Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-29
STATE NEWS.

Gray's Harbor has exported within
a year, S5,0OO,OOO feet of lumber.
The Whatcom shingle mills have
had to close down for lack of cars.
The Tacoma Ereaing Nems was sold
at Sheriti's sale few days ago, for 49,
600.
Seattle has school scandal on her
hands. Seattle wants to See-attle not
occur again.
The city of Seattle pays out in
monthly wages to street workers
about $4,000.
The paper mill at LaCamas en-
ploys GO men with a monthly pay
roll of $500.
Rye in Palouse country grew Is
inches last week. How vines grew
six inches a day.
The city of Seattle has $4G5, ,7O9 .GS
in the Treasury, according to City
Controller Parry.
Twenty bales of hops were shipped
from Puyallup last week. Only seven
remain in the warehouse.
According to the Mount Vernon
News, the recent Skagit river floods
have drowned all the fish,"
N. S. Bagwell, gambler, was shot
and killed by some unknown assassin
at North Yakima, at an early hour on
the 10Th inst.
ATacoma firm has shipped 500 tons
of feed, consisting of oats, barley, bran
and shorts, to Honolulu, as a starter
for trade it is hoped to establish per-
manently.
Chas. w. Nordstrom was sentenced
last Saturday by Judge Humes, at Sc
attle, to be hanged August 3lst. for
for the murder OF Willie Mason, last
November.
Several Tacomans expect to leave
July 5th for the South African gold
fields aboard the steamer Santa Clara,
which, they say, has been chartered to
make the trip.
The Washington Odd Fellows have
determined to build a home where
the aged and INDECENT members of the
order may find retreat when cir.
cumstances require it.
Jake Lessy has been sentenced by
Judge Haniord, at Seattle, to a years
confinement at McNeirs Island, and
to pay fine of $1,000 for smuggling
Cinnamon into this State.
The First National Bank of Palouse
City has sent off $400 worth OF Hoodoo
gold to the mint at San Francisco.
This makes 81 200 worth of dust hand
led by the bank since January l.
There will be no complaint of lack
of fuel for Long Beach campers this
summer. The floods have provided a
full assortment of everything, from a
chicken coop to a railroad bridge.
The cherry crop will be immense in
the Palouse country this year. The
trees are as full of blooms as it is pos
sible for them to stick on; plums,
pears and apples are equally loaded.
A Tacoma minister proposes to
build floating church TO traverse the
800 miles of shore on Puget Sound
and give the settlers who live in Sc
cluded sections Of country chance to
hear the gospel.
A band of horses was caught on an
island at the mouth Of the Yakima
river by the flood and were compelled
to stand in water for 200 hours before
they were taken off by boat. All the
colts were drowned.
There were shipped from Gray's
Harbor by water during May 7,4l0,.
600 feet of lumber, distributed as fol-
lows: From Hoquiam, 1854 600 feet
from Cosmopolis, 1,346, 600 feet; from
Aberdeen, 100000 feet.
A corporation has been formed al
Seattle to dig the much -talked-of canal
to connect the lakes back of Seattle
with the Sound. 1t is called the
Seattle, Lake Washington Waterway
Co., and Gov. Ferry is its President.
Lincoln county expects a bigge,
harvest this year than in 1898. Only
a few farmers are following Their
farms, and the acreage is nearly as
large as a year ago, while the crops
are two or three weeks more advanced
The Commissioners of Skagit county
have bought 25O,OOO feet of three-inch
planks at the Cornwall mill, at What.
com, to be used in planking roads this
summer ON the Samish flats. The
purchase price is said to be S. pei
thousand.
Mrs. H. M. Grier has been held to
answer at Spokane for the murder OF
her sixth husband. OF the six men
who have at times been her husbands
three are dead, one in the insane
asylum, one has been divorced and
the other is wanderer on the face OF
the earth.
Chief Joseph and his band have
been delighting the good people Of
Ritzville. They spent Monday in
selling cayuses and horse racing. AT
night some OF the young bucks secured
hall and entertained small audience
by giving pow-wow, introducing the
scalp dance and several other pleasing
specialties.
T. Lommasson, of Colfax, who has
been spepding the past week in the