Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-03-06
STATE NEWS.

Jay Lych has been appointed agent
on the Yakima reservation
The new NJ. f. church ut Friday
Harbor was dedicated Sunday last
Farmers Alliances are being org an
izedin every part OF Snohomish county.
There is strong probability of an Adj
ventist college being located at Walla
Walla.
The Islander Will be the name of Il
new paper to be published hereafter at
Friday Harbor.
An electric railroad will be built be-
tween Hoquiam and Aberdeen the COM
ing season.
Rev. Byron Aldrich, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Hoquiam, has
accepted call to the First Presbyter-
ian church of Centralia.
On the Cd of March the citizens of
Dayton will vote on a proposition to
bond the city in the sum of $4,000
for new system of water works.
Captain Elliot, of the schooner HUI
enme, which arrived at Port Townsend
yesterday, committed suicide at sea by
jumping overheard while in fit OF
temporary insanity.
Fred Kindling, one of a gang of Sc
attic boy burglars, has been convicted
and sentenced to the penitentiary.
Many robberies have been traced to
the gang.
A farmer who lives near Pomeroy,
in Eastern Washington, had 100 acres
of land which produced last season
1000 bushels of barley. He cleaned
up net 81 200.
Public land near Port Angeles will
be surveyed this spring and the many
settlers who have already taken up
claims thereon will be given opportun-
ity to perfect their title.
Dispossession suits against six New
castle miners we're commenced i'll King
county, lately, by the Oregon I'M
provement Company. The men re-
fuse to vacate houses owned by the
company.
Frank Cady, aged II years, was
killed in Seattle yesterday while coast
ing down hill. His sled struck on an
obstruction aud he was thrown violent
ly off, striking on his head, causing in
slant death.
John II. Randolph, a well known
colored cook of Seattle, lately received
notice that he had fallen heir to $780,
900 through the death in Orange coun-
ty, New York, of ]. H. Hunter, his
uncle.
John Reed, a convicted burglar, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for one
year, Monday, at Seattle for robbing
the dwelling houses of r. p. COvington
and r. J. Stewart on January 26, in
bread daylight, and stealing lot of
clothing.
A new coal field has been found just
south of the Skookumchuck, and west
OF the ridge in township Is north, l
east, just 25 miles southeast of Olym-
pia. The vein is said to be valuable
one and the extensiveness OF the field
is not yet known. Steps will be taken
to develop it at once.
The trappers OF Bakers. Bay have
formed a Trapmen's Protective Associ-
alton for the purpose of protecting
their traps from damage from being
corked; that is, other traps being
placed beside them close enough to
prevent fish from running into the
traps already located.
The County Commissioners of
Stevens county have offered reward
of $3.50 for the arrest and conviction
of the persons who blew out the mill
dam at Addery station, on the Spo-
kane Falls & Northern railway, last
December, and also attempted to blow
up the Touring mill at that place a
short time after.
The county commissioners of Lin
coin county have given heed to the
complaints of the farmers regarding
the squirrel pest, and have appropriate
ed So 900 with which to buy strychnine,
which is to be distributed free among
the agriculturists, in the hope that the
country can be freed from these
troublesome animals.
Charles B. Wright has purchased
from George w. Hunt, of Walla Walla,
Wash, number of railroads known
as the Hunt SYSTEM" which pene.
trates the great wheat fields of eastern
Washington and Oregon, south of the
Columbia river. The first payment OF
this transaction, which involves So, OOO,-
600, was made Monday.
Reports from persons who have just
come from the Palouse country and
also from persons over from the Grand
ROnde valley, says the Walla Walla
Union, are that the snow in these
places ranges from few inches to sew
eral feet in depth. This is somewhat
different from Walla Walla, where the
snow has not fallen this winter in suf-
ficient quantity to be identified.
John Polly, the postmaster at kel-
logg's, committed suicide at an early
hour Sunday morning by drowning
himself in the Ceur d'Alene river.
He left letter stating that financial
difficulties led to the deed, and that his
body would be found below the bridge
in the river. Friends to whom the let
ter was addressed proceeded to the
point named and recovered the body.
Polly was highly respected. He was
formerly extensively engaged in the
stock business near North Yakima,
where his daughter now resides.
The Democrats OF Seattle are serious
~ considering the advisability of OBJ