Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-17
STATE NEWS.

, charter.
Registration closed at Everett with
So names.
The shelton >,ntinI has suspended
publication.
The Tacoma National hopes 90 re-
open Monday.
Peach x Crisp, WatcrviIlc groccr@,
have assigned.
Another Chchalis ~hingle mill
resumed this week.
The Everett nail works announced
/ to resume December |.
The Cowlitz is higher at Toledo
than it has been for years.
Wheat is arriving at the Columbus
landing at the rate OF some | 200 sacks
daily.
Ed Grant, brakeman, died at Ia
coma OF injuries received in an ac-
cident.
George Shirley, OF Westport, has
killed an 500 pound elk on the upper
! COwCeman.
The Goldendale boy who was stabbed
by his playmatei is fast recovering from
his wounds.
Judge Claggett lectured at Coliax
a few nights ago on the condition Of
the country.
An earthquake woke Waterville
people up in the night, but did no
further harm.
The McGowan cannery ut Aberdeen
has put up 2l,000 cases OF salmon as
its seasons work.
All the logs in the Skagit went down
safely in the freshet. There was D.
100000 feet OF them.
The Henry Schwellenbach court
martial has begun at Spokane, and
will continue ome.days.
James Thornton, for six wears
Walla Walla's fire chief, has resigned,
Albert Guichard succeeding.
Thirty-seven of the 40 inmates of
the Yakima county Jail are charged
with selling liquor to Indians.
The foot OF little Seattle girl
named Hoskinson has rotted off
through lack OF medical attendance.
q. w. Larne, OF Colfax, is going in
heavily for sugar beets next spring.
He thinks they will pay 800 an acre.
Rev. l.. V. Moilitt, rector of st. Paul's
Episcopal church, Whatcom, has
resigned to accept call to Stockton,
Cal.
Protests are pouring in upon the
commissioners against the several new
roads Whatcom county has been pro-
jecting.
Salmon fishing is lively in the
ISkookumchuck. The water is high
and the fish are running in great
numbers.
BERTHE Forccland, the reformed
-" Montana Terror" is ut Walla Walla
on her way home from Astoria to
Spokane.
Funds are being solicited for prose
cutting the PaloNse farmers suit
against the railroads for lower rates
on wheat.
Philip Yemey, OF Walla Walla, has
, sent 100 pounds of sugar bects TO
Spreckels at San Francisco as samples
of his crop.
Spokane has discontinued 3J of il.
arc street lights, and dissatisfied resi-
dents are making life burden to the
Councilmen.-
Castle Rock has leased its city hall
to the knights of Pythias for 80 years
for $3.50, and there is considerable dis
satisfaction over it.
, Twelve men and five teams made up
q grading bee" at Snohomish, and
put the Methodist parsonage site in
shape for the building.
S. Gardner, OF kennewick, adver.
tises that he has double barrel shot
gun constantly loaded to take shot
ut the man who visits his cook.
Government officials are after
people who have been obstructing the
navigable waters of the United States
by throwing tree-tops into the Willspa
,, river.
There are ITO boys and 90 girls in
the State reform school at Chehalis
50 more. all told, than year ago.
The institution has some $4,000 on
hand.
1t is estimated that receipts OF wheat
at Tacoma to date reach upward OF
, 5000 cars. During August ITO cars
} came forward, September $50, and Oc-
tober l76l.
About 80 cars loaded with wheat are
daily arriving at Tacoma. 1t is ex-
pected that this number will be in
, creased to 200 within the next two or
three weeks.
An effort is made TO have life.saving
stations established at Cape Beale,
Vancouver island, and at a point ten
miles below Flattery rocks, coast of
Washington.
The Spokane Churchn,an, published
i'll the interests of the Episcopal do
cese OF Eastern Washington, COM
mences its second year with the No
vember number.
Four little boys found a pounds OF
opium, worth $500, concealed under
an old wharf near the Port Townsend
sash and door factory. 1t was taken
to the Custom House.
John McLeavin, while walking on a
bridge near Sumner, was struck by the
Seattle train and thrown from the
bridge. He was taken to the station,
but lived only half an hour.
Governor McG-aw has received a
letter from Governor Markham urging
his attendance at the Midwinter Fair
Seattle's boards and exchanges are
comforting about city exhibit.
Eighteen indictments have been re
turned by the Whatcom grand jury
against Edward Y. Gfassett for forgery
smbezzlement, etc. Grassett is an
ex-employe of the city clerks Office
there.
Captain Dunn, postmaster of North
Yakima, is in Puyallup for the purpose
of contracting for 1900 l4-foot posts,
with which to establish trellis
system in his Parker bottom hop
ranch.
Jim Wardner wrote a letter to Sc
attic on the eve Of his sailing from