Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-01-31
STATE NEWS.

. uTee StOTeS were robbed AT IOr
Townsend few nights ago, and IL
clue was left 10y the burglars.
The Elma Chronicle plant has beel
sold, under foreclosure of mortgag
) proceeding, to Mrs. Sarah ]. Abel.
The directors of the Cheney Nor
NAL School have decided to complet
the new buildings, probably befor,
July.
An excellent quality of machine OF
is being extracted from sharks livers
at Cape Flattery, by a party of Nor
wegians.
The citizens o. Spokane in mas
meeting assembled expressed thei
sympathy for the Cuban insurgents
last Monday.
+. w. Middaugh and John o. Moor,
will begin the publication of week.,
paper at Harrington, February 6. to b,
called the Harrington Independent.
Citizens of Walla Walla fear tina
Tacoma will make fight against tn.
removal of the federal penitentiar
from McNeils island to Walla Wslla.
Poison & Co. have purchased a loco.
motive for the logging road to be bull,
up the Hoquiam river, and prelimi.
nary surveys of the route have begun
Alex. Mcleod, of this county, has
began suit against the Port Blakely
Mill Co. for 100000 damages, fol-
breach of contract for supply of logs.
He is likely to get them-where the
bottle got the cork.
The Walla Walla Statesman says
that the rise in the price of wheat
| will probably be of more benefit to
the farmers of Walla Walla county
than by those OF most other counties,
as most of the crop was held for better
prices.
The Finance Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, of Seattle,
headed by J. S. Goldsmith, is about to
start on its campaign for raising the
necessary funds to secure the site for
the army post, to be located at Mag.
nolia bluffs.
The Strathnevis will be locked
this week, at Tacoma, to allow the
placing OF her new propeller which has
arrived from Glasgow, where the
original was made. A So per cent.
dd ralorem duty was paid on the pro-
peller Wednesday, amounting to 1921.
George Pratt, an employee at the
terminal of the Golden Chord tram,
Snohomish county, fell into the ore
chute while trying to break blockade
one day last week. A mass of ore slid
down around and on top OF him, and
it was nearly an hour before be was
rescued, only slightly bruised.
The Presbyterians of Napavine, with
the aid OF the Presbyterian board OF
New York, have built a neat little
chapel. 1t was occupied by the
minister, Rev. H. Elwell, for the first
time last Sunday. The chandeliers
of the church were donated by the
Presbyterian church OF Vancouver.
The recent heavy rains at Port
Townsend flooded the lower part of
the city hall, where prisoners are de-
tanned in cells. the water reaching q
depth OF several inches, and Wednes.
Police Magistrate Jones ordered all
the prisoners discharged, az there was
no other suitable place for their de-
tentiOn.
City Attorney Jas. Wickersham, Of
Tacoma, has filed suit against Re-
ceiver Leonard Howorth, of the
Traders bank, to recover the balance
OF the city's funds deposited by
Treasurer Boggs, amounting to $751;
059.63. The city hopes to have its
claim adjudged preferred one, and
the court will order it paid out OF
whatever money comes into the re-
ceiver's possession.
Over 100 cases of dynamite, about
20 tons, is stored on Union wharf, in
the heart OF the city, at Port Townsend,
where many steamers land every day,
and numerous timid citizens are very
nervous over the probable effect should
an explosion occur. The dynamite
was received from San Francisco on
the steamer Signal, and is consigned
to Valparaiso, Chile, to which port
it will be shipped on q sailing vessel
in about two weeks.
The solicitude OF Reynolds, the
Walla Walls convict, for the security
OF his head has been allayed by that
object being well tied on by the doc.
tors. He thinks il will stay on now
without nails. The nail he used was
a tenpenny wire nail, and he drove it
almost up to the head in his brain.
He has driven in three altogether.
The doctors think he will recover
from his wounds and perhaps regain
his reason.
Another old coin wal. picked up on
the Bridgeport beach Monday by A.
M. Hill, an oystermon. This is only
one of number that have been found
there. This one is . five-franc piece,
coined in 1880, during the reign of
Louis Philippe. The others have
all been American coins. The find
recalls the story Of the burning OF the
schooner Robert Bruce, from which
the coins must have come, and the
founding Of Bridgeport, the first settle.
ment on what is now Willaps harbor,
formerly Shoalwater bay.
In the early days OF the California
mining excitem oysters commanded
fabulous prices in San Francisco, and
Eastern oystermen, among them Mr..
Morgan. now President OF the Morgan
Oyster Company, hearing that there
were excellent but small oysters in