Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-08-01
STATE NEWS.

Centralia has purchased an AhIen
steam fire engine and 1000 feet OF
hose
The Pacific Cement Co., is new IN
CORPORATION to do business at Port
Townsend.
DR.. Pugsley, of Walla Walla, died
from sunstroke Friday morning. This
is rare occurrence for this State.
The sash and door factory OF c. NJ.
johnson, at Tacoma, was destroyed by
fire Monday. Eighty men were em-
ployed in it.
A son of F. w. Scott, residing at
Lexington, about six miles north OF
Kelso, was drowned in the Cowlitz
river, Sunday afternoon, while in bath
ing.
C. /. Helm, of West kittitas, will
stack $50 tons of hay this year, which
at the present prices net him I'll per
ton in the stock. Immense quantities
of hay will be put up in the valley
this year.
A petition is being circulated at
Centralia asking the City Council to
order an election to ascertain the will
of the people in regard to bonding
the city to the amount OF $4,000 for
the purpose of erecting city hall,
commencing a system of sewerage and
constructing other needed improve
ments.
David Latin, Tacoma murderer,
serving twenty years sentence, at
tempted to escape Friday. Hejumped
into n water tank, but was noticed by
the guard on the wall. Under his
clothes was suit made of blankets
and in q pocket false mustache was
found. This was his second attempt
to escape.
Frank Wood, cook in hotel at
the river, RESCUED Eddie Ilock, A.
year-old boy, from the Spokane river
few feet above the brink of the falls
Saturday. The rescue was one of the
bravest in the history of the falls.
The boy had been fishing from an
overhanging timber and slipped off
into the stream.
Mr.. Leech, Of Muskegen, Wis, is at
Centralia. He is an old lumberman,
and has made a proposition to the
citizens that if they will give him
three acres of land near the junction
of the Chehalis and Skookumchuck
rivers that he will erect saw mill
with capacity OF 10000 feet per day,
and in addition guarantee to
bring twenty families to the city.
The proposition is undbr considera-
ton.
| 1t is announced that Alexander
Begg, founder of the daily Journal
and several weekly and monthly pub
lications, will in few days, start.
Democratic paper at Seattle to be
called the Telegram, and that both
morning and evening editions will be
published. 1t is supposed that he is
backed by Democrats who are dis
satisfied with the recent sale of the
Morning Journal to a syndicate Of Re-
publicans.
The .News says: One of the most
lexpensive cases on trial in the Skagit
county court is the Carnefx-P Pierce
case, from Sauk. Already the case has
cost Skagit county nearly $1,000, and
the end is not yet. At the last session
over $500 was expended to bring wit
,nesses to testify to the previous good
character of Carnefix. The taxpayers
OF the county are getting tired of pay
ing the expensive costs of this
squabble, and the case cannot be dis
posed of any too soon to stop the large
drain on the public treasury.
| Twenty-iour thousand dollars of the
$25,OCO subsidy asked on condition
that the Tacoma & Steilaco I'M electric
road, now building from Chambers
bay, be extended to Steilacoom, has
been pledgcl. This will make the
road one and one-half miles longer
than was originally intended, and its
total length eleven miles. Residents
of Steilacoom could not see visions of
electric cars from Tacoma running so
near that burg as Chambers bay with
out hustling themselves to raise the
desired bonus and have the road ex-
tended to that town.
Information OF peculiar accident
in Camas prairie, whereby Mr.. Thomas
McGraf, a prominent farmer of that
section, had his ear cut completely of,
reached Goldendale few days ago.
He was carrying sickle to moving
machine on his shoulder and was 60
ing into the field followed by little
boy on horse and another younger
child on foot. The old gentleman is
quite lame, and noticing that the
horsewas likely to run over the child,
he turned and started to run to its as
sistance, when he fell in such man
ner as to bring his ear in contact with
the sickle, cutting it off smooth with
his head.
1t is reported from Tacoma, says
the Minneapolis Lumberman, that
George Sims, at one time private sec
retary to Henry, Willard is about to
purchase ON behalf of an English
syndicate several OF the Puget Sound
mills. He is reported to be about to
close a deal for the purchase of the
Port Blakely mill which is the largest
and most valuable mill prOperty on