Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-02-26
STATE NEWS.

Tacoma has opened mining ex-
change
The Pomeroy Independent :avors S.
q. Cosgrove for governor.
Whatcom will build sewers this
year, the aggregate cost OF which will
reach 100000.
Crescent Block, Spokane, was de-
struycd by fire Tuesday morning, with
lo-. Of about $4,000.
The Bowers dredge. now at work at
South Bend, is filling in the flats there
at the rate Of 100000 square yards per
month.
The steam motor road in Spokane is
To be made an electric line. The
work Of reconstruction is to be finished
by the middle Of MAY.
Taxpayers Of Medical Lake and
other small towns in Spokane county,
protest against the building OF new
county courthouse in Spokane.
The snow in the foothills of Mount
Baker has about all disappeared, and
the farmers along the South Fork are
getting ready for spring planting.
Rev. Mr.. Maxwell organized Meth
odirt church ut Bucoda last Sunday.
Steps will bc taken 10 build church
At some central point this summer.
Louis i.achmund, for Horst Bros,
has contracted for 100 acres of hops on
John stones land near Yakima. Mr..
Stone will set out that many new
vines on his Yakima land the coming
season.
The county commissioners of Lin
coin issued an order to bond the
county in the sum Of 100000 for the
purpose OF taking up the outstanding
warrants of the county, which amount
81 about $4,000.
r.. Meeker's monthly hop report
states that the hops on hand in WASH
ington and Oregon will not aggregate
more than 800 bales, and as the
stocks In the worlds market" are
light, IL Is evident that the new crop
Tor 1892 will meet an active market.
I
Yakima county claims to have more
land under irrigation than all the rest
Of Washington put together. The
coat Of the irrigation work already
completed, under way and to be COM
menced ut once is estimated at 81, 500
600 Land thus reclaimed will aggre-
gate 100000 acres.
faborcrs Of Colfax were indignant
because Italians were hired To do street
work, and held n meeting to devise
some way 10 overcome the condition of
affairs. A resolution was passed which
read In favor of the organization of a
Knights Of Labor league. The matter
IL not yet settled, and another meeting
will be held.
Parties claiming title to timber lands
viii hereafter DO required to produce
the original entrymen and their wit
nesscs at local land Offices for further
examination with reference to any
contracts or arrangements which may
have been made prior to entry for the
conveyance Of the land TO corporations
or syndicates.
II IL stated, on what is considered
good authority, that the special in
spector Of the general land Office, who
was at Montesano last month, has re-
ported Ia that office that all lands in
Chohalis county are agricultural lands,
and that he recommends the cancella-
ton OF all entries under the timber
land act, where patents have not al
ready been granted.
From Tie Cathlamet Gazette it is
learned that the Columbia Fish Com.
pany. at kalama. consists of G. w. and
A. W. Bennett. This company intends
90 build y new freezer large enough to
hold carload Of fish at time. At
present all their Eastern shipments 60
over the Northern Pacific on express
time. Next season they intend TO
ship salmon in car lots.
Captain John O'Brien has resigned
his position M master Of the steamer
Premier To take charge of the Chas.
W Wetmore. vice Captain Hastings.
The change was made on account OF
the many mishaps the wbaleback has
hal while In the command OF Hast
ings from the time OF leaving the
Fact until the present. O'Brien is
one Of the besl-known masters on tine
coast.