Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-10-13

Fairhaven shipped three carloads OF
shingles East Saturday.
Lowsons meat market burned at
Fairhaven. Loss, 5000.
Over 100 acres will lie aided to the
hop area about Chehalis.
Wildcats carry off poultry about
Knappa in broad daylight.
Snohomish has finished it's sewer
tunnel, at a cost OF ST. ,349.
South Bend will raise $6,0S5 for the
expenses OF its school year.
A carrier pigeon marked H 5,357"
has alighted at Wenatchee.
There are 100 students at the
Pullman agricultural college.
Wahkiakum county will be able to
foot its bills for 1894 with 5000.
Superior Court sits at Fairhaven
Monday next with long docket.
The Krug grand jury at Seattle has
called for Henry Fuhrman's books.
Superior Court is in session at POM
eroy with long docket ahead of it.
The teachers had the best institute
at Whatcom ever held in the county.
The receipts OF the Goldendale post
Office for the past quarter were SO,
1864.
There is turnip in the Blaine
Journals Office which weighs %
pounds.
Six horses have been condemned
and shot at Davenport on account of
CHAMBERS.
Spokane merchants take city and
county warrants at per, half cash,
half trade.
Two Tacoma militiamen, Sperry and
Bell. have been court'martialed and
will be tried.
1t is announced that the Port
Blakely mills are to commence run
ming full time.
Contracts have been awarded for
four new bridges in Whitman county,
costing 81 ,lGO.
A hunting party is out six miles
south of Walla Walla looking for an
immense cougar.
John Harris and Gus Burgly have
been arrested at Centralis charged
with counterfeiting.
Clarke's saloon, at Shelton, was
robbed of $l2 and lot of book ac-
counts, few nights ago.
Walla Walla's Salvation army's
official quarters have been burglarized
for the third time recently.
The Walla Walla streer-cars have
stopped running and the superin-
tendent declines to explain.
Rain is doing damage to standing
grain and that cut but not stacked in
the neighborhood OF Cheney.
Jim Wardner's family are moving
to Milwaukee, where they will remain
during his stay in South Africa.
The boiler of the steamer Wishkah
has been recovered in As feet OF water
at Aberdeen by deepsea diver.
The engines and boilers for the
Chehalis electric light plant have
arrived. The freight bill was $500.
Garfield will make no municipal tax
levy this year, but exc out the cur
rent expenses with fines and licenses.
There are two acres of tobacco grow
ing near Orting of rs fine quality as
any grown in the State OF Kentucky.
Charles Sewer, a drunken man who
was picked up on Seattle street by q
policeman, had $l9l.50 on his person.
Hon. Ezra Meeker, the hop king of
Washington places this seasons hop
crop of the State at not over 10000
bales.
The Eaton Mercantile Company's
store at Spokane has been seized by
the sheriff on an execution for
$8,O43.75.
Frank B. Winebrenner, Chief Of
Spokane's fire department, is to be
married Wednesday to Miss Theresa
Ohmston.
The second annual fair of the Su-
mas Valley Horticultural Society will
be held at Sumas on the Goth and 21st
of October.
The Everett paper mill shipped 80
tons of paper to San Francisco. 1t is
reported the mill will resume opera
tons in few days.
David Black has been bound over at
Colfax for assault at a gaming table.
He is gambler, and attacked John
Dougherty over game.
Charles A. Dyer, of Port Townsend,
late national bank examiner, has been
appointed receiver of the First Ma
tional bank of Port Angeles.
A newly arrived Englishman named
Richards advanced a Seattle bunco
man 800 on an unsigned check for
5000 a few minutes after he met
him.
Samuel Mitchell, Chehalis young
man of II years, who has been absorbed
in Salvation Army meetings, has been
adjudged insane and sent to the
asylum.
Harry Stroud, day warden at the
Spokane county Jail, took strychnine
with the intention of committing
suicide, but physicians arrived in time
to save his life.
The school directors of Whatcom
county have organized and resolved
that SIS year is enough for school
clerk and that the census should be
taken without additional compensa-
tim