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WASHINGTON. The bank at Blaine has suspended. The heaviest creditors are said to be in Seattle and Portland. The schooner James G. Swan, in charge of Captain Tom Frazier and an Indian crew, came into Port Townsend from Neah bay with 402 skins, the biggest eatch of the season. The schooner Lottie brought in 105 skins. J. L. Rice, an old Californian 70 years of age, died at Smith's cove, near Seattle, from the injuries which he received last Thursday in attempting to alight from a passenger train. Rice made a fortune in California during the gold excitement of '49. He has a piece of land near Smith's cove valued at $50,000. Israel Fisher, the 6-year-old son of Architect Fisher of Seattle, was playing with a dynamite cartridge Sunday evening when it exploded and blew his left hand into shreds. He had picked up the cartridge, or piece, on a lot where some men had been clearing and which had been used in blowing up stumps. His hand will have to be amputated. The only lady enumerator employed in taking the eleventh census in the state, and the only one in the United States, so far as known, is at work in a Seattle district. Supervisor Jenkins, who has charge of the western half of the state, writes to to Supervisor Hill that the lady is giving first-class satisfaction in quality and quantity of work done-in fact, that her work is done better than that by her male associates. Tally one for woman's rights! -Pullman Herald. So Ho Me, one of the Chinese murderers who has been confined in the county jail since last fall awaiting sentence, died at an early hour Saturday and was buried the same afternoon. So Ho Me was the Chinaman described by the celestial witness for the prosecution as a highbinder and professional bravo. Ever since his confinement in the county jail So Ho Me has been sick and for the past month his recovery has been regarded as impossible. Had he lived a few days more sentence of manslaughter would have been pronounced on him.-Walla Walla Union.