The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-31
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES.

frui. trees around Sorthport are said
10 De dying from the effects Of smelter
fumes.
The Everett Chamber OF Commerce
building Is 20 be changed into a Methodist
church.
Offers are made to establish large
b1et-sugar factory az Yakima II local
capitalists will take sI5aoo In stock.
Peter q. Stewart has been voted s7.5a1
by congress for land In Pzeinc county
taken from him forty-sesan years ago.
The big Hoqnian hotel IL being turned
into tenement house. Some twelve fam
HES are now housekeeping in It's formerly
handsome rooms.
A new weekly paper wifi shortly be
issued st Vancouver g. G. To ise known
as Town Topics Its particular field will
be social news, sports. pastines, music
and drama.
a gun made In the year ts91 IL 70 be
seen At WaiIa Walia. The weapon was
the Psgne river battles. II Was Owned by
Capt. d. T. Eeale.
Mr.. G. s. Carruthers who arrived az
Tacoma with the ostsnsibie purpose Of
raising the sunken BRITISH ship Andetana,
now turns out to be missing. Hotel men,
merchants ard bankers are anxious as 10
his whereabouts.
The pr!ee ~ stove wood has advanced -
cents per cord al Spokane within The PAST
week. owing 70 "a scarcity III sas supply
Ing al ~ per cord. sIxteen-inch chunk
wood commands s.. - per coFd-
Awaiting the decision of The case of
North against CauAs1fen, contractor on the
Snake River Valley railroad pe3jgo <
Cain. of WHia ALA. have irge num-
Der az c@aa In hand 81 men Who We're
discharged and paid III statements Of ac-
count.
George L. CoIwen. ~ Tlwaca says IL II
A settled fact that the flaaco Railway
4 Navigation Company viii extend lis
track 10 a point above Chinook, where
deep water can be secured and better
steamer connections made with Portland
thar now possible.
The Mccormick Lumber Company has
recently added an electric light plant az
their Rock creek mill. Z, has a capacity
OF about Ito ssxfsen-candle power lights
Arc lights VIII bee pat up in THE mill
IL Will be possible at all seasons OF the
year to work 10! time or overtime, if
necessary.
Of 1896 should bear in mind taas they must
complete their title and get their deeds
this year. The law under whieh they pur-
chased lands al this sale requires that Ihsy
three months before the expiration OF
three years from the date Of sale.
TIE boom at the Chehalis bridge which
stops the logs for the factory broke Fri
day morning. and iet halliday or more
saving Of logs pasr, The logs we're caught
hs the Meaiy boom. II - thought the re-
pair Viii bs competed to-day ia afEak
caused the shutting down of the sawnlA
and the laying of az about dozen
hands.
Deputy County Treasurer Dudenhausen,
81 jefferson county. Is tie victim ~ a
practical joke. For several years past he
has received a monthly publication known
a. The Two Step. apd iS said - he If Spe-
oial value TO dancing masters. Mr.. pa-
denhausen - a veteran Of The ctNI war,
and having left al ieg on 4 Southern BAT
tiefeld, falls 10 see what use the publea-
ton is TO him.
During the severe freezing weather the
past winter Il was feared tnat great dam
age was done 10 iho oysters OF puget
sound. t3ut fort guataiy not an oyster VAS
frozen. II froZe 50 hara that a thiek coat
ing Of - Haa formed all over the bass.
AMI as the water ree'e3ed AZ low tide the
ice settled upon the beds. thus projecting
The oysters from the frost afaa cs3.5 sioI ms
"A circumstance which saved "a the oyster
industry az Mason county thousands 81
dollars
Peter +. Slevers ANA wife have begun
an action for 81 rs damages against The
Company. The damases, II i alleged, were
sustained by Nilaelrpins Sewers, VIE OF
the p,ainsih. by the refusal - the defend
ant 10 land her az her destlna 9ioa. wash
0l.kaf. ana inducing her Is land on an
unsnhah.tsd island iu the Columbia where.
II IS alleged size remained fer n number
81 hours. exposed 10 the elements. without
foai or shelter.
len posneroy in such hurrie1 manner
for Spokane 81 the ~an NJ Hon L Nc
cary wao holds he position as ladS.s
1T the criminal court ia Canada. which ~
nce he has aecsp5Hhly filea for Tire pas
twsuiy-slx years. The father has request
ssf M t'oserove. ~ Pomerey - Ssess 70 it
ia ~. Young man %EaB not suffer foF
laek of means and expresses she nope that
Harry" msy correct alS hauits ang set
rs daNH % = better life
Csn sunday Coroner RlaIaek returned 10
49,
he went 80 investigate tae cause ~ the
death or the man found III tss san3 hliln
hall "a mile west - town. TIE body Mas
haaly l5cemf,osed. and could not ee iden-
tG'iea FIRST supposiyior was thai ire man
ha3 tE-eksn hta ~ ana h.lH< hu50sss%.
had diet from ~xh8twfso1. TIE coroner.
after Investigations believed taAs a nvE-
der was committed and thai the body
Mas buried under twa feet ~ sana. The
}ufy returned a verdict of death FROM an
known causes
The following Is the list II petit tnrorrs
araws, .ar .hes Jury term II the ChehaHS
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l!ams \. W. Mvtsnr. eroye J Il I@s'ey.
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Roy nAtph Trcttcr - Vancouver L
= i. s4.a IL have devised q nuYei pian
"a - lsa money fof 1he advance at -
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Isrisssb Columbia mining nfu@tff Fee
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fhay she approximations - - fasff arr
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t-snae3 ana ~ En2iaaa setting 5na SseeN
IL sns companies Interested Every Gel
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