Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-24
STATE NEWS.
Aberdeen has an electric

Snow is two feet deep within ter
miles OF Port Angeles.
Oystervillc wants tie normal school,
of the State located at that place.
At Shoalwater bay one company
picked 900 bushels of cranberries.
Waitsburg is experiencing potato
famine; none to be had at any price.
The thermometer was ten degrees
below zero in Ellensburgh last week.
Blaine is nearer to Alaska than any
deep-water port in the United States.
Itis said the heavy snow will in
sure big crops in the Big Bend coun-
try.
Tacoma's exposition building is to
cover 5000 square feet, and to cost
$4,000.
Colfax claims to have one of the
largest and most complete saw mills
in the State.
There are from $4,000 to 100000
acres of oysters in cultivation on
Shoalwater Bay.
Plans have been prepared for build
ing a $4,000 high school at Sehome,
says the Gazette.
The townsite of Drayton, Whatcom
county, is said to have been sold to a
railway company.
OF band OF $50 cattle north of
Davenport, one-ihird died from the ef-
fects OF the recent storm.
About million and quarter bush
els of wheat have been shipped from
Tacoma from the crop of 1889.
The Maplewood farm of $50 acres
near Pupallup, has been purchased by
a local railroad company, for $246,-
600.
Our Legislature is at least twice toe
large. This is fact that is becoming
every day more apparent.-Tdncoure,
Register.
The wreck OF he Idaho is to be
beached near Port Townsend and
burned, in order to get out and save
the old iron.
A half-breed sled was one of tn,
sights on the streets of Rosalia las
week. Wheels were in front, ane
runners in the rear.
The farmers about Chehalis shiI
over 500 worth of milk tc Tacom:
every month. They get five cents pei
quart, delivered at the depot.
The Bucoda Enterprise says the Sc
atco Manufacturing Company ha.
turned out 3O,955 windows and tran
SONS since the first of last May.
The fine new residence of . w. II
TAFT, at Tracyton, on Port Orchard
was totally consumed by fire, with al
the furniture, last Friday morning.
The Bellingham Bay cities will hav,
electric lights in a few days. TIL,
plant has arrived and the company i
fast putting the wires in condition.
The Aberdeen Water Company ha
increased its capital stock $4,000 t,
enable it to supply the citizens of tina
city with fresh water for every pun
pose.
Ellensburgh has contributed tel
convicts to the State Penitentiar,
since last April-Ah Tom for gran,
larceny, and Fred Wyman for stealth,
a horse, being the latest.
Henry Stone, a wealthy citizen an,
property owner OF Seattle, has disap
peared from his home in that city an,
his relatives and friends are greatl,
perturbed over his absence.
Over $4,000 has been raised for tn,
purpose of building Il college at Pasc,
next summer, which, it is expected
will begin operations at the openin,
of the school year in September.
Over $4,000 has been raised for tn
purpose OF building college at Pasc
next summer, which, it is expected
will begin operations at the openin
of the school year in September.
In Chehalis county the averag
price paid school teachers is $50 pc
month, and it was not until recent,
that the supply was equal to the de
mand. School census of 1SSS-chil
dren of school age, 1900; 1889, $500.
On the Big Bend ranges, says tn
Cheney Enterprise, cattle are dying b,
the hundreds, and that every hoe
will have to be fed or lost, as there
from two or three feet of snow all owe
the plains and more on the noun
tains.
Forty-five miners houses are abou
to be built at Bucoda. A lower veil
OF Ignite coal is to be opened. TIL
present mine is to be put in shap
Immediately, to be worked in its full
est capacity. Fifty-four men are en-
ployed there now
If Centralia will give bonus @
$4,000, G.. II. Ellsbury offers to bull,
a road east from that city to coal an,
timber lands. He states that he ha
an abundance OF Eastern capital read
and willing to construct the road a
once.-CeHtralia News.
Colville has IA brewery, seven saloon
and no church. An Evangelist r,
Gently found the Jail the only availabl
place in which to preach, remarkin
when he selected it that it would b
Z" the easiest place in town from whic
to escape in case of fire."
The Yakima Herald says that til
town OF Orondo, on the bank of til
Columbia river in Douglas county,
the scene OF a glori6cation over IL
arrival of its first female inhabitan