Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-06-13
STATE NEWS.

Travel on the Sound is steadily in
creasing.
Representative S. c. Herren has
been elected mayor of Winlock.
J. L. Leith, tried for arson, at Che
halls, a few days ago, was acquitted.
The building OF the pump factory at
Chehalis will be completed by next
week.
The citizens of Port Townsend have
decided to hold grand celebration in
that city on July L.
The editors of Lewis county met
few days since and perfected the or
ganization of press club.
The Union Pacific Company has
placed seven steamers on the Sound
between Olympia and Victoria.
The steamer Otter is being torn to
pieces at Old Tacoma, for the metal
that is in her machinery and hull.
Washington hops lead l cent per
pound in the New York market. They
sold last week at 2Ot to 2lt cents.
A party of two hundred merchants
and farmers will soon start from Ken
lucky to settle along Puget Sound.
While fooling with a gun twelve
year ole boy named Irish shot and
instantly killed his mother at Wilke-
son.
A farmer near Ellensburg has 80
acres in rye grass, which, to all APP
pearances, will yield four tons to the
acre.
Hoquiam and Aberdeen are to be
connected by an electric road, and the
same company will furnish power and
light.
The Okanogan Live Stock aud
Dressed Beef Company, of Seattle,
with a capital of 100000, has lately
been formed.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of
wool was sold at Ellensburgh day or
two ago, the prices averaging sixteen
cents a pound.
Six theological graduates from Yale,
called the washington Band" will
soon come over to dispute Satan's
power in our midst.
At a recent clambake near Port
Townsend Judge Kuhn swallowed 19l
bivalves, but was defeated by Captain
Plum, whose score was 203.
J. B. Blaylock, q prominent citizen
of Spokane Falls, fell from the fourth
story OF his incompleted building and
received injuries which may prove
fatal.
A new postoffice has been estab-
lished at Werner, San Juan county,
Jno. c. Werner, postmaster; Wooley,
Skagit county, w. w. Wooley, post
master.
The Siwashes are becoming civil
lized. A tenas klOOtchman (yOung
w0man) up at Sank hung herself few
days ago because of disappointment in
love affairs.
1t has been decided to change the
name of Shoalwater bay to Willapah
harbOr on all the government maps.
1t is considered as too suggestive of
shallow water.
Another claimant for the Harry
Morgan estate has appeared in a wife
from whom he had been separated
nineteen years. She is a resident OF
Pennsylvania.
The college commission, lately in
session in Olympia, decided not to To-
cate the college until after visiting
Spokane Falls again, and examining
all the sites offered ia that city.
Richard Johnson, a rancher living
near Port Discovery, accidentally shot
himself in the calf of his left leg while
hunting last Sunday, and surgical aid
not being at hand, soon bled to death.
Ellensburg school bonds to the
amount of $4,000 were sold to an
Eastern Investment Company at a
premium of two per cent. The bonds
bear interest at the rate of six per
cent.
A big tree was brought down the
Satsop railroad recently, says the Shell
ton Journal. The butt was marked:
d" This tree is eight feet at stump, seal
ing over 10000 feet, three cuts" An
other on same train was 105 feet long
and five feet at the butt.
The Puget Mill Co. made their
first sale of land last week, of $50
acres near Seattle. This company has
been steadily buying since 1853, but
this is the first bona fide sale ON
record. They now own over 1000
acres of land in this State.
"A big tree was brought down the
Satsop railroad last Saturday." says
the Shelton Journal of the 30th.
1.-THE butt was marked, This tree is
feet at stump, scaling over 10000,
cuts Another on the same train
was los feet long and five feet at the
butt.
Hoquiam is to have two new ma
tional banks, says the Gray's Harbor
Times, each with capital of $50, 900.
c. M. Parkhurst and Eastern friends
from Tower, Mimi, are actively inter-
ested in one. H. F. Schwartz, of Port
Angeles, and N. J. Levinson, of Port
Townsend, are moving spirits in the
other.
An attempt was made one night
last week to blow up the postoffice at
Steilacoom. The internal machine
dropped into the postoffice box was as
clumsy concern as malice devoid of
ingenuity ever contrived. 1t was .
rough paper parcel, containing some
punches of matches, number of re-
volver cartridges and some loose gun
powder. The matches had been
lighted, but the paper and gunpowder
failed to ignite.
A novel scheme was devised at
Blaine, at the late city election, to
keep the numerical strength at the
highest limit while polling a strictly
legal vote. Two ballot-boxes were
used, one for legal ballots and another
for foaters. Blaine cast ISL legiti-
mate votes and 658 ineligible ballots.
This was done to show the wonderful
growth of the town. The election Of
ficers had sufficient respect for the law,
however, to keep the legal and illegal
ballots separate.