Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-11-05

Burglars broke into the residence of J.
f. Bell, and have tried number Of
| others. In no case has anything of
much value been taken. The rooms
OF Contractor L. l.. Grant were entered
| and articles to the value of about Sl5
stolen. No arrests have been made.
Albert Van Dusen, steward of the
Union Club, in Tacoma, went insane
Friday. Van Dusen is about % wears
old, and was u favorite with the club
men. He has been attending the re-
vival meetings that are being con-
Quoted in Tacoma, and his mental
arrangement is said to be the result of
his excitement over religious matters.
1t required the efforts of four men to
put him i'll the patrol wagon, and his
cries and struggles aroused the neigh
borhoOd. He may recover his reason.
Charles Crowns, longshoreman,
in a fit of jealousy, cut the throat of
Celia Hanson, young klootchman, at
Tacoma Saturday morning, rushed
from the shack where they spent the
night together to the McCarver-street
wharf, cut his own throat with the
bloody razor he carried in his hand,
and jumped into the bay. The water
was too cold for comfort, and Crowns
called for help and was pulled out by
a policeman and lodged in Jail.
Crowns has been on a spree for
several weeks. He will probably re-
cover and break his neck at the end of
rope.
The cutoff sawyers at the big mill
at Castle Rock had narrow escape
from serious injury and perhaps death
by the breaking of the cutoff saw
Thursday of last week. A block, in
stead of dropping into the box along
side of the saw, fell between the box
and saw, cramping the saw and caus-
ing it to break into half dozen pieces,
which flew in every direction, one of
which cut four or five inches into
rter-inch-thick iron slab. The
two sawyers usually stand in front of
this saw, but had stepped little to
one side, when the break occurred,
killed or seriously injured.
Expert c. P. Dam filed his report
last week on his investigation of the
books in the Chehalis county treasur-
er's Office. He found ex-Treasurer
Lockwood short $4,793.97, of which
about $4,000 was previously known.
He found the accounts of ex-Treasurer
F. A. Hazeltine carefully and correctly
kept, and commends the work of the
present incumbent, S. Eichner. After
deducting bank dividends and pay
ments made from accounts turned
over by Lockwood, the total shortage,
including county funds tied up in the |
bank, is $15,111.S5. Most Of this will
be lost to the county, as the bonds
men for Lockwood were released from
all liability other than the bank short
age, provided they guaranteed that 70
per cent. of the $4,000 of county
funds tied up in the suspended bank
would be paid.
DIR. N. G. Blalock of Walla Walla is
manager of the largest orchard in the
Northwest. The farm covers 500
acres of which 400 acres are in bear
ing fruit trees. In all there are co.
600 trees 10000 prunes, 10000 APP
pies, 10000 pears, and the balance
miscellaneous fruit. He said: "We
are now employing from Is to 100
men, women and children in the or
chard, and are shipping out from co.
600 to $4,000 lbs. daily, besides drying
from 1900 to 10000 lbs. a day. The
crop is very satisfactory, but at pres
ent the markets are fat, and we have
decided to hold all our fruit in cold
storage until the markets improve.
We will hold it in ventilated refriger-
ator cars, and have now thirty cars.
We can keep it in this way for thirty
days. At present we are handling
prunes and pears, and some peaches.