Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-02-19
WHOLE NUN BIER 1877.
STATE NEWS.

Medical Lake.
Merchants of Tekoa are organisin
a board of trade.
The kindergarten system IL ncv
adjunct to the Colfax public schools.
There are forty-sevcn guests a. th,
Soldiers and Sailors Home at Orting
and every one Of them in good healtl
and able to enjoy three hearty meals
a day.
The proposition 10 bond Snohomlsl
county in the sum of $250. 600 10,
roads and bridges was overwhelminRl,
defeated when submitted 20 a vote o
the people.
4akima's prosperity and increasing
population is shown by the statement
OF real estate agents that there IL not a
vacant dwelling in the city, notwith.
standing the large number Of houses
erected during the past year.
The winter in Stevens county has
been the mildest for years. There
has been no wind and the average
depth OF snowfall was fourteen inches.
Stockmen have had an abundance Of
feed and there will be little or no loss
of stock.
Trappers report the fur.bearing ami.
mails very plentiful in the vicinity oi
Blaine this winter. The prince ~
trappers, d. B. Hicke. reports having
unusual good luck, especially In taking
beaver. He reports catching one last
week that weighed nearly 100 pounds.
The Hoquiam Chamber Of Com.
merce adopted resolutions lately favor.
ing the establishment OF a lighthouse
and life'saving station on the north
side of Gray's Hsrbor. near the scene
OF the Ferndale disaster. The resolu.
tions have been sent to Hon. John l..
wilson, at Washington.
At Fairhaven Bishop Paddock fell
several feet from steamer deck. He
was picked up insensible. stunned by
the fall and the nervous shock. Rev.
l.. W. Applegate, who went down 70
meet him, had him taken 20 the hotel.
He did not come out OF the swoon
until after being placed in his room.
County Attorney Jones has fiied a
complaint in the Superior court at
Mount Vernon against Barnes, the
man who killed Joseph Emard ut the
mouth of Cascade creek the day before
New Years day, charging him with
murder in the first degree. After the
complaint had been read Judge Nc
Bride ordered Barnes sent 10 jaii.
Barnes was under 5000 bonds Tor
manslaughter.
Gilman Hesford, who was sentenced
to fifteen years in the peniientiary for
the crime Of manslaughter In killing
his brother, is hut 20 years old. The
fratricide and his brother were loggers
and lived with their parents three
miles from Castle Rock. They had
quarreled over the affections Of q
school teacher who boarded al the
house. Both were drunk on the night
of the murder.
The mail from Mulke,eo 10 Langley
is carried in a dugout with q little ON.
gine that might do TO run q six.inch
circular saw, but IL is hardly 40 Tor
navigation on Puget Sound. Recently
the engine gave out midway Of the
trip and the craft was helpless until
she got out Of her difficulty by the aid
OF the Hassalo. On another occasion
the engine had 10 be helped along
with pair Of oars.
The Gulf Of Georgia is now tcemins
with herring, which are being caught
by tons by Blaine fishermen, sad
packed in barrels. One OF the gran.ies,
sights ever beheld Is seen while riding
on the steamer by night through
these immense schools of fishes. who
dart away from the bows Of the .oa,
by millions, leaving phosphercscen,
wakes like meteors. The whole ms
seems alive with them, making Il mo
difficult matter for fishermen 20 make
good hauls.
Councilman w. II. Long, Of Chel,a.
lis, died February 10Th OF congestion
OF the brain, after an illness of a lev
hours, Mr.. Long was the father oi
Senator J. H. Long. Of Lewis county
and had resided there about eighteen
years. He was one OF the most sc,Iy
members OF the Democratic party In
the county. The death OF his father
will be a severe blow 10 Senator Long.
who is now on the way from III Paso,
Tex, with the remains OF his vile, Who
died there few days ago.