Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01
STATE NEWS.

Clarke county's poorhouse is about
finished.
Vandals are sho"ting sheep on the
ranges about Laurel.
A slight earthquake shock visited
Seattle Sunday night.
Tacoma burglars got $500 in coin
from Fred Drew's slore.
North Yakima's city records have
been exported at cost OF $40.
Mrs. Christina Semple died lately
at Walla Walla, at the age Of 81.
Seattle's police have formed re-
litl association and incorporated.
The Pomeroy Independent reports a
sherifi's sale of 100 horses for 800.
John McKay's barn, northwest OF
Cheney, burned, with implements;
loss 81 800.
Tacoma fruit and vegetable peddlers
are not allowed to begin business be-
fore III A. NJ.
Milton Haney shot an eagle at
Skamokawa that measured seven feet
from tip to tip.
Captain J. C. Nixon, of Seattle, has
$4,000 worth of sealskins ready to
ship to London.
An effort made at Tacoma to have
the city water rates paid in advance
came to nothing.
The Puget Sound Medical Society
will convene in Tacoma, Sept. D, for a
two-day's session.
Mrs. S. Morrison, of San Francisco,
died suddenly at Spokane of heart
disease few days ago.
Spokane's retail merchants are max
ing an organized demand for reduc
ton OF % per cent in rent.
The Walla Walla Agricultural So
ciety has given up the idea of having
either races or fair this fall.
Governor Pennoyer, OF Oregon, has
been invited to deliver the Grafton at
the Lewis county fair i'll October.
Settlers west of Custer are building
a bridge more than 200 feet long over
California creek by donation work.
A man by the name of Mitchell
travelled from Richmond, KY, to Seat
tie, a distance of $3.50 miles on a
bicycle.
A Whitman-county-on car
is proposed to make an eastern tour,
advertising the resources OF the Palouse
country.
1t is reported that the U. S. revenue
steamer U. S. Grant will be sent to the
Sound to replace the worm-eaten
Wolcott.
Ezra Meeker is making contracts
for hops 1t II cents. This is much
better price than growers had been
anticipating.
John Clemens granary, on the
Wenas, burned with implements and
grain, last week. Loss $500; insur-
ance, 81 500.
Safe-crackers at North Yakima Sc
cured from Campbell & Cox $35 in
cash and $S56.09 in warrants, county
aud irrigation.
The top Of Mount Rainier is said by
exploring parties to be inaccessible
this year on account of unusual for
nations of ice.
Albert Salter, one of the men in
jured by the upsetting into the river
of a Spokane city dump cart, has since
died of his injuries.
A reception was given recently
by the teachers of the State Agricul-
tural College at Pullman to Professor
Bryan, its President.
Robert Pringle, one of the earliest
settlers of Skagit county, died of
appoplexy at his Clear Lake home,
a few days ago, aged 40.
State Superintendent Bean an.
nounces that the next meeting of the
State Board Of Education will be held
at Seattle on September 8.
Judge C. H. Hanford, of Seattle,
was at North Yakima the other day,
submitting yearly proof on his claim
under the Leadbetter ditch.
The government inspectors are Of
the opinion that dynamite was the
cause of the recent explosion of the
Annie FaxOn on the Snake river.
A large force OF men is kept at work
on the marble quarry at Fort Spokane.
This week the company will ship some
samples of superior rock TO Portland.
Edward E. Barthrop, a prominent
young Democrat of Jefferson county,
will, it is reported, be installed in
the Custom-house as Deputy Collector.
Montesano's City Council has under
consideration recommendation by the
Mayor for reduction OF running ex-
penses OF the city by over $1,000 per
year.
A human skeleton was found last
week near Davenport. Its former
owner must have died about 20 years
ago and there is no clue to his iden-
tity.
The total value OF personal property
in Chehalis county fOots up 81 ,420,-
GOT; the legal exemption, $424 ,03S.
This leaves 1896 1863 assessable for tax
alton.
A boom of logs worth 81 500, owned
by James Stewart, why was recently
arrested for cutting timber from gov.
eminent lands was ordered ceased at
Aberdeen.
Tho funeral of George McElroy, the
Spokane railroad man killed in All &C.
cident, was observed with much cere-
mony and floral tributes from his late
companies.
]. E. Noel has left Tacoma to as
sume charge, as civil engineer, of the
State road which is to be constructed
through Whatcom, Okanogan and
Stevens counties.
The two companies Of infantry at
Fort Spokane have been ordered to
move to Fort Sherman, which is re-
garded as q virtual abandonment of
the former station.
The New Whatcom board of trade
has rented room for the purpose of
maintaining a permanent exhibit of
the resources of Whatcom, Skagit and