Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-10
STATE NEWS.

Fairhaven has sold $4,000 of its
bonds for general municipal purposes.
Tacoma and Seattle are wrestling
with the problem OF uniform system
OF street names.
Matthew Matson, of Tekoa, was
killed the other day by falling tree.
He was well-to-do farmer.
Whitman county papers say that
seventy-two hours rain was worth Just
$2,OOO,O to the farmers of that county.
A war in milk rates is probable in
Seattle, some dairymen having COM
menced selling under the established
rates.
Tacoma saloon keepers and mer-
chants have determined to fight the
Sunday law to finish through the STU
preme Court.
Enterprising citizens of Tekoa have
raised a subsidy, which is now waiting
for some one, who will build Touring
mill at that place.
From all over Lewis county come
the most promising crop reports. The
fIuit crop will be immense, likewise the
hay, oats, wheat and hops.
The Pacific reunion of old soldiers at
Peterson's Point this year promises to
be the most interesting ever held in
the county. The date has been fixed
from August II to &c.
The Seatco Manufacturing Company
has received an order for lumber to
build large steamboat which is to
ply on the Mississippi river. The
lumber is to be sent to Rock Island
Ill.
The Walla Walla Uaion-Journal
has been vastly improved since the
consolidation OF the two papers. 1t
has made a big stride toward being
classed with the leading journals Of
the State.
The body OF Frank Wilder, the young
man who was drowned in Spanaway
lake, Tacoma, last Saturday, has not
yet been recovered. The deceased was
a single man, and had resided in Ia
coma about a year.
Nellie Taylor, the I9-year-old
daughter OF Is. F. Taylor, living four
miles west of Pullman, committed sui
eide Monday, by taking dose of AGO.
mite. 1t is supposed that the extreme
heat of the day affected her brain.
George Nap, young man who at
tempted suicide at Ritzville last spring
by staying in a well where he was
blasting on account Of the refusal of q
fourteen -year-Old girl to marry him,
has been taken TO the asylum for in
sane.
The schooner Vine put into Port
Angeles Saturday. She was heavily
laden with lime. During the heavy
wind OF Saturday on the Straits the
spray dashed over the deck load, and
as a consequence the liEle took fire,
and sixty-five barrels were thrown
overheard.
The annual camp meeting of the
Christian church of Whitman county
was held near Oaksdale, beginning
June Is and closing Sunday, June %.
The meetings were well attended.
Twenty-Five persons were baptised dur
ing the season, and 5000 were pledged
for missionary work.
Last Tuesday Mr.. Ben Morton, of
Tacoma, killed on the place near the
lake black bear which measured
from tip to tip over nine feet and
weighed 600 pounds. 1t was the
opinion of old hunters that if the ami
NAL had been in good condition it
would have tipped the beam at 1000
pounds.
On the 18th OF this month the State
Labor Assembly will convene at North
Yakima. Many delegates from differ
ent portions of the State will be present.
1t is expected that the various bills pre-
sented i'll the interests of labor in the
last legislature, but which failed to be-
come laws, will be the principal sub
jects OF discussion.