Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-25
STATE NEWS.

at Fort Angeles without opposition.
Old Queen Angeline, daughter oi
Cliicf co"ttle, has in her declining
days learned to smoke cigarettes.
Fire Chief Lillis, of Tacoma, hos
gone to California for his health. His
salary has been raised to 50 400 per
year.
c. M. Gerrish, OF Jefferson county,
has been appointed Tide Land APP
praiscr, in the place of Winslow, re
signed.
Howard Carr, ex-member OF the
Tacoma city council, and son of the
pioneer of Tacoma, died at North
Yakima of asthma.
Edward Albertson and Fred. A..
Chandler, the Fidelity Trust Co. en-
bezzlars, are now safely Gagged behind
prison bars at Walla Walla.
The body of w. d. Denny, of Alex
Reynolds surveying party, who was
drowned in the Sauk river, some two
weeks ago, has been found.
A syndicate of business men of Pa
louise City recently bought forty acres
Of Idaho school lands, two and half
miles from town, for race track.
III. A. Reynolds, of Walla Walla, has
withdrawn his offer to the trustees of
Whitman college to donate twenty
eight acres Of land for a college cam
pus.
Thomas Kelly, who falsely claimed
to be a G. A. r. man, has been arrest
ed at Tacoma for passing counterfeit
money. Several counterfeits were
found in his possession.
The Chamber of Commerce of Ia
coma has negotiated a 100000 loan,
to be used in the construction of a
new building. The loan runs five
years at Z per cent.
The strangers succeeded in circulat-
ing $50 in counterfeit money at STAN
wood, and escaped arrest. These fel-
lows are working small towns, and a
sharp watch should be kept for them.
Harry C. Tussing, a newspaper man
OF Ellensburgh, while attempting to
cross the mountains to Wena,chee,
froze his feet and will not be able to
leave his room for several weeks, il, in
deed, he does not lose his feet.
W. F. Fisher, who fell over cliff
forty feet high on the Wynooche on
Thursday last and sustained injuries
of very serious nature, is still alive
at the hospital at Aberdeen, although
in very precariOus condition.
c. c. May, of Davenport, Wash, has
deposited $1,000 in the Big Bend Ma.
tional bank, as reward for the arrest
and conviction of the party or parties
who burned his haystacks on the Bar
ney Larsen farm near Fruitland post.
office, Stevens county, Wash, on the
night Of December 2.
Mason county numbers among its
industries that OF oyster-shipping.
The famous Olympia oysters come
from Oyster bay, which ships about
POO sacks a week. Hoois Canal and
Shelton both ship about 100 weekly,
making nearly 400 sacks a week, bring
ing from $3.50 to 1915 per sack.
The Puget Mill Company has
bought every log in the Stillaguami.h Ii
river and in the boom at Stanwood.
The reason for this is said to be on ac-
count OF a very large order from Aus.
tralia placed a short time since with
the big Sound mills. No logger who
wanted to sell failed to dispose of hi:
logs, and much better feeling pre-.
walls at present.
Centralia citizens are greatly
troubled by thieves. The other even
ing nearly a thousand fruit trees tha,
were "heeled in" for the winter in q
private garden were stolen, and the
next night several bushels of apple.
were stolen from widows barn
Hobos do not steal such things al
these. Centralia evidently has dis
honest resident.
The business of the Olympia Unite,
States land Office for November is sum
married. as follows: Nineteen casl
entries, 2,O5S.26 acres, $4,EG6.92
twenty-three homestead entries, 3, ,l42
27 acres, fees, $5OO.S3; six final home
stead entries, 943.45 acres, fees, $G4 .SS
two coal land filings, 800 acres, fees
Sc; timber land applications. l,l2C
total acreage, 7 ,4SS5S, receipts, "a 1886
63.
The Cathlamet Gazette publishes
table showing the amount of logs GU
in Wahkiakum county in 1891.
shows a grand total of 32,S50,OOO fee
from the following precincts: Cathla
met, 100000; Skamokawa, S,l0O
600. Brookfield, 10000; Gray's rive
100000; Deep river, 100000. Thi
is a very good showing. and the mt
value of this raw material is some
thing like $250,OOO.
The lime works at Roche Harbo
have been shut down for the winte
This company has l3 kilns that ave
: age over 1000 barrels per day, but ,h
years output up to date only reach'
: about 5000 barrels. Next year the
5 expect to ship great deal OF lime
, San Francisco, where they have an q
: fee, and it is reaching for the SAM