Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-08-08
WHOLE NUMBER 1886.
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
The total wealth of Columbis
county according to the Assessor.
valuations, is $780, 800, divided as
follows: Real estate, 81 ,595, ,545; i'm.
provements, $1,521, sos; personal, ST.
422 $40.
A few days ago George Dixon, of
kelso. hauled logs, which had been
cut from one tree, making $4,000 feet
OF lumber, at one load, with five yoke
oil cattle. The butt log scaled seyenty-
five inches in diameter.
An artesian well was struck at Pull
man last Thursday morning. The
flow is from 500 to 600 gallons per
minute. This brings the total flow
from the six wells OF the town I'D to
about 1900 gallons per minute.
l.. Saldron, OF Cathlamet, last week
opened his dam with ten-foot head
OF water, and sluiced through over
'oo,o00 feet OF logs into tide water.
The water from the dam raised the
creek fully five feet, and lasted for
over an hour.
The following party left Yelm Mon
day morning to ascend and explore
Mount Rainier: Mr.. and Mrs. Van
Trump, of Yelm, Rev. Ernest Smith,
sister and party of Seattle, the Lee
party of Olympia, and Miss Fay Full
ler, of Tacoma. They intend to be
gone about three weeks.
The following rebate pardons have
been issued on the report of the Peni-
tentiary Commission: George Will
liams, of Seattle, two months, Edward
Worley two months; Henry Bunton,
North Yakima, two months; John
Jenkins, Tacoma, seven months and
Frank Blum, Tacoma, seven months.
The Governor has granted a pardon
to Gilbert Richards, who was sentenced
in the district court at Chehalis, on
August 18th, 1886, to seven years in
the Penitentiary for rape. The pardon
was granted on the prisoners good
record and failing health, and a nu-
merously signed petition of the lead
ing citizens.
Hood & Leaven's shingle mill, stu
ated near Kelso, caught fire last week
and was burned to the ground. So
rapidly did the fire progress, the work.
men below did not have time to at
tach the hose. The surrounding
buildings and a large stock of shingles
were saved. The loss is estimated at
$4,000, and is partially insured.
Last Monday Charles Lambert,
working at logging near Cathlamet,
met with painful accident. 1t ap-
pears he was driving wedge into a
tree that he was telling, when the
head of the wedge splintered, and a
portion struck his thigh, severing an
artery and inflicting a deep wound.
He lost large quantity of blood be-
fore the artery could be closed.
Walla Walla will soon have the
lines OF the Pacific Postal Telegraph
Company. Colfax should SUR herself
and get this line. The Western Un-
ion does not accommodate the people.
That company uses the railroad wire,
over which all railroad business has
the preference, delaying important
commercial business often for hours
and in numerous cases making the
wires slower than the mails. Give us
the Postal, or at least an independent
Western Union wire.-Gasette.
J. ID. Bennett, of Montesano, has
discovered mine OF iron on
North river. He sent a sample to San
Francisco, and the .assayer in his re-
port stated that the rock carried Is
per cent. OF iron and that the iron was
OF excellent quality. The sample sent
was an out-cropping only, and an eff
fort will shortly be made to get some
OF the rock from the main ledge,
which it is expected will assay much
richer. There is n veritable mountain
of the rock, it having been traced by
the outcroppings for several miles
The ledge is only about eight miles
from Montesano.
There is current report, and an
apparently well-founded one, says the
Tacoma Ne,rs, that the Northern Pa
cific will engage in the summer resort
and tourist business on large scale
on the completion of its road to
Shoalwater bay. 1t is said that the
Northern will acquire the narrow
gauge road running along the beach
between Ilwaco and Sealand, a dis
tance OF some nineteen miles. Engi-
neer Huson and other officials OF the
road have declared that the beach is
one of the finest in America. Last
year 10000 tourists visited the beach,
though as yet accommodations both
Tor travel and residence are crude, and |
the number will undoubtedly be |
swelled to large proportions when |
suitable accommodations are provided. |
ACCORDING to the Philadelphia |
Ledger we are in sight Of deficit of