Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-02-15
STATE NEWS,


erected at Westport.
The coast survey steamer Hassler j.
surveying Tacoma harbor.
A new saw, sbingle and planning
mill is to erected at Ballard.
An Indian died from exposure neal
Ellensburg one day last week.
The Whatcom county Press Associa'
ton met at Whatcom Saturday.
w. w. Robertson has sold the Che
halls Nugget TO G. NJ. Stesdman.
Half a dozen brick buildings will
soon be under construction at What
com.
Davenport Wash, has not a dollsr
OF Indebtedness and has 81 900 in h r
treasury.
Rev. X. Ferguson, a Jewish rabbi,
has recently removed from Winnipeg
to Seattle.
Arrangements are being made to es-
tablish a barrel and tub factory at
Snohomish.
1t is estimated that 10000 hogs are
being fattened upon wheat in Whit
man county.
Fire in the Ricky block at Colville,
Sunday, caused much excitement and
loss of $1,000.
Codd Brothers will drive 100000
feet of logs down the Palouse river TO
Colfax this season.
The Tacoma News will soon get out
one of the fad woman's editions for
the children's home.
P. f. Jessup was thrown from o
buggy at Whatcom Monday, and had
several ribs fractured and was other
wise injured. $500 .-
A petrified toad has been found i'm
bedded in rock 800 feet below the
surface of the ground in the New
castle coal mine.
The 10-year-old daughter of Deputy
Sheriff George w. Case, Seattle, had a
leg broken Tuesday by being run over
by an electric car.
Mrs. Emma Brewster Pugsley died
at Walla Walla Sunday, aged So. She
was the wife of DR.. E. G. Pugsley,
formerly an army surgeon.
Two thousand cattle are being fed
for market in the vicinity of North
Yakima, and Ex-Governor Moody is
having 5000 sheep fed in Cowychee
valley.
The inventory OF the real and per-
sonal property OF Thomas M. Alvord,
the White river farmer who recently
assigned to David F. Levre, foots up
$ll9.96S.
The charges that Collector Saunders
retained straw-men on the payrolls are
being investigated by special agents Of
the treasury department at Port
Townsend.
Selections of 1900 acres of land by
Puyallup Indians have been sent 10
Washington for approval, and as much
more has been selected, but the papers
are not yet ready.
w. w. Saunders, who was pardOned
from the Salem penitentiary by Gov
ernOr Pennoyer, has been admitted to
the bar at Spokane upon the recon-
mendation of George w. Belt and J..
z. Fenton.
Expert Young filed report with
| nf hn ~
Walla Walla, Monday. and left for
Olympia with duplicate for Governor
McGraw. The exact amount of Cob.
lentz's shortege is 81, 467 81.
Fred Jones was arrested, Saturday,
at Spokane, and taken to Sprague,
charged with completely in stealing
cattle from Farmer Mahon. Jones
admits that he helped kill the cattle,
but thought they belonged to Wood,
by whom he was employed.
J. ]. Holman, proprietor of the
Havana cigar factory at Seattle, was
standing at the window of his store
Saturday morning, when he heard the
glass break and bullet whistled close
to his ear. He jumped to the door
and opened 1t, but saw no one.
1t has been decided that Hoyt. who
murdered a fellow convict at the Walla
Wslls penitentiary, can be tried for
the crime without having first to be
psrdoned for his previous otfense. He
will be tried in April, and if convicted,
the warden will be the executioner.
While Ernest Burie, of Whatcom,
was attending the Y. NJ. c. A. meet.
ing Sunday afternoon, and his wife OF
the Salvation Army, some one stole a
belt containing SITS, their savings,
which they feared to put in a bank.
One or the other usually wore the belt,
but that day it had been carelessly left
in their house on the beach.
Albert Fleetwood was In Kslso re.
Gently, and accused his neighbor, ]. F.
Duggan, of using the lash upon Mrs.
Fleetwood and her l4-year-old daugh.
ter. The trouble originated over the
ownership Of piece of ground. Dug
gan forbid the Fleetwoods travelling
over the ground, and when Mrs. Fleet
wood and her daughter had coca sion
TO cross the land to avoid going
through the mud, he severely whipped
them both with small stick. and
used very abusive language. This is
the story of the affair az told by Mr..
Fleetwood.