Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-15
STATE NEWS.

The Peshastin quartz mills payroll
is $1,000 monthly,
Vancouver's district court calendar
includes II divorce cases.
Elberton is promised a machine
shop and foundry this fall.
Colfax has offered the Union Pacific
its city water at 10 cents per 1000
gallons.
The First Baptist church of Rankin
Lewis county, was dedicated last Sun.
day.
John P. Green's $4,000 combined
harvester burned near Sedalia during
the noon hour.
A falling tree killed a horse and
smashed the wagon of Il man named
Stone at Everett.
A raid On the Chinese gardens below
Colfax was repelled by the celestials
who shot at their unlimited visitors.
One thousand boxes of plums we're
sold from two acres of ground on the
Scott ranch, in Cowlitz county, this
season.
Clerk hire at the Port Townsend
postofiice has been reduced from So GOO
to 81 400 per annum, to take effect
Immediately.
The product of the Tacoma Smelt.
ing d Refining Company for Angus,
aggregated $23,S25 in gold, $26.l2l in
silver and $10,S49 in lead.
Ben Armstrong, of Bay Center, has
4OO cords of spruce stave bolts out
down on the Nasel river, ready fol
shipment to San Francisco.
Eddie Jameson, the Everett barten.
der who shot and killed John H
Doudridge, a negro bootblack, has
been held in $4,000 bail to answer to
the Superior Court.
]. L. Clark, OF Henderson bay, who
fell from a bridge at Tacoma, has
since died from his injuries. He, with
his sons and others, were bound 70,
Puyallup to pick hops.
On account of the limited number
Of men available, Secretary of the
Navy Herbert states it will be i'm
practicable to locate the Nipsic a,
Tacoma as receiving ship.
James w. Bailey, for shooting John
Downey in a quarrel over q woman al
Newcastle last May, has for a second
time been found guilty of murder ir
the second degree, at Seattle.
On his mill creek farm east of Wall.
Walla Thomas Gilkerson threshed OF
GO acres 4,200 bushels, making al
average of 20 bushels per acre. Th'
wheat is OF extra fine quality.
One of the best crops harvested
this season is that of Sam Drumhelle
on his ranch at the foot of tn,
mountain near Walla Walla. On,
hundred and four acres yielded 6,S6.
bushels of fine wheat, which is g.
bushels to the acre.
Work at the new normal schoo
building at Ellensburgh is going ahea'
with vigor. A large quantity of bricl
and stone is on the ground. Tn
foundation is being prepared for tn
commencement of the walls, and j
expected to be ready some time mex
week.
In the suit of F. J. Alexande
Mayer against the Big Bend Trading
Company a garnishment has beer
issued in the superior court at Spokan
against the San Francisco Bridg
Company for $565, an amount due by
the bridge company to the Big Benz
company.
Shephard's Landing, nearly opposit
Cascade Locks, has lately been laid ou
as townsite, and the records OF Ska
mania county have been moved ther,
from the Lower Cascades. The lane
is owned by a syndicate, who intend t.
"boom" it and make it great com
mercial point.
Although diligent and continued
search has been made for Georg'
Thomas, who disappeared so suddenly
from Spokane several weeks ago, NJ
trace can be found, and hope has al
most been abandoned. There is little
doubt now that he was drowned in thu
Spokane river.
Walla Walla county's board o
equalization left its railroad as
sessments as follows: Northern
Pacific Railroad Company, assessed a
$50, 800; equalized at $63,O70. Oregon
Railroad & Navigation Company
assessed atS524, ,l6O; equalized at 1896,
S64. Washington & Columbia Rivel
Railroad Company, assessed at $655,
200; equalized at $500, 600.
Mrs. Henry Caspery, of Pluvius, who
shot and killed large cougar about
year ago, had a rather exciting ex
perience with another last Sunda,
night. The cougar made two rushel
for her, but was frightened away by
her screams. Her young son, mean
while, had brought out rifle and sho
several times at the animal, but onl,
succeeded in driving him into thu
woods.
J.W. Kindr ed, of South Bend, made
an attempt last Saturday night to dis
pose of the re mains OF the humpbacl
whale by setting fire to them. Woo
was heaped about the mass of oil,
flesh and bone, and the wood burne,
up all right but the whale didn't. Hi
whaleship, says the Journal, is becom
ing deci dedly odorOus and is now n,
longer viewed with such interest a
close quarters.