Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-24
WHOLE NUMBER 1859.
STATE NEWS.

day.
Snohomish is to have sociology
club.
Montesano is reducing city salaries
all round.
There are AGO convicts in the State
penitentiary.
A Walla Walla virtuoso has import
ed $500 banjo.
A skating rink is being made out OF
the Spokane ball grounds.
Spokane lac five socialist circles,
with a membership OF 800.
The Mcintosh Grand Jury at Fair
haven is still grinding away.
The Cheney normal school has
moved into its new building.
The Cowlitz was II inches above
the 1887 high-water mark last week.
Spokane county has appropriated
1000 for an exhibit at the midwinter
fair.
Tacoma has given up repairing its
present charter, and will ask the Leg
islature to give it new one.
Six townships in Douglas county,
southeast Of Waterville, will be thrown
open for filings in few weeks.
The DeLion examination cost JEFF
ferson county over $500. A good
many cost bills were thrown out.
The four seamen charged with COM
plicity in the fatal August riot at Port
Townsend, have been discharged.
The Spokane Fire Department has
lost its 5000 mastiff Duke, which was
legacy from Mrs. A. M. Cannon.
A theatrical company is being
formed of home talent at Walla
Walla to tour the Inland Empire.
The First National bank of Fair
haven, moved over to Whatcom, has
reopened as the Bennett National.
Postmaster Pendleton, of Sprague,
is on the verge OF delirium tremens in
the Spokane Jail. He has been aver
aging 50 drinks day.
Court-martial at Fort Walla Walla
has dishonorably discharged from the
service Privates Frank Gillespie,
Thomas Quinn and Joseph B. Crane.
]. N. Master, of Skamokawa, is i'm
porting 4O-horse power engine for
logging on big scale next year. He
has contracted for some 10, 900, 900 feet
OF standing fir and spruce.
| Representative John L. Wilson has
returned to Spokane from Washing.
ton, d. c. He will remain at home
about two weeks before returning to
the regular session, which convenes
December 4.
Councilman V. A. Roeder, of What
com, fell off the Everson depot plat
form, l6 feet to the ground, striking
on his neck and shoulders, and sus
tanning painful internal injuries of un.
known seriousness.
The other day a carload of salmon
passed through Fairhaven from Liver
pool, B. c., consigned to Liverpool,
England. A long journey and sim
ilarity of names between the point OF
shipment and the destination of the
fish are noticeable.
John Kehoe, of Orcas Island, and a
neighbor were leading a refractory
horse when the rope broke and both
fell to the ground. The neighbol
weighs 200 pounds and in the melee
he stepped on Kehoe's breast, fractur'
ing several of the ribs.
Malcolm Doble, OF Everett, has left
for Wisconsin to spend the winter
having taken q contract with his
brother to get out 10O,OOO,OOO feet Of
logs for President Weyerhauser, of the
Mississippi River Logging Company
1t will take about four seasons to dc
the work.
Fred Sutter, prospector, the dis
cover OF the Continental mines in Sut.
ter district of the Priest Lake country
is in Jail at Spokane, charged with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses
He has been running bills and buying
things promiscuous-like, without any
money to pay for them. Among hi:
purchases was saloon, which he wa:
in possession of for three days before
the owner became dissatisfied. He
posed as a capitalist, and had also
borrowed good deal around town.