Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-09-13
STATE NEWS.

Golden1ale is said to have more Sc
cret societies than any other town of
its size in the State.
The potato crop will be much smaller
In klttitas valley this year than it was
in 1884, says the Ellensburg Localieer.
Two men fishing at the wharf at Ia
coma, last week, caught devil fish
having eight arms, each seven feet in
length.
The White River Journal says there
is movement on foot to abolish one
OF the superior judgships in King
county.
Lieutenant A. w. McCallum, of Spo-
kane, has been notified that he has
been promoted TO Northumberland in
the State militia
John Kraemer, of Walla Walla, has
pet in the shape of an S-year-old
rattle-snake, which he bought from a
sheephearder for So.
Shipments OF fresh salmon from
Aberdeen for the month of August
amounted to GGOl9 pounds. Ship
ments begun August 10.
The trial of NJ ]. Clnmp, ex treasurer
OF Clallam county, on the charge of
emhezzling county funds, was begun
IN Port Angeles Tuesday.
The United States grand jury at
Spokane has indicted Edward Pad
bury. 15.year-old boy, for robbing
the postoffice at Rossburg, Stevens
county.
Owing to lack of funds, Pierce
county will have no civil Jury term of
court this fall, and great deal of in
justice and lawyers fees will thereby
be avoided.
William Zeeak, would-be highway
robber, pleaded guilty at Snohomish I
Saturday Of intent to commit robbery
and was sentenced to two years in the |
penitentiary.
The 18th Annual Convention of tile |
w c. T. u. OF Eastern Washington
met at Spokane Wednesday with
about % in attendance. 1t will ad-
journ tonight.
The Sprague roller mills started up
Friday, after a shutdown OF 80 days,
during which entire new machinery,
including the celebrated plansifter
process, was placed in the mill.
George w. Van Fassen, of Tacoma,
has bought 40 acres CT land in the
Puyallup reservation, and proposes to
divide it into five-acre tracts and sell it
to his A.. P. A. friends for homes.
The Aberdeen Fish Company is
loading a refrigerator car with $4,000
pounds of salmon for Chicago. Fish
ermen on Gray's Harbor are now re-
ceiving 2 cents per pound for fish.
w. S. Sprague, pressman of Ia
coma, made road record on his bicycle
Monday by riding from Tacoma to Roy
and back a distance of AZ miles, in
two hours and thirty-five minutes.
Oakesdale will soon be lighted by
electricity again. Negotiations are
now in progress for the purchase of a
dynamo, which will be placed in the
engine-room OF the Oakesdale mill.
Frost visited fields and gardens
about Guy and Palouse Thursday
night. Melons and squashes were cut
down, and fears are expressed OF ex-
tensive loss from damage TO beans.
The memoirs of General A. v. Kautz,
who died recently at Seattle, are to be
published. The general wrote the
history of his own life, and gave direc-
tons for its publication after his death.
The total valuation OF taxable
property in Pierce county, as fixed by
the county board OF equalization, is
1874 1891. being a reduction from
the assessment made by County AS
SCISSOR Hunt OF $l,379,549.
Miss Winnie Andrews, a nurse in
the family of L. Portman, at Port
Townsend, this week received notice
that she has fallen heir to $4,000, a
large part of which is in cash and the
remainder in Boston realty.
The schooner Lady George, Captain
Bull, came into South Bend last Thurs.
day with 1900 pounds of black cod and
5000 pounds of halibut on board, the
result of four days fishing trip off
the entrance to Willaps harbor.
Thomas w. Tough, while saving
down tree near Ballard last Monday,
was knocked from the springboard on
which he was standing by a flying
piece of wood and received injuries
from which he died the next day.
A number of ranchers in Chehalis
county followed up the recent fires in
some places and sowed grass seed in
the ashes. The rains OF the past few
days will give this good start, and by
next season it will afford pasture for
stock.
Mckee coyotes have been raiding the
watermelon patch of C. L. Cans. Mr..
Cans says they tear the melons open
with their teeth and claws and eat out
the meat close to the rind, and that
they never mistake a green melon for
a ripe one.
r. H. Thomas, of Pleasant Hill, in
the Big Bend country, has contracted
to deliver in Waterville $500 pounds
of onions. He has hundreds OF bushels
OF onions half the size OF mans hat
crown that have come to maturity
from broadcast sowing.
J. w. Heron, an Aberdeen logger,
found fir tree recently from which
he cut five 24-foot logs. the largest be-
ing 81 inches in diameter at the big
end; the smallest was so inches in
diameter At the small end. The five
logs scaled about $4,000 feet.
Mrs. Reinhold Harras, of Walla
Walla, was handling a revolver last
Saturday, when the weapon was &C.
cidentally discharged, the ball penetrat-
ing her left leg, few inches above the
knee. inf1icting a very painful flesh
wound, but not OF serious nature.
Judge Denny, of the superior court
in Snohomish county, has decided