Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-03-16
STATE NEWS.

county Jail.
Sprague Masons are having plans
made for temple.
J.J. Wilson, convicted of gambling
at Spokane, was fined 1925.
A demand is growing at Walla
Walla for lower assessed valuations.
Col. Frank Parker is said to have
accepted a deputyship under Black
man.
Four Thousand crates OF small fruits
are pledged for the proposed Tacoma
cannery.
Burglars went through the City hotel
at Walla Walla, securing some $500
worth of booty.
The shingle mill at Custer is about
to be started up again, this time on a
cooperative plan.
Since the last one started up there
are four shingle mills running full
time at Edmonds.
Vogel Bros, a large Omaha firm, are
prospecting Gray's harbor for good
site for box factory.
Davenport has been enjoying sea-
son of joint discussion between
Populist and Republicans.
There is scarcely any opposition to
reincorporation in Waterville and an
election will likely be called.
Benjamin Huntington, of Castle
Rock, has just celebrated, with consid.
erable eclat, his S5th birthday.
The suggestion is being considered
at Ritzville OF submitting the question
OF saloon, or no saloon," to . popular
vote.
Some OF the ladies of Edison have
adopted the divided dress, as we'll as
the divided skirt, for house and street
wear.
A patent is to issue to Snohomish
man for something new in the cattle
stall line, which keeps the beasts
clean.
Mrs. NJ. E. Collins was arrested at
Port Townsend Saturday for snug
Cling. She had 25 yards Of silk in her
hustle.
North Yakima is bestirring itself
already to make q success OF the State
fair which is to be held there in Sep
tember.
The First National Bank of Orting
has liquidated its indebtedness with
depositors on basis OF rs cents on
the dollar.
All Quie, q Chinamsn who has been
ordered deported, broke Jail at Sumas.
and great efforts are making to re-
capture him.
Cowlitz county taxpayers are called
TO attend . mass meeting at Castle
Rock Friday to discuss retrenchment
and candidates.
A Presbyterian church has been
built at Waterville at Q cost of g..
429.68. When it was dedicated, the
cost was only $29.6S.
Major w. B. Kennedy, Fourth
cavalry, had the misfortune to sustain
. fracture of his left collar bone by be-
ing thrown from his horse.
"Cowboy" Terry has been bound
over to the Whatcom grand jury for
smuggling Cinnamon. He cannot
furnish bonds and is in Jail.
There is talk of bonding Walla
Walla county Indebtedness to save
interest ON warrants. There would be
about $65, 600 worth to issue.
The Sprague Mails 16-page de-
scriptive edition is . valuable COM
pendium of descriptive and statistical
information about its section.
A Washington story writer, Ella
Higginson, of Whatcom, has been
awarded first prize by q New York
publishing house. The prize is worth
$500.
As the outcome OF an alteration
with F. Nj. Stewart, NJ. J. Cochran, an
Aberdeen attorney, has been bound
over to the grand jury for assault will,
q revolver.
Tommy Pickle, of Pullman, 16 years
old, after waiting "a days in Jail for
trial. was sentenced to 10 more and
given q lecture. He stole money from
neighbor.
The Vermont Loan & Trust Com.
pany people at Colfax are receiving
letters ornamented with . skull and
crossbones, warning them not to force
collections.
Mrs. George Tuttle, who died at
Oakesdsle Friday, came from Cali
fornis in the early days of the Palouse
country, and has lived in Oakesdale
since the town was organized.
John Bungstarter, James SPAWN
Joseph Lagrippe, Sallie Cowslip
Erastus Undertaken and Josiah Hard
up are among the names on a petition
received by the Walla Walla county
court.
The Wilbur Register estimates that
in the territory of about SO miles
square, with Wilbur in the center, l..
$50, 900 bushels OF grain was produced
last season, &c threshing machines
having been engaged in taking care oil
it.
At one place on the Idaho side ol
the Snake river, across from Asotin
county, and not covering a space oi
over 30 feet in extent, eight head ol
dead cattle were recently counted, hav'
ing met death by tumbling from the
bluffs above.