Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-12-26
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STATE NEWS.

Seattle has 81 religious societies and
about as many churches.
A new brewery to cost $4,000 will
soon be built at Snohomish.
Seattle has 100 teachers in her pub
lie schools and over 5000 pupils.
The Sedro hotel was destroyed by
fire Monday morning. The loss is
$500.
Nearly million barrels of lime were
manufactured on the San Juan archi-
pelago this year.
The Kalama Bulletin thinks that
that city, instead of Centralia, will be
the terminus of the Union Pacific and
Great Northern.
Over two thousand miles of stage
route are still operated in this State,
notwithstanding the rapid increase of
railroad communication.
The people of Montesano want
water works and are debating whether
to let private company furnish the
aqua POtk vi wv ~ thSlIiSClNCc.
Fred Schmable, Walla Walla la
boring man, was badly cut about the
head last Friday by the falling of
large rock which he was hoising by
derrick.
Jonas Gisselberg, who lives at Water
ford, ut an elevation of 1000 feet
above the river, contempla,es setting
out a thousand hop vines. for an ex-
pertinent.
Workmen grading Fourth street in
Walla Walla last week unearthed the
skeleton of man about three feet be-
low the surface. The locality is said
to have been used in early days as
graveyard.
The regents of the State University
favor the sale OF the present grounds
in Seattle for $4,000 and the dona-
ton of a new site from the State, tax
ing forty acres from a school section
in Seattle.
Five hundred dollars reward is Of
fered by the commissioners of Pacific
county for the arrest of George Rose,
which, with the reward offered by TIE
sheriff and commissioners of Chehalis
county, makes total of $1,000.
Last Tuesday Dave Aldridge was
killed at kalama by a moving train.
1t is thought that he was sleeping I'M
der a car when it was set in motion
without awakening him. One arm and
leg was severed from the body.
The Nooksack Boom Company have
suffered considerable loss during the
recent violent storms. Their boom
was broken and logs are floating all
over the bay. Quite number have
been washed ashore at Whatcom.
William Harkins, the Northern Pa
cific switchman who was caught be-
tween a car and building at Tacoma,
died from internal injuries. He was
a years old and unmarried. He
leaves a father, mother and several
brothers.
A crazy man entered the Colfax Ma
tiOnal bank last week and demarded
100000 he had won on a lottery
ticket. He was arrested and found to
be miner named William Cottrell.
He was pronounced insane and taken
o the asylum.
Miss Oracle Kennedy, 14-year-old
girl, had her arm broken last week
near the Puyallup reservation. She
was riding with her mother when the
team became frightened and both
ladies were thrown out. They were
both badly bruised.
A movement is being agitated by an
Island county legislator to have the
next Legislature establish one of the
State Normal Schools in that county.
A liberal donation of land and money
is assured in the event of the favora-
bic reception 81 such plan.
When the new steamer, the CHu of
Seattle, arrives on the Sound, she will !
be put on the Tacoma-Seattle, Port !
Townsend-Whatcom route, and her
time card be arranged so that she will !
make close connections with all the
Puget Sound and Alaska Steamship |
Company's steamers.
The Walla Walla Board of Trade !
has chosen the following officers and
representatives: President, F. W.
Paine; Vice President, c. o. Ballou;
Secretary, Henry KEELING; Treasurer,
H. H. Turner; delegates to the Olym-
pia meeting for the organization OF a
State Board of Trade, Dr. N. G. BlalQck,
F. w. Paine and P. B. Johnson; rep