Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-04
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON: FRIDAY EVENING" AUG 4 1898
STATE NEWS.

| h"|"ii" oN"oois iast year cost
$249,942.
Washington's wheat crop is estimat-
ed at 100000 bushels this year.
The salary of the Mayor of Tacoma
has been reduced from $4,000 to $2,-
600.
Hoquiam has voted to issue $24,-
600 bonds for new system of water
works.
CentralIa cannot sell her city bonds
owing to the striusonar ia, t,.v money
market.
OF the 100000 convicts in the Walla
Walla penitentiary twenty will be re-
leased this month.
1t is proposed to launch the big
whsleback steamer at Everett ON the
evening of August Goth.
Eastern capitalists are starting a
colony near Shelton, where they have
invested S3U,UUO in land.
The sale of butterine aud oleomar-
garine stamps in the Puget Sound dis
trict has reached about 5000 this
year.
Hops have not changed materially
as far as selling price is concerned,
but new crop is being contracted at Is
cents.
Joseph Gualt, II years old, was
drowned at Lyle, Klickitat county,
July 10, while attempting to cross a
lake on horseback.
John Orting, ore-armed man of
San Jose, CAL, was injured while at
tempting to jump off a train near
Black River junction.
But few lice have as yet appeared in
the Puyallup hop yards. 1t is thought
but little damage will result from this
cause in that section this year.
The Shelton journal reports that
John McReavy, of Union City, has
assigned; liabilities, $4,000, well Sc
cured by property AMI accounts.
The Hop Growers Association of
Yakima is puzzled to know how to Sc
cure 5000 pickers for this year, where
1900 have heretofore been required.
Abraham Hibler, an old German
farmer, committed suicide at Hatton,
Adams county, July 20, by blowing
out his brains with a revolver. He
was heavily ia debt and despondent.
The Ritzville flour mill is running
day and night, and an order was re-
Gently received from San Francisco for
1000 barrels. A warehouse to hold
$4,000 bushels of wheat is being added.
There is an effort being made to
bridge the Wenatchee river at Leaven-
worth. Both Okanogan and Kittitas
counties are called upon to make an
appropriation OF 81 900 for the purpose.
Near Skamokawa wild animals have
recently become very bold. A cougar
walked into Charles Ross's clearing
and helped himself to chicken, and q
bear killed big pig belonging to Mrs.
Nyberg.
The Shelton Journal reports John
McReavy's liabilities at about 5000,
we'll covered by property and accounts,
neither of which, however, are good
for cash. This failure may be severely
felt in the region of Union City.
The government dyke across the
head OF Mailboat Slough, near South
Bend, has sunk one to three feet
throughout its length, and will have
to be filed again, the ninth time. The
last filling was principally OF brush.
A colony of fifteen Canadian far
mers have sent an agent to Washing
ton to find farme for them, where
they can devote their time to fruit.
raising and msrket-gardening. They
will probably locate in the Puyallup
Valley.
Rev. j. H. L. Zillman, an Episcopal
missionary in Eastern Washington, is
writing book about Carlyle w. Har.
ris, the libertine and wife poisoner,
who was executed at Sing Sing. Mr..
Zillman's book represents the monster
as saint.
Index, a small town on the Great
Northern road between Snohomish
and Summit, was totally destroyed by
fire Sunday night. The town con-
sisted of only half dozen houses, but
with the exception of the railroad
office, all were destroyed.
Hop vines in Chehalis county have
never looked better in the month of
July than they did this year. There
are in that county 700 acres planted
to hops, and the acreage next season
will be greatly increased if this proves
q favorable year for this crop.
The Willipa Harbor Tannin Ex.
tract Company has received from
Boston an order for 1000 barrels of
extract at a stated price, delivered.
If satisfactory railroad rates can be
obtained, the order will be filled. Bos-
ton next to Liverpool, is the largest
market for tannin extract.
The new bridge across the Skagit
river at Mount Vernon has been COM
pleted at cost of $4,000. 1t is 600
feet long, exclusive of approaches, the
draw span being 1863 feet in length,
said to be the longest in the State. 1t
is the only wagon bridge across the
Skagit.
County Commissioner ]. NJ. Wolfe,
of Fremont, is exhibiting in Seattle
some magnificent specimens of the
rhubarb plant grown by him, the stalks
averaging from "a to 30 inches in
length and to /! inches in thickness.
All were brittle and juicy and one
single stalk weighed three pounds