Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-01-19
STATE NEWS.

The Everett smelter will begin
active operations this month.
They skate on real ice in the Dayen-
port Kinks. There are two OF them.
The First Presbyterian church of
Waterville was dedicated last Sunday.
l.. b. Clough, OF Vancouver, sold
over $4,000 worth of prunes last year.
A man can get his hair cut for Is
cents at Goldendale, if he has the l5c.
Ilwaco cranberry marshes will yield
scarcely 900 barrels this season against
1000 last year.
Walla Walla's postoffice receipts
were $79,9S4 in 1898, an increase over
1892 of over $4,000.
School Superintendent Bean has
been spending week with the Pull
man agricultural college.
Rev. William H. Pendleton, of Los
Angeles, has been called to the First
Baptist church of Tacoma.
The little steamer Uncle Sam put a
matter of 300 pounds of sturgeon off
on Skamokawa dock last week.
The reopening of the Bellingham
Bay National bank is having a good
effect in financial circles thereabouts.
John Collins, NJ. V. B. Stacey and
Cyrus Walker will next summer have
GOO acre hop yard in Yakima county.
A playfellow shot an arrow into the
eye of little Otto Almblade, of Long
Beach, and his sight may not be saved.
Sneak thieves stole $3.50 worth of
money and jewelry from the room of
Neva Wallace, Seattle variety act
ress.
Taxpayers of Blaine advanced ST. 800
to meet the semi.annual interest on
the city's bonds falling due in New
York.
Ilwaco is to be the future home of
NJ. Wise, the Astoria veteran merchant,
who has gradually closed out his
business.
There is 500 reward for the person
who stole that carload OF oysters at
Sealand, offered by the navigation
company.
The body OF an unknown man has
been found on the river bank at Spo-
kane. 1t tloated down from nobody
knows where.
An effort is being made at Port
Angeles to secure pardon for B. +.
Schwartz, banker sent up from there
for ENLIGHTENMENT.
An estate OF 1000 acres, lying near
Ritzville, has just been divided up and
put on the market in tracts suitable
for small farms.
B. F. Rsdebaugh is East looking
after typesetting machine patents,
with which he expects to revolutionize
this branch of printing.
The American Teredo Proof Co. OF
Gig Harbor will soon place its product
ON the market, and branch plant will
be located at San Francisco.
The Blue Canyon Mining Company
is preparing to place diamond drill
in the third level of its property to
find another vein of coal beneath.
the Palouse river, in Eastern
Washington is a raging torrent, and
other streams have overfowed their
banks from rapidly melting snow.
A Gray's river boy has been operated
on three times for fracture of the
shoulder blade. Over 20 pieces of
shattered bone have been removed.
Oakville is excited over Mr..
Cummings, of Gate City, who is lost in
the woods, and too sick to make him.
self heard. Searching parties are out.
Pullman is in darkness because the
electric company cannot see any pros
pect of being paid, pending a settle
ment OF the legality of the incorpora-
ton.
Registration of Chinese began at
Townsend Wednesday. There are
about 800, but there is some uncer-
tainty how the heather will view the
matter.
The farmers institute at Colfax was
great success. How to make pork
from wheat was Thoroughly discussed
and explained by practical expert
mentors.
F. NJ. Bird, of Wenatchee, is the
inventor of machine for loading hay
by which. it is claimed, hay can be
placed on the wagon az fast as a team
can travel.
"No work, no food" is being decided
upon by the Seattle bureau OF
charities in dealing with the applicants
for relief. The woodward scheme is
being tried.
Paul Schulze has sued Yakima
county for a block in North Yakima
he gave away on behalf of the railroad
company some years ago. He claims
the gift was conditional on the blocks
being used for courthouse. This the
county, in its defense, will deny.