Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-09-27
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
The Orting creamery has suspended
operations and the plant was last week
removed.
Whatcom county has a stumpage
valuation of $l8.875 900, and if cut
into lumber atpresent prices the value
of the product would reach $3.50, 0O0,-
600.
The Port Blskely mill has cut and
dressed two timbers 6xlO inches, 120
feet long to be used for guard rails on
the steamer State Of Washington.
James Wright, better known as
" Dad" Wright, shipped trainload of
5000 mutton sheep from North Yak
ina to Chicago last Monday.
John Stauffer killed very large
elk in the Willapa valley this week.
The antlers had Ii points. Mr.. Stauf-
fer fired 10 shots into the elk, after
which it ran mile and a half and
another bullet was required to finish it.
The highest paid for wheat in Pull
man last week was 29t cents, aboard
the cars. Few sales were made, as the
advance of l cent has inspired re-
newed confidence OF further rise.
The price at Garfield was q to % cents.
Mr.. Simpson, of the lower Yakima
has made l 500 gallons of choice molas.
ses from sugar-cane this season. The
mill used by Mr.. Simpson is a crude
affair, but next year he intends having
larger and better one, and to increase
his acreage of cane.
1t may seem ambiguous, consider
ing the low price Of timber ON Puget
sound, but it has been testified in q
law suit between logging company
and q mill company, that the timber
delivered at the mill from one quarter
section, 160 acres sold for $4,000.
Captain Mclean. who is said to be
the owner of the ship Atacams, and
who is in Jail in Seattle for alleged
msltreatment of a negro sailor, has ap-
pealed to Sir Julian Paunceforte, British
ambassador at Washington, to interfere
in his case, on the ground that be is a
British subject.
After being 50 days on the way,
the British ship Whitleburn arrived
at Tacoma, from Yokohama, with 5000
tons of tea late Sunday night. Fears
for her safety have been entertained
for the past three weeks. The delay
was caused by lack of wind on the
Japanese coast.
The Olympia STANDARD is keeping
record of Shelton's birth notices.
Shelton is becoming celebrated for its
logs and its new babies, but we didn't
suppose an outsider would notice our
growing population. What's the
matter with Olympia-can't she keep
her end up ?-Shelton Journal.
A second stack was fired at the
Puget Sound Reduction works at
Everett last week. This increases the
capacity of the smelter TO about l60
tons of ore per day. The business of
the smelter for the first six months OF
the year amounted to trife over
$500 900, an increase of over 400 per
cent.
Corn has been raised extensively
this season along the Upper Columbia
river, and now the farmers are busy
husking q fine yield. For miles corn
shocks can be seen dotting the land
scape and reminding one of the corn
fields of the far East. Fruit is also
grown extensively. The trees in
many orchards are fairly grooming
beneath the weight of lucious plums,
pears, peaches, prunes and apples.
A large number of Lapwai Indians
are encamped just above Dayton, on
the Touchet, for the purpose OF trad
ing, and . number of horses and sad
dies have been sold to them during
the week. During the night the
camp is made lively by the jingle OF
silver coin in games of cards; but
white men are barred; they only
gamble among themselves. They de-
sire to lease the lands which have
been allotted to them at q reasonable
figure.
A mining claim belonging to w. T.
Rarey and George Bean, on Bear
creek, Okanogan country, is attract.
ing attention. Gold is seen with the
naked eye and can be PANIED out.
One pound of the ore was selected,
mortared and panned, yielding up
wards of 80 cents in gold. Other
tests have resulted similarly, and an
assay of what Mr.. Rsrey says was
average ore secured from c. M. Fas'
sett & Co., of Spokane, shows five
ounces in silver and l6 and q fraction
ounces of gold per ton.
The body of Johnny Abbott, who
escaped from Marshal Given and Dep.
uty Sheriff Matlock on August 29th
at Mount Vernon, and jumped into
the Sksgit river, was found Saturday
afternoon, hung up on q broomstick
by Harry Lodge. Abbott was q half
breed, and in consequence the town il
full of Indians who were closely re.
lated to him. He was q desperate
character, and cost Skagit county con
siderable money, besides holding a
threat over officers who arrested him
several years ago.
Extreme cold and damp weather i.
retarding the progress of the hop har
vest around Yakima. The district il
at least 1900 pickers short, however
OF the number required to handle the