Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03
STATE NEWS.

iOlIls.
Steilacoom will get along with a >
mill tax.
| Mumps is epidemic among Sprague':
children.
Whatcom county's valuation falls CT
81 ,lJl $50 this year.
Blain'S two canneries put up 1860,
600 pounds of salmon.
Seventeen ,Iaps are being examined
for entry at Port Townsend.
Spokane county will receive new
bids for its courthouse bonds.
Chehalis schools have opened for /;
six months term with Col pupils.
The town of Everett is to construct
city hall at cost of over 5000.
Improvements are being made tC
the buildings at Fort Walla Walla.
The Seattle Telegraph comes ouI
dat-foOted against all extra season.
J. b. Holt, Of Colfax, has gone Eas,
with five carloads Of Palouse apples.
The first Of the normal schoo
building at Ellensburg is completed.
The Cheney normal school will be
moved into its new building Monday.
About $4,000 of Aberdeen street
improvement assessments are delin
quent.
Seattle's dog-catcher has gathered
in I73 homeless brutes during the
month.
They cannot get out oysters fast
enough at Willapa to keep up with the
demand.
Arrangements have been made for a
mail service over the Everett 4 Monte
Cristo railroad.
The contract for the Everett's new
city hall and Jail has been let to Slayton
& Co. for s., $50.
A raft of 100000 feet of fir and
spruce logs has just been lowed out
from SkamOkawa.
Snohomish county has levied tax
OF $4,000 to maintain the Ebey-island
dixie the coming year.
Tacoma claims population of 3d.
329. The basis is the new city di-
rectory published this week.
When the First National bank, OF
Fairhaven, goes to Whatcom it will be
called the Bennett National.
The Whatcom Rep.Me says the
First National bank of Fairhaven is
about to remove to that town.
Irving Rector and Flora Childers,
two young people residing near
Rochester, were married last week.
The story OF the arrest of J. N.
brennan at Lewiston for the Pullman
murder is pronounced fabrication.
The tramp dog" Owney" has reached
Spokane homeward bound, and was
interviewed at length by the Reriew.
Whitman's football team is anxious
to 60 to Seattle and give the Queen
City's team a drubbing Thanksgiving.
The total number OF all kinds of live.
stock in Walla Walla county is 81 ITO
head and the aggregate valuation is
$530695..
Children playing with matches set
fire to barn near Goldendale and Ike
Snodgrass lost 1000 sacks of wheat in
the blaze.
Of the Whitman county towns,
Pullman will have the highest tax
rate, with 364 mills. Rosalia is low
est, with 164.
Rev. w. NJ. Miller, the Baptist
supply for both Winlock and Toledo.
is to live in one of the places each
alternate year.
The mercury at Ellensburgh one
morning last week registered Is de-
grees. the lowest eyer known at that
place in October.
The Waitsburg Times has rented its
front window to lady who advertises
to repair jewelry and to be " a lady OF
large experience"
Ballard has voted not to tax itself
any farther, and that leaves the CITY
officials with no salary in sight. Like
ly they will resign.
1t turns out now that there is no
water in the springs unloaded on the
city of Tacoma at cost of million
and a half OF dollars.
Charles A. Lewis, a Hebrew, 90
years old and deserter from the reg
ular army stationed at, Fort Spokane,
has been arrested at Seattle.
Spokane's expenses from July TO
July, just compiled. were 1851, 1888. 46;
receipts, $413, l35.13. The new water
system had cost SO far $158,659.64.
James Sutton, an English gardener,
has succeeded in growing licorice in
the Puyallup valley, and has hopes OF
establishing an important industry. .
There was cleaning bee" at
Medical Lake this week to remove
the accumulated logs, brush, rocks
and other debris along the waterfront.
Judge B. L. Sbarpstein has resigned
the place he has held for Is years on
the Walla Wslla school board. He is
succeeded by his son, J. L. Sharpstein.
1t is estimated that the various re-
ligious organization OF Walla Walla
own property to the value of 1000,
81, 900 of which is exempt from taxa.
ton.
A mill-hand at Edison made q bal
loon ascension and parachute jump
Sunday on wager. he was carried
up above the clouds but came down
safely.
Representative Wilson, OF this State,
has introduced bill for the ap-
preparation OF $685. 900 for two revenue
cutters to be used on the Pacific
coast.
Evangelists Webb and Reid opened
a campaign in the opera-house at
Everett last night, under the auspices
of the Presbyterian and Methodist
churches.
The Stillaguamish river is lower
than it has ever been known at this
time of year, q fact accounted for by
the recent cold weather in the
mountains.
The tug Biz has left New Whatcom
for Tacoma with raft of logs con.
tanning $4,000 feet, from the Belling-
ham Bay & Eastern Railroad Com.