Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-03
STATE NEWS

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STATE NEWS
A tax of $50 year is now levie
upon draymen in Oakesdale.
Volunteer wheat is going 80 to A
bushels in Klickitat county.
The city mission in Walla Wall
leeds about 100 persons daily.
The Kelso Journal says the Goa
mines there are to start up again, a
once.
Albert Jaquith, Coweechee, a Yaki
ma county boy, killed Is rattlesnakel
in three days.
Mrs. Karl E. Meyers, OF Waitsburg
committed suicide at Petaluma, Cal.
last week by drowning.
James Fitzpatrick and dad" Sum
ner, OF Elma, each over so, are bus,
putting in their hay crop.
For stealing a saddle Charles Nc
Donald, of Colfax, aged 81, goes to the
penitentiary for three years.
The scheme for another big raft o
piles, to leave Marshfeld for San
Francisco, is said to have fallen
through.
A boy named Williams. living neal
Trent, has been unconscious now fol
10 days from the shock received in 6
runaway. The doctors are to begin
operating on him.
Emanuel Courchaine is the name o
bad boy of Spokane prairie, who
drives his fathers cattle off and sells
them TO butchers. He will likely be
sent to the reform school.
The Satsop creamery recently ship
ped 1000 pounds of butter overland ia
Olympia, . distance of nearly &c
miles, by wagon, the butter being sent
by boat to Tacoma and Seattle.
Olive, the youngest daughter of H
Illman and wife, of Hartford junction
was drowned in Lake Stevens last
Wednesday. She was the first person
to be drowned in those placid waters.
While William Crocker and FRED
Hahn were fishing in the Yakima river
near Ellensburgh, their boat capsizet
in deep water. Hahn made his way
to the shore, but Crocker was drowned
The report of Register Logan. OF tn,
Ritzville land Office, shows 669,6l;
acres of surveyed land. The Receiver
of the Office has received from. al
sources, between April 18 and June 30
So, 1870.
John P. Means, OF Skamokawa
killed a 200-pound bear last week
Mr.. Means reports the bears quit.
plentiful this season, they having beer
driven from the tidelands by the con
tinued high water.
A band Of 1,150 cattle were driven
through Tekoa, on the way to Spo
kane, from whence they will be ship
ped to Montana. They came from
Camas Prairie, and were in charge o
Messrs. Holt and Rhodes.
]. N. Masten has something like
100000 feet OF spruce logs in Jim
Crow creek. Wahkiakum county
waiting for the boom sticks to shiE
them to Portland. He has effected 6
sale of them for S. per 900 feet.
Two counterfeiteIs have been ar
rested at Spokane and are apparently
good for long terms. Their plant wa.
discovered after some $l25 in silvel
dollars had been made. They CAV.
the names of johnson and Thomas.
Surveys are being made at the ole
agricultural fair grounds at Walls
Walls for a third-of-a-mile race track
which is to be used by the bicycle
club. The track will be in front O
the grand stand, and will be made fol
fast work.
Arthur Pierce was drowned while
bathing in the Touchet river July Is
He was in swimming at the time will
Ira Ferris and Thomas Foster, whit
were nearly drowned in their effortl
to save Pierce. Pierce left a widow
and four children.
Some Of the residents OF Sullivan
island, during the great freshet, TIED
up about 16 bents and IS rails, with
ties, timbers, ETC., belonging to some
railroad, that had been washed away
from its bed They are now advertis
ing in the Skamanis County Pioneet
for some one to come and take tn,
property off their hands.
The Yakima Herald prints q full
list of the hopgrowers in Yakiml
county, together with the acreage o
the yards. There are 2l7 growers ir
the 10 districts represented and total
acreage OF 2.2OS Of old hops, with 70;
acres OF new yards. The Growers AS
sociation has expressed a preference
for Indian pickers, but it is estimate,
that fully 5000 whites will be EN-
ployed.
When the people are out OF work al
over the country it is refreshing Il
read a paragraph like the following
from the Washington Independent
published at Pomeroy: "We call atten
ton to the fact that there appear
some uneasiness in the Sound an,
Yakima sections of our State as to tn
supply of labor this season in the ho
fields. If it be scarce there, the sam
anxiety will exist in the wheat-growin
sections. 1t may be we'll for our farm
ers to look around for labor to tax