Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-04-03
WHOLE NUMBER 1880.
STATE NEWS.
Shelton claims l 1000 population.

Chehali5 shipped IL, l29 600 feet of
lumber last year.
An immense acreage is being plant
ed in fruit this spring on Orcas Island.
On Saturday, April 4th, the citizens
Of Centralia will vote on extending the
city limits.
The voters of Aberdeen have voted
to bond the city for $4,000 to build
high school.
The citizens of Pasco desire to have
their town organized as q city OF the
fourth class.
Work will begin this week on Port
Townsend's new school house. The
contract price is $65,OOO.
Five inches of snow in Whatcom
turned the entire population loose on
coasting, snowballing and such.
A postoffice to be known as Quinault
has been established on Quinault lake,
about 40 miles north OF Hoquiam.
A clam cannery at Hoquiam is rum
ming in full blast and is putting u =, an
immense quantity Of the bivalves.
Blaine has brand new Baptist
church, in which services are to be
held for the first time next Sunday.
A flag pole 125 feet long was lately
cut on VashJn Island for the new
King county court house at Seattle.
After a deadlock of three months
the city council of Snohomish last
week elected c. II. Anderson city en-
gineer.
The trustees of the State normal
school have decided to open the insti.
tuition at Ellensburgh the 1st of Sep.
tember next.
| Port Townsend city council has
adopted an electric fire alarm system.
A fire bell has also been purchased and
a lot of new hose.
The Sunset Light and Water Com
pany is the name of the corporation
formed to supply South Aberdeen with
water. The water will he taken from
mountain stream.
| The big dry dock at Hadlock is half
completed and 40 mechanics are hurry.
ing the work to completion. Captain
de Levie, the protector, is very i'll, and
fears of his recovery are expressed.
/ With the exception of five claims,
all the forfeited Northern Pacific
lands in the Vancouver district were
filed Friday, and there was q long
string of applicants at the door when
it closed.
/ Bellingham Bay has an electric
railway track for some months, and at
last are to have service. The power
house is about completed, the trolley
wires strung, and cars are to be run.
nlng by March 10.
The Ilwaco cannery OF Mr.. Seaborg
has doubled its capacity at an outlay of
$4,000 for Improvements. The ca
pacity is now 1000 cases a day and
the owner expects to can $4,000 cases
of salmon this season.
Edward Sloan, aged 2S years, whose
relatives live near Steilacoom, commit
ted suicide at Tacoma, on the 9th ult.,
by the use of carbolic acid. He left b
letter which declared that life for him
was not worth living and bidding adieu
to parents and brother and sisters.
The oyster season is opened at Bay
Center. Nearly all the boats are run.
ming, and the indications are that the
present spring will be one of great
activity in the oyster business. The
quantity of young growth to be taken
from the natural oyster beds will prob.
ably be greatly in excess of that Of
last year.
George A. Bethune, State geologist,
has made a very complete report Of
the mineral resources of Washington,
giving facts regarding every mining
district, every mine of promise or pros.
pective worth, every industrial and
commercial enterprise born of the
mineral development of the country,
and all geological formations indics.
tive of the existence Of merchantable
metal in Washington, as far as known.
The Hequiam Washingtonian says
that the canning and shipping Of CLAIMS
there bids fair to assume extended pro-
portions. A number of hands are now
engaged in digging, floats have been
constructed, cannery is to be con-
structed and the clans are shipped
fresh in one-gallon cans and by the
bushel in the shell in boxes. A num-
Der of young and energetic men are in
the business and will make it pay. In
the language of the old settler, 1--WE
are surrounded by acres of CLANS"
which. if properly worked, will bring
as much wealth as any other article Of
commerce.
George Hazard has returned TO
Tacoma from the East after an alb
sence OF two months. He reports that
Hon. William L. Wilson, Congress.
man from West Virginian Uormerly
Governor) will arrive in Tacoma in
time to deliver an addr,. there on the
3Oth of April, the one hundred and
second anniversary of the adoption of
the constitution OF the United States.
Mr.. Hazard also reports that Hon.
John NJ. Palmer will be present next
fall at the second annual meeting of
the Democratic State Society of Wash.
ington. General John C. Black. Gen.
eral Thomas NJ. Moonlight, of Kansas,
and General o. J. Warner, Of Ohio,
will also be here at the meeting. Gen.