Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-04-13
STATE NEWS.

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Measles is badly epidemic at Fair.
haven.
The Duff shingle mill at Kelso has
started up.
Menlo lake is to be drained into the
Willapa river.
Walla Walla's street cars have been
started up again.
The Bellingham Bay population is
about 100000 now.
A Coxey army corps is being re-
cruited at Centralia. $50 -....... ...
Fifty acres of land will be bought
near Townsend for q county poor farm.
Chehalis won the opening game OF
its chess tournament with Castle
Rock.
OF Kittitas coupty's $107 600 taxes,
only $4,000 was paid in before delin-
quent time.
Warren's cannery at Cathlamet has
started up. The Chinese are busy
making cans.
High water and soaked ground will
prevent plowing about Wallula for
some time yet.
Port Townsend, by energetic en-
deavor, has saved its free delivery
system from being abolished.
New Whatcom stands a good show
of getting fruit and vegetable can.
merry in operation this season.
The farm residence of J. N. Hat
field, near Ellensburgh, was burned
last week, with loss of $2,O 600.
Hattie Stratton, the celebrated fe-
male smuggler of Port Angeles, has
been pardoned by the President.
A representative of the South ern
Pacific is talking up the midwinter
fair in the Eastern Washington towns.
Mrs. Charles Hepp was fined SIS
and costs in the Spokane police court
for knocking Paul Voerth down with a
dinner bell.
Postmaster Labaugh, OF Colfax, has
been committed to Jail for contempt.
An effort to get him out on habeas
corpus also failed.
Frank Morrissey, steamboat cook
committed suicide by morphine at
Seattle, Saturday night. Whiskey
brought him to it.
Two new creameries have Just been
completed at Lynden and one is soon
70 be started At Sumas. This make,
five in whatcom county.
The spring freshets in the Colville
river have caused that stream to over
flow in many places, and much DAM
age to the hay crop il feared.
Happy Jack" who has served
more terms in Jail for drunkenness
than any other man in Spokane, is
now q member of the Salvation Army.
The Agricultural College board, il
session at Walla Walla. confirmed its
decision to ask for Prof. Lakes resig-
nation from the position of agricul.
turist and horticultural.
J. c. Boyd has sued the Post.Intelli.
gencer for $4,000 damages for alleged
defamation of character. The paper
prints a correction, but does not state
whether it will satisfy the action.
The Hartford Shingle Company, oi
Hartford, is experimenting on . new
process of drying shingles. 1t is the
invention Of two employees, aud con.
sists of drying the shingles loose in.
stead of in punches.
They have not learned yet who theiz
neighbor is along the Nooksack. The
high water washed out the road along
the river bank, and when ranchers
drive out on the adjoining land to ge,
past, the owner has them arrested for
trespass.
Postmaster Lobaugh, OF Pullman, ha,
been released from Jail on the under.
standing that he will purge himself oil
contempt. This he can do by giving
testimony in the Letterman divorce
case, refusal to do which got him
into trouble.
Physicians who testified in the Ed
Hill murder trial at Dayton were al
lowed only 81 per day by Judge Stur.
tevant. instead of the $50 or some
such figure they expected, as for expert
testimony. The action of the court il
commended, as in the line of economy
The first steamer load OF ore from
the LeRoi mine, in the Trail creek
district, was taken down the river from
the Trail landing to Northport, Mon.
day. There were 9S7 tons at the
landing, as the result of the winters
work, the steamer taking away "a
tons.
Further reports of the suspended
Commercial State Savings Bank, at
Tekoa, are not cheering. The only
dividend declared by the bank was one
of five per cent. last August. Mon.
day, April 9th. was set as the time
when the bank officers will show
cause why . permanent receiver
should not be appointed. Complaints
have been sworn out against the
Moodys, president and cashier, alleg.
ing mi.appropriation of funds.
For the first time in years, sentences
have been imposed at Port Townsend,
involving the ball and chain. One Of
the offenders was housebreaker and
the other shamefully maltreated q
woman of the town. Both are pred
atory birds of passage, members OF
gangs who are fiocking into Town
send to prey upon the sailors OF the
incoming warships. A determined
effort will be made to prevent the Gus