Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-02-06
STATE NEWS.
Football by electric light is one of
the novelties of Yakima.

housed 1000 tons of ice seven inches
in thickness.
Postmaster Brooks, of Seattle, has
resigned, and Griffith Davis las been
strongly endorsed for the position.
Congressman Wilson has written to
the Spokane Chamber of Commerce
thlt he has hopes of having the
Coleville reservation thrown open
to settlement.
The Puget Sound Steamboat associa-
ton have decided to keep the Bailey
Glteert on the dry dock at Tacoma till
spring, owing to business being dull
and so many boats now being run on
the Sound.
Water was turned into the Centralia
water mains last Friday for the first
time. Everything worked satisfac
torily, and Centralia people are happy
over the idea of having a city water
supply in each residence.
AS an illustration of the condition
the roads are in up and around Porter,
says the Montesano Vidette, Ed Binns
says they were half a day driving u
band OF cattle two miles, and had to
leave one of them, the mud was so deep.
The fierce wind at Seattle caused
the upsetting of the steamer Cascade
at her wharf Sunday. The steamer
Nay Queen at the same place, also
had hole knocked in her upper
works by. coming in contact with
barge.
A company is being incorporated at
Tacoma to build natatorium TO be To-
Gated in fve-story brick building.
The first floor will be the swimming
tank, second an assembly room and
concert hall, and the upper floors
rooms and offices.
Peter Donnelly, shoemaker,
jumped from freight train at Ellens-
burgh last week, and when picked up
1t was found his leg was broken. He
gave brakeman 81 for a ride, end the
latter would not stop and insisted on
Donnelly's jumping off.
The following is from the Vancouver
Register of January ii: "Our glor-
ious climate is given a small illustra-
tion in the fact that hills on the up
per Lackamas are covered with wild
blackberries, just ripening as the frost
came on last week.
A contract for building ffty-fve
miles of the Great Northern railroad
between Bonnner's Ferry, on the
kootenai river and Kootenai Falls
has been let to Burns & Chapman of
Spokane Falls. The contract will in.
volve the expenditure of over $1,000
OOO.
The Trustees OF the Soldiers Home,
Monday, awarded the contract for a
building at Orting to w. J. Veizey
and I. F. Hanton, of Orting, for $1O,-
600; the plumbing to q. C. Miles &
Company, Seattle, for $1,19S, and the
steam heating to the same firm for
81 ,425.
Pat Curran, aged about 60 years,
dropped dead in a saloon at Ellens-
burgh, at midnight, Sunday night.
The cause is supposed to have been
hemorrhage Of the lungs. He was
from Massachusetts, unmarried, and
was not known to have any relatives
i'll this section.
Last Friday, J. Schuler, a bridge
carpenter employed ON the Gray's
Harbor division of the Northern Pa
cific, while framing some timbers made
misslick and drove an ak through his
foot. There is just bare possibility
that amputation may not be necessary,
although he will probably be crippled.
The Kittitas Republican committee
met at Ellensburgh on Thursday to
nominate candidate for the vacancy
caused by the death of Representative
Davis. W. III. Hare was rendered the
nomination, but declined. The COM
m'ttee then decided on ]. P. Sharp, of
West Kittitas, a member of the last
legislature.
Thomas II. Cavanaugh, Will d.
jenkins, A. w. Frater, T. T. Humes,
J. M. Steele and Geo. w. Boggs have
called meeting of former residents
OF Kansas, the Sunflower State, to be
held in Olympia May l, 1891. The
purpose is to form a Kansas associa-
tion upon the plan of other State
organizations.
John Dobson and VIM. West have
leased the Chehalis Land and Lumber
Company's land and the West tract
for fifty years, and are forming a COM
pany to work the fine beds of coal un.
derlying it. They expect to COM
mence work by the 1st of April, and
will make provision to get out 100 tons
of coal day.
Rev. J. X. Thompson, of Vancouver,
has been at Olympia in the interest of
the school for defective youth. He
asked for appropriations as follows
To complete the buildings, $l3,45O;
for current expenses for two years,
$39, ,451; separate building for the i'd
lotto, $4,000; for maintenance of the
latter, 5000; total, $7S.9lI.
Apetition is being circulated at Gen.
tralia and Chehalis asking the county
commissioners to build bridge across
the Chehalis river, on the Bennett
road, about three miles west of Cen.
tralia. The petition asks for an open
span bridge 100 feet in length, with an
approach on the east of 163 feet and |
one on the west of 40 feet, the whole
structure to cost about 5000. The