Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-02-21
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Ellensburgh has organized Il new
Board oil Trade.
There was fourteen inches of snow
at Pasco on the 10Th.
/ \ sturgeon packing house has been
established OF kalama.
Fourteen prisoners were lately sent
! from the Sound to the Walla Walla
rcnitentiary.
\. Z. Partridge, formerly proprietor
OF the Centralia NeWs has purchased
the Chehalis Nugget.
Hugh Conway, railroad laborcr at
Tekoa, has been adjudged insane and
taken to Steilacoom.
Apoultry ranch in the vicinity OF
Snohomish, says the Sun, would pay
better interest than government bonds.
\ sneak thief entered the Arlington
hotel at Centralia while the guests
were at supper and carried off several
hats.
The material of the Wallula Herald,
I
and a new paper, it is said, will soon
appear.
The planning mill of Cooper &
Smuck, at Walla Walla, was damaged
by fire to the amount of 81 900, last
Monday.
The barkcntine North Bend sailed
from Sea Haven for San Francisco,
Saturday, the 18th, with 100000 feet
of lumber.
Four inches of good honest snow
fell in The Walla Walla valley last
Sunday. At Wallula it was eighteen
inches deep.
The Hamilton public school was
suspended last week to give the pro-
lessor opportunity to go to Seattle and
file on a claim.
For want OF care, at least one-third
OF the cattle in the White Bluff range
died during the winter, according to a
Ritzville resident
Chicago has growing rival in
Lewis county. There were eleven
divorce suits before the Superior Court
OF that county last week.
III. A. Riddell of Seattle is building
a new tug-boat, to be used on the har-
Dor and sound, that will be thirty-iive
feet in length, beam eight feet.
Considerable damage was done the
sidewalks and streets of PomerOv bv
the recent freshets. In some places
sidewalks were completely under
mined.
The raising OF the bonus OF $4,000,
asked for to secure the building of the
road from Centralia to the coal mines
east of the city, was completed last
Monday.
Senator Allen has secured the pas
sage by the Senate of the bill creating
two additional land districts in this
State. The bill establishes Land |
Office at Olympia.
Monday night the Hassalo collided
with the otter six miles this side of |
Seattle, knocking hole in the latter's
side. She was ran ashore and has be-
come total wreck.
A fire at Walla Walla on the night
OF Tuesday destroyed the stock of
Goodsteing Bros, dealers in clothing,
valued at $4,000. There was par
tial insurance on the stock.
A demented bridge carpenter at Te-
koa imasines that he is John l.. Sulli-
van. He has been taken to Colfax by
the sheriff. If he should run across
a kilrain, that i',c, might be knocked
out OF him.
Denee, the man who robbed faro
bank of 5000 and shot Dick Richards,
the doorkecper of the place, few
weeks ago, at Seattle, has been SEN
fenced to seventeen years impr;son-
tin the Penitcntiary.
James McCarty, youthful prisoner
Mt the penitentiary from Tacoma, sub
)ect to eighteen months sentence, is
likely to be relieved within a month,
as he is in the last stages of consump-
ton. Physicians there say that he is
in critical condition, so low that he
could not be bathed and has been
placed in the hospital. He is in for
burglary.
A short time ago Ed. Pitcher, a lad
was adjudged a lunatic and sent to the
asylum from Walla Walla. The other
lay his mother. aged 6S, and sister,
aged %, were brought into court to
lest their mental condition. The
mother was SO infirm and sick as to be
into the court room in bed,
,he sister meantime sebbing piteously.
Both were adjudged insane.
Oregonidn: 1t is stated that Con-
,ressman Wilson is of the opinion that
,nly one of the cities of Washington
likely to get an appropriation dur
ng this session Of Congress. He is,
therefore DESTROYS that Senator Squire !
ease lis efforts in Seattle's behalf.
md give Spokane precedence. Not t
outstanding all the political prizes {
aptured by King county, her people >
re II aching out for this one also.
The Aberdeen Bulletin says the ex-
eeding high water renders navigation
IN the Chehalis river dangerous, es-
'ecially is this so at the bead Just be-
ow the wharf. Unless the MOntesano
'cople want the boats to stop below
nd at the cannery dock or see wreck
which will entail great loss of life
nd property, they should take imme-
iaie steps to straighten the channel
y cutting way through the peninsu-
4 at that point.
George w. Downs. of the Port Town
end sawmill, lost Il boom of logs in
he heavy sea u few nights ago, near
'oulweather blai. The boom con- =
aimed 10000 feet and cost over S.
20. Downs purchased them Of the
atsop Railroad Company and was 4
aving them towed from Big Skookum
D his mill at Port Townsend. The =
ca was rolling heavily when the boom
cached Foulweather bluff, and the
)gs jumped over the boom sticks and =
'ent to sea. =
County Clerk ID. w. Cameron is in
he habit of visiting his family at Cen
ralia every Saturday night, remaining
ntil Monday morning, when he
'alks on the railroad to Chehalis in
me to resume his official duties for