Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-02-22
STATE NEWS.

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STATE NEWS.
The Woodmen will build a hall at
Goldendale.
From one 10 four tons OF fish are
being shipped from Snohomish daily.
The residence of A. NJ. Hensely, at
Anacortes. was burned Friday morn
ing.
A Spokane grocer has been con-
victed of selling oleomargarine for
butter.
The North Bend Milling Company's
shingle mill was burned Monday with
$4,000 shingles.
Amos Cummings, for Is years post
master at Wallula, has retired and A..
E. Reid has the Office.
Ocosta has raised bonus for a cold
storage plant TO handle the fish busi-
ness OF Gray's Harbor.
Steamers on the upper Columbia
river will begin running a month
earlier than usual this year.
The second week of the Farmers
school at Pullman opened with more
than 200 names on the roll.
The Oakesdale Packing Company,
has been incorporated at that place,
for packing both beef and pork.
Mr.. Barnett. of Dayton, who was
supposed to have been drowned in the
Pend d'Oreille, has turned up alive.
The residence of John Hooper was
burned at johnson Saturday. The
fire started from an overturned lamp.
The county commissioners of Walla
Walla are perfecting a scheme for sys-
tematic poisoning of ground squirrels.
The city OF Tacoma has been sued
for $4,000 damages for the death Of a
boy killed by an electric car two years
ago.
The establishment of a creamery
and sugar-beet factory are the ques-
tions now interesting the citizens of
Palouse.
The Roslyn and wilkeson mines
have each rendered the. required 30
tons OF coal to the Mohican for an Of
fetal test.
John w. Pratt has disposed of the
Seattle Press Times to L. E. Nickels,
late business manager of the defunct
Telegraph.
The Puget Sound Touring mill has
just completed boring an artesian we'll
at Tacoma. that flows naturally AZ, 600
gallons day.
A car of provisions for the Ne
braska sufferers was gathered, loaded
and shipped at Creston, within 4S
hours, last week.
Walla Walla will make an effort 10
secure the tournament OF the Oregon
and Washington Firemen's Associa-
ton next June.
Ben Swan, one of the oldest miners
OF the Pacific coast, making his head
quarters at Spokane, has been missing
for three months.
William Feamster was yesterday
convicted at North Yakima, of shoot
ing at H. L. Tucker with the intent
to commit murder.
The Snohomish.E Everett county.seat
fight has reached the stage of mutila-
ton of records and efforts to influence
the judge in private.
The Tacoma board of education has
been petitioned by citizens to appoint
none but residents of the city as
teachers in the echools.
A 1O-year-old daughter Of Deputy
Sheriff G. w. Cane, at Seattle, had her
leg broken few days ago while play
ing about an electric car.
The second shipment OF cargo of
100000 feet of lumber to Hawaii has
been made from Port Angeles. 1t is
for the Honolulu railroad.
A townsite will be laid out at the
Roy Kendall mine, on Huckleberry
mountain. Twenty buildings now
form the nucleus of town.
Carl School, a millwright at Prescott,
near Walla Walla, had his right hand
crushed to pulp by its being caught
in pair OF corrugated rollers.
There has been two highway rob-
berries in the vicinity Of North Yakima
lately, and the robbers are being look.
ed for diligently by the officers.
Leo Wise had his ankle broken
while playing football ut Ilwaco Sun.
day. He stepped into a hole, fell and
several others fell on top Of him.
The second Car from Pullman for
the Nebraska sufferers has been
shipped. 1t was all donated by the
grain firm of Charles Price Company.
An ordinance has been introduced
into the Tacoma city council, granting
right of way for the long-talked-of elec.
trio road between Tacoma and Seattle.
The Walla Walla Bar Association
has Endorsed John L. Sharpstein for
appointment as judge of the ninth
judicial circuit by President Cleveland
Charles Webber, mate of the bark
entine Modoc, lying at Port Blakely,
had his leg crushed Saturday and was
taken to the Marine hospital at Port
Townsend.
One hundred carloads of ore have
arrived ct the Everett smelter from