Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-03-09


and will assist in running the laundry.
The output of the Gray's Harbor
lumber mills for 1898 is figured by the
Hoquiam H'dshingtonian at 100000
feet. There are at present on the
harbor about 100000 OF logs uncut,
all except 1905 900 of which have been
sold.
The Empress of China brought
thirty Japanese on her last trip over.
Three of them only were for Victoria.
The United States immigration Off
cials along the border have determined
that the others shall not get to this
side.
Joel Wood, OF Waitsburg, seems to
be providentially favored during these
hard times. In his family are nine
children, and recently kind neighbor
drove into his corral fresh milch
COW, which, on examination, he found
had nine teats.
A number OF farmers and o.chardists
in the vicinity of Walla Walla have
placed their signatures to an agree
ment pledging themselves to plant at
least one-quarter of an acre in sugar
beets this season for the purpose of
affording test.
A recent exploit of Mr.. Mulkey of
Falls City, Lane county, Or, shows
how low down man can get. He
took the common hopyard earnings of
the family and decamped. There are
five children and the youngest is less
than a month old. Neighbors are
feeding them.
A party Of hunters recently slaugh-
tered an entire herd Of buffalo in the
National Park. The animals were
chased into the country where there
was deep snow and then shot down.
The hunters were captured by the SOL
diers and are now in the guardhouse
at Mammoth Springs.
Yakima declines to abandon its
State fair in order to help out the Ia
coma enterprise. 1t has spent $l0,-
600, raised by subscription, and $l1,-
500 of State money and will 60 ahead.
All the fruit in the Washington build
ing at the Worlds fair is there and will
not be permitted to 60 to Tacoma un-
til after the State fair is ended.
The steam schooner Farallon will
be put ON the Puget Sound route.
Captain Roberts will 60 out in COM
mand and the Farallon will call at
Neah Bay, Clallam Bay. Port Angeles,
Port Townsend, Everett, Seattle and
Tacoma. This will mean q rate war.
as the Pacific Steamship Company is
sure to cut freights to those points.
The loss at the Neah bay fire will
reach $4,000. The edifice will have
to be replaced ct once. It had an
excellent water plant, which was put
in by Captain Charles Willoughby
some years ago, and had it been kept
in repair there would have been little
work in saving the structure. Nearly
all of Agent Powell's effects were
saved.
Miss May CLARK, q Goldendale school
teacher, was tried before Justice Camp
bell last week for inflicting severe
corporal punishment upon a pupil
She was promptly acquitted, as the
prosecution failed utterly to prove it,
case, and the young lady's friends
made up purse to pay the lawyers
fee. The Judge, jury and defendant
were loudly cheered at the conclusion
of the trial.
Opium smuggling is said to be more
extensively carried on at present than
has been the case heretofore. The
dope is brought from Victoria to Fair
haven, New Whatcom, Anacortes O,
Port Blakely in supposed fishing boat.
under cover of darkness. Thence it il
shipped to some interior point, NORTH
Yakima being 3 favorite, where it il
re-packed for distribution to retail
dealers.-West Coast Trade.
w. H. Fife, of Tacoma, says The
black sand along the coast which is te
be used in making pig-iron will yiele
~ to s. per ton in gold. The sand il
to be treated by electricity, and larg,
bulk of it is now being separated, tha
is, the black sand is being separated
from the particles which contain iror
or gold. This is done by means of /.
magnet, which defects the particles o
metal as they fall together with tn,
sand.
The detailed statement of the pen
itentiary's jute bag output for the pas
six months is as follows: In Septem
Der, 1O6,3OO bags; October, 1890
November, 1890: December, 1872,
200; January, 154,6OO; February
l6l 100. The original plant for max
ing grain bags in the penitentiary ir
the jute mill comprised so looms ant
other machinery. The last Legisla
ture authorized an addition of q
looms and other machinery, which
were put in position last fall. Since
then there has been a very marked
increase in the output.