Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-10
STATE NEWS.
The Dayton Mi'mdcr has suspended
Walla Walla river is raging over its

The Dayton IHih0tf mas suspended.
Walla Walla river is raging over its
banks.
Seattlc's municipal levy has been
fixed at Il mills.
/ Waitsburg is being revived 10y Day
ton evangclists.
Two of Kelso's shingle mills have
started up again.
! The Ellensburg flour mills are rum
ming night and day.
Skamokawa's October money order
| business was $Jol,Sl.
Walla Walla is calling in $4,000 of
outstanding warrants.
Snohomish shipped Is carloads of
shingles East during October.
The Frankfort Chronicle outfit
brought 81 800 at Sheritf7s sale.
The Pullman Mercantile Company,
of Colfax has resumed business.
Everett is much exercised at having
to pay 20 cents bushel for coal.
Twenty looms have been added to
the State jute mill, making 10 in all.
A horsc was electrocuted in Spokane
by stepping on live wire in the rain.
The North river cannery lifted out
, 800 salmon in one net the other day.
J. p. Hamilton, Palouse Justice of
the Peace, is dead. at the age OF 30
years.
The Tacoma chamber of commerce
took i'll 80 new members Tuesday,
night.
1t is thought that 1000 women
voted at the Spokane school election
last week.
Ben Holmes, appointed Postmaster
at kalama, has sent his bonds on to
Washington.
The Congregational and Presbyte-
rian churches at Aberdeen will unite
congregations.
c. H. Brakeman, recently burned
out at SnohOmish, is rebuilding with a
four-story block.
Colonel Stone, mayor of Knappa,
has sold his farm for 81 600, and is 60
ing to California.
Rev. Lunn, Methodist, is foreman OF
the bricklayers on Sprague's opera
house now building.
Coblentz, the new warden of the
Walla Walla penitentiary, took hold
OF his new duties last Monday.
Miss Simons, of Lake View was
lately fined $25 and costs for ill-treat-
ment of child adopted by her.
A Port Townsend jury is investigat-
ing the sanity of Captain r. w. De
Lion, CHILEAN council at Tacoma.
Professor Fred G. Plummer, of Ia
coma, looks for earthquakes December
%, and the highest tides for 1S6 years.
r. NJ. Palmer, of Walla Walla, shot
himself in the leg while out hunting
and narrowly escaped bleeding to
death.
Thomas Connors, a logger, threw
some bricks through 5000 worth of
plate-glass and is accordingly in Jail
for it.
DIR. a. B. McKinnon's Office at Fair
haven was burglarized Tuesday night,
and 5000 worth OF surgical instruments
were taken.
1t is two months since the Seattle
grand jury went into session, and
some people are wondering when it
will report.
Officer Hamilton, OF Seattle, shot at
a flying thief and wounded Jerome
Hackney, a bystander, in the fleshy
part of his arm.
The amount of lumber shipped from
Gray's harbor in October was 1926
600 feet. OF this 3, $4,000 was shipped
from Hoquiam.
w. w. Hodges, of Evansville town.
ship, Whitman county, has seedless
crab apple tree that is finely favored
and prolific bearer.
R. Tabault, who was in the employ
of the Hudson Bay Company at an
early day, died at Cathlamet last
week, at the age of s. years.
H. J. Ogden, who was captured at
Kalamazoo, Mich, last week, and was
wanted at Centralia for seduction, will
be allowed to remain there.
| Bids for the Bellingham Bay-Port
Townsend mail route have been for
warded to Washington. The present
contract is about $4,000 per year.
The new electric light plant of Che
halls cost $1,000. The calculation is
to earn enough from private lights to
make the city's lighting cost nothing.
Mine No. 2 at Roslyn broke its
record last Monday, when its output
was over $l,70O gross tons of coal.
The days yield filled SO railroad cars.
The Pilchuck and Snohomish rivers
are on the rampage, from the SHOWS
which have been melting in a two
days chinook. The latter has risen
IL feet.
Four OF the fourteen Tacoma juve-
nile Halloween offenders were sent to
Jail and the others are out finding and
restoring the scattered objects OF their
FRANKS.
Cornelius Burrs, IS years old, a vet
eran of the war and for six years a res
ident of Cowlitz county, died at Castle
Rock, this week, and was buried with
Masonic honors.
John Dougherty and J. J. Wilson,
two professional gamblers OF Colfax,
have been held to answer for conduct
} ing gambling games. Their bail was
fixed at $500 each.
Just after finishing his dinner
Robert Jaynes, carpenter at Monte
Cristo, was taken with a serious hem
orrhage of the lungs, and before
medical aid could be secured the man
was dead.
} Mrs. Nellie Kunz, of Spokane, de-
spondent because her husband is out
of work, drank two-thirds of an ounce
OF carbolic acid and swallowed Is
grains of morphine, but physician
saved her.
Louie Stemato. the Spokane Indian
who knocked Nah So Lab, the Kalispel
Indian, in the head with piece of
gaspipe, after which Con Con finished
the deed, has been held for murder