Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-05-12
STATE NEWS,
Pul!man's paper mill, to be bull,
this year, will cost 100000.

Puyallup's city council has stopped
the electric lights and gone back to
the primitive coal oil.
Oakesdale has brought for 81 800 a
spring of pure water capable of supply
ing a city of 5000 inhabitants.
Two children, sick with diphtheria,
were brought to Spokane from Wenat-
chez the other day, A strict quaran-
tine has been established over them.
Rev. George w. Gallagher, of Mont
pelier, VI, has accepted a call to
become pastor of the Atkinson Mem.
orial Congregational church of Ia
coma.
The election held last Saturday. ut
Seattle, to authorize the school dirrc-
tors to build high school building, ut
cost of $l25, 600, was defeated by the
Populists.
The snowfall in Waterville last win
ter was over nine feet, and the ground
is wet to a greater depth than has ever
before been known in the history of
the Big Bend.
IL. j. Ogden, OF Central.a, aged so, is
wanted by the authorities OF that place
for accomplishing the ruin of Minnie
Stockton, aged II, who is about to be-
come a mother.
I. J. Dooley, Prosecuting Attorney
for Snohomish county, died at the
Providence Hospital, Seattle. where
he has been under treatment for
several days, last Saturday.
Farmers in the vicinity of Reardan
are all busy plowing and seeding.
The prospects there, as elsewhere in
the inland empire, are excellent fos an
unprecedented yield this fall.
The Port Orchard Register declares
that plenty of Ignite coal can be seen
at a landslide which occurred recently
on the opposite side of the bay there,
just west OF Ro. s point.
The acreage sown to wheat in the
Walla Walla valley will this year be
about "a per cent. greater than last
season, owing to the flattering pros
poets for large yield.
If the boring at Roslyn proves
success the town expects soon to be
supplied with natural gas. Artesian
water they have now When a flow
of gas is secured the town will be bet
ter off than their neighbors OF larger
growth. 1t is a good thing to have a
rich company to aid in the building
up of a town.
The Localiser reports that hogs and
sheep in the Kittitas valley are higher
than they have been in the last de-
cade. Both of these animals are
nearly as high on foot as they used to
be dressed. Hams are luxury nova.
days. the retail price being from to
4 cents per pound higher than they
have sold for during the last four or
five years.
]. L. Sjostrom, the lone survivor OF
the bicycle party which left South
Bend two weeks ago, is home, sadly
dilapidated. He left his companions,
who were even more badly used up
than he, at the homes of plying peo-
pie along the way. The roads in
Washington must be just awful, or
else those boys are not as good riders
on country roads as on planked
streets.
The government appraisers, who
have been appraising the town site re-
serve at Port Angeles, have completed
their field work. examined all the
lots and determined their value. They
are now engaged in preparing their
report, which will he completed by
the first OF the month. 1t will then
be sent to Washington city, and it is
assured that the reserve will be on the
market in ninety days.
County Auditor Ketner, of Pierce
county, has made demand upon the
bondsmen of ex-Auditor Hollis for
them to pay up $26S.3O which Mr..
Hollis has been found they owe the
county after an examination of the
books in the auditors Office. The
bondsmen are Edward Huggins, James
Ashton, John Gonna, F. H. Gloyd, C.
w. Morrill,, Hugh Wallace, and Amos
F. Tullis. The bond is for $4,000.
The representative from Adams
county, the Hon. r. J. Neergaard, re-
Gently disposed of his interests in
Adams county, and removed to Oak
esdale, Whitman county. Upon being
requested to resign, so that his success
or might be elected in the event OF an
extra session OF the legislature, he de-
clined, but subsequently wrote to
Attorney-General Jones for an opinion
as to his legal status. Mr.. Jones gives
it as his opinion that Mr.. Neergaard
can no longer act as Adams county's
representative.
Washington harvests her crops at
almost any season of the year. The
Garfield Enterprise says that c. f.
Whistler has just finished digging
thirty-tive bushels OF potatoes, the last
OF his last years crop. The potatoes
have lain in the ground where they
grew, and Mr.. Whistler says they are
in better condition than though they
had been lifted last fall and buried in
pile. He proposed planting a large
patch this season, which he will win-
ter in the same way. Mr.. Whistler
says it is the safest way OF keeping
them. provided they are not planted
on south slope, where the snow will
Iblow off.