Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-06-02
STATE NEWS.

Over 40 locations have been made in
the Chewelah district during the past
few days on the ledge OF tin recently
discovered there.
Garfield county farmers expect to
harvest 100000 squirrel scalps the
present month. Ii they do not, their
grain harvest this year will be pro-
portionatcly less.
The people living in the district
covered by the Kennewick irrigating
ditch have been considering whether
or not they shall buy the canal.
There are about $1,000 acres in this
district, and the price asked for the
ditch is $24 700.
Ernest Kirby, lad OF Pomeroy,
Garfield county, was struck on the
back of the head with hammer
which young Peter Gearhardt threw
at chicken. The boys were several
feet apart and the chicken between
them, when Peter, in his anxiety
to slay the fowl, evidently lost sight
Of the chum and threw the
hammer, which missed the chicken,
but struck the boy. The wonder is
that the boys skull was not fractured.
The diver who has been trying to
find the body of Miss Nellie Holgate
in Lake Washington, just back Of
Seattle, has given up the search, and it
is now believed that the young lady
was not drowned at all. She has been
missing from her home for two weeks.
She was last seen rowing ON the lake,
and the boat was picked up with the
oar missing. Her hat and cloak were
picked up on the beach. She carried
life insurance policy of $1,000 and
had made will.
Harry Raymond, who represented
himself as an agent OF the Red Cedar
Shingle Company, secured from David
Ferris, of Portland, Or, manager of
the Oregon & California Lumber
Company, a check for $1,000 after
giving bill OF sale for SOC, 900 shingles.
The affair has not yet been settled up.
Raymond, wherever he is now, still
has the money, while the Seattle bank
which cashed the check, still hangs to
the check in the hope that it can
either come back on Ferris or the mill
at Mount Vernon for the 81 900.
Four young men of Washington have
taken novel way to go to the worlds
fair. They intend to go in stage
coach, drawn by four horses. Leav-
ing Seattle about three weeks ago,
they proceeded through Ellensburg
and Walla Walla to Spokane. From
Spokane they go through Northern
Idaho and Montana. enjoying the
abundance of game and fine scenery
They intend to arrive in Chicago in
the latter part of the summer, sell
their horses and coach, and after see
ing the sights, return by more
modern means of travel.
DIR. Blalock, of WaIla Walla, is at
the head OF an irrigation company
which proposes to begin canal at the
south bank of the Spokane river just
above Post falls. At this point the
main ditch will be 60 feet wide and 80
feet deep, and will be regulated by a
system of extremely heavy floodgates
controlled by machinery. The ditch
will run about four miles south of
Spokane past Cheney and Sprague, to
a point about eight miles east Of
Ritzville. Here the main ditch
branches, one arm running south to
Palouse river and the other southwest
to the Columbia.
A number of large wheat farms are
TO be found in the vicinity of Endicott
Smith and Ballaine head the list. with
5000 acres Lillis F. Smith has 1900,
William Lee 1900, William Huntly
1900 ]. w. Mason 500, H. J. Miller
500, w. NJ. Martial 100, William Mar.
row GOO, and as many as dozen more
have upward OF 500 acres. Wheat, ex-
cept a little that suffered from the
winter, is looking very we'll. Farmers
are confident that they will get good
crop. There is from three to five feet
of moisture to insure them from drouth
and enough snow in the mountains to
preclude the chance OF failure from
hot winds.