Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-07-25
STATE NEWS.

mas skipped with $4UO belonging to a
guest of the Willis Hotel.
There are fifty-nine posts OF the
G. A. r., in the State of Washington,
with membership of about 1900.
The restaurant under the Gandolfo
Hotel, Tacoma, was totally destroyed
by fire Monday morning. Loss, $4,000.
J. w. Prosser, of Salt Lake City, is
having the foundation built Tor an
ice mandatory at Aberdeen, to cost
$4,000.
Mr.. Frederick T. Peet, a lawyer of
promise in Tacoma, has received in
formation from Minneapolis that he
has fallen heir to about $50, 900 in
cash.
Two sluggers got into shooting
scrape in the Spokesman Office, Spo-
kane Falls, while arranging a mill,
and Patsy Mulligan, and James Smith
were shot by Billy Lynn, one of the
contentious toughs. 1t is said that
Mulligan cannot live.
All Aberdeen is kicking about the
census OF that section. According to
the reports published, the cities of
Aberdeen and Montesano and six
townships of we'll settled country are
only credited with 2,450 people, when
there is but little doubt that Aberdeen
has that number.
The steamer Aberdeen carried to
that city Wednesday night, a man
named joe Myers, who had been
crushed by falling tree. Myers was
at work on the railroad grade on the
south side, when the tree, chopped by
other men, fell on him, breaking six
ribs, his arm and leg, and otherwise
injuring him.
A cedar tree ON J. NJ. Hockett's
place in the Kalama valley is IS feet
through and $50 feet high. Whole
townships of land in that section are
covered with fir trees which are from
25O to 800 feet high. The Cowlitz
Bulletin says one of the residents of
that locality recently built a house
22x3O, one and one-half stories and a
barn 25x36 feet out of the lumber
from one tree, and had piles of lum-
Der and fence posts left.
l Fire broke out at an early hour
Sunday morning in txo-story frame
building on the corner OF Monroe and
Sprague streets, Spokane Falls, and
before under control, had caused a
damage to the extent OF $4,000. The
fire department was on the scene
quickly, and through their efficient
work the flames were confined to the
building in which the fire originated.
The greater part of the losses sus-
tanned was on goods damaged by wa
ter.
A. .. Damon, of Damon, tells the
Montesano Vidette that settlers have
been coming in down there and taking
up land all along the Coast, and that
nearly all the unsurveyed land in
townships 10 and 20, range u, is
taken up by squatters. To give an
idea of the immigration to that part of
the country, he stated that last year
the number of school children in their
district, No. 26, was twenty, while this
year they reached fifty-six.
The capital question is once more
commencing to agitate. Ellensburg,
the windy city, and North Yakima,
the home of big watermelons, though
somewhat disfigured by the last
election, are still in the ring and
will make another struggle for the
prize. They are both fine places and
either would do, but Olympia has the
lead and will undoubtedly be decided
upon as the permanent home of
Washington's State officials.-Ana-
cortes American.
For the Worlds Fair, says the Kit
sap Pioneer, the Tacoma mill pro-
poses to cut and load on the cars at
the mill, gratis, the prize stick of the
world. They have turned out a stick
l5o feet long, squaring 3Ox3O inches,
and claim that they can do much bet
ter than that. The three big mills of
kitsap county-Blakely, Madison and
Gamble-are getting up bit of rival
ry themselves, although they are
unit in the matter of "doing up" the
Tacoma mills ON the prize stick.
William Delaney, a logger at work
Tor Alex. Polesen in camp up the
Hoquiam river, was drowned Monday
evening by falling off the logs in
twenty-five feet Of water. He was an
expert swimmer and, being only a
short distance from the shore, it is
supposed he struck the logs in falling
and was rendered inscnsible. No one
witnessed the accident and his loss
was discovered by the finding of his
axe and hat near where he went in.
The body was taken to Aberdeen for
burial. He was 25 years of age and
his parents reside in Matepedia.
Canada.
B. Harris, of Spokane Falls, whose
merchandise store was DESTROYED by
fire, January 30, 1889, brings suit
against that city for the recovery of
$4,000, the value of the stock of
goods destroyed. He alleges that ow-
ing to the depth of snow on the
ground at the time of the fire, the
firemen were unable to get the hose
carts and engines on the ground in
time to be of service in extinguishing
the fire, the city having failed to pro-
vide horses to haul the apparatus; in
neglecting to provide horses for this