Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-05-30

STATE NEWS.
The estimated population of Skagit
county at present is 81 500.
The farmers of Chehalis county are
preparing for county fair this fall.
A new Y. M. C. A. building will be
erected in Seattle the present year.
The Union Pacific is preparing to
increase its steamboat service on the
Sound.
The NOoksack valley, Whatcom
county, is a prolific region for bees and
honey.
Simpson Bros. contemplate build.
ing railroad from Shelton to Lake
Cushman.
Real estate sales at Seattle for the
year are rapidly approaching total Of
100000.
Mr.. A. Scott Hewitt, of Tacoma, a
prominent real estate dealer, died
Wednesday.
Colfax is making every possible effort
to secure location of the State Agricul-
tural College.
A number of capitalists at Seattle
contemplate making Lillewaup Falls
. Summer resort.
The new wharf at Fairhaven, at the
foot of Columbia street, will cost when
completed $4,000.
The Union Pacific will soon put
several thousand men at work on the
Columbia river grade.
Whatcom contains only one mon
kolian, and he has been resident for
over a decade of years.
The Call notes that 200 Kentucky
people are coming to Port Townsend
and vicinity to locate.
Port Townsend is placing an electric
street car plant which will be ready
for operation this summer.
Blaine thinks. her postofiice some
pumpkins, too; $158 worth of stamps
having been sold in April.
The Port Angeles Times says that a
ferry across the strait from that point
to Victoria is being agitated.
Port Townsend has effected an Or
ganization of Baptists, who will build
o church and secure pastor.
The Tacoma grocers have formed a
mutual protective organization to
stand off professional dead-beats.
There has been an alarming number
Of deaths among the Indians on the
S!mcoe reservation the past winter.
The preliminary steps have been
taken towards the organization of q
Farmers Alliance in Lincoln county.
Recent rains have fallen in the
Eastern Washington grain growing
regions, which insures bountiful crops.
Real estate at Ellensburg and Spo-
kane Falls does not sell for more than
one-half the doomed prices of year
ago.
Judge Burke, of Seattle, has been
appointed one of the Worlds Fair
Commissioners, by President Harri-
son.
The editor of the Sea Haven IVES
tern World, Will NJ. Dunlap, has fallen
heir to $4,000, by the death Of a
relative.
The Clydesdale stallion which
Slaughter citizens imported at cost Of
5000, has died, and all Slaughter
mourns.
An Indian living near Port Discovery
bay caught salmon in that bay a few
days ago which weighed seventy
pounds.
The second annual meeting of the
the Washington Bankers Association
will be held at Spokane Falls July 10Th
and Goth.
A colony OF sixty families from Kan
sas have bought lots at Kalama, and
will arrive about the 18th prox., to
establish homes.
Wool is coming rapidly into Ritz
vile, and it is expected that $4,000
worth will be shipped from Adams
county this spring.
George H. Wartman, a travelling
dentist, has been arrested at Centralia,
charged with the seduction of Alta
Fisher, two years ago.
Little boys of Pullman have in
augurated the industry of catching
small land turtles and selling them to
Cinnamon for food.
Hoquiam and Aberdeen are to be
connected by electric railroad, and the
same company likewise propose to fur
nish power and light.
Charles r. Bell, a new arrival at
Aberdeen from Danville, KY, is about
to erect an ice factory and a wood
working establishment.
In July, Shelton will have a new
sawmill, a sash and door factory, a
shingle mill and brick yard, and also
an electric light system and water SER
vice.
A dozen wooden buildings were de-
stroyed by fire at North Yakima, Sum-
day night. The loss was about $780,
600, with fair proportion of insur-
ance.
The Eye notes that fir tree stands
in that county-Snohomish-325 feet
high and forty-four feet in circum-
ference, probably the largest on the
continent, if not on the globe.
Old Kalama is beginning to shake
off the lethargy which has enthralled
her almost since birth. A $4,000 no
hotel is now projected, by man of ex-
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