Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-25
STATE NEWS.
4 Brief Reference to Matters OF Fact
Gathered Here. There ana Every.
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a Brief Reference to Matters OF Fact
Gathered Here. There and Every.
where.
J. p. Farrell's dwelling house at
Dayton, burned last Thursday, and all
OF its contents with it. The house
was worth about 5000, but there was
no insurance.
Max Dubclli, who accidentally
killed J. Jcancrct, at Tacoma, Sept.
|, last, and then shot himself, died in
the Fannie Paddock hospital, at Ia
coma. last Wednesday.
Richard L. Reese, aged II, of Rem
ton, was drowned Thursday morning
while duckhun,ing on Squire's slough,
near Renton. His companion, Frank
Jorgeson, narrowly escaped similar
fate.
The State Fair Commission met at
North Yakima this week for the pur.
pose of making arrangements for the
State fair, which will be held at North
Yakima, from September 26 to Octo-
Der l.
Jackson & Co. have shipped two
carloads of potatoes from Garfield to
Kansas City. Potatoes are only
worth 80 cents hundred at Garfield.
There is a special rate of 60 cents a
hundred to Missouri river points.
One of the Columbia river cannery-
men has made arrangements to build
a cannery at Fairhaven, between
Dead Mans point and Ocean dock.
The cannery will have a capacity of
1000 cases, and will be 250x35O feet.
Eighty cases of measles are report
ed at Mission, and 90 at Browns Flat,
Kittitas county. There are two cases
Of diphtheria and one of scarlet fever
at Cheney, Spokane county. The
Cheney cases have been quarantined.
Frank O'Neil, of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
who arrived in Seattle last Wednes.
day, claims to have been robbed of
50 600 in drafts on a Providence, r. I.
bank, and over 5000 in cash. 1t is
supposed he was robbed while intoxi-
Gated.
The Whitman county Jail is being
guarded night and day to prevent q
repetition of the lynching of Chadwick
Marshall, alias "Blacky." dakota
Slim" the alleged accomplish of
" Blacky," is now in the Jail, pending
an appeal to the Supreme Court on a
point of law.
The stranded bark Potrimpos, on
the beach near Ilwaco, was abandoned
last week by Foard & Stokes. Eight
men are at work on the Glenmorag,
trying to get the sand out of her so
that she can be righted again. The
sand washes in, however, nearly rs
fast as it can be taken out.
w. T. Clark, of the Moxes valley, in
Yakima county, struck the fourth
flow i'll his we'll, known as No. 5, last
Monday, and water is now bubbling
up at the rate of II cubic feet per
second, says The Dalles Chronicle.
The we'll is 1,O16 feet deep, the other
flows having been struck at ITO, 1856
and 935-foot levels. The temperature
of the water is Is degrees, and with
the thermometer at the freezing point,
there is a perceptible amount of steam.
There is little likelihood of an ice
famine in North Yakima during the
summer, says The Dalles Times
Mountaineer. It is estimated that
probably $500 tons of ice were put
up during this season. The largest
individual packers were F. B. Shard.
low, $50 tons; Thomas Lund, 400
tons; A. johnson and J. H. Thum,
400 tons; Sinclair Ice Company, 500
tons, and Otter & Mechtel, 80 tons.
Last year the ice dealers we're COM
PEELED to cease serving private families
in early September. AS it was, arti.
fetal ice was imported from the
Sound to the extent of several car
loads.