Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-10-11
STATE NEWS.

The State bank of Elberton has been
dissolved and disincorporated.
A new postoffice has been opened at
Roxwell, about seven miles beyond
Hackinson.
Thirteen convicts will be discharged
from the Walla Walla penitentiary
during this month.
Superior court will convene in
Chehalis October Is. There will be a
jury for criminal cases.
w. H. Wentworth has closed down
the Pullman World and removed 10
Spokane with his family.
The Colfax Gazette believes that the
majority of the city council of Colfax
are member of the A. P. A.
The six new boilers for the North
western Lumber Company's plant are
icing placed in position at South
Bend.
Active steps are to be taken by the
government to prevent the cutting of
timber on public lands in Southwest
ern Washington.
Otis Goodell, a 14-year-old boy. the
other day killed q bear in the city
limits OF Montesano, about four blocks
from the courthouse.
The Lynden school district is $64O
beyond the legal limit of indebted
ness, and money has been raised by
subscription to run the school six
months.
At Spokane, last Saturday evening,
Governor McGraw and Adjutant-Gen-
eral Boutelle mustered battery A and
company B Of infantry into the Ma
tional Guard.
The dwelling, drug store and barn
of DR.. Dennison, of Patah City. was
destroyed by fire last Monday morn
ing. The loss is total one, and there
| il no insurance. 4
The jute mill at the Walla Walla
penitentiary closed for 30 days, for re-
pairs, the first of this month. An in
ventory will be taken, to be embodied
in the report OF the warden.
Gov. McGraw visited the Cheney
Normal School, this week, to inquire
into the differences among the trus-
tees of that institution and to inspect
the work on the new building.
Captain Bulb, OF Spokane, has re-
ceived instructions to pay the Occur
fAlenes $4,000, their annuity for
1895. He has been advised that the
funds will be placed to his credit in
Portland. -
The scarletine epidemic in Seattle 10
gradually spreading, despite the prompt
action of the board OF health in estab-
fishing a strict quarantine in the az
fected districts, and ordering num-
Der of school rooms disinfested. There
are now 16 cases in IL families.
The robber who held up Durff and
Hanley in the LIE Roi clubrooms at
Spokane at 3 o'clock last Sunday
morning and took $500 from the till OF
the faro table, and even carried off the
faro box and cards, has been captured
at Wallace, Idaho. He is E. A. Boell,
an ex-convict, we'll known to the Spo-
kane police.
A collision of two of the Edison and
Puyallup cars, at Z 80 o'clock, at Ia
coma Friday morning. resulted in the
fatal injury of John Fournier, and the
serious injury OF H. Barley and Eddie
La Magre. Several other passengers
received scratches and bruises. The
collision is due to the dense fog pre-.
vailing at the time.
Will A. Ingham and Cecil Langston
Monday last killed 300 pound black
bear at Panther creek, just south OF
Renton. With single shot, 45-caliber
rifle. Ingham succeeded in fatally
wounding the beast with the first shot.
During the past few weeks a number
OF bears have been killed in the dis.
trict lying south of Renton.
The handsome three-story frame
residence OF Mayor ]. ]. Crow, OF Kent,
was burned at o'clock Wednesday
morning. The eight children, who
"cIc asleep upstalrS, Dareiy escaped
with their night clothes. The house
cost Sc 900, and almost nothing was
saved. There was 5000 insurance
on the house and 81 900 on the furni-
ture.
The Northern Pacific east end depot
at Puyallup was burglarized Wednes-
day night. The safe was blown open
and the thieves secured its cash, $3.50,
and an overdue note for $500 on q
San Francisco man. belonging to
Agent Stuart. The safe also contained
lot OF Klamath county, Or, warrants,
but the burglars did not seem to want
them. This same safe was burgiarized
at Montesano and $3.50 taken from it.
Gov. McGraw has pardoned Fred H.
Chandler and Thomas Curtis, serving
sentences in the penitentiary. Chand-
Ter was sentenced from Tacoma Decem.
Der 10. 1891, for five years az an &C.
compllce with Albertson in the Ia