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

Isensee is working for a new trial.
Spokanes last jury costs the county
$1,000.
The snohomish creamery project is
assured.
1t is proposed to build railroad up
Mount Rainier.
Pullman is to have a fruit and
vegetable cannery.
Chehalis county paid out about $780,
700 for roads in 1898.
Halier City will build a school
house at a cost Of 81 800.
The Everett paper mill will ship 100
tons OF paper to Australia.
Bids will soon be called cor the Great
Northern tunnel at Everett.
An effort is being made to establish
fruit cannery at Whatcom.
Fire at the Neah Bay Indian agency
destroyed the girls dormitory.
Some 50 800 worth Of hops were
shipped from Winlock last week.
Prospecting for coal is being carried
on at several points in the Olympics.
Shingle mills are about starting up
at Mount Vernon, Belfast and Wooley.
The whaleback being built at
Everett, is to be completed this sum-
mer.
A plank road costing $4,000 is to
be built across the big Snohomish
marsh.
Dave Wilson will rebuild at once his
81 600 brick block burned last week at
Harrington.
Clallam Indians are giving exhibit
tons of ghost and other tribal dances
on the Sound.
A football match between Whitman
college and the Spokane high school
is on the tapis.
A Ritzville man has a curiosity in
the shape of squirrel with IL legs
and four heads.
Chehalis has 81 subscribers to tele-
phone exchange, and the system will
be put in at once.
Everett shipped $4,000 worth OF
her manufactured products to San
Francisco last week.
In bucking snow near Monte Cristo
the rotary lost two blades, and powder
had to be resorted to.
The WhatcOm Agricultural Associa-
ton is agitating the subject of a fruit
cannery and county fair.
Garfield County Commissioners are
being urged to remit all penalties and
interest Oh delinquent taxes.
Three men were sentenced to ten
years each at Seattle-two for high
way robbery and one for rape.
The taxpayers league at Port
Townsend demands that half the taxes
be payable in county warrants.
Crews are being increased in the
logging and single camps. and some
large contracts are being signed.
The deep-water steamship compan-
les out of San Francisco have cut
wages of employees five per cent.
The first meeting of the Western
Washington Teachers Association
meets in Tacoma Friday and Saturday.
Owing to the general temperance
of ground squirrels, the farmers about
Garfield think spring has surely come.
Eugene Dorner, who last December
shot and killed M. L. Johnson at
Wallula, has pleaded guilty to muir
| der.
The Supreme court has affirmed the
decision of Judge Pritchard of Tacoma
that an individual cannot garnishee q
tcUuuty.
]. G. Stevens, who has owned and
operated flour mills at Sprague, Wilbur
and Ritzville, is arranging to put in a
mill at Harrington.
A prospective rich coal discovery
has been made at Sequim bay, and
Tacoma and Seattle capitalists are ar
ranging TO develop it.
There is some talk OF closing the
Dayton public schools on account OF
lack of funds. The district has float
ing debt OF about $4,000.
A Citizens League has been formed
in Port Townsend, which guarantees
to reduce city expenses $4,000 an
nually if given control of affairs.
Large pumps are used for raising
water to height OF so or more feet
on the north side of the Yakima river,
above Prosser, for irrigation purposes.
The Hayton ditch, which cost $751;
600 and which is designed to drain an
area OF low land extending from Mou mt
Vernon to Fir, is completed and IN
use.
The Baptist church at Spangle is all
broken up in q row, because the
preacher called some young ladies
fallen women" for having played
cards.
An old German woman named
Younker was found in q lone shack
near Colfax, where che had been left
to die by a son. The county is caring
for her.
J. NJ. Turner, a Walla Walla money
broker, is thought to have absconded,
owing considerable money about town.
His effects, what they are, have been
attached.
It was accidentally discovered in
Tekoa last week that the school district
had never had deed to its school site.
One was speedily put in escrow pend
ing necessary preliminaries.
Thirteen teams and 16 men are at
work upon the track at the State Fair
grounds at Yakima. The track is to
cost $500. Something like $4,000
yards OF earth have to be moved.
At Grass Valley, Edward, the IT,
year-Old son of County Supervisor
Edward Donnelly, was accidentally
killed by Sylvester Burton, a COM
panion, while playing soldiers"
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