Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-08-01
STATE NEWS.

UdNs.
/ Murderer Hoyt made an Intellectual
attemps to escape from the prison at
Walla Walla few days ago.
Mile. Azula, while doing a trapeze
act in Spokane Fails last week, was
seriously injured by falling on her
head and shoulders.
Referring to the capital question,
the acknowledgements correspondent
at Wlatcom says that county Will be
solid Tor Olympia this fall.
( Prof. l.. F. Anderson, OF Whitman.
has declined the pro!essorship offered
him at the State University, and will
remain at Whitman College.
The salaries fixed Tor the land offices
in Washington are Seattle, North
Yakima, Spokane Falls, Vancouver
and Walla Walla, 5000 each.
( Probably one OF the heaviest storms
/ that has ever been known to take
place on Puget Sound, occurred
Wednesday evening in Deception Pass.
! OStOliICtS pOptNib,
Stevens county, Thomas Goodwin
postmaster; Kettle Falls, Stevens
comfy, Harry d. Bushnell post
master.
/ The mail service by boat from Port
( Townsend to Neah bay has been in
creased to six times week as far as
Port Angeles, and to three times Il
week the remainder of the route.
Dir. Willis Everctte, u we'll known
mineralogist OF Tacoma, says he has
seen specimens of gold ore from the
Olympics which would assay 100000
to the ton.
In Lincoln county the question OF
the removal OF the county seat from
Sprague to Davenport promises to
play an important part in the Novem-
Der election.
Mrs. Ida Thomas, lately admitted to
the practice of law, is said to be the
first lady so admitted in the State of
Washington. She will open an Office
in South Bend.
Benjamin Dlanton, murderer of
Thomas Click, in Colfax, last Deem
Der, was sentenced by Judge Ruby to
twenty years in the Walla Walla pen
itentiary and 81 900 fine.
Rev. J. r. Beecher, a brother of the
late Henry Ward Beecher, was at Sc
attic a few days. He Is G6 years of
age, an eloquent speaker and powerful
writer. He is on his summer "out-
ing"
Tobacco and hops are going to
greatly add to Washington's riches, as
well as lumber, fish and coal. The
Mckee farm in the Yakima valley is
raising an average Of 1000 pounds of
tobacco to the acre
The new inclines which have been
built at Kalama by the Northern Pa
cific at cost of 100000 will be used
for the first time in about three weeks.
The depot at kalama will also be
moved to a point near the new in
clines.
Superintendent Wilder of the rail-
way mail service, says that the railway
service has grown three hundred per
cent. in Washington in five years.
He added: 81 visited all the princi-
pal postoflices OH the Sound, and was
surprised at the rapid growth of vari-
GUS places"
The assessed valuation of Pull
man property, as shown by the assess
ment just completed, but taken on
April LIST, is $l70,324. AS compared
with last years valuation, $l13,2IO, it
shows an increase OF little over 80
per cent.
Fred Whitman, of Galveston, Texas,
was riding brcakbeam on the North
ern Pacific to save money. At Cheney
he tried to swing out from under the
car when his foot was caught and
crushed. He was taken to the hos
pital.
The Methodist Episcopal Extension
Society, of Philadelphia, donated $3.50
to apply on the fund for the erection
of the new nj. L. Church of Palouse
City, and have procured loan of $500
on the old church property, bringing
up the church fund to nearly $4,000.
Lyman Babcock, foreman in the
Weatherwax mill at Aberdeen, was
severely injured by being caught in
the slab saw. One of his limbs was
cut from the ankle to a point midway
between the thigh and knee, and his
wound, while not OF fatal nature, is
very painful.
According to the Anacortes Progress,
talk with some of the officers of the
Premier developed the fact that while
she is a speedier boat than either the
Oregon or SchoD,e. she cannot beat the
Nympian, which boat again cannot
beat the Islander, the speediest craft
On the Sound to-day.
The Pullman Townsite Company
was recently organized and incorpo-
rated. The capital stock of the COM
rany is $4,000. The object is to
purchase and plat townsites and addi-
tons, and eighty acres adjoining Pull
man has been purchased, which will
be plated and placed on the market
Superintendent Porter says that the
State of Washington was the greatest
surprise to him of any in the Union.
He estimated the population OF this
State at one hundred thousand. Its
growth, he says, is marvel. He
made calculations for an increase, but
the showing is far greater than any
one could anticipate.
The Centralia Board OF Trade have
taken action to secure the location
there of another large saw mill. Mr..
Leitch asked the Board for site of
three acres on the Chehalis river.
The land can be secured for 5000, and
over one-third of the amount is al
ready pledged, SO that there is no
doubt about raising the remainder.
The city of Port Townsend has en-
tered into an iron-bound contract with
the Mt Olympus Water Company,
says the Port Townsend Call, in which
it agrees to take 80 hydrants for a
period of twenty-five years at ~ per
hydrant per month, with no provision
to reduce the cost to the city during
the life of the contract.
Deputy Inspector of Customs II. L.
Holden seized $1,000 worth of opium
at Seattle, Tuesday morning. A
stranger came off the steamer City of
Kingston with a very heavy valise.
| When he saw the officers were follow