Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-22
STATE NEWS.

lhl"Ne> are operating III the Nlclnlt,
Oi Grtcn Lake.
Walla Walla grain WAS uninjured b,
the recent cold snap.
. Palouse i now Among the town!
: that Is certain Of ii or amery.
The non parti>an> will he active ir
the coming city election in Spokane.
squirrels are said to he dying by
: thousands from scab in Columbid
county.
The WalA Walla Agricultural SO
ciety Will Try to rell its race track and
grounds.
The fire started in the Black Dia-
mond coal mlnc u month ago is still
burning.
Port Angeles has been gi:en Gene
terry site ou government Land, adJuin-
ing the city.
An effort is being made to start Vi
the Ocosta, Wash, mill plant that has
been idle Tor 4 year.
The South Bend council has re-
pealed the town ordinance requiring
sunday closing OF saloons.
William f.. Keyes, one of the pio-
neer OF Aberdeen, 90 years OF age, died
last week after long illness.
A wheat pool OF 10000 bushels is
being formed at Garfield. The price
is 30 cents net to the farmers.
Four regulars and eight specials are
to be dropped from the Spokane police
force III the interest of economy.
Winlock citizen. are laboring to
secure the construction of a plank
road from that town to Ethel, or Cow
litz prairie.
preliminary survey will shortly be
made for line OF railway between the
Port Orchard navy yard and Olympia,
via Shelton.
Judge Stallcup, of the superior court
in Tacoma, decides that employs in
county offices are not entitled to pay
for overtime.
The receivers OF the Northern Pacific,
Yakima & kittitas Company have de-
cided to receive time checks in pay
msnt for land.
Tom Clary, the pugilist, formerly
OF Seattle, has been sentenced ten
years in the Montana penitentisry for
manslaughter.
The residences of Captain Ballard
and John Collins, at Seattle, were
burglarized last week and many articles
OF value taken.
W. ii. Bahcock, the wheat king of
Walla Walla county, has 5000 acres
OF fall-sown wheat, all OF which has Il
promising look.
S. Il. Mitchell, OF Portland, has
been appointed co-receiver of the Ia
coma Railway & Motor Company with
George W. Bird.
John Flynn and Timothy Ross, two
alleged Hood Canal pirates, were ar
rested recently with stolen goods in
their possession.
Orders for few carloads of potatoes
have been filled at So per ton, ut North
Yakima, but the supply greatly ex-
ceeds the demand.
The Grand Ronde river news in the
Asotin Sentinel records that several
range horses being found dead, having
been killed 10y cougars.
The head of an ibex, an animal that
is very rare in that country, was shown
at Ellensburgh last week. 1t was
killed near Mount Stewart.
Bessie, the 5-year-old daughter of G.
&. Stayton, OF Everett, was so terribly
burned, on the 10th inst, by the upset
ting of lamp, that she died.
The Snake river fruitgrowers are pre-
dieting large crop the coming sea-
son. A week ar more of mild weather
will put blossoms on the peach trees.
The telephone system from Spokane
to Occur d'Alene lis to be extended to
Helena and other Montana points,
twenty-five miles OF wire being put
under ground i'll crossing the Occur
dAlenes.
Mr.. Palmer, in charge of the Epis-
copal mission at Porter. has shipped
from Aberdeen 5000 feet OF lumber,
for the purpose of building neat
church. The lumber was donated BY
Aberdeen dealers.
Emil Grundstrom, a Russian sail.
or. will bring suit. it is said, against
William II. Dunphy, master of the
ship Willie Rosenfeld, now at Tacoma,
for $27 900 damages for extreme
cruelty and maltreatment.
Colonel Hart, a Montana mining
man, says he has bought and bonded
all the mines he could in the State
Greek district, Okanogan county. and
will commence active work as soon as
he can put IN the machinery.
The whole of the property owned in
Skagit county by the Skagit Railway
& laundering Company was bid in by
Receiver X. Wingate in behalf OF the
creditors. The lands bought 500, 5000,
and the claims were $4,000.
The bureau of equipment states that
tests made of the Blue canyon coal
show that it has superior qualities TO
that of any other Pacific coast coal yet
tested, showing fixed carbon of 60 per
cent. The results of the tests made
by the Mohican corroborate the report
thus far.
Fresh fish shipments by express.
from Aberdeen for the week ending
March Is, aggregate 2G,l6 pounds
of this amount 9.505 pounds were
shipped East, and 1860 pounds were
shipped to Portland and Seattle.
Seeding is nearly completed in Co.
lumbia county, and gardening has
commenced. The acreage to wheat
this season will probably not be over
two thirds of last year, while barley
remains about the same. Quite a
number of farmers are preparing
ground for flax.
Eight gentlemen from the East
passed through Montesano last week,
en- route to the Quinalt country, look
ing up locations for an Eastern colony.
One of the men informed the Tidette
that they represented 400 families,
who would follow soon. if suitable
places could be found for them.
The defeat Of House bill l27 by the
Senate falls heavily upon the farmer,
of Eastern Washington. The whole
of Eastern Washington is no i'm arms
! and threatens TO retaliate on the