Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-03-19
William Rowe, an old Walla Walla
county pioneer, was buried last Mon
day i'll Walla Walla city.

FIcu NIlllu WIS hlllcl III ENtTcll
last Sunday night, while attempting
to board train. He was dragged
100 feet, and his head severed from the
body.
Frank Smith, a tree pruncr, living
near Walla Walla, drank three bottles
of patent medicine last Saturday and
Sunday, to cure Il cold. He died the
next day.
1t is thought that the appointment
of new regents of the University of
Washington, in Seattle, will result in
the retirement OF the present secretary
of the board.
The Spokane Spokesman RericU says
that if the normal school in Cheney is
not kept up the property, with its I'M
provcmcnts, will revert to the estate OF
Benjamin Z. Cheney.
William Wroth, who was charged
with shooting William Kelly, alias
"Texas Bill" in the Gold Leaf saloon,
in Snohomish, October, 1895, was
acquitted by jury last week.
The Big Greek bridge, which has
just been completed ut cost of over
$1,000 is one of the large bridges in
Chehalis county, being over 100 feet
long, with a span Of GO feet, 20 feet
above the water.
Nearly $4,000 was paid in prem.
iums to insurance companies by policy
holders in Aberdeen during the last
year. The value of the property in
sured is about 1926, 900, and the fire
losses amounted to 81 500.
ALI Sam and All Mum, two Chinese
laborcrs, were arrested at Walla
Walla last week, charged with being
unlawfully i'll the United States. They
will be sent before United States
Judge Hanford, in Seattle, for hear
ing.
Daniel Burr, of Walla Walla, was
seriously injured in q runaway acct
dent in that city Saturday morning.
His team ran away, and at n quick
turn in the road he was thrown with
considerable force from the buggy to
the ground.
The one saloon of Ritzville was
| closed last Saturday. The council re-
fused to reduce the license, and the
saloon-keeper refused to continue
business, Notwithstanding two-thrds
of the people OF the town desired him
| to continue.
George Mcdonald, of Hillyard, has
&C mmenced suit against the Great
Northern railway for injuries received
November 80, 1898, by the engine
striking an obstruction and rolling
down the bank to the river. The
amount sued for is over $4,000.
The telephone company is distribut-
ing poles between Myers falls and
Spokane. Teams are daily hauling
poles between the falls and Chewelah
President Cakes and Secretary Arts
say they expect soon to have the line
in working order between the falls and
Spokane.
Even the embarrassing district of
Walla Walla has its mines. A carload
OF gold-bearing ore from Blue and Mill
creeks, Is miles from Walla Walla,
has been shipped to the Tacoma
smelter. Should the experiment
prove successful, large force of men
may be put to work ut the mines.
While Mrs. Edmonson, wife of C. N.
Edmonson, of Tacoma, was giving her
infant daughter bath, the other day,
she left it for q few moments to pro-
cure some cold water, the water in the
tub being too hot. BY some means,
the child fell into the tub, and was
so badly scalded that its life is de-
SPARED of.
The Port Townsend Leader says the
bill changing the boundaries of Che
halls county, that passed the last
Legislature, took from Jefferson county
a large section of territory in the
Quillayute country, and added it to
Chehalis county. The Jefferson county
people are urged to send a man to
Olympia to ask the Governor to veto
the bill.
Arrangements are already being
made i'll Pacific county for the annual
county fair. Last week the executive
committee of the fair association met
and appointed auxiliary members of
the committee from every voting pre-
cinct not already represented to secure
exhibits IN their respective ncighbor-
hoods, and to assist in every way pos
sible in making the fair n success, and
voted to hold the fair on September
81, 90 and %.
Lincoln Lewis, a half-breed, was
tried Saturday, at South Bend, on the
charge of rape, but was acquitted, as
his victim, an Indian girl, refused to
testify against him. AS soon as the
verdict of acquital was rendered, the
accused stepped forward, with another
Indian girl, with whom he had been
living for some time, and asked that
they be married. Rev. E. II. Loomis,
pastor of the Congregational church,
who happened to be on the jury, per-
formed the ceremony, at the request
of Judge Elliott, court being adjourned
meanwhile.
L. Lachmund last week contracted
for 146,OO pounds OF hops in Yakima
county, at 10 cents a pound. The
growers and the weights contracted
by them are as follows:j A. f. Poole,
George Bosdet and 0. A. Fechtel
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