Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-05-19
STATE NEWS.
Joseph Patek's saloon at Chehalis
burned, loss $1,000; insurance $1,000.
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Fire at NOrthport, Stevens county.
did $4,000 damage; insurance, $50 900.
The Seattle & Northern railway is
the largest taxpayer in Skagit county,
paying $l0,lS5.
n dumpcart fell down an embank.
ment upon John Titzner, laborer on
the city reservoir, breaking his thigh.
At a recent election the city of Ana
cortes voted to issue $4,000 worth of
twenty year 6 per cent. bonds and the
city is advertising them for sale.
The Sumner Manufacturing Com
pany is moving its plant to Puyallup,
and will manufacture all kinds of
house furnishings, berry boxes, etc.
III. Lansnonour the woolen mill
man, is i'll New Whatcom, and final
effort is being made to secure the
establishment of this desirable indus
try.
The dead body of William Rose was
found in the Wenatchee river last
week. He was subject to fits, and it is
thought he fell into the river while in
one of these.
The Eagles along the ocean coast of
state are being exterminated. Every
boy who kills one of the noble birds
gets big notice in the local paper, in
stead of rebuke.
The State Homeopathic Society met
in annual convention at Seattle, Nav
.. Munson, of Seattle, was chosen
president. The session for 1894 will
be hold at Tacoma.
Two OF the Roslyn bank robbers,
Christianson and George McCarly,
were held for trial at Ellensburg last
week under bonds OF $4,000 and
81 600 respectively.
Norah Parish, Salvation Army
girl, in Tacoma, aged II, was grossly
insulted by policeman, and when she
made complaint, the chief simply stat
ed that he did not believe the girl.
The Whatcom county explorers
seeking pass across the range found
one only 1890 feet high and named it
Wild Goose pass, because of a flock of
these birds they saw flying through it.
The dam at Blackman's lake, one
mile north OF Snohomish, broke Tues.
day night, and miniature Johnstown
flood swept over the city. Much dam
age was done to property, but no lives
we're lost.
Conconully at presents presents a
good claim to the honor of being the
widest, wooliest and toughest town in
the State, outside of Seattle. During
April there were 20 shooting affrays
there, but no one has been killed by
these innocent gun plays.
A dead Chinaman has been discoy.
cred in the Snake river near Almota,
ii miles south of Colfax. A dagger
was found in the right side OF his head.
Detective Newton set to work on the
case and thinks he will disclose
crime involving prominent farmer.
An artesian well being drilled at
Sidney is proving a conundrum. The
Pioneer says: "The we'll is now ut
depth of 2l0 feet from the surface.
There seems to be no bottom. Water
poured down the casing disappears in.
stantly and at the same time sand
rises in the we'll to within 40 feet of
the top.
The Colville reservation, which is
now about to be surveyed for settle
ment, consists of 100000 acres, the
hunting grounds of about LOO Indi.
ans. Uncle Sam paid 81 100000 for
the northern half OF this domain, and
it is rich in gold, silver, coal, timber,
grazing and agricultural lands-the
ideal land of the miner and home.
seeker.
1t now appears that in Yakima
county, where no damage whatever
had been anticipated for the peach
crop, it will not be up to expectations.
The Herald says: There is little use
Disgusting the fact that the peach
crop of Yakima will be limited this
year. All the peach orchards are
damaged, and o. Halstead, who, with
John S. Baker, purchased the Bicknell
ranch, reports that he has few peach
buds not killed, while a like condition
exists in Fred Thompson's orchard.
All of the other fruit in the county is
all right, even to cherries and apricots.
There will be some peaches, however,
but not enough to cut much of q
figure in shipments"