Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-01-12
STATE NEWS.

reelected its old officers.
Taxes are due and payable at Spo-
kane-in all $685., 1851.
A six-story hotel building, to cost
$1,000, is projected at Seattle.
The temporary bridge over the North
Palouse at Colfax is completed.
Chinese are being registered in Sc
attle at the rate OF over 800 day.
Ballard will ask the government to
spend 100000 to dredge Salmon bay.
Buckley is buckling down to econ
omy by doing without street lights.
The Fairhaven chamber of COM
merce has protested against the Wilson
bill
The State agricultural college stu
dents have been uniformed in cadet
gray.
DIR. r. S. Harvey died at Spokane
from the effects of a fall on an icy side
walk.
Retrenchment has saved Spokane
$4,000 on its police expenses in six
months.
The Salvationists have given up
Dayton as bad job, to the delight of
the Chronicle.
The Port Angeles mayoralty contest
will result in the seating of Frank Nc
Gill, populist.
Some 10000 railroad ties are banked
at Thumbville, Columbia county,
ready for hauling.
There is a man at Summit. Chehalis
county, who has made $4,000 shingles
by hand this year.
Professor J. w. Brock, principal OF
the Wslla Walla public schools, has
been adjudged insane.
LaConner likes municipal govern
ment SO she will try to get an in
corporation that will stick.
Nooksack Presbyterians held
wooding bee" and got out 20 big
ricks alongside the church.
It is now claimed that IS per cent.
of the shingle men in the two States
have signed the new agreement.
The Tacoma Ledger learns from an
apparently reliable source that an
extra session has been decided upon.
An unknown man, supposed to be a
sailor, was found drowned on the beach
at Port Townsend Saturday morning.
N. d. Sturdevant, of Seattle, has
gone insane from worrying over the
loss of all his money in a Tacoma
bank.
A Willapa family had cabbage, cauli-
flower. beets, radishes, carrots and
parsnips fresh from the garden for
Christmas.
Leonard F. Williams, editor of the
Sprague Mail, was married at Spokane
Friday to Miss Florence Stephens, OF
New York.
Another monster lynx was trapped
on the Little Salmon last week, but
carried the trap off and has not yet
been found.
Charles Bordman, arrested at Spo-
Kane for smuggling opium, has been
bound over to the federal grand jury
in ~ 600 bonds.
Mrs. Frank Carlson, of Kent, in
herits $4,000 from her mother, the
news OF whose death in England has
just reached her.
John Pollard. implicated in the
robbery and assault upon Jenkins, at
Mt. Vernon, was sentenced to nine |
years in the penitentiary.
When the waits Of Kalama has
enjoyed their Christmas dinner at the
mayors hospital table, he made them
all take dose of quinine.
William Robertson, found guilty of
conspiring to murder at Snohomish,
was sentenced to Is years in the peni.
Tertiary and to pay $500 fine.
Prescott, the Endicott man so
seriously wounded by his mother-in.
law, Mrs. Sutton, is still alive and does
not seem to be losing strength.
Palouse has re-incorporated and
elected officers. E. r. Pickrell is
mayor. The new government con-
fronts municipal debt of $4,000.
A carload of gold sulphurets from
the Monte Cristo mining district,
which assays $500 per ton, is on its
way to the smelter at Tacoma.
Rev. Father Van Navel, of Victoria,
the first grand vice-president of the
Young Mems Institute of America, il
being entertained with honors in the
towns of the lower sound.
The women at Spokane are raising
funds to assist in the prosecution OF
Chase for assaulting his servant girl.
They have organized a regular society,
meet pursuant to adjournment, and
hear reports from various commit
tees"
At Walls Walls the county commits
sioners compromised with the Union
Pacific, accepting tender of taxes on
valuation of IS 800 q mile, through
the county board had left tho assess
ment at SIC. 900 mile. This will also
affect the Northern Pacific road and
makes a saving to both of $4,000.
While crossing the railroad track,
about q mile from Sprague, with a
load Of hay, the team and wagon of w.
P. Early was stalled. A freight COM
ing along at that time played havoc
with the wagon and its load, scattering
both in all directions. The horses
we're frightened and ran away, and
were cut up some, but not seriously.
Spokane saloons are lodging and
feeding idle. The Review finds 500
cared for in this way, one place, called
The All Nations" furnishing SOUP
and lunch for 200. At night the home
less dodgers are thick on the floor,
many OF them with no covering and q
stick OF stovewood for pillow.
A South Touchet farmer missed a
beef he had newly killed, and. with the
help OF some neighbors. found it dis
membered and hidden under the hay
In G. w. Thayer's barn. Thayer was
arrested. and made a vain effort to
square things by giving up the beef
and with it $25 and two steers and nav
expenses up to date. He lie CON
sequently in Jail at Dayton.
A young stowaway arrived at Hoqu-
lam from San Francisco last week on a
lumber schooner en- route for Buck.