Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31
STATE NEWS,

STATE NEWS.
Last year the schools OF Spokane
cost, in round numbers, 500, 600.
The City of Snohomish has bought
the waterworks of the water company.
George ID. Allen, of Aberdeen, has
assigned to Charles r. Green, for the
benefit of his creditors.
The Indians along the Quinault are
catching many Quinault salmon and
shipping them to the Sound.
The coast survey steamer Hassler,
ut the Port Orchard navy-yard, went
out of commission Saturday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Clifford Steinbrook
died at her home near Chehalis on
the 26th inst. She was IS years old.
James Tow, charged with incest
with his stepdaughter, Fife Chamber
lain. was found guilty in Colfax last
week.
Estimated on the basis of the new
city directory for 1895, which contains
1O,SOO names, Spokane has % 400
population.
Port Townsend voted, 467 to %. to
legslize its outstanding Indebtedness,
and the towns credit is thought to be
greatly strengthened.
There were 1920 bales of hops in
the warehouses of Puyallup last FRI
day. A great deal of spraying will be
necessary in the valley.
Monday night burglars entered the
house OF Rev. f. L. Hughes, of Castle
Rock, and rifled the pockets OF visit
ing minister's trousers OF $3.l5.
Miss Blanche Bellinger, of Colfax, q
daughter of ]. H. Bellinger who died q
week ago last Sunday, was married
last Saturday to Joseph Sessions.
Chris Hendrickson, a Scandinavian,
OF Licking, Whatcom county, 80 years
of age, was found dead in his shack,
Friday last. Whisky killed him.
The Ellensburg Register announced
on authority of the Vice President of
the Ellensburg National Bank that
deposits have about doubled during
the past month.
w. H. Browns cirgar and liquor
store in Walla Walla was entered and
robbed Saturday evening by four
masked men. They stole about $40
worth of cigars.
The Packing company at Oaksdale
has more orders for hams than it is
able to fill, which leads the Palouse
Republican to urge the need OF raising
more hogs and cattle.
A party of engineers is inspecting
the Okanogan river for persons who
contemplate putting in line OF light
draught steamers between Virginia
City and the boundary line.
A proposition is informally being
considered among some of the Tacoma
councilmen for the calling OF con-
vention this summer to revise the
charter, under the provision Of the
new law ON the subject.
Mrs. Minerva Garter died at Coupe.
vile last Friday, in the SSth year of
her age. Mrs. Carter went from Port
land to Wildly Island IL years ago.
For 81 years she was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
Dayton's citizens are making prepa-
rations for weeks horse racing, to
begin there on the 10th of June.
About $500 will be hung up in
purses, and $500 will be reserved for
special races, bicycle contests, etc.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sutton, on trial in
Colfax last Monday and Tuesday,
charged with shooting her son-in-law,
was acquitted. This is the second
time Mrs. Sutton has been set free,
after being charged with attempt to
commit murder.
James G. Kidwell, of Walla Walla,
has taken carload of % polo ponies
to Philadelphia and deposed of them
at good prices, finding an active de-
mand for them. The ponies were
raised near Walla Walla, and partly
trained at that place.
The administration building of the
agricultural college at Pullman is to
be dedicated June 90. Governor Nc
Graw will preside, and James Hamil-
ton Lewis of Seattle, will deliver the
Grafton. Excursions will be run from
neighboring towns.
Within the past 80 days there have
been lao cars OF lumber, shingles and
ties shipped from the Whatcom mills.
This, with the amount shipped during
the past month from the Woodin mill
in Fairhaven, makes a total of 200
carloads from Bellingham bay.
William Austie, a County Commits
sioner of Chehalis county, and Charles
B. Bell, editor of the Aberdeen Bulle-
tin, recently came to blows, some of
Austie's being delivered with a club.
The encounter resulted from articles
printed about Austie in the Bulletin.
Reports of cargo shipments from
the nine principal cargo mills of the
State OF Washington for the month OF
April show that total OF 1885, 639
+, feet OF lumber was shipped to foreign