Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-01-13
WHOLE NUMBER 1.724.
STATE HAPPENINGS.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE, THERE
AND EVERYWHERE.

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rent Of Time-Minor Topics told 4,
. Half-NOte Compass.
| Fire in the third floor of the Ba,
View hotel at Everett did $500 dam
age.
A bear weighing 713 pounds was
killed near Hoods canal last week
The carcass was sold in the Seattle
markets.
An unusually large number ol
counterfeit silver coins and s. gold
pieces are said to be in circulation in
Tacoma.
John Frick, logger at Shelton, had
only worked two days in Draham'l
camp when log rolled upon and
killed him.
The New Years edition of the
Everett Times was printed on paper
made in Everett, from timber cut
from the Everett townsite.
A white wolf, weighing perhaps 15O
pounds, walked deliberately the full
length of the main street in Plaza, a
new town near Spangle, unmolested,
and passed up the gulch into the
hills.
An avalanche a quarter OF q mile
long is reported by the Wenatchee
Advance to have come down the
mountaino last week. Fortunately
there were no settlers homes in its
path.
The thick crust on the snow in Kit
titas valley has been very hard on
range cattle. All stock which could
be gathered up has been fed for some
days, and it is reported that there is
plenty of provender to last through
the winter.
A collection will be taken up next
Sunday at st. Leo's church, Tacoma,
to buy a safe to secure the silver
chalice and other altar valuablos.
This is to overcome the work oi
thieves, who have twice stolen the
silver chalice.
James Hand, who lives near Lyn-
den, found bis son George in Seattle
last week. They parted % years ago.
Both have lived on Puget Sound 70.
years, never dreaming they were %
near each other.
A large number of Columbia rive.
Indians are attending the "Kulls
Kulla" dance now being held at Wal.
lula. Last year the festivities attend.
ing this dance, which was held at
Umatilla, lasted q week.
The Big Bend Empire thinks that
breaking all cultivable soil would tend
greatly to do away with the squirrel
pest, and suggests that a. an incentive
to this land plowed ready for seeding
be subject to less taxation than bunch
grass land. aG rs
The Fairhaven Herald has changed
managers. Culver Bros. have sold
their stock in the concern to the Fair
haven Land Company, and O. H. Cul.
yer is succeeded as manager by James
G. Thornton, and as editor by Rev. J.
H. Schively.
The total amount of lumber shipped
from Gray's Harbor in 1892 was TO-
10000 feet against Sc, 9,258 900 in 1891.
One hundred and sixty.one sailing
vessels and IS steamers carried It
away. This does not include rail
shipments.
Sam Holland, 9" "quaw man." died
at Everett, last Tuesday. He was the
husband of the Indian widow KRONER
whose heirs are now contesting the
Everett Land Company's title to q
quarter section of land on which the
Hotel Monte Cristo is situated, worth
$500 600.
The idea of organizing q jack-rabbii
hunt in the Big Bend is meeting with
favor in that section. The Wilbur
Register says: "A great many seem
to be in favor of having the hunt fol
the good it will do the fruit-growers
and others are willing to have the
hunt for the sport there is in it."
Navigation on the upper Columbil
river has closed. The steamer Colum
bia drew too much water for the pres
ent low stage of the river, and tn,
Lytton wound up the season in hel
stead. This boat went up from Col
vile last Thursday and returned tn,
day following, and was then tied u,
for the winter.
Neah Bay Indians are trying 4
catch monster whale that come
into the bay from the ocean every iey
weeks. A few days ago one Of the q
noes was close enough to have haz
pooned the big fish, but the IEdian
were afraid to tackle him. It vii
take fleet of canoes TO make . sue
cessful capture.
Two irrigating propositions hav
been presented to the citizens OF Pasc
for their consideration. One propose
that water shall be pumped from th
Columbia river to irrigate the adjacen
lcountry, while the other will take
from the Palouse. If both are &C
cepted that region will rapidly lose il
arid appearance. .-s.
E. G. Burlingame has large fore
of men at work cutting hop poles 70
the Yakima market. It was his ir
tention to cut 1.OOO, 900 poles, but q
he failed to get a sufficient quantit
of the right of timber his estimate
3 have been reduced to 400,O pole
}. which, he thinks, will be about
). third of the number necessary 10 su,
'ply the demand.