Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-04-27
WHOLE NUMBER 1,79l.
STATE NEWS.

There are 124 bales OF hops left in
one Puyallup warehouse.
A Catholic academy will be built in
Chehalis this year, to cost about ST.
600.
A citizen of Whatcom has sub.
scribed $4,000 to the fruit cannery
project.
Quite number of recruits bound
for Coxey's army paid sprague fleet
ing visit Friday.
Snohomish is practicing up to re.
tain the amateur baseball champion
ship of PugetSound.
Aberdeen shipped 10000 pounds OF
fish during March, almost entirely
salmon and sturgeon.
There is a project on foot to estab-
lish glass works at Tacoma, to cost
$l50,OO for the plant.
A town-improvement association is
being organized at North Yakima to
encourage all sorts of Improvements.
Salmon are running in large num-
bers in Snake river. Many weighing
from % to 35 pounds have been taken.
Puyallup has public-spirited citizen
who furnishes shade trees free to any
who will plant them in the city limits.
The Prosser irrigation ditch was for
mally opened and dedicated, last week,
with speeches and enthusiasm un-
bounded.
An election is likely to be ordered
at Colville to vote ON the question OF
bonding the district for new $12 600
schoolhouse.
Immigrants are seeking the Big
Bend country. Twenty-one intending
settlers arrived at Wenatchee on one
train the other day.
A sawmill is being constructed at
the mouth of the Klickitat. Another
mill and grist mill will probably be
built at Lyle, in the same county.
OF the l3O persons registered for tn g
Goldendale election, "a were born in
Oregon. Only five of the whole num-
Der we're born in the State of Washing
ton.
Two carloads of cattle, comprising
100 head, left Sprague one day last
week for Dickinson, N. d. On anothe 7
day two cars of stock were shipped to
Sioux City.
The Johnsons have leased the Walla
Walla Union for five years and are an.
nounced to withdraw from the news
paper business. The Union has been
a splendid paper.
Nine road machines have been pur-
chased by the county commissioners
of Whitman county, and great i'm
provements are looked for in the con-
dition of the highways.
Arrangements have just about been
completed for game Of baseball be-
tween the Viviendi Athletic Club and
the Townsend Athletic Association, in
Tacoma, on Decoration day.
In the Trout lake settlement, Kick.
itat county, there are II unmarried
ranchers with good homesteads, &C.
cording to paper that does not con.
duct matrimonial bureau.
The city of Colfax will sell $l2,OO(
general fund bonds and 5000 watel
bonds, authorized at an election Decem
ber 10, 1891. The bonds were sole
but never paid for. The proceeds vii
be used to take up Indebtedness.
The Spokane Falls & Northern rail
way is now carrying LeRoi ore from
Northport via Spokane to Tacoma al
the rate of 35 carloads per week. A
thousand tons are now on the wharves
at Northport awaiting shipment.
E. P. St. John, one of the very old
est settlers of the Palouse country, ant
townsite proprietor of st. John, dice
the first of the week at his farm, ad
joining that town. He was about u
years of age, and was we'll known.
Indians took forcible possession o
Okanogan Smiths ranch at Osoopo
recently. drove off the stock, NOR
than 800 head, and ousted the tenant
Jack Evans. Deputy sheriffs of Okan
ogan county drove out the red men.
H. N. Browning and NJ. c. Bell, o
Chicago, and NJ. G. Hall, of Portland
high officials of the Northern Pacii,
Express Company, are in Wslla Walls
for the purpose of conferring will
fruitgrowers relative to the transporta
tion of this seasons crop.
OF the 1897 voters in Ia coma, 5,OO(
are natives of the United States. Tn,
greatest number from any one Stat'
is 1856, from New York. Only 67 ar
natives of Washington. Tacoma's
Scandinavian population is very large
there being 979 voters born in Norway
Sweden and Denmark. Next come tn,
Germans, 66S; British, 447 Canadians
406; Irish, 1913.
After the Pullman regents had dis
missed Professor Lake, the Depart
ment of Agriculture was divided int
Agricultural and Horticultural Depart