Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
STATE NEWS.

Monte Cristo's new railroad station
is completed and occupied.
Rev. George Cairns, the evangelist
is booked Tor Snohomish this week.
The latest is still that the governor
will and will not call an extra session
An oyster-house and skating rink
were traded even up at Mount Vernon
Farmers are rushing their wheat
into Sprangle while the sleighing is
good.
Judge Humes, Ct Seattle, rules that
an unloaded gun is not deadly
weapon.
Eighteen applicants will take part
in the civil service examinations at
Spokane.
Schisms are threatening to rend
Walla Walla's Salvation Army corps
in twain.
Sprague's new opera-house will be
dedicated Monday night with II fire
mems ball.
Two members of Number $685.
the Colfax band of youthful robbers,
will be sent to the reform school.
Godfrey Jones was drowned near
Yakima Sunday, while fording the
Matches river with the body of deer
he had killed.
The government works on Ho.
quiam's harbOr have now been com.
pleted, as far as the appropriation was
intended to go.
H. G. Foster. of Tacoma, recently
shipped 6U'foot fir pole to Kansas
army post, where it will be used for
signal purposes.
A chinook has prevailed in the
Okanogan country during the past
week, and thousands of head of stock
were saved as a result
A small ferryboat was picked up in
the Columbia opposite The Dalles last
Saturday. 1t is thought to be the one
carried out at Columbus.
A petition has been placed in circu.
lation for road between Willapa City
and Riverside. The only means oil
outlet at present is by boat.
A recent sale of logging outfit in
Wahkiakum county brought $l25. II
consisted of FIVE yoke of good oxen,
their yokes, chains, dogs, etc.
The receiver OF the Skagit railway is
showing claims audited of $l35 600
The receiver can not sell the road, and
is unable to estimate the assets.
Councilman Mcmillan, of Fairhaven
had a close call for his life by drinking
carbolic acid for cough medicine.
Prompt use of antidotes saved him.
The residents of Kalama will ask
the county commissioners for change
in the county road between the Ka.
lama river bridge and BARRIERS noun
tain.
Much damage was done at Pc Ell
last week by the explosion of the saw
mill. The low water in the reservoir
was the cause. Fortunately no one
was hurt.
An operetta with words and music
OF home manufacture is to he produced
at Spokane. Into each life some rain
must fall, some days must be dark and
dreary.
The Point Defiance & Edison Rail.
way Company has issued to the North
western General Electric Company
and others a mortgage to secure in
debtedness of 500, 600.
The citizens OF Wenatchee, Chelan
and the Okanogan country are max.
ing united effort to get a wagon road
opened from the north down the Co
lumbia river 70 Wenatchee.
The creamery men OF Ellensburgl,
are complaining of the lack of milk
They cannot begin to get enough 10
satisfy them, and consequently the
production is greatly curtailed.
An organized effort is making at
Goldendale to have the courts decide
whether the county can 20 on paying
the officers their salaries in cash and
and other creditors in warrants.
"Now Is the Day of Salvation" is
the unusual legend which glares these
days from Walla Walla bill-boards.
They are posters of rival denomina-
tons, announcing revival meetings.
The bridge timbers which have been
lying idle 80 long at the place where
the Union Pacific railroad was to cross
at Vancouver, are to be worked into
the bridge to be built at La Camas in
the spring.
George Cabbott, of Winston creek,
Lewis county, was accidently shot
while hunting last week. He was
mistaken for deer by another hunter.
His injury was very serious, but his re-
covery is expected.
Everett has four lumber and four
single mills in operation, cutting o.
OOO,OOO feet Of lumber and $4,000, 600
shingles during 1893. The men en-
ployed reached 200, and the monthly
payroll $4,000.
Effie woodman. aged 10, a Colfax
domestic, swallowed dose of NOR
phine, with suicidal intent. She had
been deserted by her lover, and said
dependency Overcame her. She took
too big dose OF the drug, and sur
vived. ~
J. I. Smith, . cook in q Tekoa hotel,
committed suicide last week. He
killed himself with a Winchester,
pulling the trigger with a string at
tached to his. fost. He left note say
ing he had done the deed himself and