The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-17
STATE OF WASHINGTON.

The cheese factory at Davenport mas
shut down.
There Is quite a revival OF logging IN
Pacific county.
The thermometer went up to es in Doug
las county last week.
Nearly 200 people attended the teach
ers' institute at Colfax last week.
IT is estimated there are 1900 elk in tho
Businesses of the Olympic mountains
CenNalia has organized commercial
club TO promote the interests OF the city.
The vegetable crop of the Sound country
is immmense this year and its quality I'M
excelled.
watervine is agitating the holding of an
exhibit of fruits, cereals, etc, raised IN
Douglas county.
The farmers of the White river valley in
King county have generally harvested a
fine crop of hay.
An effort is being made by the citizens
of Cathiamet TO open road from tnat
place TO Oak Point.
The wheat farmers OF Klickitat county
are trying to devise some means OF doing
without the middleman.
The Whitman county people are work
Ing hard to make the agricultural county
fair a success this fall.
There has been an immense amount OF
tourist travel on Lake Chelan this year
more than ever before known.
A petition is being circulated TO open
county road from Kalama TO Kelso, using
part OF the old Union Pacific grade.
Burglars hurgled a restaurant In
Ieavenworth no. long ago. but only got
81. They got even by stealing the TIL.
Representative Biggs OF New Whatcon.
has returned home after six months. IN
spection of Chicago and Cincinnati hos
pitfalls.
Portland parties contemplate opening
their coal mines near Castlerock. II will
be shipped down the Cowlitz river TO
Portland.
The local board OF insurance writer's OF
Colfax held a meeting last week 10 re-
establish the rates that had prevailed be-
fore the recent furry.
w II. Adams. the boss sawyer at
Pierce's mill. recently cut a log sixteen
feet long and forty-fiye inches thick. This
Is said to be the largest log ever cut In
klickitat county
Wheat near Goldendale is yielding equal
to expectations. Forty ACT es OF winter
wheat belonging TO ID. s. Vanhoy threshed
ont i GOO bushels Twenty acres of May
wheat made thirty bushels to the acre.
A new hop pest is reported In the White
river valley. 1t has appeared IN three
stages. AS a green worm 1t passes INTO
a brown miller. 1t completely destroys
the hop foliage.
School pupils in Klickitat county are
inst about holding their own. according TO
the school clerks assessment for the two
years In the school year closing June so.
1894. there were 2405 and for the current
year 2. 40. a gain in the year OF "a
The county iafl at Colfax last week re-
cejved an additional registration on the
guest book OF six tough-loooking Charac-
ters sent from Uniontown 10 serve cut
fines of si5 and costs each for petty lar
cenv having stolen a coat and other er-
ticles of clothing from railroad caboose
there.
w IT. Wentworth, late of the Union
town Gazette. has purchased the plant
formerly used by the Pullman Heraltand
will start n new paper at Pullman 10 be
called the World. Mr. Allen. OF the Her
aid. has secured another plant and viii
continue the publication of his paper.
This will give Pullman three papers.
II Is feared that the watermelon crop
of Yakima will he a small one this year,
saws the Republic In the Mckee valley,
from where so many big loads OF luscious
melons came last season, there viii he
hardly enough 10 supply the producers.
The cold. backward spring Is said to be
the cause and even replanting Jailed
F. Estes. a rancher residing four
miles below Ieavenworth on the Wenat-
chez river, was accidentally shot and seri-
ousiv wounded Monday afternoon of last
week Ar last accounts II was Thought
nossible that an amputation might yet no
necessary. Mr. Estes was formerly dep
uty sheriff Of okanogan county under VI.
A. Rush.
BENJAMIN +. Manning. county treasurer
Of Whitman county. SAYS he does not
think the county will resume the issuance
OF warrants this year. October II. 1924,
the commissioners found that the legal
limit OF Indebtedness Of the county hal
been exceeded by about SSe.e9. since
which time no warrants have been issued
except on the salary and emergency
funds.
Charles 7. Brown. taken from the Sol
dlers' Home at OTtinE to he examined.
was pronounced insane and committed 10
Steiiacoorl. For several weeks the old
gentleman had shown marks OF failing in
teIieet His peculiar freak was TO try 10
FIRE everything he came in contact with.
This made him dangerous 10 have at the
Home keeping all in dread. lest he might
al any time FIRE the building and do great
damage.