Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-12
STATE NEWS.
Lord Brassey is at Seattle.

STATE NEWS.
Lord Brassey is at Seattle.
Latah will revive the artesian we'll
project.
North Yakima has another news
paper, the 1ryus, populist.
Four teachers are not enough for
Garfield, 80 one more has been engag-
ed.
Henry Watkins, a Whatcom butcher,
was fined $ll295 for not having city
license.
The Carpenter creamery, at Yakima
city, has begun the manufacture OF
limburger cheese.
Some AZ men have been arrested for
selling liquor to Indians during the re-
cent celebration at North Yakima.
The case against G.. II. Lugrin. of
the Seattle Telegraph, charged with
libeling Chief OF Police Bolton Rogers,
has been dismissed.
Ralph McKunnie pleaded guilty oi
burglary before Judge Irwin at Monies
ano, Tuesday, and was sentenced to
the penitentiary for one year.
The Auburn creamery pays out ST.
200 a month for milk, and its patrons
are prospecting. Cheese is made also
and hogs are fattened on the whey.
A Dayton man has refused Go cents
bushel for the Canadian white barley
that he raised the past season. He
will seed 200 acres to the same grain
this fall.
Several Wisconsin paper-mill men
are at Spokane, looking at the water
power with a view to establishing
plants. They are said to be very favor
ably impressed.
Jennie White, the variety theater
woman who is charged with admin
istering a fatal dose Of morphine to one
J. Roberts, has been held for murder
at Spokane without bail.
Wenatchee is experiencing q bust
ness revival that calls up experiences
of boom times. Most of it is attribut-
ed to the growing demand for lumber
in the Methow mining regions.
Some Of the wheat shipped to tide
water from Garfield has been rejected
because of dampness. and buyers are
now Offering only II cents bushel
for anything not absolutely dry.
J. R. Ruply, of Pullman, is making
arrangements for purchasing 300 head
of hogs, which he will fatten on Palouse
wheat. He estimates that he will feed
about All average of l6 bushels to the
hog.
The salmon cannery at CosmOpolis
employs GO Cinnamon and IL white
men, and from $50 to 800 cases OF black
salmon are put up daily. They expect
to put up % 900 cases Of salmon this
season.
The citizens of Elma have offered
reward of $3.50 for the capture of the
burglar who robbed the postoffice last
week, and it is expected that the post
Office department will add to this
amount.
The tideland appraisers on Gray's
harbor are progressing well with their
work. They have this week put two
surveying parties in the field, one at
Ocosta, the other at the west end of
the harbor.
A Srnday-closing fight OF much
warmth is on at Walla Walla. The
arrest of prominent saloon man has
been made, and will be made a test
case, involving the validity of the
municipal ordinance.
General Manager Steward, of the
Everett paper mill, is happy over the
receipt of an order for 10000 pounds
of railroad MANILA paper for the New
Zealand government. Another large
order was received from Australia.
The Woman's Protective Associa-
ton of Spokane charges, in q COM
munication to the mayor that the H.
year-old daughter of All Yen, Chinese
merchant, has been by him offered for
sale for $500. He denies the story in
toto.
Word has reached Seattle OF the
murder near Kent of Swede farm
laborer by Anthony Harms, his en-
ployer. They quarreled over wages,
and Harms beat the Swede over the
head with pitchfork inflicting fatal in
juries.
Eleven cars OF ore have been taken
to the Everett smelter over the Ev-
erett & Monte Cristo railroad. Four
cars were from the Monte Cristo mines,
and seven from British Columbia.
The smelter is accumulating large
stock of ore for a steady run.
The poison fiend is abroad in Coulee
City. Says the Nems: During the
past week dog belonging to w. S.
Mcclellan and bull owned by Robert
Myerhoff were each treated to . dose
of poison. Mr.. Myerhoff recently lost
several ducks in the same way"
Mary Ann E. Griffiths, a 5-year-old
child, was run over by street-car in
Seattle Monday. She received . severe
scalp wound, and her right leg below
the knee was so badly crushed that
amputation was necessary. There is
no fear that she will lose her life.
The State land commission has at
last approved Agent Williams selec-
ton of 4,757.62 acres of school land in
Stevens, county. The lists were filed
June l, and the commissioners have
taken just two months more time than
the law allows to approve the selections.
Pomeroy merchants report greater
sales of fruit jars than ever before. and
there is some truth in the East Wash
ingtonian's comment that "cheapuess
of products greatly increases their con-
sumption, so that producers receive
much compensation in this way for
small profits"
C. H. Taft, Of Colfax, WASH. will
send his stable of speedy running
horses to San Francisco TO contest in
the racing events in California. H. v.
Scott, of La Grande, Or, will have
charge of these fleet flyers, amongst
them being the great mile-heat horse
Great Falls, with q mile record OF l 40.
Frank r. Johnson, a young man
employed in the Great Northern's