Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-03-23
STATE NEWS.

AAhy oAu mas 81 newspaper viz
Spokesman.
Another carload OF salmon has lei
Everett for Boston.
Two creameries are building neal
Lynden, Bellingham bay.
Two new shingle mills are nearing
completion at Cosmopolis.
Contracts have been let for six new
brick blocks at Harrington.
At walIa Waltz they work all the
county prisoners on the roads.
Kalama's need for public hall is to
be supplied. Two are going up.
Hobos in the Spokane Jail are COM
PEELED to take a bath twice a week.
Work is to begin in the spring on a
municipal park system in Spokane.
Colfax boys under 16 will be arrested
and fined if caught out after 9 O'Clock.
John Elwood has bought 100000
feet of logs at Whatcom for the Blaine
mills.
N. w. Appleton killed two large
wildcats few days ago on Horse creek,
Asotin county.
A purse has been raised at Walla
Walla to assist in prosecuting violators
of the game law.
A distillery to make alcohol from
wood is being projected by Eastern
parties at Aberdeen.
Mr.. Hinton, of Sumas, disciplines
his wife with four-foot club, and the
constable has gone out after him.
Banker York, of Winlock, was thrown
into the Cowlitz by stumbling horse
the other day and had to swim ashore.
On several occasions this winter in
Asotin county deer were seen on the
lower prairie feeding along with the
range stock.
The two grain dryers Of Davenport
are running night and day, and are
saving great deal of wet wheat that
would otherwise spoil.
J. C. Phelps and J. L. Stanley have
leased the cooperative shingle mill at
Anacortes and started up the works
sitter an extended shutdown.
A taxpayers investigating commit.
tee has been at work all the week on
the Walla Walla county records, but
nas gwen out nothing yet for publica'
ton.
Daniel Bergin, a half-breed, and
farmer, residing at San Juan island
was drowned while crossing over in 9
rowboat from Lopez island to San
Juan.
The cannery at Bay Center has just
had 500 new piles put under it by q
contractor from Ilwaco. Mr.. Seabore
expects to put up about 100, 900 cases
of salmon this year.
Two trappers operating on tributaries
of the Grand Ronde river, in Asotin
county, have marketed several hundred
dollars worth of furs as the result oil
their winters catch.
M. F. Satterlee has been appointed
postmaster at Quilcene, Jefferson
county. He is a newspaper editor
who, prior to the last general election
was staunch Republican.
C. H. Boynton, an Everett commits
sion man, was one Of the younges,
soldiers of the war. He enlisted al
the age of 13, and was not accepted
and enrolled until he was IA.
A star-route mail service has beer
established from Sealand by Long
Beach, Ilwaco and Fort Candy to As
toria, Or, and back six times week
This service will begin July 1, 1894
and continue four years.
Gaping & Leitch's shingle mill, al
Centralia, has resumed operations
after being idle since last fall, and i.
cutting 1O0, 600 daily. Birge & Leitch',
saw mill at the same place has also
commenced saving again, and hal
large contracts ahead for future de
livery.
r. Gamwell, of Fairhaven, ship
about six orders Of fresh fish daily Il
points in Washington, Montana, Da
kota and Minnesota. He has stand
ing orders for 1,5OO pounds of halibu
and 1000 pounds of cod twice week
but finds difficulty in getting the fish
ermen to bring in q sufficient quantity
Mayor Powell, of Spokane, haI
vetoed an ordinance prohibiting minors
from playing billiards in "any saloon
fruit stand or other room." "If the,
will limit to saloons or make the az,
limit 1s years, will sign it," he said
"If a young fellow of 10 or 20 cares t.
play billiards. away from evil influences
L don't see why he should be deniet
the privilege.
Marinus Stream, who is to bs
transferred from Willapa Hsrbor t.
Tillamook rock, is highly spoken of b!
the South. Bend Journal, which says
"This will work peculiar hardship
on Mr.. Stream, as he will have to dis
pose of his horses and cattle at Low
price and be separated from his wife
and children, living a solitary life upor
a rock in the ocean,"
The foreign commerce for Puge
sound for February, as reported by the
customs department, shows a tota
value of exports amounting to SCAT,
500, including 675, $40 bushels of wheat
worth $36i,09O; 1920 barrels of -four
worth $lS9,603; 1,413,635 feet of lum
Der, valued at $l4, ,6S4, and $4,000 lath
valued at $40. The imports o.
dutiable goods were $57,644; free O
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