Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-12-30
STATE NEWS.
The Walla Walla Adventist college
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opened with 100 students.
Last Saturday night the city 0
Tekoa was illuminated for the frs
time by electricity.
A full quota OF Washington fish
will be exhibited at the Worlds Fair
The fish will be picked.
The largest hop sale of the season
in Yakima county, was made last
week, when 300 bales changed hands
$40, 500 being paid.
The colored people of King county
have gained political recognition by
the appointment of Mr.. G. H. Grose
as one of Treasurer Phelps deputies.
Several towns in Whitman county
will join in with Spokane and cele-
brate the event of the Great Northern
road reaching Seattle, which will &C.
cur sometime in January.
Mrs. Luce, wife of the Lieutenant
Governor-elect, is preparing to accom-
pany her husband to the State capital,
to remain during the session of the
Legislature. They will leave Daven.
port for Olympia during the holidays.
V. D. Lay, of Pasco, has instituted a
contest for the seat of Representative
in the Legislature from Franklin
county. He alleges that the Pasco
inspector of elections failed to write
his initials upon the official ballots be.
fore giving them to the voters.
The damage done by the late high
water in washing out the tracks OF the
Orting & Southeastern railroad at the
rock cut, and higher up the river near
Puyallup river station, have been re-
paired in manner to preclude the pos
sibility of such washouts happening
again at the same places.
The Fairhaven School Board called
down upon its head the wrath of all
the teachers and the community by
the adoption of a new series of rules,
prescribing that any criticism, sighting
remark or reflection upon the board,
or any of its members or employees, by
a teacher, shall be deemed sufficient
cause for instant discharge.
Reports made to the State Horti.
cultural board show that there are al
present about $1,000 acres in the
State planted with fruit trees, the an
nual income from which is about ST.
100000. In five years from now
when all trees now planted are bear
ing, it is estimated that the amount
will be increased to $3,00O,OOO.
Colfax is having trouble with the
new water system lately put in. The
usual jobbery in such cases is claimed
and the contractors will be called on
to make the system more efficient
The citizens of that place are also hav.
ing trouble with their new hotel. All
work on the building has been stop
ped through financial difficulty.
Charles Kelly, the miner who was
injured in the Fourth OF July mine
over a year ago, and was recently sub.
jected to most delicate surgical oper
alton, is rapidly recovering, and will
soon be able to return home. The op
Grafton consisted of the removal o.
two joints of the vertebre to relieve 8
mechanical pressure upon the spina
cord, caused by a fracture of one of the
bones.
James Eagan, of Walla Walla, wa,
aroused few nights ago by his dot
barking furiously and tugging at tn,
be1clothss. The room was filled will
smoke aud he was SO nearly asphyx
lated that it was with difficulty tha
he reached a window and raised it
The fire was extinguished and higl
honors were bestowed upon the faith
full dog for preventing fatal confla
grafton.
Walter M. Marriott, Francis Hall
Geo. T. Gardiner, James H. Parke,
Henry L. Outline, Norval H. Latimel
G. o. Barness and Samuel ID. Dews
nap have filed articles of incorpora
ton Of the Hall Teredo Proof Timbe
Company, placing the capital stool
at 100000. The object is to preserv
wood from the ravages of the tered
and other forms of animal life by tn
use OF chemicals.
Harrington, On the line of tn
Great Northern, about midway be
tween Spokane and the Columbi
river, is growing rapidly and bids fai
to become an important shipping
point. Leavenworth on the Wenatche
river, at the mouth of Icicle creek,
understood to have been chosen a
the end of division for both freigh
and passenger business, and is MAXIM
a marvellous growth.
A new industry is developing a
Yakima, that of stock.feeding. Dur
ing the month of November alone Il
cars of cattle, or about LOO head
were shipped in there to be held for
month or six weeks for fattening upol
alfalfa. They will then be reshippe,
to the Sound markets. This has beel
a regular proceeding with shippers 70
several months, and the number Q
head arriving is constantly increasing
In view of the fruitless search @
Postmaster Shaw, of Spokane, for /,
picture of the first postoffice in tha
city, the people of Kettle Falls inten,
to have their original governmen
building photographed. 1t was Ski
feet, equipped with soap box, divide,
into compartments for letters. TIL
first postbox was nailed to a pine ire
on roadside, where the tri-weekl,