Monhollan, convicted at the
last term of court, at Walla Walla, of
the crime of sodomy, was sentenced
to ten years imprisonment Monday,
by Judge Upton.
A buyer OF horses has been in North
Yakima on the lookout for small
animals to ship to Alaska. He has
been paying from S. to $40, and has
bought up ii horses.
Judge Stallcup, OF Tacoma, has de.
cided that the creditor of an insolyent
bank has recourse against the stock
holders, without waiting for the affairs
OF the bank to be wound up.
]. w. Duncan, OF Dayton, farmer
who has been considered mentally un-
balanced for two years, was Monday
taken into custody on complaint OF
his wife and will be sent to the Medi.
cal Lake asylum.
jeff Letton, former resident oil
Pennington. is in trouble at Wallace
Idaho. He is accused of poisoning
his 1S-months-old child in order to OBJ.
tain legacy TO which the child was
supposed to be heir.
The new creamery at the Washing.
ington agricultural college farm, 1T
Pullman, is expected to be in running
order by February Is, and Professor
Spillman has advertised for 1000
pounds of milk daily.
Governor McGraw will be petitioned
to pardon Bud johnson, q cattle-thiei
now in Jail at Spokane, under sentence
to the penitentiary. The petition is
signed by the trial Judge, prosecuting
attorney and number of others.
Richard Richards, a fireman on
the steamship Strathnevis, slipped of
Commercial wharf, at Tacoma, while
boarding the steamship at l O'Clock
Wednesday morning, and was drowned.
Richards was % years old and a ma
tive OF Wales.
At Colfax. Sunday, during the ordi-
nation of Deacon William J. Wright
to the Priesthood of the Episcopal
church, Bishop Wells officiating, an
alarm Of fire was sounded, the trouble
being in the chimney of the church.
Fortunately it caused little confusion.
The Centralia News says that three
horses belonging to Ramstad Bros.
were poisoned Saturday night by some
unknown person mixing carbolic acid
with their feed. The horses suffered
terrible agony, two OF them living
about half day and the other one
about a day.
A member of a Minneapolis seed
firm has in Waterville for the past
week contracting for seed peas. II il
estimated that 800 acres will be sown
TO peas in the vicinity of Waterville
alone. 1t is expected that this will be
q very profitable sourse of income ia
Big Bend farmers.
Three prisoners were received at the
Walla Wslla penitentisry from Spo'
kane Thursday: Peter Moran, three
years for assault with intent to com.
NIT murder; Charles Miller, grand
larceny, two years; Charles H. Cum.
mings. of Stevens county, man.
slaughter, 19 years.
Howard c. Potter, OF Tacoma, was
found dead, in the surf, near the Cliff
House, San Francisco, Sunday. He
had been carousing with q friend al
the above resort during the day, and
it is supposed that while intoxicated
he fell into the bay and WAS drowned
He leaves a family at Tacoma.
Col. George Hunter. of Starbuck,
this State. who is over 70 years of age,
was married in Washington, d. c., to
a young lady of "a years, about week
ago, his first wife having been dead
only six months. Colonel Hunter ia
one of the pioneer Indian fighters OF
this region, and is we'll known all over
Eastern Washington.
City Attorney Wickersham, of Ia.
coma, brought suit against Stuart
Rice, receiver of the Washington Ma.
tional Bank, for $3.50, being the bal
ance due the city on its deposit made
by Treasurer Boggs. The city wants
this amount paid out Of any funds in
the receiver's hands az a preferred
claim, under the recent decision oil
Judge Pritchard.
David Spoor, ex-street commissioner
and city councilman of Port Townsend
died in that city Sunday, aged 6S years
He was native of New York, and left
that State when the rush to the
California gold fields took places in
1849. Then he drifted to the Sound
country, and for the past 81 years
made his home in Port Townsend
He was q prominent Mason.
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