Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-11-13
WHOLE NUN BER I.Mi3.
STATE NEWS.

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! Tie new brick Baptist church build
ing at Dayton will be completed Jan
uary lst
The contract has been let for III,
erection of a postollicc building nj
South Bend.
The harbor line commission Iva.
completed its work ut Slcilacoom. and
is now at Blaine.
ID. J. Crowley. a Tacoma attorney
has sued tho. Uunt railroad for owe,
$1,000 for legal services
The drawhridgc across the river n,
Ocosta to almost completed, and
trains will he soon running into that
city.
During October the Tacuma Smelt.
ing and Refining Company shipped to
San Francisco $l7 40 worth nf gold,
S45. .23l worth of silver and $50, ,322
worth o! lead.
The Tacoma National bank has 80.
cured judgment against the Gig Har-
Dor Lumber Company, and ia author.
lied to sell property sufficient To
satisfy claim for Sl2 ,GGG.
The City Council of Blaine has
passed an ordinance calling for bond
election to take place on December Z.
The proposition is to bond the city for
$4,000 for funding purposes.
The Tacoma Chamber of Commerce
has decided to solicit the co operation
OF commercial bodies all over the State
in an effort to secure reduction in
freight rates to Eastern points.
The Fidelity Trust Company began
suit to recover of Edward Alberlson.
who robbed the company's bank Of
$4,000, 5000 on note given by Al.
bertson and indorsed by William J.
Peters.
Some of the showers that have ial.
len so steadily in the western part of
the State during the past month have
crossed the Cascades into Eastern
Washington. IL has made the ground
fit for plowing, and farmers are happy.
Lieutenant-Governor Laughton de.
MES the report emanating from Olym.
pia that he has placed his resignation
in the hands of Governor Ferry, or
that he has written to the Governor
upon any subject whatever. lie l.
not in sympathy with tho Governor
and does not speak with him. They
simply leave each other alone.
James C. Stanley, a ranchcr rc.id-
ing near Safety harbor, on the Mar
rows, who entered the office Of Walter
ID. Rusher, a Tacoma real estate deal.
er, last summer, and discharged a re-
volver at him, has been fined $7j and
costs. Stanley claimed he had been
druggej and was crazy and not drunk
when he fired upon Rusher.
&C Myers, who is associated with
Mrs. Emily knight in developing
properties in the Gold Hill! district,
has returned from North Yakima, and
reports that Mrs. knight is figuring
with the Yakima County Commission.
ers, regarding the building OF "a s25,.
600 wagon road forty miles from
Yakima into the Cascades, to the
Gold Hill district.
The committee on home missions Of
the Presbytery OF Olympia has de-
cided' to appoint missionary to
preach at Tenino. Bucoda. Garrard,
Gate City and Oakville. The com.
mittee has secured IL missionary 20
conduct services at Ocosta, Hoquiain
and Cosmopolis, Burnwell Aldrid, O
and Rev. A. Parker, the latter of
Summerville, were appointed travel
ing State missioners.
Frank l.. Kuhn. attorney for tho
relatives OF Baseball Umpire II. r..
Young, has been ordered by Judge
Beverly to refund to the mother OF the
deceased $l,129.i6, which he claimed
in accordance with an alleged a. REQ
ment with relative of the dcceas ed \.
by which he was to receive onc.t third
of the damages recovered from the
Northern Pacific Railroad, Young
having been killed in a wreck AZ
Eagle Gorge last fall.