Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-01-26
STATE NEWS.
Snowfall S"cials are the rage at
Coliax. 1t must be cold comfort.

I'H. ana mat IIal on Idui ~ 4t>t Wv
days
Wat,ryillr lost 5000 last year 10y
leasing her watcrworks, and will likely
! not try 1t again.
The Fnmeroy po>totlice is buried
under an avalanche of Columbian
etamps just received.
\ Salt Lake man will build 80
harrel-a-day Touring mill at Colville if
he gets a good bonus.
Two Ceylonese jcwelry- peddlers left
5000 daty on their wares with the
/ Whatcom custom-hOuse.
Boundary City opened its new min
ing exchange building last Wednesday
with grand reception.
The total tax collections in King
county up to date are $44,33S. One
third OF this comes from Seattle.
/ The worst snowstOrm OF the winter
is on at Davenport. The snow is drift
ing badly and the wind is blowing
great guns.
The Spokane R>siew's crusade for
home-manufactured goods is being
taken up in behalf of other places by
their newspapers.
The Coupville Sun says that the
saw mill building At Utsslady has been
rented for q cannery, and will be so
used next season.
Ocosta's newly organized CONNER
cial Club is considering the PROPOSE
ton of new shingle mill with daily
capacity of 100000.
1t is reported that the big plant of
the Tacoma Dry Dock Company will
be removed from Quartermaster harbor,
on Vashon island, to that city.
At its last meeting New Whatcom's
city council adopted an ordinance
regulating the city water-works. The
rates were reduced about % per cent.
William Danney, of Spokane, has
but one arm but he uses it to such
good effect that in scrimmage with a
friend he broke the latter's jaw with a
well-directed blow.
The only way the burglars could get
into the Hogue cottage, at Long Beach.
was to tear out the chimney tlue,
This they did and took everything
they could carry off.
The Davenport Good Templars
chose sides and skirmished for new
members. The losers had to stand the
oyster supper, and the movement
rounded up 43 limitations.
1t is estimated that there are $4,000
sacks of damaged oats in the Olympia
marsh district, and about $4,000 sacks
of damaged oats in the Stanwood, La
Conner and Skagit district.
The suit of the State to recover ST.
600 from ex-Regent Andrew III. Smith,
of the Agricultural college, was decided
at Tacoma in favor of the state.
Judge Pritchard rendered the decision.
Two young men were hired to watch
Halter City meat market which had
been burglarized. The next morning
they woke up to find that not only was
the meat stolen, but their firearms as
we'll.
A little daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Staver, of Kelso, is lying at
the point of death from burns. Her
clothes caught fire from the stove, and
her face and body were frightfully |
burned.
The manager of the Farmers Ware
house Company, at Garfield, says
that OF the wheat coming in now fully
two-thirds is in good condition. 1t is
coming in at the rate of from 20 to 30 |
loads day.
Agents from Minneapolis are travel
ing through the state, looking for wet
wheat for shipment to the Flour City.
Samples of wet wheat sent by them to
Tacoma contained from 8 to 81 pounds
of water per bushel.
Stockholders of a scrap iron rolling
mill at Youngstown, Ohio, have |
recently been looking for q location
for their enterprise on Puget Sound.
If erected the institution would en-
ploy about 500 men.
George s. Rudy, OF Colfax has run |
100pounds OF beets through cider press
and obtained five and half gallons of
juice, which, boiled to three and half
quarts of thick syrup. being the
average IA per cent Of sugar.
Cornelius McGreevy, the miner who
was killed in snowslide in the C9ur
dAlenes last week, was formerly of
Sprague. He was 70 years old, a
native Of Ulster county, Ireland, and a
pioneer of the Palouse country.
The old motor street railroad at
Port Townsend has been rehabilitated,
and cars began running again recently,
1t reminds old-timers of Townsend's
halcyon days. and they hope it may
prove harbinger of renewed prosper
ity.
Everett talks of a glass factory,
some of its sand having recently been
made into glass at Chicago, and sands
form other places in the vicinity have
been tested and found to be suitable |
for window and other fine qualities OF
glass.
There is some work, and romance
too, connected with gallantry at Gray's |
river. When young man is accepted
as escort to dance, it means that he |
is to hunt up small boat or "skiff,"
if he has none of his own, and row her
to and from the "party."
Some Klickitat farmers have been
unable to find some GO head of their
cattle since last fall, and now they
learn from the Waukiagus Indians
that the cattle crossed the Klickitat
river when the water was at its lowest
last summer and were unable to get
back.
Wilson Brothers & Co., of Aberdeen,
cut 1900 900 feet of lumber last year,
most of which was shipped coastwise.
Twenty-Five men were given steady
employment at average wages of $50
per month. The company expects
shortly to double the capacity of its
plant.
A pathetic incident was furnished
at Puyallup last week when A. J.
White, on trial for insanity, being ap-
parently in his right mind at the time,
made plaintive plea to the jury for
his liberty. He was committed, how
ever. on the testimony of his sister
and Rev. Mr.. Psrkhurst.
Pullman people thought they had a