Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-04-06
STATE NEWS.

The pottery works at Latah are TO
resume soon.
The Knappa Presbyterians are build
ing q church.
The Tatoosh cable, which brobe
recently has been repaired.
1t takes 81 deputies to do the as
sessing for Whitman county.
A Safeguarding establishment
has been erected at Aberdeen.
New Whatcom is organizing an
opposition telephone company.
About half of Whatcom county's
$3.50, 900 taxes has been paid in.
\ Lacrosse club, with - members,
has been organized at Spokane.
Six candidates were immersed in the
Olequa, near Wiulock, last week.
Prosser will celebrate the completion
OF its irrigation enterprise April 10.
1t is rumored that Democratic
paper will be started at Goldendale.
An anti-license ticket has been put
in the municipal field at Goldendale.
Whitman county is in debt $780,,
1l2. OF this sum $500 600 is bonded.
The normal school building at
Ellensburgh is ready for the plaster
ing.
North Yakima is to have the
telephone. The monthly rental is
$3.50.
Sugar-beet seed is being delivered to
those who signed the experiment agree
ments.
Fish Commissioner Crawford has
issued 264 fishing licenses so far at
Ilwaco.
Prospects are very favorable for a
fine fruit crop along the Snake river
this season.
Considerable damage to farmers
along the Tucannon was done by the
late freshet.
The New Whatcom city council has
appointed committee to look into its
band situation.
The La Camas paper mill will be
running full blast again after a brief
shutdown for repairs.
Everett has begun its campaign for
the removal of the county seat from
Snohomish to that city.
A bicycle club is forming at Ilwaco.
The plan is TO fit up racetrack and
baseball grounds combined.
Tacoma's subscription to the rolling.
mill subsidy has reached $4,000 near
ly half the amount required.
William Thurman, a would-be wife
murderer, of Aberdeen, was captured
by officers after hard fight.
Aaron Cornish, highly respected
citizen of Blaine, dropped dead on the
street from heart failure. He was CT
years old.
The programme is out for the Lewis
County Teachers Associations annual
meeting, which occurs at Winlock
next week.
The 3-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Deako, of Sara, Clarke county, was
fatally burned while playing about a
burning stump.
The 18th annual session OF the
Lewis County Teachers Institute will
convene in Chehalis on April 8, 1894,
and continue in session for five days.
Captain E. P. Edison, of Seattle,
formerly OF Walla Walls, has gone to
Europe as the representative of the
Seattle Chamber Of Commerce at the
Antwerp exposition.
A man suspected of the recent
North Beach robberies has been bound
over to the Superior Court. He was
taken to Jail at South Bend, but gave
his custodians the slip some way, and
is at large.
The meditations OF the Leisure Hour
Club at Winlools were rullely iutci.
rupted on Tuesday by the falling in
their midst of a large stump, which
had been propelled. from across the
street by the aid Of some blaster's
giant powder.
Present indications are that the
Castle Rock-Chehalis chess game will
last only short time. Twenty-Five
moves have been made up to date, and
it is the opinion Of local players that
Mr.. Marion, representing the Chehalis
end OF the game, has an advantage
which Mr.. Bragg cannot hope to over
come.
Michael Jones died last week at the
home OF his daughter, Mrs. Charlton,
on Spilleyah prairie, Cowlitz county,
aged 80 years. He was one of the
pioneers of the Northwest, having i'm.
migrated to Oregon in. lS45. He was
born Quaker, and lived and died in
that faith. The remains were inferred
in the cemetery known as the Straits
cemetery, on Upper Lewis river.
A band OF ten elk has crossed the
Nisqually river and is now being
chased over the country between
Muck creek and the river. Rancher
Pierson, who lives on Muck creek, saw
them a few days ago. A party of
hunters chased them out OF the Olym-
pic mountains two weeks ago and
they started east. Being constantly
hunted, they kept on travelling, and
ten days ago the band crossed the Mis-
qually river two miles above the flats.
A party of hunters was chasing them
with hounds and the elks were then
making for the Cascade mountains.