Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-10-20
STATE NEWS.

Puyallup is to have dress-reform
club.
Mount Vernon's assessed valuation
is $360OOO.
The Chelan Eagle has folded its
wings in death.
Seattle's taxable wealth is a little
over $3S, 100000,
Seattle will need 100000 for her
schools this year.
The presbytery OF Spokane meets at
Spokane Tuesday.
A lodge of the old Foresters is being
formed at Spokane.
Yakima teachers have organized a
county association.
New Whatcom's September foreign
exports were $4,000.
The Peshastin quartz mills pay
roll is $4,000 monthly.
A Blaine mill has made $4,000 boxes
for salmon cans this season.
The Everett smelter is completed
and is waiting for ore to start up.
Three hundred placer claims have
been taken up along Ruby creek.
OF Walla Walla's $3S,743.45 city
taxes only $5,952.25 is delinquent.
Silver-backed salmon are running
up the streams about Port Angeles.
The hops of 1893 in this State ac-
cording to current prices will be worth
81 100000.
Over 800 Tacomians visited the
Worlds Fair during the month of
September.
Claus Spreckles will establish a
steamship line between Puget Sound
and Australia.
A new Touring mill will be con-
structed at Pullman, with 100 barrels
daily capacity.
The telephones in the Spokane
schools will be taken out unless the
rates are lowered.
2. c. Hayes, of Orilla, this season
picked $1,000 pounds of plums from
43O four-year-old trees.
The suspended Bank OF Everett has
promulgated reopening scheme which
is meeting favor with depositors.
FIGURING mills all through the agri-
cultural districts Of Washington are
exporting hundreds of tons of flour.
The Willapa Harbor Extract Works
at South Bend has received a first
prize at Chicago for white hemlock
tannin extract.
The estimated hop crop of Yakima
county is $4,000 bales, valued from
$35O,OOO to $5O0,OOO. Last years crop
was $500 bales.
DIR. A. N. Gill, under four years,
sentence at Chehalis for manslaughter,
is in Jail again, having been sur
rendered by his bondsmen.
The growing crop of wheat on $780,
OOO acres of Eastern Washington, will
yield over 20,00O,OOO bushels, the
average being nearly 80 bushels to the
acre.
At Port Townsend Judge Ballinger
has ordered the grand jury convened
on the 23d inst. to inquire into the
alleged irregularities in the Auditors
Office.
Adams county has a stockmen's
protective association, for resisting the
operations of rustlers, which will per-
feet organization at Ritzville Octo-
Der %.
The postoftice, Farnsworth's drug
store and o. NJ. Rudd's jewelry store
at Rockford were robbed, the burglars
taking in all $500 worth of plunder
from the three places.
The best bid the Cowlitz county
commissioners had for their proposed
bond issue was, according to the
kalama Bulletin, cat per cent bond
and a premium of $10O."
The death warrant of John White
is the first ever issued in Snohomish
county. He is to be hanged Friday,
December %, which will be the first
anniversary OF his crime.
A run OF "a tons of ore was recently
made in the Black Bear mill, Okan.
ogan county. which netted about $500
in bullion and l 900 pounds of concretes
worth about $l9S per ton.
At Colfax, Judge Sullivan has dis
missed the case of John ]. Maraseck,
who was charged with knowingly
receiving stolen cattle, for want of
sufficient evidence to sustain the
charge.
The Settlers League of Gray's Har-
Dor is corresponding with the interior
department about the delayed survey
OF that section, and has received
grounds for hoping that something
will be done.
A young man by the name of
Doughdill who killed a man in Ala.
bama a year ago, surrendered him self
to Sheriff Woolery at Seattle last Mon.
day. He said he wanted to 20 back
and see his wife and family.
A coachman at New Whatcom had
a miraculous escape from a frightful
death. He was carrying two valises
across the railroad track when he was
struck by the engine of moving train
and hurled into the air, alighting
however, unharmed.
II. s. Gile, of Ilwaco, has brought o
suit OF ejectment against number of
fishermen who. he claims, are occupy
ing his land on Chinook beach. The
fishermen claim that the land their
traps are on is not his, but made
which lies without his estate.