Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-09-06
STATE NEWS.

AAASsNy WV ioi dIOuhu SOIdA
have begun hauling their grain in
from the fields.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher left Port
Townsend for the East last week,
accompanied by Major Pond and his
wife.
A. J. Symes, the slayer of Constable
Conlee, was arraigned at Ritzville Mon.
day and pleaded not guilty. His trial
has been set for November II.
According to the Cotton Neus Letter,
Whitman county is producing peaches
this year that weigh nine ounces each,
and one layer of them fills box.
Ed. Broden was killed at Mack's
camp, near Hoquiam, one day last
week. Broden was formerly a bar
tender for Charles Claussen in Seattle.
The Shelton Tribune suggests that
each OF the fraternal orders set apart
$25 for the purchase OF neat, tn ough
not necessarily expensive, hearse for
the town.
The officers OF the Salvation Army
in Washington and Oregon, 40 or so in
number, will celebrate the harvest
home festival in Tacoma September
26, q and %.
The point has been raised that WASH
ington is not legally represented in
Congress because the legislature has
failed to divide the State into congress
sionsl districts.
Two hundred and sixty-eight miuers
are drawing regular wages in the
various mines around Rossland, and
at least one hundred more are doing
development work upon theil own
prospects.
Cosmopolis has invested in a new
hand fire engine, costing. with 300 feet
of hose, about 81 900. With the 1000
feet OF hose owned by the Commercial
company, that town is now we'll
prepared to fight a fire.
The Port Orchard drydock con-
tractors have just about completed
getting out the stone from the Sucia
island quarry. There have been from
% to % men at work there and about
$4,000 cubic feet of stone has been
quarried.
The steamer Willapa left Tacoma
Wednesday for Alaska with two car
loads OF cattle, sheep and hogs, about
90 tons OF general merchandise shipped
by local merchants, and deck load OF
fruit and vegetables that left but little
standing room.
On the next steamship of the
Lingham line to Delagoa bay, South
Africa, a number OF ready-framed
houses, which will only require setting
up at destination, will be sent. The
lumber was sawed at Port Blakeley
and framed in Seattle.
Glass freight rates from coast terni.
nails to Spokane and other interior
points in Eastern Washington and
Oregon, Idaho and West ern Montana
and from St. Paul and common points
to the same points, will be considera-
bly, increased by new tariffs, which be.
come effective Septe mber 90.
On the afternoon of August %, the
home of NJ. NJ. Clothier, at New What
com, was ransacked and robbed OF pro.
visions, clothing and valuables. The
thieves affected an entrance by way oil
Che basement, using a skeleton key at
the cellar door. Every part of the
house was overhauled and trunk. were
broken open.
The Stevens county fair will be
held at Kettle Falls, September II,
continuing three days. The fair
grounds comprise an area of 40 acres.
A spring near by furnishes an abund.
ance of good water. The half-mile
race-track is nearly finished, and the
stockyards will accommodate an ex-
hibit of $50 cattle.
The preacher who sets himself up in
opposition 10 the bloomers must 60
down before the knockout blow OF the
wrath of public sentiment. The
bloomer costume is sensible, tasty, eco
nomical, comfortable and beautiful,
and these facts cannot be driven out of
the public minds by either ridicule or
! abuse.-Spokane Times.