Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-08
STATE NEWS.

CatSop udu LABOR mass meeting
Friday night.
Twelve vessels are loading lumber
at Port Blakely.
Ballard will reduce expenses by do
ing without street lighting.
Snohomish claims the baseball
championship OF the Sound.
Walla Walla is shipping a second
crop strawberries into Spokane.
A state road convention to meet
this fall is being generally suggested.
A North Yakima man expects to re-
alize $4,000 from 20 acres of broom
corn.
The thistle is encroaching rapidly
from year to year ON Puyallup hop
yards.
Tacoma shingle mills have a cutting
capacity of 100000 daily, and are
cutting at the present time about
100000.
Nancy Spence, Is years old, disap.
peared at 10 O'Clock at night from her
home eight miles west of Spokane,
and is thought to have eloped.
A Obstructive forest fire has been
raging for several days past on the
promontory north of Birch Bay, de-
stroying a vast amount OF timber.
Noah Boyer, of Walla Walla, re-
Gently harvested from IL acres 5O6
bags of red chaff wheat, averaging 13S
pounds each, over SO bushels per acre.
Three prisoners in Spokane's in
firm city Jail kicked some boards off
and escaped. Two were vagrants and
one had trouble with u variety woman.
Bud Taggart, who is in Jail at Spo.
kane for eloping with 15-year-old Edna
Norton, is married man. His wife
is daughter of ID. F. Meyers, of North
Yakima.
The Northern Pacific has brought
in lotion locomotive to move grain
trains through the Palouse country.
Over 500 loaded cars of last years are
awaiting shipment.
Sergeant Wilson, of company G.,
Fort Spokane, went out hunting. He
was gone about four hours and killed
six rattlesnakes with rattles as follows !:
l6, 16, IA, II. 7 and5.
Earle & Donohue are having saw
mill built of the most modern pattern,
TO be erected at Clallam bay. 1t will
have capacity of $1,000 to $4,000
feet of lumber per day.
At Spokane Chester Edwards has
sued Rudolph Gorkow, the wealthy
brewer, and A. Mueller for $1O,O 600 for
defamation of character, incident to
alleged malicious prosecution.
Spokane's water-works dam will be
so constructed as to develop $4,000
horsepower gross, and will be what is
known as timber crib dam, the abut-
ments to be composed of heavy cut
granite or concrete.
John Breen and Samuel Quetnet
have been arrested at North Yakima
for selling liquor to Indians. The ar
rest is regarded ss significant as fore.
casting the annihilation of q gang oil
offenders the two are said to be leaders
OF.
The Grand Temple of Pythian Sis.
ters OF the State of Washington will
be organized in Walla Walla on Sep.
tember 19 by Matte Robinson, Su.
preme Chief. There will be Is dele.
gates present, representing all parts oil
the State.
James OBrien, an old man living
alone about 10 miles from Kennewick,
was found dead in his hut last week.
Decomposition was advanced, show.
ing that he had probably been dead a
number of days. He had been i'll for
some time.
A large number of soldiers from
Vancouver are out at Trout lake, near
Cathlamet, enjoying the fishing. 1t is
understood, says the Gazette, that the
government has been asked to make an
appropriation of 1000 acres of land for
State park.
r. 7. Day, who was hanged at
Kalama in the summer of 1892, was
drawn on the recent federal grand
jury. Dead men have been drawn on
juries before, but this is supposed to
be the first time hanged murderer
has been drawn.
The application for a United States
bonded warehouse at Port Townsend
has been granted by the Treasury De.
partment. The nail works wharf will
be utilized for the purpose. Five hun
dred tons of steel wire are at present
stored in bond On the PREF nises.
The sixth annual confe renee of the
North Pacific German Mission has
convened at the Germa N Methods,
church in Spokane and will continue
IN session till None lay. Bishop
Daniel A. Goodsell, of So N Francisco
and numerous ministers are in attend
ance.
Thieves entered the room of At
torney James B. Jont ,s, at Spokane
and ritied his trunk OF valuable famil,
silverware, mostly we dding presents
and numerous other valuables. Two
young men rented tf. .e adjoining room
the previous night, md it is suspected
they entered thro ugh the foldins
doors.
The Walla Wa ia Statesman ha
calculated that the country east of th,
Cascades will vie Ill 100000 tons O
100000 bushels of wheat and saw
this is a moderat estimate for thi