Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-15
WHOLE NUMBER 1,797.
STATE NEWS.

! me Ie0pte, TOpuilSt paper OF
Port Angeles, is corpse.
The tent caterpillars are appearing
in great numbers in Lewis county.
Jefferson county has organized a
branch of the State Horticultural So
ciety.
A Tacoma man is moving a $1,000
residence to Port Townsend on big
scow.
Elmer Huntley, an Oakesdale
farmer, has just finished seeding 1,4O0
acres OF wheat. .-
The Simpsons are putting in some
$4,000 feet of logs day at their
kamilchie camp.
The White river mill, at Buckley,
has just increased its capacity to 140,.
600 shingles day.
McGowan's fish wheel at the Cas-
cades, valued at $4,000, went out with
the present freShet.
The Columbia river salmon catch to
date as reported from Astoria is about
up TO that of last year.
1t is estimated that 100000 pounds
of wool will be shipped from Prosser,
Yakima county, this year.
A colony of 200 persons from Chi
cago will locate in this state in August.
What county will catch them?
Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, OF New York,
visited this state last week and became
interested in the Monte Cristo mines.
The nail works, furniture factory
and sash and door factory of Port
Townsend resumed operations this
week.
The settlers OF Quinault, despairing
of county aid. will build a road to
Humptulips by each giving 10 days
work.
A large tract of timber land in
Chehalis county sold recently for $780,
600. The same land year ago sold
for $4,000.
John Minnick, of Waitsburg, has a
farm in Whitman county, from which
he has just turned off 100 tons of
barley at $40 ton.
The Whitman county commission
ers have extended the time for the
collection of delinquent taxes on per-
sonal property to October Is.
A company is ready to put in $40
600 gas plant at Snohomish ii the
franchise can be had. An ice plant
and brewery are also in prospect.
An installment of 100 men is being
sent up to Monte Cristo to begin work
on the mines, and it is given out that
the plant will go ahead full blast "a
hours day.
The raging Skykomish cannot be
crossed, and 80 the Tualco settlers are
isolated from the rest of Snohomish
county and the world at large until
the flood abates.
Twenty-one out OF Whatcom
county's II school districts have an
aggregate bonded Indebtedness oI
$l59,3OO. OF this, $S8 900 is What
CONS and $4,000 Blaine's.
| Four Indians we're drowned neal
Mount Vernon by the upsetting of 9
canoe. They had been drinking
heavily, and considerable indignation
is expressed against the man who
furnished them liquor.
The Indians are destroying a larg,
number of elk in Jefferson county, anl
the settlers are loud in their com
plants. Rev. Myron Eells. the Indiar
agent, will be asked to cooperate will
the county game warden.
Wednesday last Miss Nettie Ford
of Walla Walla, was thrown from he
bicycle while riding down q hill be
tween Walla Walla and Dayton. Th
brake OF her wheel failed to work
She was painfully injured.
The Press Times says between 40
and 500 acres OF tide land within tn
; corporate limits of the city of Seattl
have been located as placer claims an,
the action has caused considerable ex
element among those who know O
+. the find.
Twenty members of the Wall
Walla contingent of Coxey's army dc
!, parted for the East ON Saturday
They went on foot over the Linkto
pass OF the Blue mountains. 81
horses were packed with provisions
blankets, etc.
Roy Goodwin, the grand organize
of the American Railway Union, ha
returned to Spokane from a tri
through Oregon and California. H
says new orders were established q
every division point along the lin,
= He goes next to Helena.
Walla Walla, with an average lodg
l membership of 136 and one Odd Fe
t low in every 20 inhabitants, is the bar
e ner Odd Fellow trwl of the State, til
E active membership in Walla Wall
/ numbering 40S against 45S in Sp,
kane, 593 in Tacoma, and 739 in Sea
g tie.
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