Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-10-20
STATE NEWS.

Hoquiam's box factory will resume
DON. il
Walla Walla is to have fine opera
house.
Seattlc's tax levy is likely to reach
IS mills.
Wild swan, are flying over Port
Orchard. (
Whitman county has SIS 600 in its
treasury.
An anti-Chineso club is organizing
ut Seattle.
The Cheney bank advertises 81 000,- |
900 to loan.
The Mealy-Lacey mill at Chehalis
has resumed.
Aberdeen will make its tramps work
on the streets.
Threshing is on again full blast
about Rosalia.
Counterfeit silver dollars are plenti.
ful at W ALA W ala.
H. S. Owens 81 900 residence burned
at Lake Steilacoom.
Lewis county's expenses for the last
quarter were $33,0S3.
Edwin III. Hatfield, OF Tacoma, died
in that city yesterday.
Shingle certificates circulate as cur
rency at Blaine stores.
Spokane's council has declined to
revise the city charter.
Snohomish shingle mills are pre-
pairing to run all winter.
Two freight cars were wrecked in u
collision at Walla Walla.
Garfield schools, closed on account
of diphtheria, have reopened.
The Tacoma National bank ex-
poets 10 resume November l.
Cathlemet farmers will experiment
with fall planting of potatoes.
1t is raining dreadfully again
throughout the Palouse valley.
Whitman county horticulturists
meet at Pullman, November 4.
A trainload of cattle has gone. to
South Omaha from Uniontown.
Seattle is laying off good many
city employees to save expenses.
Tacoma Mystic Shriners will have a
great festival Wednesday night.
The Puget Sound Schoolmasters'
Club meets at Everett Saturday.
Kalama's municipal debt is 81 600
and coming annual budget $S5S.
The bridge across the Tukanon at
Starbuck, $50 feet long, is completed.
Charges of wastefulness in the Ruby
creek trail work are being investigated.
Snohomish is worried over improper
bookkeeping in its treasurer's accounts.
The Day brothers are shooting g.
100000 feet of logs over Snoqualmie
falls.
The Supreme Court has pronounced
the Port Angeles bonding proposal
legal.
Walla Wallans changed $50, 800,
$40 and $40 confederate bill for a
stranger.
Colfax will raise $16046 municipal
taxes, being IL mills on its 81 ,233,377
valuation.
The government quarantine build
ings near Port Townsend are nearly
completed.
Uniontown's new brick school.
house, two stories high, is nearly ready
for occupancy.
Major E. A. Routhe is setting out
1000 strawberry plants on his Stevens
county ranch.
A half-mile race track is being built
on DIR. Cloves place near Fort Walla
Walla garrison.
Epgvel Halvorson, a Tacoma team.
ster, dropped dead from over-exertion
while loading hay.
Twenty-eight notices of final proof
on timber-land claims are running in
the Winlock Pilot.
The West Virginia colony recently
arrived at Chehalis will settle in the
Big Bottom country.
Blaine's school funds have given out
and money to run the schools is being
raised by subscription.
Funds have given out for the two
bridges Snohomish county is building
over the Stillaguamish.
The hop crop of the Bishop ranch
near Chimscum has gone East. II
will bring about $4,000.
Six carloads of canned salmon have
arrived at Fairhaven from Vancouver
for shipment to London.
Hundreds OF wild geese are feeding
in the grain fields in the vicinity o.
Lake, in Asotin county.
The new courthouse in course O
construction at Mount Vernon hal
been insured for $4,000.
An Ocosta hen moved TO MontesanC
on the cowcatcher of an engine ant
has located permanently.
William Phillips, under bonds a
!. Chehalis for assault, has fled and lef
his bondsmen in the lurch.
w. F. Thompson, OF the lat,
lamented Westport World. will star
a weekly paper at Sprague.
E. J.St. Louis was discharged a
Everett for assault on his sister, an,
held for incest in 81 600 bonds.
J. H. Coblentz has been electe,
Warden of the State Penitentiary Il
,, succeed J. A. Mcleod, resigned.
Toledo United Workmen had
swell celebration of the third an
niversary of the lodges formation.
John Uphouse, of Sedro, is said l.
have discovered asbestos deposit
of considerable richness and extent.
The Bellingham Bay & Easter
railroad is bringing in about 20 cal
loads of logs daily from Lake Whatcom
ia. Godfrew, seven miles north O
Diamond, Whitman county, lost 3 90
sacks of wheat by fire; Insurance, S.
), 900.
The Spokane County Commission
ers are still talking about the nev