Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-09-20
STATE NEWS.

| VIII pc ho touoio duout SettiuS HsH
for the hatchery.
The Dunn building. at Castle Rock,
owned by Mrs. Drew, burned last Mon
day. The total loss was about 81 800
and the insurance 5000.
Ice formed to the thickness of a
quarter of an inch at Garfield Tuesday
night. The garden stuff is dead, bnt
the damage is not serious.
The Walla Walla Union believes
that Colonel James Hamilton Lewis
will be the next Democratic candidate
for Governor of Washington.
The Goldendale Milling Company
has shipped two carloads OF flour to
Portland recently. the flour being
made from this years wheat.
J. M. Clapp, supervising engineer
of the work on the jetties in Gray's
Harbor, will place 1000 tons of rock
on top of the mattresses in the middle
channel.
b. F. Smith, q newspaper man OF
Snohomish, and G. A. Messimer, OF
Lake Stevens, have invented a new
propeller, which, they think, is destined
to revolutionize existing methods Of
navigation.
The ship Manx King is loading
a cargo of this seasons wheat at Ia
coma this week for shipment to Eur
ope. Wheat is now coming in at the
rate OF from 30 to 40 carloads a day ,
says the News.
The Doernbecher Furniture Manu-
featuring Company, OF Chehalis, is to
enlarge its plant 80 as to increase it's
output about two-thirds. Ground is
being broken for new two story build
ing 6Ox90 feet in size.
s. Conway, OF Kennewick, has been
experimenting the past season with
castor beans, and is we'll pleased with
the results. Mr.. Conway thinks that
the beans can be grown with profit to
the farmer, as there is always a good
market.
A colony of North Dakotans. with
six prairie schooners and 80 head OF
cattle, passed through Palouse Tues.
day on their way to the Nez Perce re-
serve. They report that hundreds OF
families are leaving the Dakotas for
the West.
Last spring number OF Kennewick
farmers planted small patches of pea
nuts as an experiment. The yield
promises to 60 far beyond their expec-
tat; ms, and the Pasco News says next
year peanuts will be raised on an ex.
tensive scale.
A civil action was commenced in
Spokane Wednesday by Prosecuting
Attorney Feighan against c. o. Down
ing, ex-count clerk, and his sureties
for $4,000, the full penal sum of his
official bond. The sureties are b. c.
Van Houten, E. B. Hyde, A. A. New.
berry and E. w. Talbot.
| Following is the reported value o.
personal property in the incorporated
towns of Whitman county,: Coliax
$344. .495; Pullman, $166, 1856; Palouse
$4,000; Oakesdale, $l3S ,265; Tekoa
$67 ,575; Cotton, $47495; Garfield
$52,Sl5; Pennington, $4O,425; I'm
iontown, $32, $50; Rosalis, $26,335.
Il Hillyard has two sets of schoo
teachers and promise of much litiga
ton on hand. Three of the teachers
hold contracts from the old board
while the new board have employed
others. Those holding the old con
tracts have demanded their full salary
after expressing willingness to teach.
! Deputy Fish Commissioner Hawke
arrested three Puyallup Indians on
day last week for maintaining a fisl
net in the Puyallup river contrar!
to the State law. The Indians will
fight the case on the ground that un
der their treaty rights they are entitle,
to hunt and fish regardless of tn
State law. Just such question wa
the cause OF the Jackson Hole trouble
Sheriff Hogan, of Snohomish, ha
taken the following named prisoner
to the Walls Walla penitentiary: Bu'
Cox, sentenced to 10 years for burglary
} Henry Shelton, seven years TO
d burglary; Harry Williams, five year
t for HOUSEKEEPING, and William Zeeak
two years for highway robbery. Bu'
a Cox was captured by the sheriff nea
!. Milton, Or, after hard chase of tw
4 weeks.
Spokane now has a bicycle ordin
y ance that prohibits riding at create
q speed than eight miles an hour with
, in the fire limits, and that it shall b
n unlawful to ride any bicycle o
tricycle., bike or tandem, through tn
O streets unless the same shall have al
q tached to it proper, good and sui
ficient bell, horn or other sigma
which shall at all times be sounded b
It said rider when approaching in clos
proximity to any person or convey
ance occupying or using the streets {
y, the city"
. There is full-fedged sardine Ell
& tablishment at Port Townsend, az
7. icording to the Leader. The work