The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-14
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES.

The Socialist colony. Equality. located
near Edison, wants q postoffice-
A. r Fox. or Sumner, Wash. has been
granted a patent on gold separator.
TIE California battalion Of soldiers gar
eoned a. Vancouver numbers 81 men.
A force OF twenty-eight persons are now
regularly employed In the state printing
office at olympia
TAe Touring Mill AT Pine City, owned by
A. ]. Smith, owing to press OF business, -
compelled TO run night and day.
The Centraiia News says: The Dryad
school is closed on account OF measles.
twenty scholars being sick with that IN
Pheasant complaint.
Elders Hendrix and Miller. OF the Nor
n On church. are in TacomA. They have
established headquarters In the Danish
brotherhood hall, where meetings will be
held regularly.
Rev. H. l. Iathrop. formerly rector Of
the Episcopal church of Walla Walla, and
a member of Washington lodge. /. o. o.
T.. died a; ST. Helena, Cal. on November
y. OF dropsy.
Thursday. while Joseph Brown was work
ing in a stable at his home. near Eugene.
Or, he was damned against the stall by q
horse and received injuries from which
he died yesterday. He was IS years of age.
The shipments from Skanokawa FOR the
month OF November Were - boxes OF out
ter, estimated TO contain l. 40 pounds: aS
boxes Of fish. 24 boxes and one barrel Of
apples. besides potatoes. dressed meats.
poultry and hay.
A strange phenomenon was seen at Te-
koa Thursday The sun rose clear. but the
air was fun OF frost, and at 20 q beauti-
full rainbow appeared. spanning the sky
from east 10 west, and could be clearly
traced from horizon TO horizon The bow
was brilliant and as bright as any seen In
the summer time after q shower.
Fully 20 per cent. of the wheat crop Of
this state Is as yet unInarketed. That Is
the judgment of Well informed men In the
wheat trade who are in touch with the
operators, says the Dayton Courer-Press.
Much wheat IS in store waiting for better
prices before the farmers viii let so.
Tuesday night was the coolest the Pa
vember. 1897. The thermometer RANGED
from above to below zero. in different
parts Of the county. The lowest po.nt
reached in Colfax was below. At Gar
port comes from other parts OF the county.
Railroad grading from Dayton towards
Deianey's continues in spite OF the dis
agreeable weather. There is, however. still
considerable speculation In regard TO the
road going TO Delaney's. Some are of the
opinion that the o. r. q N. will push out
into the Covello country far enough 10
secure the wheat crop and make a terni-
nus.
Maj. Charles Morton has been placed In
command OF the fort at WaIla Walla. Mai.
Morton won fame in the San Juan charge.
1t Is rumored that five companies Of regu-
lars are TO be sent here for duty. and that
the soldiers now here viii be sent 10 the
Preside. and probably TO Manila, TO re-
lieve the volunteers. who are soon to re-
turn.
now surveying between Goldendale and
Lyle have decided to go down the Swale
canyon. instead of through High prairie.
This makes a longer distance to Lyle. but
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loaded train can start in the valley and
go down hill all the way by taking the
Swale canyon route.
Ahio S. Watt has been out In the Eureka
fiat country hiring men and teams for
for the o. r. & ~. down the snake from
Lewiston. Property owners sold rights Of
way down in the region of the Snake to
the O. f. & n. Company's agent last week.
They received the rate Of 81 per foot. It il
reported that a rght-of-way has been
bought and paid for all along the proposed
road from Wallula to Snake river.
c. o. Downing, formerly clerk of Spo-
kane county. has begur suit to collect
ssiS:s salary which he. alleges was with
commissioners. The suit recalls the trou-
bies OF Downing and the county during the
latter part CT his term of Office. when he
was tried and convicted Of misappropriat-
ing county funds. He served q term at
the penitentiary for the crime.
An opera house company has been or
ganiZed at Ritzville by the following named
gentlemen; BENJAMIN Martin, j. e. Prouty.
II. Z: Gritman. William Snyder. Q. IS.
Lee. I. W. Myers, e ID. Gibson, 0. II.
Greene. W. X. Cunningham, 3r.. and G. q.
Greene. Ii is proposed to purchase at
least half block OF ground in the most
convenient part OF the city and build an
auditorium that will accommodate the pub
lie as demands NAV reasonably require and
the investment justifies.
Gorge McLafferty, of Aberdeen, was fin
Cd $50 recently for contempt of court by
Judge Hodsdon. Mciafferty was a jury
man In a case that was unfinished at ad-
Journment Of court Friday evening and
failed 10 appear on Saturday morning. A
bench warrant was issued for him and the
sheriff found him at home. His defense
was that he was a Seventh Day Adventist
and his religion forbade him serving on the
Sabbath. The Judge did not consider this
a valid excuse for disebeying an order of
the court and delaying litigants. so fined
him as stated.
Judge Richardson. OF Spokane. has Is
sued an order for the sale of all the prop
erty and other valuable assets belonging
TO the estates OF A. NJ. Cannon and wife.
both deceased The list of assets given In
the order includes unsatisfied claims,
stock in the Spokane Investment Com
pany. prointSsory notes, overdrafts and a
large amount of real estate The face
value Of the unpaid notes is given as ssS.-
lh.4s, and the overdrafts amount to about
s51,s0 many of these claims being of
doubtful value because OF the state OF the
credit of the debtors. The real estate con-
sists chiefly OF lots In the outlying addi-
tons 10 Spokane.
United States Indian Inspector W. J.
Mcconnell was at the Klamath Oregon
land Office last week. looking up the records
as 70 amounts Of lands the reservation
Indians were wrongfuliy deprived OF by the
government giving title TO the Oregon &
California Military Wagon Road Company
and some OF the settlers. TIE commission
sent out by congress-. u. Applegate, w.
p. Coleman. Il. +. Hammond-in 1898. dis
covered that the Indians were deprived
OK 81. $50 acres OF land that rightfully be-
iongei 10 them under the treaty made
with the Indians They appraised IL at
$22,y1 which goes 10 all the Indians.
whether on or off the reservation. In
spector MeCeunelfs mission Is to make q
report TO congress in line with these facts.