Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-06-02
STATE NEWS.

Six hundred squirrels were killed in
one day in the vicinity of Colfax.
Fire in Hickman Bros clothing
store at Blaine did $1,000 damage.
The ninth annual reunion OF Wash
ington pioneers will be held at Seattle
June 6.
A 4OO.pound sealion was shot on one
of the harbor buoys at Tacoma the
other day.
The City Council of Tacoma has
cut down all salaries of municipal
officers 10 per cent.
The additional acreage planted to
hops in Yakima county this wear will
rot fall below / 500 acres.
Persons just in from the mountains
back of Waitsburg report Ii feet of
snow in the gulches and canyons.
The Kittitas County Commissioners
at their July session will act upon the
proposition to fund the countv's in
debtedness by issuing bonds.
Over 10000 fruit trees have been
planted this spring along the Column
bia between Troy and Orondo. That
entire region will be one vast orchard
in the not distant future.
A Reardan correspondent reports
that 100000 bushels of grain will be
shipped from that point this fall.
This is indicative of the expectations
all Big Bend farmers are indulging in
this year.
The Spokane Indians are willing to
go on the C9uer d'Alene reservation if
they can be colonized. Only about
thirty families remain in the vicinity
OF Spokane, and these have about de-
cided to join the others in Idaho.
Garfield has voted to issue $4,000
for water works and electric lights.
There were only twelve people who
opposed these improvements. There
was great enthusiasm when the almost
unanimous opinion of the citizens in
favor OF progress was made known.
The people of Pierce county have
been asked TO vote $500, 900 bonds to
tide the county over until taxes begin
to come in. Ii the people do not vote
the bonds asked, the county will
have to shut down its courts and there
will have to be II general curtailment
in all departments.
The 3-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
killiar, who reside near Fort Spokane,
was burned to death by accidentally
upsetting a pan of hot grease, which
was standing on the kitchen stove, up
on itself. The grease Immediately
took fire, burning the child so that it
died in a few hours.
George b. Hinton, of Ellensburgh,
has a brave 6-year-old boy. His j.
year-old brother fell into stream and
would have drowned but for the
presence of mind and prompt action
of the G-year.old lad. That boy has
wiped out the record of a multitude OF
scrapes in advance, so far as his parents
are concerned.
William Miller, an Old-time resident
Of Crow valley on Orcas Island, has
among his curios an antique thresh-
ing machine. 1t is of the old sweep
class, and was imported from England
to Victoria by the Hudson Bay Com
gany i'll 1913. Four years later Mr..
Miller purchased it from the company
and took it to Orcas Island, where it
did good service continuously until
1889.
The lumber business is picking up.
Whenever big timbers are wanted in
the East, Oregon or Washington lum-
bermen get the order. Recently an
order was placed for the timbers OF a
new dredge boat ut West Superior,
Wis.,, some of the sticks being SO feet
long. The improvements at Duluth
for coal dock and dumps have taken a
great many carloads of lumber from
this Coast, and more will follow.
J. Wayland Clark, of the Fairhaven
foundry, is something Of horticulture
list. He has fruit ranch on Orcas
Island in which he intended 10 take
great pride. Last fall he carefully
planted GO fruit trees as a starter"
This Spring when he visited his ranch
with some expectation of finding the
trees in healthy condition, he found
that some party wanted the trees so
much that every last one of them
except three had been stolen.
The Shelton Sentinel wants that
thriving young city connected with
Olympia by rail and says: "The line
would increase the value of all farms
near which it passed. Kamilchie
would become a thriving suburb of
Olympia, and Shelton would simply
boom! Let us agitate and investigate.
No harm to see what can be done.
The Tumwater falls give all the power
needed. The only expense will be the
building and equipment of the line"
The Colville, Okanogan and Spo-
kane rivers are higher than ever
know before, and much damage to
property is feared. The Colville river
has already created great havoc to
crops. The Yakima has suddenly
risen, but can do no damage except to
bridges and railroad bed where it is
too near the water. All streams in
this valley, says the Ellensburg Local.
izer, stopped over during the week,
but no considerable damage is re-
ported. The greatest possible damage
might occur in the Swank mining
district where considerable property
is in danger. But for the cool days of
last week that checked the melting
snow in the mountains there is no
telling what damage might have been
done.
Owing to irrigation the land around
Kennewick, across the river from
Pasco. is selling readily at $50 per acre.
Two years ago ifa man had settled on
piece OF that land he would have been
advised to emigrate to some insane
asylum. The people residing in the
district bonded by the canal are putting
in crops, some setting out orchards,
others seeding their land to alfalfa, po-
tatoes or oats. Water is now running
in the ditch, and the settlers do not
apprehend any scarcity during the
summer. The company owning the
canal have submitted proposition to
the district to sell them the canal for
the sum of $4,000 and float the
bonds of the district, or $4,000 and
the district float its own bonds. The
sentiment of the community seems to
be in favor OF the purchase of the
canal.