Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-30
Washington News Notes.

A Tekoa justice of the peace fined a
woman 81 for using language intended to
provoke an assault.
The flood in the Skagit valley this fall was
greater than usual and there are few cattle
left in the valley above Hamilton.
Tho state Of Washington is entitled to
fourteen places In the Treasury department
at Washington and only four of the places
are filled.
The life saving station at Westport Is
completed. Captain w. C. Coulson of San
Francisco has accepted it and pronounced
1t entirely satisfactory.
Ninety per cent of the Washington shngle
mills have either closed down or will do so
in order to prevent overstocking of the lum-
Der yards and to keep prices up.
Mrs. Hattie Lockwood was granted a di-
vorce on the grounds of cruelty and de-
sertion from Lester b. Lockwood, a promi-
nent lawyer end clubman, In Tacoma
Joe Wstochny, an Indian, met John Ber-
tholf in the road and demanded the payment
of a debt which was refused and thereupon
the Indian unhitched one of Bertholf's horses
and rode away with it., declaring the debt
Cancelled.
An experimental shipment of apples from
Jefferson county to Hcnolulu is to be made
on the schooner Robert Levers, now loading
lumber at the Port Ludlow mill. The cen
sigGor Of this fruit is the grower of the
same, Frank w. Walker of Port Ludlow.
NJ. Mccarthy Wafla Walla formerly lieu
tenant colonel of the Second regiment Ma
tional Guard, Washington has received no
tice that he has been awarded a special
medal by congress for personal bravery dur
ing the Nez Perce Indian war of 1877.
Grays harbor fisherman says that the
falling off Of the catch in sllverside salmon
there this season is fully 30 per cent The
pack of the csnnery at Aberdeen is only
.,t In, ~.
new hatchery on the Chehalis river will, it
Is expected check this diminution in supply
and restore the industry.
The Board of County Commissioners at
Seattle passed resolution reducing the
rate OF interest on county warrants from ~
to per cent per annum. BY a general es-
innate about S250000 annually Is paid in
warrants. The amount Of direct saving
based on this amount will be 81 $50
BY the breaking of sheer boom at STAN
wood, in Snohomish county, the other day,
between 5000 600 and 5000 900 feet of log7
went out into the Sound. and that of this
amount probably 100000 feet will go out to
sea through Deception paes. The boom COM
pany expects to be able to save all except
those carried out to sea by the tides.
After seven months. ending October 81,
the Skamokawa creamery has closed down
for 1897. During this time there was re-
ceived milk to the amount Of 6S2,46S pounds,
from which was manufactured 2I,2lS pounds
OF butter, for which was paid in cash
S4.3SS.S0. This is little more than one
pound of butter for each twenty-five pounds
of milk, and fraction more than IS cents
a pound. or SO cents a roll, for the eeason.
Chief Joseph of the Swinomish reservation
took unto himself a charming bride Monday
one OF King Georges daughters-she being
from British Columbia Father J. ]. Crib
bin united the brave chieftain and the dusky
maiden OF 80 or more summers in the bonds
of wedlock and the chiefs numerous friends
on the reservation did the rest--such as
making Rome howl for a short time Monday
evening, by firing off guns and pistols, yell
ing and making other hideous noises on
various instruments.