Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-15
STATE NEWS.

Aberdeen's assessment roll foots up
only 100000. Last year it was $780,
600.
A summer school for teachers will
be in session at Sprague, beginning
July 5.
Whether to ask for q new charter
or not is the burning question at
Townsend.
Another raft OF 900, 900 feet of logs
is ready for towing out of the lower
Humptulips.
Snohomish voted school bonds and
elected a Republican over q populist
to the school board.
The Ilwaco Journal stands amazed
at the building boom going on there
this spring. mostly in dwellings.
Senator Squirrels White river and
Beach river farms are under water and
the hop vines are probably ruined.
The vote by which spokane's city
council ordered reduction in the sal.
aries Of the city's employees was IL to 4.
They look for Colonel Ingersoll at
Spokane this summer, when the
smelter starts up. He is President of
the company.
General James McAuliff has left
WalIa Walla for Toledo, o., from
which place he left 40 years ago to 60
to the Mexican war.
The Rev. g. J. Fercken, the new
pastor of St. Matthew's church At
Sprague, was recently rector of st.
Stephens church in Portland.
Negotiations are pending for the re-
opening of the Puget Sound Loan,
Trust & Banking Company at New
Whatcom in the immediate future.
Montesano banks will likely con.
solidate, the First National going into
liquidation and the two continuing
business as the Bank OF Montesano.
Albert John Rath, the boy who lost
q leg last year in the Union Depot
Company's freight yards at Spokane,
has secured verdict for $4,000 dam
ges.
Sneak thieves and burglars, the
Oakesdale Sun says, have been doing
O land office business for the last six
months between Centralia and Mont
esanO.
The litigation in the war against
barmaids, at Spokane, has taken the
form Of campaign before the council
on the refusal Of license TO the
Louvre.
Whatcom county has just finished
four good bridges over the Nooksack
at cost of $4,000. All rest on
cylindrical piers of iron filled with
concrete.
Brockmier, Hopkins, Flynn and
Sutton, of the defunct Washington
Farmers Insurance Company, have
been indicted by the Spokane Grand
Jury for conspiracy.
As a model in gloating, the Kelso
Journals references to Kalama's visi-
tation by the flood leave nothing to
be desired. Their only parallel is in
the Tacoma papers Portland specials.
Lincoln county expects a bigger
harvest this year than in 1893. Only
a few farmers are following their farms,
and the acreage is nearly as large as q
year ago, while the crops are two or
three weeks more advanced.
Considerable disappointment is re-
ported in local circles because Judge
Hanford interfered with the project Of
man who was going to send himself
over Snoqualmie falls in barrel yes
terday. His death was considered
foregOne conclusion.
Property-holders on Ebey island,
Snohomish county. are resisting the
payment of the balance due on an as.
sessment Of $4,000 for dixie, which
was built around the island year ago.
They have already paid $4,000, and
now claim the dixie is useless.
At Port Townsend last week a man
applied to Judge Bellinger for final
naturalization papers. The Judge
asked him whether he had ever been
convicted of a crime, and he admitted
that he had recently been arrested
and convicted of an offense against
the laws of the State. Thereupon he
refused to admit him to citizenship.
There is some talk about it up there,
but the decision is, in the main, COM
| mended.