Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-17
STATE NEWS

STATE NEWS
Sargent Smiths So 600 residence
burned at Walla Walla Friday.
The army worm is causing consider
able alarm in the Cowlitz valley.
A potato pest is engaging the con-
sideration of the Pacific County Horti-
cultural Society.
Frank Minsch has been taken to the
Penitentiary at Wslla Walla to serve
a 17-year term for murder of his
brother.
On the morning Of the Centerville
fire, the Phoenix people collected $500
in renewed policies. The town has
no we'll no pump and no firemen,
A. w Perry, Tenino man of strong
faith in the power and right OF petition,
has secured III signatures to a me-
mortal asking the general government
to build and operate a railroad from
the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The populist party in Spokane coun-
ty is being sorely chastened. Two of
the nominees have Withdrawn, and
George F. Schorr, one OF che original
peoples party men in the Northwest,
and publisher OF tho Nouthwest Tribune,
has publicly bolted.
Charles H. Lugrin, editor of the
Seattle Telegraph. convicted of GRIM
inally libeliDg Bolton Rogers, Chief OF
Police, was sentenced by Judge Glasgow
to pay fine OF $500 and be imprisoned
three months in the county Jail. An
appeal, with the requisite bond, has
been filed.
The Oakesdale Mill Company has
received large order for flour for the
Oriental trade, and the mill is running
day and night. 1t has already shipped
five carloads to China, and it is esti-
mated that it will keep the mill busy
30 days filling the orders already re-
ceived from that country.
A large amount OF sorghum has been
planted this season in the southwest.
ern portion of the Walla Walla valley,
and has proven to be successful crop.
One man will this week start q sor-
ghum mill, which he has had shipped
from the East. He has 20 acres in
sorghum; besides he vii! grind large
amount for his neighbors.
The revenue cutter Grant has been
beached at Irondale, and will be thor.
oughly overhauled and polished up be.
fore being again put on patrol duty
She will be laid off at least month
in connection with this overhauling.
This lie the first time that the Grant
has been out of the water since she
came around to the Sound from New
York early in the year.
The Washington State Dairymen's
Association was organized in the Cham
Der of Commerce building Saturday, al
Tacoma. Officers were elected as fol.
lows: President. A. A. Lindsey, oil
Olympia; Vice President, .. G. Good.
win, of Thorp; Secretary and Treas.
urer, E. /. Thompson, of Tacoma. Mr.
Thompson and Ex-Governor Hoard
President Of the Wisconsin Dairy As.
ISOLATION, delivered addresses. An ex.
hibit at the Interstate Fair will in all
probability be made. The association
adjourned to meet at the call OF the
ecSretary.
The town of Pullman is wild with
excitement over . rich End which was
made in that city q few days ago
The attention Of ]. j. Williams, q
SLOGAN prospector in quest of q grub
stake, was called to some sand thrown
out by q six-inch drill working on q
we'll on the property of Alex Roe, pro-
prietor OF the Union Hotel, and was
by him pronounced gold-bearing. He
PANIED out $50 yesterday afternoon
and Immediately filed q mineral claim.
A company has been organized and
will proceed to sink a shaft immedi.
ately. Locations are being made in
every direction.
Major Espey, Of Oysterville, was re.
ported to have been robbed OF $1,000
in notes and money. Three separate
explanations are now printed. One is
to the effect that his wife found them
at home after he left; another inter.
esting account is of his having left
them in an Office in Portland, where
he was doing some business. At Sea-
land, also, one correspondent reports,
the major left them on e restaurant
counter while in hurry to catch a
train. Mrs. Espey kept the money
and notes safely ct home until the
majors return; the Portland people
locked them up in their safe and gave
them to him the next time he came
in, and the Sealand restaurauteur
honestly wrapped them up and sent
them to him. So from these three
synoptic sources we may establish the
fact that Espey and his possessions
are again joined.
At Higgins's Beach on the Narrows
is encamped about 100 people who are
all related to each other, each one OF
the party being either a direct de-
scendant OF one man, or who has mar
ried into the family. The encamp-
ment is the annual reunion OF the
house of Stewart. Twenty years ago
Rev. w. M. Stewart, q Presby terian
clergy man, came to then Territory OF
Washington with his family and set
tied in the Puyallup valley. He died
about eight years ago, leaving eleven
children, of whom ten are still alive.
OF these. six are present at the en-.
campment this week ut Higgins
Beach. The family being q large one
and the descendants numerous, it was
decided year ago to have a reunion
every year at some convenient spot in
the Sound country. The first reunion
was held last summer at Puyallup