Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-16

Snonohllsh gr0cerS close at out OF
consideration for the revival meetings.
A good many logging camps are
starting up in the Gray's Harbor
country.
The South Bend tannin works are
several carloads behind orders with
their output.
One hundred men are nightly given
free lodging in the Peoples Taber-
nacle at Spokane.
Martin Holman, of Elma, has a
contract for furnishing 1000 piles for
shipment to Honolulu.
Tacoma will purchase new 1000
light dynamo to increase the capacity
of the electric light plant.
They think nothing on the Salmon
river OF breaking path to dance
through three feet OF snow.
1t took six men to hold Jesse Hol-
man, hackdriver OF Colfax, who went
violently insane last Saturday.
Seventeen feet 81 inches of snow
fallen so far at Monte Cristo, and not
a very good winter for snow either.
The Northern Pacifcs station at
Pullman was broken into, but the
booty secured did not amount to
much.
George Williams, 14-year-old boy
from Douglas county, Or, has been
committed to the reform school from
Colfax. ~ x
At Fairfield they dry their wheat in
a revolving cylinder l6 feet long,
through which steam pipes are con-
Quoted.
George Parker, suspected of the
Pullman hotel murder last October, is
still in the Colfax Jail and frets at his
imprisonment.
J. ID. Mcleod & Co.'S shingle mill at
Edmonds cut J, 10000 shingles in %
days during January, with a double
block Challoner.
The grandest hall ever given on the
Columbia river is the event with which
Cathlamet proposes to celebrate Wash
ington's birthday.
A st. Paul syndicate will soon begin
active mining operations along the
Wenatchee river with new and i'm
proved machinery.
On Washington's birthday the child
rem of the State School for Defective
Youth at Vancouver are to give pam
tomime entertainment.
A hundred tons of iron ore will be
sent by the Tacoma smelling and refn-
ing works to Everett, which will enable
the Everett smelter to reopen.
The news from Riparia is that fruit
is uninjured by the frost and that fair
wages are being made by washing fine
gold from bars in the Snake river.
The retrenchment committee of the
Tacoma council has outlined a policy
for cutting down salaries among
municipal employees, amounting to
$12,S25.
The Wallace brothers, of Kalama,
have gone to the Fraser river, in Brit.
ish Columbia, with a force of hands
and sturgeon gearja will 60 to pack
ing there.
C.. G. Anderson, who formerly
operated o shingle mill at Cedarville,
has departed for Sweden, leaving
creditors who mourn to the extent of
about 81 900.
There are rumors OF an arrangement
under which Edmiston will be dis
charged and the Walla Walla Savings
bank reopened, to the deep disgust of
the Statesman. -
A large fywheel in the Port Town.
send nail works burst last week, dis
abling considerable amount OF
machinery and necessitating q shut
down Of week or two.
CDR. Chase, the dentist" exclaims
the Cathlamet Gazette, dis in town.
See his bills" That must be new
order OF dentist whose bills do not at
trat attention without contributive
aid.
1t hurts some of the Woodworking
people OF Cathlamet to 60 to the Jail |
and see the prisoners supplied with q
carpet on the floor, comfortable fire,
their beds made up and an air OF COM
fort.
About 600 tons of Slocum ore we're
stored at the Kelso wharf during
January. The gross amount of ore
mined, from 10 different properties
during the month will reach $50 tons,
worth $225,OOO. o. |
1t is reported that $25, 600 worth of
bonds to build logging road from
Buckley into the logging camps have
been taken in the East. Defaulting
Banker Hart was one of the projectors
of the logging road.
Boundary City now has population
OF 200 people, principally miners. 1t
is located ut the confluence of Pend
d'Oreille and Columbia rivers, on un.
surveyed government land, and the
outlook for activity in the many
mines adjacent is good.
Among other educational topics
asked the Tacoma teachers at their
recent examination was, "What
caused the panic OF 1882" And vet,
on second thought, probably the
teachers stock of ignorance on the
subject is not larger than that aired
in the columns ofithat esteemed con-
temporary, the Congressional Record.
One of the most effectual news
papers scoops" which has come to
light i'll modern times was achieved by
the Everett Herdia last week. Having
been awarded the city printing CON
tract, it filed its b0sd and clinched the
% matter without tut anyspnnecessary TODD