Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-10-13
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
The Chehalis county levy is Ii mills.
The Westport World has ceased to
revolve.
Wild geese are flying southwark over
Sprague.
Lewis county fruit-growers are Or
ganizing.
Pottery works are about to be started
up at Milan.
1t has been raining heavily again
about Garfield.
The Whatcom Institute is attended
by 1GO teachers.
Bands of Gypsies are rowing through
the Palouse country.
The Garfield schools are closed on
account OF the diphtheria.
Castle Rock will have an excursion
to the Portland exposition.
A new and handsome theater is
nearly finished at Pullman.
George Edwards, the Pullman bur-
glar, has broken Jail at Coliax.
Seattle militia companies are ar
ranging for field day October llth.
Two Puyallup saloon men have been
fined $50 for selling liquor on Sunday.
A number of wealthy Michigan men
are buying up timber land around To
ledo.
Fourteen liquor -to-Indian convicts
have been taken to Walla Walla from
Yakima.
The Bowers dredge at LaConner was
damaged to the extent of $4,000 in
the storm.
An epidemic resembling la grippe
has broken out at Seattle seminary,
|, near Seattle.
The new cable ferry across the Co
lumbia opposite Wenatchee is COM
pleted and in use.
A reward of 500 is offered for Ed
Harris, one OF the two latest escapes
frou, Wall, yU.llo
The Yakima Association of Congre-
gational churches is holding meeting
at Ahtanum this week.
Spokane Salvationists have a big
time to-day with visiting warriors from
Portland and other cities.
Six Indians stood trial in Seattle for
stealing secondhand clothing from a
store, and were acquitted.
The new administration building
for the agricultural college building at
Pullman is TO be S9x156, three stories.
Pullman has offered 16O acres of
land for the location of the new Meth
odist college of the Columbia river con.
ference.
One hundred and twenty three thou
sand sacks of Willapa oysters will be
shipped to San Francisco for the mid.
winter fair.
The Northern Pacific car shops at
Edison are completing 80 new coal
cars, which will be ready for operation
in few days.
Mrs. iesler wants $500 per month
from her husbands estate, and has
petitioned the Probate Court at Seattle
to that effect.
Charles II. Schaefer, ex-Postmaster
at Marysville. Snohomish county, has
been arrested for embezzling some
$500 while in office.
The steam shovel at Satsop is now
loading 80 carloads of gravel per day,
which is dumped along the road be-
tween Montesano and Ocosta.
Mrs. John Ball, of Pomeroy, has
gone crazy. She is morbidly jealous
OF her husband, and has been placed
in the asylum at Medical Lake.
Detective" Stevens, of horse steal
ing prosecution fame has been recog.
nized in the county Jail at Colfax as
an ex-convict from Douglas county.
The Spokane City Council has
bought the water site offered it for
5000, against the protests OF the pa.
pers that $4,000 was enough to pay.
Two feet of snow fell in the Upper
Cle-Elum country Wednesday, and
the storm is still on. Considerable
snow fell in the vicinity of Stampede.
Robert Fairbairn, of Mason county,
has been appointed by Governor Nc
Graw Tide Land Appraiser for Mason
county, vice Alonzo Edwards. resigned.
The high winds have caused an i'm
mense run of fish at Aberdeen, and
phenomenal catches are the result, a
number OF boats bringing in over 800
each.
The Walla Walla farmers have hired
James Hamilton Lewis, of Seattle, to
prosecute the enforcement of the An
derson freight bills rate on wheat be-
fore the courts.
The Everett nail works closed for a
month on Saturday. General Mana
ger Whitney is negotiating at Cleve-
land and Pittsburg for wire rods, and
a cargo is on the ocean from Belgium,
due in November.