Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-01-19
WHOLE NUMBER 1.777.
STATE NEWS.

OlucerS.
Seattle is now employing over 6OC
men on sewer work.
Kelso votes on incorporation a week
from next Saturday.
Quite a number of new cottages are
going up at Ocean Park.
Building has commenced at the
Ellensburg aluminium plant.
A force of 40 men is at work cutting
ice on Loon lake, near Spokane.
1t is showing like everything at
Davenport, with the mercury 40 below
zero.
A l6'pound boy was born at Walla
Walla, last week, to Mrs. Joseph
Faunmuller.
Twenty tons of Tacoma matches
were loaded for San Francisco the
first OF the week.
An Eastern firm has just placed an
order with Buckley mill for IOOO,.
600 feet OF lumber.
That steamer for the Upper Cowlitz
is getting on nicely at Carlin. 1t will
draw but IA inches.
The contractor for the Spokane wa
ter-works has received over 800 appli-
cations for work on the job.
L. o. johnson has recei we'd his
commission as postmaster of Ilwaco,
and will start in February l.
Extra session petitions from un-
known senders are bobbing up in
places east of the mountains.
The stick the alleged message from
Colgate is written on has been sent to
Kendrick to compare the writing with
his.
The Golden Cord Mining Company
has incorporated at 81 900 600 at Seat
attle, to operate in the Monte Cristo
district.
The total acreage of the Lummi res
ervation is 12,456 acres, of which o.
$50 acres are surveyed and $500 un-
surveyed.
About 600 carloads of wheat are
sidetracked along the water front in
Tacoma at present awaiting storage
room in the warehouses.
Grant Latham, formerly Of Walla
Walla, and now supposed to be in Ore
gon, is wanted to communicate with
his mother, who is in that city in des.
titute circumstances.
A dead man, supposed to be John
Stevens, an old soldier, has been found
by the railroad track near Kent.
Opinion divides between suicide and
foul play, and Investigations are being
made.
The Pullman Report is informed
that q large portion of what wheat
has been standing in the shock is in
good condition and will be threshed
and brought into market. There may
not be as much wheat lost as expected
The Stevens County Commissioner
rejected all propositions for the $65.
600 county-funding bonds voted las,
July, and Chairman McEvens will 90
before the State Land Commissioners
in February and endeavor to dispose
of the issue.
Percy F. Smith, Chief Clerk of the
Land Office, gives the total acreage ol
the Lummi reservation as II ,456 acres
of which $3.50 acres are surveyed and
$500 unsurveyed. The record OF this
land patented by the government il
kept at Washington.
An eight-foot vein of steam coal
separated from a six.foot vein by a
thin layer of slate, which latter vein
has been worked 500 feet, has been
discovered in the Blue Canyon mine
in Whatcom county. The slate was
supposed to be hanging wall.
A supply of catfish for the local
streams and lakes have been received
at Tacoma from the Willamette river.
George J. Brechtel has placed six doz.
en- of the catfish in Lake Steilacoom
and it is hoped by the sportsmen tina,
they will not be disturbed until they
have an opportunity to propagate.
The farmers of Lake Washington
and Duwamish basin are petitioning
the King County Commissioners to
drain their lands. They suffer a good
deal from floods. and suggest as the
most feasible method of relief that Ce.
dar river be turned into Lake Wash
ington, and the outlet from the latter
into Lake Union be deepened and en-
larged.
Professor Buys, teacher OF the Cat.
lin school, took cold bath Sunday
In crossing the Cowlitz between Kelso
and Catlin his boat was upset and be
was empted into the water. He is q
good swimmer and kept up for 100
yards and was rescued by Captain
Fred Lewis and Mr.. Stayton, very cold
and wet, but better than a dozen dead
teachers.
BRADsTREET's Commercial Agency
has enumerated and classified the un-
employed laborers throughout the
country. The following are the fig