Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-08
STATE NEWS.

"So' Ilc leaves Vile ana Two chill
dren.
Grass in the Big Bend country is
coming out very fast, and not a dead
animal has been seen on the range
this spring.
< George Cantrell, aged so years, died
at West Ferndale, Wednesday. Mr..
Cantrell was one of the pioneer settlers
OF Whatcom county.
A prOspector from the Olympics
above Lake Cushman recently ex-
hibited some good specimens of silver
ore and black oxide of maganese, some
of the latter assaying G5.5 per cent. of
the oxide.
The Tacoma Erery Sunday shows
that while Tacoma and Portland, Me-,
have about the same population, mu-
nicipal government costs $177 600
year more in Tacoma than it costs in
Portland, Me.
The fruit growers in the vicinity of
Friday Harbor completed pruning
their trees and expect heavy yield
this season. The ranchers have set out
several thousand trees and berry plants
this spring.-Islander.
The Washington Worlds Fair Ex-
ecutive Committee held a meeting at
Tacoma a few days ago, and made ar.
rangements with Paul Schulze, gener-
al agent of the Northern Pacific, to
carry Washington's exhibits to Chicago
free.
The farmers say that nothing can
now prevent crop. The recent
heavy rains have put the ground in
excellent shape, and the prospects for
fall grain are splendid. The warm
weather is giving everything an early
start.-Waterrille Democrat.
The springtime has come. and with
it the plows are skimming oyer ten
thousand fertile hills and the green
grass is springing up in the Rainbelt
country. Most favorable are the pros
poets for one OF the greatest crops this
safe region has ever grown.-Palouse
Rdinbeh.
Mr.. S. Abbott brought into the
Times Office on Wednesday a carrot
measuring over two feet in length and
eighteen inches. in circumference.
When such roots as this are raised in
an ordinary field, there is little danger
of failure OF the food supply for man
or beast.-island County Times.
Northern Pacific officials are after
the timber pilferers who have been de-
vastating the company's timber land
in the vicinity of Easton and Big
Creek, in the western part of Kittitas
county. 1t is estimated that the in
truders have cut and taken away over
100000 feet of timber during the
past winter.
Stephen Gaddess was arrested at
Tacoma. Wednesday night, charged
with being Frank Moore's pal. Moore
was jailed recently for robbing a
grocery store, butcher shop and chicken
roosts, and with $500 worth of stolen
property in his possession. Gaddess
was supplied with skeleton keys and
armed with Winchester rifle and re-
volvers.
Some 1000 new acres will this year
be devoted to hop production, in ad-
dition to 400 acres already yielding
That amount of land last year pro-
duced about $50 tens of hops, and
raised Yakima to the rank OF the fifth
county in the State in hop production
What 2,40O acres in hops will do this
year remains to be seen. The outlook
is very ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Among the new and novel enter
prises proposed for Puget Sound, says
the Fort Townsend Leader, is an inn
mense clam packing house soon to be
established at Scow Bay. The excel
lence Of the Puget Sound clam has
long been well known to the epicures
of the Pacific coast, but only of late
years have these bivalves been in de-
mand in the East and in Europe.
A letter from Friday Harbor says
that E. Van Gohren, member OF the
State Horticultural Board, reports
that they have set out over $4,000
fruit trees on -Orcas Island since last
fall, and, with what has been set out on
this leland and the other smaller ones,
the number that has been set out up to
date will reach between 100000 and
125,OOO trees, which are apple, prune,
pear, cherry and peach.
At O'Brien, King county, Sunday
night, during a barroom row that oc-
CURED in OBrien & Cummings saloon
barkeeper named Mike Crowley put
a revolver against the head of Richard
Harm, shot and instantly killed him.
The murderer, after the victim fell,
gazed ON the body moment, then
seeming to come to a realization of his
crime, turned the revolver to his own
head, firing three snots. He missed
twice, the third took effect. He fell
and breathed his last in about an hour.
About twenty persons were present,
and all fled when Crowley fired the
first shot except two, John Hill and
Harry Hansen, who witnessed the sui
eide. The murderer was single, 40
years of age, and had no known rela-
tions except a brother in New York.
The victim was "a years old, a rancher
at Orilla. He was reputed to be worth
$4,000. He. leaves wife and four
small children. Crowley is generally
liked, has many friends, but is sup
posed to have been crazed by liquor.