Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

! iIlcIlI vi q 3UUU-Darrcl Oruer. OWING
to the superior quality of Washington
hemlock bark, the extract commands
a premium OF 81 per barrel over
Eastern hemlock extracts
DIR. Van Mar:er, of Washtucna-
ditch fame, who sold 100000 worth
OF irrigation bonds for the Prosser
country, in Yakima county, expects to
begin work Immediately, the ditch to
irrigate 5000 acres of land, furnish
power for electric-light and a water
system for the town of Prosser.
Forest fires are raging in the woods
about South Bend, and there are
fears that portions of the town will be
burned if the dry weather continues.
a number of settlers have lost their
cabins and others are not only anxious
for their homes, but for the hemlock
bark they have peeled for market, and
which is now dry.
The Seattle chamber of commerce
officials have indited long COM
munication to Secretary John G.
Carlisle of the treasury about the
cutter Wolcott. In brief, the officials
declare it is the sense of the chamber
that new and more suitable vessel
should relieve her. The Wolcott is
now about 30 years old.
The Snake river fruit crop accord
ing to a statement made by Mr. J. b.
Holt, manager of the Palouse Fruit
Association, will amount to 5000 boxes
of late peaches, 5000 gallons of black
berries, 1900 boxes of peach plums,
1900 boxes of pears, 1000 boxes of
grapes, 5000 boxes of winter apples.
The apricot crop is short.
Articles of incorporation of the
Boundary Single Company, of Blaine,
have been filed by Thomas Welcome,
f. ID. Hilton, f. Goodwin, II. Gidney,
N. J. Campbell, William Hazen and
S. Williams The capital stock of the
company is $4,000, in shares of 500
each, and the object of the company
ia the manufacture OF cedar shingles.
Director Nye informs the Walla
Walla Statesman that the idea there
ale over million grain sacks lying
idle in the penitentiary, which cannot
be sold because the farmers have no
money to buy them with, is erroneous.
He says there are not 5000 there at
the present time, and that the prison
board has no right to sell the sacks on
credit.
The buildings for the Great Northern
railroad shops in Spokane are all COM
pleted and the roundhouse is now in
use. One carload of machinery has
arrived and other consignments are on
the way. This will be placed in
position as rapidly as possible, and it
is anticipated that the machine, shops
will be started in operation within a
few weeks.
r. Carruthers, OF Oysterville, will
start for Chicago in a few days with
rare commercial outfit. There is
crabapple swamp near Oysterville, and
from its tangled thickets Mr.. Carruth-
ers, in the course of several years, has
cut and polished over 5000 gnarled
and curious walking canes. He ex.
poets to find sale for all OF them in the
windy city.
Puyallup Commerce: Two wears
ago DIR. P. Frank brought from New
Jersey to Puyallup 5000 2.year.old
basket willow cuttings and had them
set out in Joe Fernandez's garden.
They have grown and thriven, and
would now furnish 10000 cuttings.
DIR. Frank is SO we'll satisfied with the
experiment that he will this fall set
out 10 acres.
! Louis Stimson. young man
formerly interested in the stock. raising
business in Whitman county, has
been brought from Big Bend country
and lodged in the Whitman Jail,
charged with completely in the
-po;soning of tho horace -oi - Rsujamin
Manchester last spring. The de-
tectives are believed to have accused
the wrong man.
| The contract for the first 20-mile
section of the Ruby creek trail from
Thompson's eastward, has been let to
John Breckenridge, of Fairhaven, his
bid being the lowest. The other bid.
ders were Charles King, of Tacoma;
P. ]. Halberg and Lyle 4 Asher, and
the bids ranged from $57 to $l65 per
mile. 1t is understood that Mr..
Breckenridge will begin work next
week.
At Montesano James Stewart, q
wealthy logger has been arrested by
Chief Deputy United States Marshal
. Bridges. of Tacoma. charged with ap-
, propriating $35 900 worth OF govern.
ment timber. Stewart had been cut.
, ting this timber for six years, logging
it and selling it to millmen and claims
to have title to the land through the
Northern Pacific.
|, The Cheney Sentinel says the yield
, of wheat in that section is simply
3 enormous, aggregating perhaps 40
| bushels per acre. While rain might
benefit growing grain, it is no. needed
to such an extent that the country is
suffering from the want of it. From
:: all portions of the great grain belt of
! Eastern Washington comes the same
encouraging report.
The schooner Americana finished
loading lumber at the Old Tacoma mill
), on last Saturday afternoon. The
schooner has big cargo of lumber for
! France. 1t includes some spars and a
l large quantity of dock yard lumber. 1t
8 was diffiult cargo to load. This is the
first load of lumber shipped from this
port to France. The Americana is a
# Hawaiian vessel and is one of the finest
t steel schooners afloat.
The Eureka. quarry at Tenino,
. closed down last week for an indefinite
q period. The reason assigned for
closing down isihat there is no money
in the country and therefore no build
IT ing going on to create demand fol-
r stone. Its closing down is a severe
n blow to Tenino, and the hope is that
If times may lisen up sufficient Il
r justify the company in resumins
Q operations before long.
The scale of the property of the
g Pacific Boom Company, at Mount
q Vernon, made by Receiver V. A. Mar
n shall, has been confirmed by Judg,
Q Mcbride. The purchase price wal
y $1O,O5O. This scale places the entir,
o property in the undisputed posses
T. sion and control of the Skagit Boon
Company and sets at rest all doubts
= and uncertainties as to there beinJ
&, any conflict between the two boon