Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25
STATE NEWS.

new COAL ulstONcIlcS are UtlIS illH'ie
at kelso.
Bucoda will hold full 10 months
term of school.
Harness stealing is extensively in
vogue at Puyallup.
Pullman's new and elegant opera
house is completed.
The new Chehalis-Centralia plank
road is open for travel.
Walla Walla is shipping second-cror
strawberries into Spokane.
Whitman county's teachers institute
meets Monday at Pullman.
The Union Pacific will put in IL
stall roundhouse at Starbuck.
A Palson. of Skagit county expects
to harvest 81, 600 bushels of oats.
Colfax, according to the Commoner
hasn't vacant store or residence.
John Knox, near Dayton. harvested
l,O9l bushels OF barley off 10 acres.
Mrs. J. P. Stewart, of Puyallup, has
300 varieties of roses in her garden.
New Whatcom has reduced the
salaries OF its city officials 10 per cent
A North Yakima man expects t.
realize $1,000 from 20 acres of broom
corn.
John a. Montgomery, of South
Bend, has fallen heir to $4,000
estate.
The town OF Chicago, on WILDLY
island, was sold under the hammer
for 80, 900.
The steamer Cascade brought 5000
salmon into Fairhaven from Lumml
island last Thursday.
Seattle has sent $4,000 in gold tc
Port Townsend to be shipped to
Alaska on the Queen.
Noah Buroker, of Walla Walla, is
reported to have threshed 1928 bushels
of wheat from II acres.
Locomotives patrol the Bellinghanl
Bay railroad near Goshen as a pro.
lection against the forest fires now rag
ing.
SnohOmish county's assessment roll
has been made up at an expense OF
$6.1OS. Last year the cost was $l2,.
295.
The monthly disbursements OF the
federal government at Port Townsend
to pay rolls and supplies is about $780,
600.
Colsax ia overrun with tramps, who
camp about the town and make night.
ly raids upon isolated stores and
residences.
Whatcom is offered a Touring mill
with capacity OF 200 barrels day on
condition of a $1,000 cash bonus and
81 900 site.
Little five-year-old Platt Parker, at
Waitsburg, fell Is feet from balcony
while walking in his sleep. He was
not much hurt.
The drapings in honor OF General
Manager Mellen's death were removed
from the Northern Pacific's Spokane
ofhces this week.
The report, extensively printed, tina,
q Colfax Grand Army post had resolved
in favor of pensions being paid in sill
yer is now denied.
Near Kions, William Denniss, an
old man, got too near to thresher and
his leg was torn off in the wheels. He
expired in an hour.
George Washington, of Centralia
contemplates trip to the worlds fair
He has not seen Chicago since ht
came across the plains in 1850.
A Blain man got q job in sawmil
and took hold of the buzz-saw about
tho first thing he did. He has part o.
one finger left on his right hand.
A Snohomish mans load of hay
caught fire as he was driving along the
road and burned up almost before he
could get off and unhitch the team.
Captain C. NJ. Holton, of Nortf
Yakima, editor of the Republic, ant
the commercial agent for the Unites
States at Swansea, Wales, is home OF
a 60-days' leave of absence.
The Northern Pacific's last petition
to the Whitman county board of equal
ization was that its whole assessment
be stricken out, as not made in accord
ance with law. The motion was de
MED.
Henry Bags, who was awarded tn,
contract for furnishing 1000 poles t,
be used in the government work o
improving the Swinomish slough, ha
established a camp on Fidalgo Island
near the draw bridge.
President Parker, OF the State Fai
board, informs the Yakima Republi
that work will not commence on tn
grounds before September l, as tn
; funds from the sale OF warrants viii
not be available earlier.
Seven placer mining claims notice
were filed at Walla Walla Saturday
The land is situated on the sandbar {
the Columbia river and contains LIP
acres. Locators are all capitalist
from st. Paul and Minneapolis.
D. Parmentier, in going from Snc
homish to Tulalip in sailboat, reacha
for his revolver to shoot crane. i
his haste it WAS discharged, the bal
lodging in his groin. The wound
dangerous, but the patient is restin
easy.
Reports received from sections {
the Walla Walla valley indicate tbs
the yield of wheat this season will b
> the largest ever harvested in tn
! history of the country. The averae
! yield for the valley will be about
bushels.
Robert Burgunder, young son ,
e Ben Burgunder, of Colfax, had ma
!, row escape from q sudden death o
= Monday, getting hold of a bottle I
] disinfecting fluid and drinking a pc
3 ton of it. A doctor and his antido,
t pulled the child out all right.
II The remains of Mrs. Tappan, tn
: wife of the purser of the ill-iate
!. steamer Annie Faxon, passed throug
: Walla Walla Monday evening on tn
Union Pacific passenger train. The
were accompanied by Mr.. Tappan, VIII
,, will take the body to Boston for int
: ment.
\ A tramp entered house near Da
! ton where two women, one OF them sic