Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-29
STATE NEWS.
Ocosta's valuation is 1904 ,4OS.

Walla Walla's city water works pro-
ject is not dead, but sleeping.
George Wilson's hophouse burned
at North Yakima. Loss, 5000.
Seven OF Abcrdeen's fat mems base
ball club aggregate 1000 pounds.
Seattle's dog-pound was broken
open at night and SO dogs released.
There was trap shoot at Walla
Walla this week with 800 live birds.
William Roberts, GO years old, is
under arrest at Spokane for larceny.
Lewis county's fair began at Cheha-
lis Tuesday and runs through Friday.
The wreck of the Annie Faxon has
been appraised at Colfax as worthless.
An Englishman named Gray lost
- 100 at brace faro game in Ia
coma.
The rains have provided plenty OF
volunteer" pasturage about Walla
Walla.
The government snaghoat is clear
ing the river between Marietta and
Lynden.
The Great Northern is paying off the
employees of its Cascades division at
Spokane.
Clallam county people are using the
sea kelp which floats up on the beach
for fertilizfng.
The city of Puyallup, for the first
time in its history, is without n
licensed saloon.
At Walla Walla they confiscate
weapons found on offenders and the
marshal sells them.
A movement is on foot to build q
wagon road by subscription between
Everett and Hartford.
Snow is reported foot deep on the
summit of the Blue mountains, earlier
by a month than last year.
Fall-sown wheat in the Genesee
neignborhood is averaging between
40 and so bushels an acre.
The loss on the Spokane city hall
building which burned recently was
finally adjusted at $39,G50.
The school board of Wenatchee is
preparing to submit bids for building
a $40 900 brick school house.
Seattle's fire chief is notifying own
ers of tall buildings to put in fire
escapes as provided by ordinance.
The notorious Bullivant couple at
Spokane are about well and have
decided to kiss and make up again.
Port Angeles has purchased the
electric light plant for $4,000 and
~ 500 commission for selling the
bonds.
Another of the Is contraband China
men captured at Olympia has been
ordered deported There are ii yet to
be tried.
The Wilmans mining company will
soon begin moving ore by tramway
into the concentrators at Monte
Christie.
The United States fish commission
car is on its way from Spokane to Seat.
tie. Salt fish will be taken TO the
worlds fair.
Headers and threshers are at WORK
in all parts of Douglas county. The
yield is up to expectations with a good
grade of grain.
Two boys OF Robert Quinn, aged II
and Is years. killed bear last week
before breakfast, down in the Hump
tulips country.
Potatoes from Japan have been i'm.
ported into Seattle. They are not
considered equal to native grown, and
sell at SIS per ton.
Major Rogers, of Elma, informs the
Chronicle, that he has been bequeathed
fortune amounting to $1,000 by a
deceased uncle in New York city.
Henry Longaker, the 14-year-old
son of DR.. II. d. Longaker, a wealthy
resident of Kent, was killed by being
crushed between two freight cars.
S. w. Dusinberre, the Puyallup
embezzler, has arrived at the peniten.
tiary at Walla Walla and was assigned
to work in the brickyard by the warden.
U. P. Caruse, has been acquitted OF
the charge Of murder, in killing DR.. J.
r. HeIrick, at Port Angeles, on the
9Th inst, on the ground of self de.
Tense.
Wheat is coming in to Garfield
slowly, probably 10000 bushels of the
new crop now being in the different
warehouses and $500 bushels arriving
daily.
/ A laborer on the Ruby creek trail
whose leg was fractured had to be car
ried IL miles on stretcher and 81 by
conveyance before the fracture could
be set.
The Board Of County Commissioners
of Whatcom county have made an all
around reduction in salaries, their own
included, reducing their per diem from
S. to SO.
Ida Mcdonald, good-looking but
dissolute young woman, was found
dead in bed in an Everett lodging
house after period of excessive
dissipation.
John NJ. Plat, the ex-city treasurer
of Anacortes, just arrested for embez-
element, is the son of an Episcopal
clergyman. He has brother in a
San Francisco bank.
Bill McIntire has put in about g.
100000 feet of logs at Cathlamet this
season, and is now at work repairing
Saldren's dam, which was washed out
by the big freshet last winter.
Judge Hanfor1, of the United States
court, has ordered the Spokane
National bank building, which is in
charge OF Receiver Murphy, sold to
satisfy mortgage and lien claims
amounting to nearly 100000.
Col. James Hamilton Lewis has &C.
cepted the invitation to speak at the
Lewis county Fair on the fifth OF
October. Those who have heard the
Colonel will be sure to attend the fair
on the date at least, and those who
have not had the pleasure of listening
TO him will make mistake if they are
not there also.
In the Robinson murder trial at
Snohomish the defense surprised the
prosecution by introducing a new and
unheard-of witness, named Blank, who