Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04

Cowliih.
T. L. Mcchling, who va taken to
the hospital in Scdro, Snohomi>h
county, last week, badly frozen from
exposure in the mountains. submitted
to an amputation I'll both of his feet
last Saturday.
The total receipts OF the second
annual exhibition OF the Washington
State fair. held ut North Yakima. from
September % to October 3, 1896, were
$3.9l3.95; the disbursements were
1922 10, leaving S2l.S5 cash on hand.
The Seatco Manufacturing Company
is running its big sawmill on five
quarters time, using the output OF
three different logging camps near
Bucoda. If any one Is idle in Bucoda
ii must be from choice rather than Il
desire to secure employment.
The Sonul came in to Cosmopolis
early last week, and went out Tues
day, carrying $4,000 feet of lumber
and boxes, and 10000 pickcts eight
feet long. Her destination now is
small landing about 800 miles below
San Francisco, to deliver orange boxes.
Mrs. Rose Zcttlcr, of Tacoma, con-
victcd in the Pierce county Superior
court OF the crime of grand larceny
and sentenced to Is months in the
penitentiary at hard labor, will have to
serve her term, the Supreme court
having affirmed the decision OF the
Superior court for refusing a new trial.
The police Sunday caught a bold
robber in the act of breaking through
the wall of Mcdonald & Sessions shoe
store, at Tacoma from a vacant room of
the Bryan and Rogers Club. He was
using buggy springs to make a hole i'll
the brick. He is II tOugh-looklng
character, and gave his name as Tom
Warren.
During the recent flood OF the
Cowlitz river, a large cedar caught
upon the submerged cable upon
which the ferry is operated between
kelso and Catin, and it was several
days before the obstruction could be
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however, and the ferry resumed oper-
alton Tuesday.
The Pasco News has again changed
hands, and Attorney Charles l.. Harris,
who was recently elected to the legisla-
ture from Franklin county, is at the
helm. In his bow to the public he
says he will continue 20 publish the
paper just rs long rs he has the best
wishes of the people and the vigilantes
keep off his trail.
Good horses must be Il drug on the
market when 1,lO0-pound matched
teams sell for 81. 80 team, and 1000
pound horses, broke to ride and drive,
bring $3.50 head. These were the
prices Is head of horses brought one
day last week, at an auction sale OF
horses of the Northern Pacific Railway
Company at Tacoma.
The Barnes cannery, at South Bend,
will probably start up again the 18th
of December, when the season again
opens. Steelheads are already begin
ming to run. The exact number of
cases of salmon canned at the Barnes
cannery this season is 9,025. Besides
there was shipped to Portland, i'll bulk,
about 144,0 pounds of fish.
The strange burglar who took
possession of Fred Everton's hoathouse
at Green lake, near Seattle, last week,
and calmly bathed, fed and amused
himself there, has been captured. He
is the crazy man, George kewer, who
recently escaped from SteilacOom and
has been hiding since at Green lake.
He was taken back to Steilacoom.
George Monroe, who is serving
short term in the county Jail at Ia
coma for petit larceny, Tuesday re-
ceived letter from Germany inform
ing him that legacy from his grand
fathers estate awaited his order, 1t
has been lying at interest for five
years, while his whereabouts were I'M
known. The amount is not stated.
The delay in beginning the con-
struction work at the new army posts
at Seattle, WASH, and Bismark, N. d.,
is explained at the war Department as
being due to the fact that clear titles
to the proposed sites have not yet been
given to the government. Until clear
titles are issued and filed at the war
department., the work of construction
cannot be undertaken.
On a recent trip to Tacoma, the
steamer Olympia brought two Oriental
pheasants for Frank Alling. Although
half dozen pheasants were sent him,
only two arrived safely. Two OF the
six escaped and two died en- route.
Mr.. Alling expects four more pheasants
will be put on Fox island with several
others that have been turned loose
during the past three years.
AL. Phelps, a gambler, committed
suicide at Spokane, Tuesday, by tax
lug morphine. Phelps was we'll
known in Montana and Eastern Wash
ington. For four months he had
been running gambling-house at
Northport, but apparently went broke.
The Coroner found no money, but a
pawn-ticket for d watch indicated that
his last resources had been exhausted.
The Ellengsburg creamery, from
February l, 1896. to October 30, 1896,
ran 274 days; the milk of 600 COWS
was used and 1,7l3,700 pounds of
milk were worked; 21,2SO pounds of
cream were bought, and 1881 pounds
of butter made; the average price
pound for butter was 204 cents, and
for butter fat 81 cents. Customers
were charged 81 cents a pound for
making butter.
The farmers who live on the marshes
in the valleys of the Snohomish,
Stillaguamish and Skagit rivers are
busily engaged raising their houses
above the highest mark reached in the
recent floods. The barns are also be-
ing raised, and preparations generally
made for another flood This looked
for flood is extremely probable, for
never before has there been so much
snow on the ground in November.
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