The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-31
NORTHWESTERN NEWS NOTES.

The fail OF Benton county. Oregon. IS
empty for the first time since April last
A. J. West. of Aberdeen. tells the Bull.
leun. that he will cut 4o.ooo.ooo feet Of
lumber this year"
F. II. Harris has been held In $500 bonds
in Colfax TO answer the charge Of having
feeced Farmer Mills. Of Whitman.
gun carriage and three eight-inch rifles
were received at the Notifications at Scar
borough head this week. The guns weigh
fifteen tons each.
John Van Pelt and Link Van Pelt. OF
Curry county. Or. have given bond 10 an
swer the charge Of killing A. l. Coolidge
and Thomas Van Pelt. 1r.. expects soon to
furnish his bond.
Coyo.es are more numerous around Vale,
in MaIheur county, Or. than ever before
In the history of its settlement. Persons
feeding cattle report seeing as many as
twenty and twenty-five daily. and one per-
son reports having seen fifteen in one band.
John Graham was given verdict in the
superior court at Colfax Wednesday
against the Oregon Railroad and Naviga-
ton Company for S. coo The suit was the
result Of injuries received while riding on
train. The railroad company will APP
peal the case.
Postmaster r. A. Losecamp, who will
soon turn the Leavenworth postoffice over
10 his successor. has held the position six
years. being the first and only incumbent
of the office at the old town of Icicle.
moving the office and effects from there
10 LeavenwoTth in the fall of lS92.
C. A. Day. who recently purchased the
Kingston single eiili at Sumas started
%oTk ya pas mill aSb.sry oassg
! making the daily capacity l5.ooo. Mr.. Day
has plenty of timber 20 keep the mill busy
for several years at its present location.
Oswald Steel. of Fairhaven, will go to
San Francisco in a few days 10 purchase
machinery for the fish cannery. which ia
being doubled in capacity. Mr.. SteePs
fish traps in order TO have supply that
Will keep the cannery going to its full
capacity next season.
Oscar Maley and William Meek were
hunting wild geese on the John Day river.
west of Ajax. last week, when Maley rode
into the river TO get goose they had shot.
and il Was s almost spp u miracle that he es
caped with MS life. He nearly froze to
death before reaching the nearest house.
And. to make it ali the worse. he did not
get the goose after all.
A man named Nicholson. working IN a
ing from work. and in climbing over
windfali caught his heel in the crotch OF
a small tree. He, gave heavy jerk to
right leg. Immediately above the heel. The
pain was so severe that he tainted, and
was not. released until some hours after
ward. when his comrades found him. He
VIII probably be crippled for life.
The Colfax Gazette says that Attorney
General Winston has been requested to ask
the supreme court OF the United States for
a mandate in the case of Jack Leonard.
who Is under sentence TO be hanged. and
that If the attorney general does not attend
TO his business Leonard will be hanged
anyhow. as the local officers are tired OF
the attorney generals dilatoriness. The
Gazette SAYS that the clerk OF the United
a mandate In Leonards Sc will be issued
upon a request from Winston.
While on his way to Dayton from his
and both cheeks OF l. n. Montgomery
were frozen. When Mr.. Montgomery ar
rived in Dayton his face was perfectly
livid. notwithstanding that the city's ther-
mometers registered above the freezing
point. The most plausible explanation OF
this peculiar happening is that Mr.; Mont
gomery encountered an extremely cold
streak of wind In making the journey to
town. something that was not general in
Its effect.
News has been received in Vancouver
from Battle Creek. Mich. of the death OF
Judge w p. Wells. which occurred In n
sanitarlum in that city last week. No
Vancouver for Battle Creek last November.
He was extensively Interested In Clark
county real estate. He, was at one time
American consul at Dundee. Scotland. hav-
ing been appointed by President Garfield
He was honored at different times by cleo
ton 70 offices OF trust and honor. Judge
Wells left n widow and one son, who live
in Vancouver.
The 1o-year-old son of Hans Christian
Simonsen living four miles south or Philo-
Wednesday. The little fellow and two
elder brothers were chopping cordwood
while a tree being feiled. AS the
tree began 20 fall. all started for place
Of safety. but in some unknown way the
Younger lad was caught The only app1r-
ent injury was n small hole in the upper
portion OF the skull, supposed to have been
made by sharp snag or piece Of limb.
The funeral occurred this afternoon.
Messrs. HeadIngton Walton and ONeili.
OF Howard county. Iowa. have been at
Davenport for several days looking over
the country with a view OF moving west
in the spring. Mr.. Headingten s7vs that
thew represent number OF farmers OF that
state who are DESTROYS of coming 10 this
country, and that he expected To be back
about the irst or April with fifty or sixty
families. These gentlemen have been all
over the eastern part of The state and have
decided that the Big Bend offers the best
Inducements for immigration. accoant
Of the pientifulness OF land and the low
prices. Mr.. Headlngton said that they
would return 10 Iowa at once and prepare
Tor removal In the spring.