Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-08-15

STATE NEWS.
Chehal;s is to have a new hotel to
cost $25,OOO.
A Michigan syndicate is buying tim
ber land in considerable quantities
near Willapa, at from $15 to $25 per
acre.
Pierce county leads in the amount
OF taxes paid into the State Treasury
in 1890, it being $4,000 against $64,-
600 by King county.
Morris NJ. Stafford, of Whatcom.
was drowned last week by being
washed off an overturned sailboat
which he and two companions had
clung to all night.
Five horses belonging to Sol and Ike
Blumauer, OF Bucoda, were injured by
freight train last week. Three of
them were so badly mangled that
they had to be shot.
Thieves entered the house of John
c. Ramsey, of Centralia, Saturday,
night, while he was absent, and stole,
a suit of clothes, part of his furniture,
and sum of money.
Efforts are being made at Walla
Walla to have the sentence OF John
Hurn and his mother, Mrs. Pyles, con-
victed of arson and murder and now
in the Penitentiary for life, commuted,
if possible.
Tobacco and hops are going to add
greatly to Washington's riches, as we'll
AS lumber, fish and coal. The Mckee
farm in the Yakima valley is raising
an average of 1000 pounds of tobacco
to the acre.
A little child at the Centralia house.
Monday, got hold of bottle contain
ing about hundred nux vomica pills
and took them all at one dose. A
physician succeeded in saving the
little ones life.
Gilbert Richards, who was sentenced
to seventeen years in the Penitentiary
from Chehalis in 1856 for the crime of
rape, Thursday received pardon from
Governor Ferry. Richards has large
family in Chehalis, to whom he will
return.
Charles Tabeau, a man about 55
years of age, was taken with cramps
at Skamokawa last week, while in
bathing, and drowned. Deceased had
been out here from Au Sable, Mich,
about two years, and leaves wife and
family of married children in the East
to mourn his loss.
Some idea of the actual growth OF
the State of Washington can be OBJ
tanned from the fact that eighty-nine
newspapers have been started in the
State between March 18th and June
10Th of the present year. OF this
number fifty-seven have been estab-
lished west of the Cascade mountains
The molders and machinists of the
Columbia Iron Works, Dayton, walked
out on Monday, having previously de.
manded an increase in wages. The
proprietor, H. N. Pringle, paid no at
tention to the demands of the men
simply telling them that this was a
free country and they were at liberty
to 60.
Notice is published of the sale of the
property of the Whitman County Ag
ricultural Fair Association ut Sheriffs
sale. Livingstone & Kuhn and Will
liam Codd, creditors, brought action in
the Superior court for the satisfaction
of their claims, and obtained decree
OF foreclosure and order of sale. The
claims against the association aggre-
gate $500 or 5000.
In the Kittitas county court the
other day, jury had the duty of fix.
ing the pay that some attorneys should
receive in certain cases. They charged
$500, and upon refusal of the clients
to pay, brought suits, and the jury,
after hearing the testimony, awarded
them $40. The general impression
prevailed that the verdict was q just
one as the charge was out of reason
and made simply for the purpose oi
extortion.
The assessment ro,!s of Walla
Walla county show total !snd valua.
ton for 1890. $4.541 AGO, against 49,
$50, ,720 for the year 1889. Pursuant
to instructions from the Prosecuting
Attorney, railroad property was as
sessed as real estate, instead of i'm
provements as heretofore, which ac-
counts for the apparent increase. The
rolls also show an increase of 81 ITO in
value of personal property, owing to
the great amount invested in the
Sound cities. There is an increase OF
l3,5dS acres in decded land. The
total wheat acreage amounts to S5,-
iS95.