Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-03-14
STATE NEWS,

Charles Frank expects to make T.
1000 brick at Sehome this season.
A movement is on foot to organize
an amateur rowing club at Port Town
send. e,;E,2
A train recently killed 1873 sheep be-
longing to johnson Bros, at Iona, near
t.
The new Presbyterian church at
Port Townsend will be dedicated on
March 16.
By the explosion of pile-driver at
Seattle last week, four men were severe
ly scalded, but fortunately no one was
fatally injured.
Walla Walla farmers say the pros
poets for good crops the coming sum-
mer were never better. Flowing is
now being carried on in all directions.
An Eastern sawmill and woodwork
ing company proposes to locate in the
new town of San de Fuca on Penn's
cove, WILDLY island. opposite Coupe
Vile.
Negotiations for the establishment
OF water.works at Montesano have fall
en- through. The company asking
more than the council was willing to
give.
The Bucoda miners are now turning
out 100 tons of coal day, and will
soon be increased to AGO. The land
owned by the company covers 5000
acres and the supply is practically un-
limited. ~
A Mrs. Gilbert n Edgewater. King
county, attempted suicide, Sunday af-
ternoon, by jumping in the lake. She
was rescued by the, bystanders, but
has since suffered from cold, which
may prove fatal.
]. Lindenberger, who is engaged in
the fish-packing and exporting busi-
ness in Europe, is buying fish in the
neighborhood of Port Townsend, as
well as Astoria, having concluded to
make contracts at all ports along the
coast. ~''',2 - ~ ''''' s
The Snohomish Sun states that w.
B. Stevens has left at its Office a petri-
fed potato which was six inches long
and weighed about four pounds. 1t
was found on the ground where he
planted potatoes year ago and did
not harvest the crop.
A great many cattle are reported to
have been drowned in the Columbia
river by yenturing out on tho ice,
which gave way. The same fate befell
a large number OF stock on Snake river
while in search of water. The rivers
were frozen along the shore for 100
feet or more.
Cyril w. Tullis, a relative of. Coiun-
ty Commissioner of Lewis county, and
gentleman highly esteemed by those
who knew him, died at Centralia of
consumption on Saturday. He was
buried in the cemetery there, under
the auspices of the I. o. o. F., on Sum
day.
Noting the receipt of large quanti-
titles OF potatoes from Iowa this year,
the Waitsburg Enterprise deprecates
the use of them for seed, or the intro
duction of potato culture in that or
any other OF the rich valleys of this
State from imported seed, for fear that
the potato bug or Colorado beetle
may be introduced.
A Big Bend stockman, who. got
snow-bound with his horses week be-
fore last, offered a rancher $50 for o
ton OF hay. The regular price
throughout that region is $40 per ton.
And whole bands of horses are dying
OF starvation, one man, Bingham, OF
Crabtree, having lost no less than L.
600 horses. And all of this in one of
the finest grass countri in the world.
H-s'
A HENS WARNING.-Yhe Dakota
City Eagle exhorts the unp,epared to
get ready, with the following story:
Gone day last week the wife of John
Provancha found soft-shelled egg on
which was an illegihle inscription, as
though stamped from the inside of
the shell. The egg by some mishap
was broken. A day or two later an
egg with hard shell was found in the
same nest. The egg bore the follow