Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-04-25
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Tacoma is to have 100000 tour
lists hotel.
A$5O.OOO brewery is to be established
at North Yakima.
The real estate sales of Seattle from
January to April 1G amounted to
s., 74O,922.19.
A movement is ON foot to establish
an agricultural association and turf
club at Snohomish.
Gray's Harbor now has a city named
Chicago. If there is anything in
name she should succeed.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany is relaying its track with new
steel rails from Chehalis to Portland.
Washington State has more miles of
mail route by water than any other
State in the Union, except Maryland.
The Port Townsend Leader advises
some of the dealers of town lots in
that city to plant them with potatoes.
Ballard, a Seattle suburb, by a vote
of 275 to 5, expressed determine ton
for a separate incorporation, last Tues
day.
The Columbia paper mill at La
Camas is turning out an average of
eight tons of paper every twenty-four
hours, and the work gives employment
to nearly one hundred hands.
Lieutenant Commander Rhodes, of
the United States Navy, is making a
tour of Puget Sound in the lighthouse
tender Manzanita, making an inspec-
ton of all Government light stations.
The Seattle Journal says that of the
relief fund $4,000 remains unexpend-
ed, and suggests that the balance be
devoted to assisting in the establish
ment of a house for friendless boys
and girls.
Thirteen new national banks were
organized in Washington during the
last fiscal year, making SO of these
banks in the State, with a combined
capital of $3,5l4,3OO, an increase of
81, 100000 during the year.
The Fairhaven & Southern asks the
City Council of Whatcom to grant it
a right of way one-fourth of mile
long and 600 feet wide in front of
Whatcom-lOO feet in shore and 500
feet toward deep water-and promis.
ing to put in sea wall to prevent re-
piling.
Among the most interesting coun-
ties in Washington is that of Island
county, which is composed of WILDLY,
one of the largest islands in the Puget
Sound, being about forty miles long
and one to ten miles wide, it being ir-
regular in form. The area of WILDLY
island is 1O4 1856 acres.
Will ID. Jenkins has divided King
county, outside OF Seattle, into seven
teen districts, and Seattle into four
teen districts, for the purpose of facili-
tating the taking of the census. He
estimates the population of Seattle ut
Al 900, and of the county out of Se-
attic at $4,000. Total, $1,000.
Washington's champion railroad
builder, George w. Hunt, proposes to
the people of Pomeroy that he will
build a railroad to that town for a
subsidy of $50 for every 1000 bushels
Of grain raised thereabouts for the
next ten years after the road is COM
pleted thereto. An easy way to get
railroad.
The large three masted schooner
Sailor Boy, Captain Johnson master,
is loading at the Weatherwax Lumber
Co.'S mill at Aberdeen, FOR Talara Bay,
Peru. This vessel carries 10000 feet
of lumber and is regularly engaged in
the Aberdeen trade, and is one OF the
crafts that visits other nations from
this port.
A circular has been issued by the
Columbia River Fishermen's Protec-
tive Union calling united action
in favor of maintaining the prices of
last year, namely 81 per fish for can
merry gear and $l25 for private boats.
1t declares that if fishing is generally
suspended, in three weeks those prices
will be ensured.
The County Commissioners OF Yak
ina have been petitioned to form an
irrigation district including 5000
acres. The cost OF putting water on