Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-05-25
STATE NEWS.

Colfax is projecting a district fire.
mems tournement for the Fourth.
Mrs. Eliza Oleson was killed by the
falling limb OF a tree at Eatonville Fri
day.
Hoquiam is advertising for sale $24.-
600 in 6 per cent. 20 year water
bonds.
A branch OF the State Board OF Agri-
culture has been organized in Asotin
county.
Pacific county was not so bad on its
delinquent tax list, either-3S4
columns.
Work has been ordered resumed on
the whaleback steamer Everett at
Everett.
Dynamite is being used in Selah
valley, Yakima county, in sinking an
artesian we'll.
Shingle men at Mount Vernon are
taking steps to organize Knights OF
Labor assembly.
Paul Schulze has gone East, ior the
purpose, it is said, of floating Yakima
irrigation bonds.
Eighteen acres of grape land on
Mud creek, Walla Walla valley, sold
last week for $S5 an acre cash.
Astoria is to advertise for bids on
$4,000 worth OF general municipal
l0-year bonds, drawing 6 per cent.
An intoxicated man named Martin
was drowned at Everett Friday by fall.
ing into the water from small boat.
At the examination OF teachers in
King county Saturday, there were 80
successful candidates and 19 who
failed to pass.
Montesano is to have q new bank;
a merging of the two old ones by the
formation of new corporation and
the liquidation of the old insti tutions.
Work has been resumed on the
Olympic hotel, the Tacoma Land Com
pany's magnificent 81 ,OOO. 600 structure
which is to be completed within two
years.
Everett is fighting, on giving Is town
lots and $4,000 f,r a courthouse
as an inducement to the voters of
Snohomish county to let it have the
county seat.
The correspondents OF the Spokane
Periew do not report single locality
in Eastern Washington where the
crops do not promise more than an
average yield.
Two months ago, Jack Dye, q Port
Townsend fisherman, beat to death
with an oar his friend and companion,
Harry Bentick. He was acquitted by
a jury last week.
The Yakima Orchard Company has
been incorporated with a capital stock
Of 3O,OOO.OOO. Eighty acres of fertile
land have been secured, which will be
planted to fruit.
During the nine months prior to
May l, &c, ,280 pounds of fresh fish,
chiefly sturgeon and salmon, were
shipped from Aberdeen by express to
the Eastern markets.
Doty & Carlson, of Kalama, have
purchased the island at the mouth of
the Cowlitz and have named it Cow
1itz island. They have put in a fish
trap, which is doing fairly we'll.
Charles Morgan of Latab, patentee
OF a can,opener, has invented bicycle
which will run on the single track of
q railroad. Improbable as it seems,
il is pronounced perfect affair.
An Adventist camp meeting will
be held near Wslla Walla, commenc.
ing May 30 and continuing until
June 6. Elder A. T. Jones of New
York, will preside at the services.
Hon w. Reynolds, of Peoria, Ill.
president of the International Sunday
School Association, addressed the
Snohomish county Sunday school
convention at Everett Wednesday.
A long-standing war of competition
between Mr.. AdOlph Schwartz and
Miss Lulu Stahl, proprietors of two
rival Walla Walla breweries, has been
brought to peaceful and happy term
ination by the marriage of the prin.
cipals.
Four dozen "Bob White" quails
have been imported from Kansas and
turned loose in the Willapa valley to
stock it. r. B. Dyer is the philan-
thropist. He chose the quail instead
of Chinese pheasants because he thinks
they injure grain less.
Two men put a woman out of the
Presbyterian church at Cosmopolis
Wednesday evening and were subse.
quently acquitted OF assault on trial
at Aberdeen. The husband OF the
woman took the law into his own
hands and beat them up smartly.
Two trainloads of flour for China
was one of the foreign shipment made
from Tacoma. The exporters were
the G. & C. Milling Company. The
shipment took "a cars to carry the
-four to the seaboard, and consiste l oil
100000 pounds, which took about
$4,000 bushels of wheat to manu-
facture.
The Puget Sound LumbermDn puts
the spruce output of Oregon and Wash.
ington at 100000 feet and that Of
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