Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-26
One q Dose. All Medicine Dealers.
STATE NEWS.

The Seattle canal subsidy is now
$4,000.
The Whatcom charity ball for the
benefit of the Blue Canyon sufferer.
Melted 5000.
Ellensburg got its express Office
rein-stated by vigorous remonstrance
and is happy.
The Garfield Enterprise figures III,
cost of wheat at "a cents bushel, no
counting rent, taxes or interest.
During the year ending April
1895, there were improvements made
on Sc lots in North Yakima, rangin.
in amount from $40 to 81, 800
Fred Smith, an oiler at the st. Pau
4 Tacoma Lumber Company's mill, a
Tacoma, was instantly killed by the
machinery he was oiling on the 1911
inst.
DIR. Blalock, of Walla Walla. i.
donating 4 900 trees to the children O
Walla Walla county, and 1000 more
to those of Yakima county for Arbol
day planting.
A life-size portrait OF the late A. NJ
Cannon was unveiled in the Spokane
council chamber Tuesday afternoon
with simple but impressive ceremony
The painting was n gift TO the city
from Eleanor Cannon, the widow OF
the eminent pioneer.
The drill used by the Port Discovery
Coal Company has been sold, the
result OF suit of foreclosure. The
machinery, is said to be worth fully 49,
600. and was bid in by the Commercial
bank for 800. The search for coal in
Jefferson county has been fruitless.
The trustees of the Walla Walla
Agricultural Society after considera BILE
discussion decided to pay up the inter
est on the mortgage on the fair
grounds and have the same foreclosed d.
This means the racetrack and grounds
will be sold to liquidate the indebted.
ness.
The South Bend Herald quotes
county warrants at these figures:
Clallam 40; Okanogan, go; Jefferson
so; Whatcom, 70; Island, Is; Gar
field, so; Yakima, so; Snohomish, So
Columbia, So; Cowlitz 50; Chehalis,
So; Clarke. So; Lewis, 90; Pierce, "a
Kitsap, So; Pacific, IS.
Friar's mill, at Everett, is working
overtime on an order from the Great
Northern for 1,25O,O00 feet of bridge
timbers, sway braces, stringers, etc, to
be shipped to Montana aud Minnesota.
James Bells mill at Everett is also
employing two full shifts of men cut
ting 100000 feet of ties within 80
days, and 100000 feet of other lumber
at once.
Charlie York, youngest son of the
Duke of York, head chief of the
Clallam tribe of Indians, died on the
night of April l, of consumption. The
only survivor of the once numerous
family OF the Duke of York are his
widow, Queen Victoria, and his son,
the Prince of Wales. Charlie York
was buried in the Masonic cemetery at
Port Townsend beside his father, the
Duke of York.
Port Townsend has just got rid of
a peculiar character, Gunnar Lynch,
who is worthy emulator of "Old !
Hoss" Hoey, in "a Parlor Match"
At ono time Lynch walked off with a
cook stove, fire and all. At another
he took clothing store dummy
around the block and traded clothes
with it. His last effort was to get out |
)f town as a stOwaway on the steamer |
GEORGE +. Starr. He was arrested and |
'ent out of town in another direction.
Elder A. H. Gregg passed away on
sunday at Rosalia. He was born in |
saginaw county, Illinois, in June,
lS11, and would have been "a years
I'D had he lived until June of this
'ear. He was married June 9, 1880;
minister in the old Bap-
list church in 1874; crossed the plains
With his family to Oregon in 1862, and
emoved to Rosalia in 1880. His wife
lied just about one year ago, after
wing a peaceful married life of 65
ears.
The application for a writ of man.
anus brought by County Surveyor
luth against the Auditor of Thurston
ounty, to compel the latter to turn
yer certain road records for transcrib.
ng, was denied by Judge Reed, for the
eason that the act OF the late Legis-
lture does not authorize a County
auditors to part with the records of
is office. The judge is of the opinion
nat the intention of the law is that
he surveyor should compile his rec
rds by collecting them from the va
ous sources whence they are to be
btained. The decision snstains the
ontention of the surveyor as to what
lould be OF record in the Surveyors
flee.