Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-08-28
STATE NEWS.

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closed and has the roof on.
The four-masted barkentine Cheha-
lis will be launched at Hoquiam on
Saturday.
Carp are so plentiful in Lake Col
vile that the boys are killing them
with clnbs.
The Roche Harbor lime works are
turning out 900 barrels day and EN-
ploying 400 men.
Rec Esmond, a 9-year-old boy, of
Montesano, was instantly killed, last
week, by a runaway team.
The first coke made in the Skagit
valley was taken from the oven at the
Sedro coal mine last Friday.
Santa Rosa parties will establish
wooden mills at Colfax if the people
there will take $4,000 OF its stock.
Charles Nopens, prosperous con-
tractor of Centralia, has mysteriously
disappeared, and no cause is known ior
his action.
The Indians around Goldendale are
kicking" about so many Boston
klutchmen" picking berries at the
berry-patches.
Hop picking will begin about week
earlier this year. Most of the farmers
are making preparations to begin the
last week in August.
The managers of the new paper-mill
at Port Gardner have contracted with
VIM. Conway, of Sultan City, for 1900
cords of cottonwood
The acreage OF wheat in Lincoln
county will be double next season
what it is this. Thousands of acres of
new breaking has been done.
The salmon catch at Blaine is so
heavy that one day last week 1000 had
to be dumped into the bay, as the can
merry could not care for them.
About $4,000 worth of gold bullion
has been shipped from the new stamp
mill of the War Eagle and Black Bear
mines, in the Conconully district.
The Fairhaven fire department has
joined the Northwest Firemen's Asso-
citation. They will participate in the
tournament at Victoria next month.
The government snagboat Skagit
has left the Snohomish river and is now
at work on the Skagit river, pulling
snags that are considered dangerous TO
navigation.
Twelve sections of land in township
80, range 5, in Whatcom county, have
been selected by the State land COM
missioners as part of the grant for a
scientific school.
The government telegraph line from
Port Angeles to Tatoosh Island is COM
pleted, and messages can now be sent
to Port Crescent, Clallam bay, Neah
bay and Tatoosh.
:, John Eckerson, while engaged in
loading some heavy timbers on the
cars at Centralia, lately, got his leg
caught between two OF them and it
was broken above the ankle.
Good progress is being made at the
friedrich works south of town, says the
Ellensburg Capital. An experimental
oven has been finished and the large
one will soon be ready for a charge.
Mrs. Joseph Woods, of Mentesano,
eloped last week with hired man
called Hastings, taking her two chill
dren. Her husband followed, and they
were arrested and brought back for
trial.
A California wooden manufacturer is
IN correspondence with COliax parties
with view of locating $50, 900 plant
there, the citizens to take $4,000 in
stock and he furnishing the remaining
capital.
At meeting OF the Walla Walla
penitentiary commissioners, held last
Saturday, the contract for the building
Of the cellwing OF the penitentiary was
awarded to the Panty Jail Company, of
st. Louis, the price being $23, 800.
Much enthusiasm prevails at Port
Townsend over the prospect of the
speedy renewal of the construction
work on the Port Townsend Southern.
The ship Oaks is now discharging her
cargo of railroad iron at that port.
Considerable stir is being made in
Wahkiakum county over the recent de-
mand OF the government for an addi-
tional payment of $l.25 per acre on
! patented land within the confines OF