Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06
STATE NEWS.

county fair next fall.
Cnunterfeiters in gold money are
operating at Tacoma.
The salaries Of Tacoma's municipal
officers are too high, says the NeWS.
We look for better times this win
ter than ever before, says the Newport
NcWS.
The preachers at Spokane have
commenced a war ON the Sunday
saloons.
The Willapa Pi!ot wants the farmers
Of Willapa valley to give some at
tcntion to flax culture.
South Bend reports that the bay
and rivers swarm with fish now that
the autumn rains have come.
J. G. Lighthouse promises to put up
tanncry at New Whatcum if he can
be guaranteed 1000 cords of hemlock
bark.
Alice Abralams, the little girl whose
disappearance from Seattle has caused
much comment, is said to he safe with
her father in Astoria.
4 Great Northern freight train was
wrecked near Wenatchie, Monday
morning, by a broken wheel. Eight
cars were ditched but no one was
hurt.
Report says that the Port Blakely
Mill company will shortly place the
Gig Harbor mill, recently acquired 10y
that corporation, in operation, saving
lumber for the cargo trade.
The Chicago Congregational Club
donated $1,000 to Whitman college.
The donation was made at Thanks
giving banquet in Chicago. Four
hundred and fifty persons were present.
Professor w. ID. Lyman, of Whit
man College, President of the Munich
pal League at Walla Walla, protests
against the proposition to license
gambling in that city. He says the
next step will be to license prostitu
ton.
The second annual exhibition OF
the Tacoma Poultry Association will
be given at that place on December
81, and January |, ,, 3 and 4. The
exhibition promises to be larger and
better in every way than that given
last year.
The Bellingham Bay mill is now
working logs into lumber ut the rate
of 100000 feet per day. One hundred
men are employed, and in the spring
this force will be augmented so that
the pay roll will reach the respectable
figure of III 900 week.
\ man answering the desert tion OF
Fred j. Sportsman, the wife murderer,
of Everson, was arrested at Langley,
Tuesday in small shack. He will
be brought down to Westminster and
held there until word is received from
the Washington authorities.
Walla Walla is looking at a sugar
beet which weighs ISL pounds. is -
inches long and - inches in circum-
ference. J. j. Fix, who planted few
as an experiment, believes that GO tons
of these beets TO the acre could be
raised i'll that part of the State.
w. f. Parker, formerly city tax col
iector OF Fairhaven. is in the Argen.
tine Republic, and doing we'll. He
was short $4,000 and disappeared in
1891, says the Whatcom Rereiiie. He
will not be troubled, as there is no ex'
tradition treaty with Argentina.
The general merchandise store oil
Thomas & Bozart, at Woodland
Wash, which is situated on Lewis
river, in Cowlitz county, wa.
broken into Sunday night by burglar.
and considerable quantity of good.
taken; also $3.50 in cash from the safe
There has been an animated dis
cussion by the Tacoma school boart
over n resolution to abolish the otiic,
of superintendent. Deputy County
Attorney Shackelford holds that The
present incumbent cannot be remove,
except on charges being filed and sus
tanned.
The Buckley Lumber Company
new plant at Buckley was started u,
recently. Fully 200 people witnesse,
the ceremony. Senator Sargent made
a speech, a prayer was offered by Rev
Rowland Hughes, = choir sang" Amer
ica," and Mrs. Page started the ma
chinery.
In Clarke county the Populist
have won another victory, having de
feated the valuation of $4,000 o
county warrants issued long since ant
for which the county has receive,
: value. Reputation is disgraceful t.
, any man, city, county or State.-Che
halls Bee.
} Tacoma is talking OF the escapad
b. of prominent clubman in that city
Y who has been arrested for riding int
r a saloon at an early hour of the morn
g ing on bicycle and demolishing tn
= glassware on the bar. 1t may b,
readily imagined that he was in
hilarious mood.
Mrs. Elizabeth Austie, of Aberdeen
mother of County COMMISSIONS
t William Austie, died at the home c
e her son, at that place, at l o'cloc
e Wednesday morning, after a pro
/ longed illness, aged over 20 years
Mrs. Austie had resided at Aberdeen
since its earliest days.
!, 1t was recently held by the superio
= court of Pierce county that the Ia,
:, allowing county superintendent :
} for each visit to school in the count
. was unconstitutional and such pay
: ments illegal. 1t was held at tn
. same time that the mileage fees wer
y legal. The case will be carried to tn
= supreme court.
I The first snow storm of the seasO
l. is now prevailing at Goldendale.
e raw southwesterly wind makes tn
storm severe. 1t is reported fror
Grayback that band of belated shee
e from the summer range has bee
, bound on the slopes of the Bi
J. kllckitat. The stockmen in the va
n ley have made ample preparation fo
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