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— Pe £11 “Examiner” Notes.C. S. Hungerford has secured a position as teacher in school district No. 97, about three mileB from town on the Boistfort road. The term commenced last Monday.Last Wednesday morning or Tuesday night the house on W. L. Bak'er’s homestead, recently occupied by Solon Allen and family, was burnt to the gronnd. Thera was no one living in the house, but some apples and loggers’ tools and saws were destroyed,A report was current last-week to the effect that Joe Shields had' met with a fatal accident. It appears that' a man was killed near Spokane a wees or 30 ago while endeavoring to board .a train. The man was not identified, but a letter addressed to J. Shields was found in one of his pockets. The .last: time Joe was heard from he was at Yakima. George Bloomhardt of Tacoma passed through Pe Eli on Saturday’s' train on his way to South Bend. Inconversing with an Examiner man he stated that he had recently talk^} with Mr. Joseph McCabe and that he, Mr. McCabe, said that there was no doubt that the rocx for- the Gray’s Harbor jetty would be taken from the quarry near Pe Ell. The government engineers, he said, had pointed out to the government the impossibility of procuring the rock in the way the lowest bidders for the work had suggested, viz: by quarrying it at some point on the Columbia river, taxing it out to sea, and back into Gray’s Harbor. The government was certain to refuse tolet the contract to these men. Mr. Me-*Cabe said that the work would require from 80 to 100 men for four or five years.
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Chehalis Bee
Chehalis, Washington, US
Fri, Oct 15, 1897
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