Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-12-28
STATE NEWS

STATE NEWS
A Congregational church has been
formed at Oakesdale.
Spokane has four candidates for war
den of the State penitentiary.
A fast whaleback, capable OF max
ing % miles an hour, is talked of at
Everett.
The Snohomish county Copgrega-
tionalists have organized a Congrega-
tional union.
Otto S. Bergland, while hunting in
the Olympic mountains recently,
persisted with the cold.
Mrs Coblentz says she will reimburse
her husbands bondsmen, and that the
State will lose nothing.
Senator Dekeback has taken sample
OF gold obtained by his machine from
the Ocosta sands to Seattle for a test.
The Prosser american is advocating
small securing mill at Prosser to
clean the wool shipped from that place.
By the death OF grand uncle in
Germany, Mrs. Amalie Frederike Re-
horr of Walla Walla falls heir to $780,
600.
The oyster-beds at Bay Center are
being systematically robbed and re-
ward of SIS is out for the conviction of
the offenders.
Charlie M. Atkins, the ex-cashier of
the Whatcom National bank, who was
charged with endorsement, was &C.
quilted at Seattle, last week.
A petition is being nppmerously sign
ed around Garfield asking the Whit.
man county commissioners to remit
the penalty on delinquent taxes.
The Northern Pacific railroad engi-
neers are now conferring with the Ho-
quism people in reference to extend
ing the Aberdeen line to the former
city. .-
The Puyallup Citizen, with cheer.
full effrontery, calie' It Mount Puyallup.
Yet its case has the same standing be-
fore the court As that OF Mount Ia
coma.
A logging engine of the largest
pattern made has been ordered in New
York by George L. Davis, OF Hoquiam.
1t will be the largest Al work on Gray's
hsrbor. s..- s. '"..-..
John A. Taylor, Of Coal Greek, Lewis
county, and John r. jones', OF Centralia
are candidates for doofkeeper and post.
master of the House of representatives
respectively.
The great gale and tide of last week
were phenomenal ut Gray's Harbor
A big pile driver Was washed ashore at
Hoquiam and roads were INSTRUCTED
by falling trees.
The bee industry will receive a
practical test in kennewick. A man
with over 100 stands of bees is sx-
pected there in few days to make it
his future home. 80
Spokane Typographical Union. No.
1913, has passed q resolution de-
nouncing the boycott of the local
American Railway Union against the
Spokesman-Review, -
Rev. E. P. Greene has preached his
farewell sermon at tho Methodist
church in North Yakima. He will 20
to Arlington, Or, near which place he
has been given q circuit.
Eighty-three members of the Gray's
Harbor Fishermen's Protective Union
have been enrolled. 1t will invoke
State legislation for the protection of
the harbor fishing interests.
Parties were recently detected in the
act of stealing 5000 tons of iron rails
from the track Of the old portage rail-
way across the Cascades, on the Wash.
ington side of the Columbia.
There are now LOG readers in What
com county in the State Teachers
Reading Circle, which makes Whatcom
the banner county of the State, so far
as that exercise lis concerned.
The old organization known as the
Chamber of Commerce. ,of Fairhayen
will meet to-day to take steps to
dissolve the corporation, as it is now
merged into the Commercial Club.
Fritz Hansen's logging camp.house,
at Nema, Pacific county, burned the
other night with all its contents of
clothing. tools and provisions. 1t
must have caught fire from the stove.
This story is told of the Horse
Heaven country: "Itis rumored that
the geese are driving the children away
from Sunday school, one or two of the
latter having been kicked by wild
birds"
Colville valley has surplus of hay,
and Flathead valley, in Montana, has
surplus of cattle. The Colville
people have written to the Flathead
people offering to trade 100 tons OF
hay for cattle.
Ed. Lathrop, the railroad conductor
who, through mistake, arrested Henry
Honck and another printer in Spokane
last week at the point OF revolver, was
held in $500 bond for trial for assault
with deadly weapon.
OF the $4,000 appropriated for inn
provements of the Swinomish slough,
SIS. 600 will be spent in Strengthening
and dredging the channel between La
conner and the drawbridge. The Bow.
ers dredger will soon be at work.
Claude L. Vawn, of Vaughan, the
forger, was sentenced to q term Of six
years at Walla Waila. Vawn went by
the name OF L. B. Minnis at Walla
Walia. and was dishonorably discharged
from the federal army post at that
place. Ill
Homer Harvey, who, on the 9th OF
] last Ockober. went ON the witness stand