Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-09-02
STATE NEWS.

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Opium found floating in the Seattle
harbor August % amounted in value
to $595.
VIM. ]. Lawrence, a West Seattle
farmer, had his right hand blown off
while hunting.
The wagon bridge across the Skagit
river, at Mount Vernon. will cost King
county $4,000.
Four hundred cases are on the
caiander for the coming term of the
Whatcom county court.
The fall term of the State Agri.
cultural College at Pullman, Whitman
county, opens October 10.
The 5 per cent. due Washington on
the sale of public lands up to June 1,
1891, amounts to s35,9Sl.37.
Seattle public schools open Septem-
Der 9th. 1t is expected over $4,000
children will attend this winter.
There are S22 Ola acres of land still
open to settlement in Douglas county,
of which 1884 are still unsurveyed.
Wenatchee, the name of flourish
ing town in the Big Bend, means in
the Indian language, "good country"
Lincoln county farmers who have
finished threshing report the yield far
better than expected, and the crop OF
most excellent quality.
Cattle and horse thieves are still
troubling the citizens OF Whitman
county. One farmer recently lost nine
brood mares at one time.
Petitions are being filed for four
cornered fight on the Skagit county
seat proposition, with Mount Vernon,
Sedro, Anacortes and Burlington as
contestants.
William Romines the pauper small
pox patient at Snohomish, is dead.
He was at one time wealthy farmer
OF that county, but has been county
charge for seven or eight years.
1t is reported that the Puget Sound
Fishing Company is making arrange
ments to put iishwheel in the Skagit
river at Sedro, and will establish a
cold storage plant in connection.
A Mr.. limerick was held up and re-
lieved OF $65, his watch and pocket.
knife while en- route from Wenatchee
to Ellensburgh the other day. The
robbers have not yet been captured.
Paul Brignoni, OF Cathlamet, caught
big gray eagle in Hapgood's fishtrap.
Its wings measured So inches from
tip to tip. The bird went into the
trap after duck and could not get
out.
The Walla Walla Uuion-Journal
states that grain bags to the number
OF about $4,000 have been sold.by the
Penitentiary Commission. They are
being turued out at the rate OF 1000 a
day.
William Harley, who was sent to
Jail for year for converting an estray
horse to his own use, has been par
doned by Governor Ferry, his wife and
four children being in destitute cir
cumstances.
The people of Okanogan county are
not we'll pleased with the delay in sur.
veying their lands. They are subjected
to many inconveniences and hardships
from this cause, and their complaints
are well founded.
That corn can be successfully raised
in the Chelan country was demon
strated the other day when stalks 10
feet high were cut and placed on ex-
hibitiOn. The Leader states that it is
equal to any raised in eastern states.
The Episcopal churches of the State
has purchased 40-acre tract near the
beach south of Ocosta. This tract
will be laid out in park fashion, and it
is to be used by that denomination as
a place of recreation for ministers and
members.
r. H. Scott, manager of the Ma
nanimo Coal Company, says he is
thoroughly satisfied that the entire
region around Port Townsend bay is
underlaid with coal. A core drill has
been sunk $50 feet with very encour.
aging results.
The Vancouver Independent thinks
that man with good seining ground,
fishwheel or fishtrap, has a business
that beats the average gold mine.
During the past season some of the
wheels at the Cascades paid as high as
3l ,0OO per day.
From single grain of wheat plant
ed in the White river country thi a
spring grew q stalks, which attained
height of six feet, each stalk con-
tanning an average of about $50 ker-
nels. The yield of this field is esti-
mated at about $50 bushels per acre.
The first carload of fruit shipped
to an eastern market from Walla
Walla left last Tuesday for St. Paul.
The shipment consisted of an exceed.
ingly fine quality of pears. The re-
suit of the experiment will be watched
with much interest by the fruit-growers
of that region.
As the result of test made in Sc
attic with 100000 gallon Holly
pump, Friday, IT developed that the
machine raised 3,672,125 gallons of
water, and consumed q, ,S55 pounds of
coal, while two Worthingtons and a
Dow pump raised 1888, $3.50 gallons
consuming 54,9O3 pounds of coal.
Abram Vardell, of Centralia, was
killed by a runaway accident Friday.
His horses became frightened, throw