Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-01-20
STATE HAPPENINGS.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE, THERE
AND EVERYWHERE.

| So"hucrdDie COuhterfeit Money In
Circulation - Telephone to Con.
: meet Bunch Grass and the Clam
Beds-Our Timber I'm NORWAY
), Firewater as an Indian Extermf-
natOr-CowIitz County Will Have
Something to Show ut the Worlds
Fair-NIarble and Slate valu.
able Resource Of the Statc-HaIi.
but Banks OFF Cape Flattery-
Wheat Growers Demand Lower
Rates OF OfTransportation-C
ties, Deaths, Etc.
A sixteen foot coal vein has been
discovered in Whatcom county.
Kittitas county is called upon to
supply 100 bushels Of wheat for the
Worlds Fair.
New and valuable halibut banks
have been found to the west of Cape
Flattery, Wash.
| The Whitman county delegation to
the Legislature is solidly opposed to
Icounty division.
! Cally Ramsey and Thomas Rowley
were convicted of counterfeitfng at
Seattle Thursday.
| The recent snow did not even injure
the buds of many hardy roses, and
they are now bursting into bloom.
Three Eastern fishermen have gone
to Alaska and will catch halibut and
send them East via rail in ice.
There are now 300 miles of irrigat.
ing bitches already in operation or
in course of construction in Yakima
county.
New Whatcom has decided by
vote of 67S to 200 to purchase the
Cornwall water works system at cost
of s25O,OOO.
In hundreds of gardens around
Puget Sound roses and chrysanthe-
NUNS were seen peeping from snow
drifts last week.
| Two counterfeiters were arrested
at Spokane Thursday with several
hundred dollars in spurious money
in their possession.
A street car on q Seattle electric
railroad jumped from a trestle bridge
into the bay last Friday, severely in
|juring several people.
Port Townsend's new custom house
is nearly completed and will be occu-
pied by the postofiice on January 10th
and the custom office, Feb. 1st.
There is every probability that Spo-
kane, Walla Walla and the cities of
the Sound will he connected by tele-
phone before the end OF another year.
i Fruit areas in Washington are esti-
mated at $4,000 acres and the yield al
ready 81 ,250,OO0. This income is ex-
pected to more than double in the
next few years.
| w. H. Greenleaf, of Litchfeld, has
lbeen in Ocosta recently with view to
lputting in mill to supply the Mime
sofa trade with spruce and cedar lum-
ber and shingles.
| The Western Box and Basket
Manufacturing company, informs Ho-
lquiam parties that they are ready to
commence operations as soon as the
papers of transfer are complete.
| The Pacific Coast elevator company's
warehouse at Fairfield was destroyed
by fire last week, together with $4,000
bushels of wheat, which was insured
at 35 cents bushel. Loss, 5000.
R. F. Floyd, of Puyallup, says that
in 1861 snow fell to a depth of Sc
inches in Cowlitz county, and
remained for nearly two months.
Hay sold for 800 ton, and most of
the cattle died.
Through mail and passenger service
from Ellensburg 10 Wenatchee was
resumed last Thursday. The deep
snow on the mountain caused a great
accumulation of paper mail on both
sides OF the summit.
| ]. w. Bisby, cashier of the North
End bank, Seattle, has returned after
his sudden and mysterious absence
which caused such comment some
time ago, and resumed his post. He
simply went away to rest.
The first nail made by the Port
Townsend Steel Wire and Nail Com
pany is in the possession of E.
butcher, who intends having it hand
somely mounted, and will then pre-
sent it to the Chamber of Commerce.
i 1t is proposed to replace the wooden
building burned at Tekoa in the
September fire by fine brick blocks, no
less than five of which will be COM
menced as soon as spring opens.
While great blow to the city at the
time, last falls fire promises to be ulti-
mately of great benefit to the town.
In the great rivalry for pre.eminence
between Seattle and Tacoma, the ap-
parent great need for poet laureate
has arisen. In Seattle Lee Fairchild
easily o'ertops all competitors, but in
Tacoma it is hot race between Her
bert Bashford, Colonel Will L. Viss.
cher and Mrs. Carrie v. Shaw-Rice.
An unusual number of vagabonds,
hoboes, vagrants, beggars and tramps
now infest Puget Sound cities, and
this probably accounts for the large
number of burglaries and robberies
now being committed. Houskeepers
in many portions of the city complain
that they have frequent visits from
, tramps begging meals.
1t is not G. W. Minkler who is on
trial at Centralia, charged with the
murder of Alfred Wright, but DIR. J. ID.
lMinklsr. The former has already SUI