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

Walla Walla's new baseball grounds
will cost $1,000.
Five bears have been caught already
this spring near Kalama.
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll is president
OF the company that will build the
smelter at Spokane Falls.
The townsite of Utsalady has been
sold to a syndicate of Minnesota capi-
talists. A railroad will be built there.
There are twice as many convicts
in the Walla Walla penitentiary as
there was a year ago. The number
now is PIG.
Contracts have been let for twenty
six new business house and dwellings
at Union City. The village is rapidly
assuming respectable proportions.
Florence, in Snohomish county, is
proud OF the possession of many fe-
male heavyweights. Seven women in
that town weigh an aggregate of 1870
pounds.
The preliminary examination of Dr..
Wartman, at Centralia, for seduction,
resulted in his being bound over to
the district court in sum of 81, 500
bonds, which he furnished.
Burglars ransacked the Office of the
Mason County Central Railroad Com
pany at Shelton, getting few dollars
from drawer, but failing in their at:
tempt to break open the safe.
The Gray's Harbor Commercial
Company announce that they will
henceforth run two steamers between
San Francisco and that port-the
Point Iona and Casper-running
every ten days.
The people of Centralia, says the
News, are not in favor of bonding the
city for the purpose of erecting water
works, believing that the work can be
better and more expeditiously done
by private parties.
At the municipal election held at
Kelso, last Saturday, the following
officers were elected: Mayor, Edwin
Pratt; Councilmen, A. H. Edlin, B.
F. Gilbert, F. NJ. Bell, Walter Lysons
John Pollard; Treasurer, NJ. A. Swag.
er.
Mike Ballman, the man who killed
A. A. Shounts y few months ago, was
tried in the Superior courts at Con
connully. He was found guilty oI
murder in the second degree and SEN
fenced to a term of IS years in the
State penitentiary.
A friend at Puyallup informs us
that hop vines in that neighborhood
recently grew twenty-three inches in
twenty-5our hours, or nearly an inch
an hour. That is the most astonish
ing growth of which we have evel
heard, and if true, certainly beats the
record Slaughter Sun.
Union City Il surrounded by sur
yeyOrs of all kinds and conditions
says the Tribune. They consist prin
cipally of railroad and town site sur
veyors. The first lot came in a tow
boat, the next by steamboat and final
iy, on Friday, the steamer Mogui towet
up whole raft of them.
Port Townsend will soon have
another important industry in opera
ton which will give employment to al
least fifty men-The Hastings Lum
ber Manufacturing Company. Will
the permanent payroll increased full.
fifty workingmen the material welfar,
of the town will be considerably sub
served.
A postoffice has been established q
Ferry, Lewis county, WASH, with Ar
thur Bridges postmaster. l.. J. Vile!
has been appointed postmaster al
Simcoe, Yakima county, Wash
Charles Smith has been recommended
by Representative Wilson to be post
master at Palouse City, vice Ed Orcutt
resigned.
Morton Norton, who was committed
to the Steilacoom Insane Asylum
about Christmas time for his halluci
nation in thinking a figure on thu
tower of the Gross building, at Ia
coma, to be his Satanic Majest,
and wanting to chop it down, diet
yesterday morning from pneumonia
Before dying he became rational.