Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-04-18
STATE NEWS.

sued Jacob Ralph for $4,000 for al
legged malicious prosecution.
r. Levy, principa. Owner of the
townsite of Gray's Harbor, says he has
been offered and refused $4,000 for it.
The energetic young Democrats of
Tacoma have formed club. 1t will
be both political and social in charac-
ter.
Eighty-six Indian children are at.
tending the Government school at the
Home Farm on the Puyallup reserva-
ton.
A religious lunatic, Mrs. Ellen E.
Jacobus, aged 81 years, of White river,
has been sent to the asylum at Stella
COON.
Cheney is soon too have cheese
factory. The farmers thereabouts are
to supply them milk at 81 per hundred
pounds.
Seattle is to have creamery, under
the management of the recently Or
ganized Crescent Creamery Co., of st.
Paul, MINI.
Ritzville has purchased $3.50 worth
of seed wheat for seven farmers who
were unable to purchase it, which will
seed 1872 acres.
Washington State has 9O7 miles OF
steamboat mail routes and the number
of miles travelled annually by the mail
boats is 100000.
County Assessor Custer has begun
work in Whatcom. The valuation OF
the county, it is thought, will foot up
about $6,OOO,OOO.
The sudden way in which new towns
bob up on the Sound is enough to
make Mare Island have a colt.-Co-
lumbid Chronicle.
1t is proposed to connect Crockett's
lake on WILDLY Island with the Sound
by means OF canal, and to build ship.
yards on the lake.
Many of the Big Bend ponds and
lakes that have been dry for some
years, are now full OF water. 1t means
large and extensive crops.
Ezra Meeker is the father of hor
growing in Washington, his first ex
pertinent being in 1869. Through il
a fortune has come to him.
The Bennett railroad bridge at
Ferndale will have draw 237 feet
long, exactly like the one across the
Columbia river at Kenewick.
A. P. Sharpstein, son of Judge Sharp
stein, OF Walla Walla, has located al
Port Townsend, and expects to engage
in the practice of law there.
The Mckee Agricultural Company
will plant fifty acres of tobacco thi.
year, and also 800 acres of alfalfa, on
its fine premises near Yakima.
The WalIa Walla Journal laments
the fact that Judge Anders has left
that city " for good" as is shown by
the purchase of q site for u residence
in Olympia.
A big squirrel hunt was held in the
neighborhood of Latah last week, and
the Tekoa Globe says it resulted in the
death of nearly a thousand of the
little pests.
i" Browns Broken Bugle" is the nj
lucrative headline which adorns al
account of the late fracas in the Legis
lature, found floating about in tn,
State papers.
A considerable addition will be made
to the acreage of hops in Yakims
county during the present season
Hop men anticipate better prices thi,
year than usual.
The Pilot says that NJ. J. Fox, O.
Pasco, is at work on the lime quarrie.
near that place, getting stone fol
making test burn, preparatory tt
erecting large kiln.
The Herald notes that the Fair
haven Land Company have let the
contract for the clearing of 200 acre.
of land along the water front from
Chuckanut Bay to Fairhaven.
WhatcOm and Sehome are to ineor
porate as one town, with its corporate
limits four miles square. Fairhaver
will include little Bellingham in its
corporate limits, as well as all the avail
able country around it.
The people who believe that the
more taxes they pay the richer they
are, have begun the organization of q
branch of the American Protective
Tariff League. at Seattle. This is a
hint to the tariff reformers to move.
Claus Spreckels, the great Cali.
fornia sugar producer, proposes to
test the saccharine elements of Eastern
Washington beets for sugar purposes
If found good, beet growing will be-
come II large industry in the State, its
soil being unexcelled.
S. j. Tiff, prominent farmer living
about three miles south of Cheney
was fatally injured Monday afternoon
by the accidental discharge of his gun
while hunting, the charge taking effect
in the groin. He bled to death before
a doctor could be summoned.
According to the Spokane Review
a company could be formed who
would willingly pay s5O,OOOOOO for a
title to all the tide lands which the
tide land measure proposes to relin'
quish for II paltry consideration, bare
ly sufficient to pay the expense oI
making the transfer.
A postOflice has been established al
Rnfler kitsnn conntu xu;th C.a.ao,