Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-18
STATE NEWS.

Thieves have been breaking into
stores at Garfield.
Frost has nipred young fruits in
Whitman county.
A new Odd Fellows hall is being
built at kamilchie.
A boy at Montesano broke his Jaw in
falling off water tank.
The Clan towed raft of 100000
logs from the Humptulips river to the
Hoquiam last week.
A Chamber of Commerce was or
ganized at New Whatcom, Tuesday,
with sixty-fve members.
Iii is stated that ranches in the Vi
cinity of Garfield will average fifty
bushels of wheat to the acre.
A Westport woman while skating at
roller rink fell down. breaking her
leg and dlslocating an ankle.
The Dayton Courier says that the
wheat yield of Columbia county will
reach 100000 bushels over last sea
son.
A nest OF dead young tarantulas wa.
recently found in branch OF bananas
in Solvey's fruit store at, New What
com.
The Cascade steam laundry at Spo-
kane was destroyed by fire, Tuesday,
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injured.
The lumber for South Bends new
depot is on the ground, and the people
are FESTIVE under the railroads delay
in building it.
Seattle's delinquent city tax roll is
$4,000 to levy of $544 ,249.37, as
against delinquency of S31 900 and
levy OF 5000, 732. "a in 1891.
Spokane now claims a population
of 3G,4S4. The claim is based on 49,
267 names in the city directory, which
is multiplied by u to get the popula-
ton.
About 10000 watermelons will be
cut simultaneously in the State and
shipped to Chicago for distribution the
day the State building is dedicated in
September.
A woodenware manufacturing COM
pany of Michigan is guaranteed $685.
900 bonus in money and land if it will
build a factory at Whatcom and en-
ploy 100 men.
The Western Washington Industrial
Exposition Company of Tacoma will
hold no fair this year. There is an
Indebtedness of $4,000 outstanding
against the company.
The steamer Annie Faxon, exploded
her boiler on the upper Columbia,
Tuesday, killing several persons and
wounding many Others. The acct
dent occurred near Repaira.
Whitman county's assessor reports
for 1893: Personal property, 81 ,OO8,-
2S5; town property, 1854 TIA; farm
property, $lO,355 ,22S; railroad prop
erty, $2,909,O65; total taxable prop
erty, Sl9, S07 ,352.
The statistics of lumber shipped
from Aberdeen to San Francisco the
last six months show a decrease OF 7
per cent. in pine below the same period
of last year, and an increase in red
wood of y! per cent.
By vote of 1853 to 245. Walla Walla
last week decided to float $3.50 600
bonds for constructing gravity sys.
sem of water works in opposition to
the private companies at present ell.
gagged in the business.
Mr.. Lintner, an old resident OF
Sprague, while at work on a new
building, missed his footing and fell to
the cellar, striking on his head and
producing conclusion OF the brain.
His recovery il uncertain------
Seattle's old "Whitechapel" will
soon be a thing of the past. The
block which embraces it is now being
cleared of the old buildings prepara-
tory to the erection of the Great
Northern's depot in that city.
A colony of Is Canadian farmers
have sent an agent to Washington to
find farms for them where they can
devote their time to Embarrassing and
market gardening. They will prob
ably locate in the Puyallup valley.
E.O. Benjamin, professional diver
of Seattle, has been engaged to scrape
the bottoms of RUDE creek and other
streams of the RUDE creek district for
gold. The work is dangerous on &C.
count of the swiftness of the current.
James Gregg, a Seattle laborer, has
disappeared. He left home July 4,
intending to go to either Black
Diamond or Franklin. Since that
time his family. consisting of the wife
and five children, in destitute circum-
stances, having heard nothing from
him.
At Centralia, son OF Deputy Sheriff
Blackwell, aged about IA years, picked
up a cartridge on the railroad track
and threw it against stone, which
caused it to explode. Part of the
shell hit him in the eye, cutting the
eyeball to such an extent that it had
to be removed.
Wednesday last the 5-year-old son
OF Ruth Graham. cook at the kalama
house, was missed. Diligent search
was made, the river was dragged, all
to no effect until Sunday morning, two
men in boat while going down the
river discovered the dead body OF the
child floating in the river.
C. B. Ide and party are about to
start for the Colville reservation for
the purpose of beginning work on the
State wagon road which is to connect
Stevens county with the sea. The
road will begin at Marcus, on the Co
lumbia river, and run westward dis
lance of 270 miles 70 Whatcom.
Edwin and Elsie Dittnock, Of Seattle,
aged 8 and 2 years respectively, were
seriously, the latter probably fatally,
injured by heavy window shutter
that fell from the Squire Latimer
building, on Commercial street Friday
morning. The shutters were care
lessly put on and have been removed.
The sack question is causing much
anxiety in the Eastern counties.
There is no money with which to buy
them and the dealers refuse to sell on
time and accept the same security
that they have in other years. The
state officials are urged to let the
penitentiary sacks be sold on approved
security.