Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-03-10
STATE NEWS.

The tug Mystic was sunk at Seattle
by the State of Washington in q col.
lision, on the 25th ult.
Robert Melvor, aged II, was caught
in the act of burglary at Spokane.
He possessed an outfit of skeleton
keys equal to the best used by profess
sional burglars.
The Saturday Chinook is the name
OF new weekly paper published at
Spokane. 1t is edited by d. C. wrigh.
ter, and is devoted to social, art, music
and personal news OF the Northwest.
Irrigating canals in Asotin county
are now q matter of certainty. The
supply will come from the tn fork
OF Asotin creek. The total length Of
the main ditch will be about 6S miles,
and it will reclaim about $1,000 acres
of land.
Spokane County Commissioners
have brought suit against ex- Prose cut.
ing Attorney Allen for $9,59s.50
tax money which, it is alleged, he
has collected and withholds from the
County Treasurer. His bondsmen
are also made parties to the suit.
The Palouse irrigation company,
organized at Tacoma, with a capital
100000 will construct q ditch and
irrigate the dry lands west OF Collar.
The incorporators are Frank Shea, J.
c. Van Marlin, Jr., d. X. Stevens,
Joshua Pierce and Andrew G. Smith.
J. M. & E. e. Grant, dealers in gen.
eral merchandise at Spangle have
made an assignment. NJ. NJ. Dick .on,
OF Spokane, has been appointed as
signee, and has filed bond for $l3,-
600 with P. Gimble, Edward E. Gin.
bic and ]. T. Hollis as sur ties. Ap.
parently the assets exceed the liabili-
ties, but what they will realize cannot
be estimated.
Washington is going to beat Wis
consin in the height OF its monolith
at the Worlds Fair, provided the Te-
nino stone-quarry owners can get
their great shaft safely transported
to Chicago. They propose to cut out
a block $50 feet long and weighing
300 tons. The Wisconsin monolith,
quarried near Bayfield,, is l2O feet
long. If the big Washington stone
gets to the fair, the Northern Pacific
railroad will have to build three cars
especially for its transportation.
Stock in the Farmers Terminal
Warehouse Company is being rapidly
taken in the Palouse country. The
Colfax Gazette says: AT the present
rate the stock of $l5O,OOO will all he
taken before third of the business
men and farmers Of the county receive
an opportunity of going into the
enterprise. The stock may never
have to be paid, inasmuch As Everett
has offered to donate a site and bull,
the warehouse free. Tacoma would
do as much. So the company may
pay big dividends TO stockholders who
never have paid up q cent.
S. A. Magee, Of Colville, who lost
his large merchandise store by fire
week ago, seems to h" having IA streak
OF hard luck. Mr.. MIgce is, aside
from his merchandise interests. an ex.
tensive owner of live stock. and last
fall he let out large number of his
cattle to the Indian farmers of the
Colville reservation to winter, ~ is
frequent custom among the Columbia
river farmers. A few days ago he
noticed some of his cattle were miss.
ing, and investigation showed that
the animals had died from some un.
known cause. Scarcely day passed
but from two to half dozen of the
animals died. An examination of th,
dead animals disclosed the fact that
they had eaten poison.