Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-08-30
STATE NEWS.

Hymns, Pauson & Co.'s Tacoma
store was damaged $1,000 by fire
Saturday night.
The Whatcom Blade suggests that
the farmers follow up the forest fire.
with grass seeds.
The Independent Order of Foresters
has established lodge OF 90 members
at New Whatcom.
The average price for IL cayuses
sold at the North Yakima pound the
other day was $l75.
A company has been incorporated
to build bicycle toll road between
Seattle and Tacoma.
The Northern Pacific has nearly
completed the first of it's new ware.
houses on the water front at Tacoma.
The Shelton public schools will open
next Monday for a nine months term.
Prof. Baker, of Red Lodge, Montana,
is the new principal.
The season for shipping fresh fl sh
from Aberdeen, which occupies nine
or ten months of the year, has now
we'll opened. During the past week
81, 515 pounds have gone East by ex-
press.
Harvest around Palouse is now we'll
under way, and the yield is better than
expected. South and west from the
place, probably so per cent. of the fall
wheat has been cut and several
thousand acres threshed already. A
great deal of the early.sown spring
grain has also been cut with the binder.
but as yet none of it has been threshed.
Tuesday night sealed car on the
0. r. & N. Cos sidetrack at Farming
ton was broken open and some fruit
and eggs taken out, and Thursday
night Hayzlip, Norman & Co.'s store
was burglarized. The burglar re-
moved pane OF glass from q window
in the rear OF the building and entered
the store and carried off few pairs OF
shoes. a few hats and some underwear.
Senator McManus and Captain Nc.
Farland, of Everett, have just finished
their research of the mines surround.
ing Leavenworth and returned to the
coast. They examined the Chewawah
country and the nickle belt on RUBY
creek, ingalls, creek and Niger creek.
When they departed they carried with
them many samples OF the various
ores from different sections, and will
have them tested.
Centralia's electric light plant is not
paying expenses. The receipts are
equal to one-half the expenses. This
will probably not last long, however,
as the demand for lights will soon be.
gin to increase. The revenues of the
Chehalis plant average about $500,
which is now sufficient to pay expenses.
The Centralia plant is now bringing
considerably less than one-t third OF this
amount each month.
Friday morning Drysdale's fisher
men at Blaine caught a shark of the
genuine man-eater species in one of
the salmon traps. The monster
measured more than ii feet in length,
and on opening the stomach numerous
salmon and other fish were found
nearly digested. The fishermen Sc.
cured about nine gallons of oil from
the shark. Its skeleton will be wired
and placed on exhibition at the can
merry.
Mary A. Henry, a pretty Indian
maiden, has brought suit at Tacoma TO
recover land on which the village of
Lillawaup Falls, Hoods canal, is To-
Gated. Evidence submitted brought
out the fact that her father, a white
man, married her squaw mother &C.
cording to Indian customs, by purchase,
giving shotgun for her. The defense
sets up illegality of marriage, claim.
ing the daughter to be illegitimate,
and has no right to the property.
One of the large warehouse build
ings of r. Feldman Il Co., OF Marcus,
in Stevens county, was consumed by
fire on Saturday night, resulting in
total loss of the building and " 800 OF
groceries stored therein. There was
no insurance. The origin of the fire is
supposed to be incendiary. Soon after
the fire the little 6-yesro old boy of Mr.. |
Feldman, while playing about the
ruins, fell upon the Goals
and was severely but not fatally burned.
There is another cuckoo turned up
in this State on the silver question. !