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

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assured.
There is prospect of an iron plant
on Bellingham Bay.
Two Pomeroy burglars have started
in on seven-year terms.
Chehalis county paid out about
$50, 900 for roads in 1898.
The long-distance telephone is to be
extended to Monte Cristo.
A shingle mill is being added to the
plant of the Tulalip sawmill.
The Dalles, Or, school clerk finds l.
020 children, more than ever.
Some $500 worth of hops were
shipped from Winlock last week.
A plank road costing $4,000 is to be
built across the big Snohomish marsh.
The grain buyers have stopped buy
ing wheat at Rosalia for the present.
Edward Bonner, of Umatilla county,
Or, is insane from smoking cigarettes.
The verdict in the Barr case at
Whatcom was murder in the second
degree.
William Pinder, fisherman in the
Old Tacoma mill, dropped dead last
Friday.
The machinery has been purchased
for South Bends cold-storage plant
which is to cost $4,000.
The Chamber of Commerce OF Fair
haven is forwarding resolutions for the
pilot chart to Washington.
Two thousand tons of ore are ready
for treatment at the plant OF the new
concentration at Monte Cristo.
Three men were sentenced for 10
years each at Seattle Saturday, two for
highway robbery and one for rape.
Lizzie Lewis, a member of the Spo-
kane demi monde, goes up for three
years for stealing $500 from a patron.
Registration for the city election at
Seattle showed 10,S3y voters on the
list, against 10.S41 for the city election
of 1892.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
decision of Judge Pritchard, of Ia
coma, that an individual cannot gar
nishee county.
The w. & C. railroad company paid
Walla Walla county $1,000 in taxes,
the largest amount yet received from
a single taxpayer.
A post mortem on a Seattle COW de-
veloped the fact that she had been
living fo. some time with steel wire
through her heart.
William Gilbert, a sailor on the
bark Detroit, slipped from q plank
while going aboard his vessel, Saturday
night, and was drowned.
Mrs. Peter Severson residing on
Summit Hill, Knab, Lewis county,
gave birth to three babies. two of them
being Siamese" twins.
G. Perry Byam, who claims to have
been the youngest soldier of the civil
war, has absconded from Tacoma, ow-
ing, it is alleged, over 81 200.
Charles Thomas will soon commence
development of an onyx ledge near
Tekoa, from which slabs 1920 inches
can be taken, not showing . seam.
Ernest Slim, the Tacoma opium
smuggler, gets off with four months
at McNeils Island. His friends will
make mp his 500 fine among them.
The daughter of William Frye, liv-
ing near Dayton, returned home from
q dance recently, ate hearty break.
fast and fell dead. Which OF the two
acts caused the death is not stated.
The man with the finest whiskers in
Spokane, allowed himself, in an evil
hour, to be cast for the part of Gas.
pard. The opera was produced Mon
day night and the whiskers had to 20.
A sherifi's deputy has gone from
Whatcom to the island in the Nook.
sack on which Joseph Dobman, crazy
and naked and armed with q rifle, is
wandering about. He will try to bring
him back.
/ A wild man has been captured on
an island near Nooksack. He has
been terrorizing settlers for some time
past. He wore only breech cloth
and carried an immense club. He
cannot talk.
Four tons of smelt we're caught in
one haul the other day in front of the
Great Northern depot at Fsirhaven
The shipments of fish are increasing
in volume daily. new orders coming in
with each mail.
The Cathlamet Gazette enters upon
its sixth year with the good wishes OF
everybody who knows a bright and
newsy paper. 1t is one Of the news
paper gems OF the State, and deserves
more than it gets.
Colonel Bubb and Indian Agent
Hardman are at Rockford making ar.
rangements for building houses and
supplying the Spokane Indians that
are about to locate on the C@ul
dAlene reservation.
Canadian Pacific railway engineer.
are now engaged in making soundings
to decide upon the final location fol
the big steel bridge across the Colum.
bia river. Work will be begun on the
bridge in the spring.
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