Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20
STATE NEWS.

The expense OF conducting the cleo
ton in Whitman county amounted 10
$2,40S.52.
/ The enrolment of school children
in Whatcom for October was 500 girls
and 5SS boys.
The ocean schooner Nesmith, now
loading at kalama, will take on board
10000 feet of lumber for southern
| ports.
w. ii. Nc>sey has bought, in Yakima
county, n band Of $500 sheep, which
includes those formerly owned by Mr.
Cameron, OF SunnySide.
The new water ordinance in What
com, fixing a uniform rate of 40 cents
month, has been passed 10y the
council over the Mayors veto.
The kalama river boom has caught
nearly 100000 feet of logs during the
recent freshct. 1t is very strong and
will stand the great strain for years.
J. Thomson, for many years resi-
cent and merchant of Ritzville, died
very suddenly in that town on the
18th inst. He left widow and four
children.
James Under, a youth OF II years,
sustained fracture, of one of his legs
last week ut North Yakima, by being
thrown from horse while racing with
a companion.
a new bank is to be started in Spo-
kane. Holland people are at the
head of it, and the capital will he
%300,000. Its name is to be the Hol-
land National bank.
The United States revenue cutter
Wolcott will be stationed at Port
Townsend during the winter. Sec
ond Lieutenant Berry has been trans
ferred from the Grant to the Wolcott.
The remains of II. b. Robertson, who
was drowned in the White river last
week, have not been found. A search
party is still at work. Superintendent
McCabe has little hope of finding the
body.
The other night large rock, weigh
ing about 10 tons, came rolling down
the hill and landed in Herring's ware
house in Stella, Wahkiakum county.
The fall of the rock shook I'D the
whole town.
Complete returns of the vote cast in
Washington November 3, 1896, official,
from all counties except Kitsap and
Skamania, give Mckinley 39,4SI,
Bryan, $1,000, Sullivan $500, and
Rogers SOIL.
Alexander Lewis, n well-known res
taurant proprietor, was found dead in
bed at Tacoma, Saturday morning.
His death was caused by heart disease.
He was 30 years old, and left widow,
but no children.
George Wilson, the civil engineer
who served short term in Jail for
robbing the Fred II. Reed residence,
i'll North Yakima, will spend the COM
ing seven months on McNeil's island
for selling whisky to Indians.
While "Doc" Taulby was trying to
extinguish the fire at the electric
light works in South Bend, last week,
he SO strained his right leg that the
tendon was separated from the bone.
He now has to travel on crutches.
f. r. Pritchard, moderator, and
Hugh Lamont, stated clerk, publish
the announcement that the name of
the Rev. Byron l.. Aldrich has been
erased from the roll of the Presbytery
of Olympia synod, of Washington.
The tug Albert Lea, while beached
alongside the Merchants wharf, at
Everett, last week, for repairs, was
filled by the high tide, but was Sc
cured right side up with ropes, and
will easily be pumped out at low tide.
Miss Adelia Welfnger was arrested
i'll Tacoma last Friday for forgery. J.
Wcltingcr is charged with having
forged the name of J. Simon to a
Geographic order to parties in Butte,
through which Weltinger secured $40.
Two men, who gave their names as
Professor Martin Bechtel and 0. p.
Mason, were arrested in Starbuck the
other day, charged with passing coun-
terfeit coin in Dayton. They passed
poor limitations of silver dollars of the
date of 1890.
w. Gehrke, was arrested at Toledo
and fined last Monday for turning the
channel Of Bill creek out of its course,
seemingly for the express purpose of
flooding the citizens below Fourth
street. He refused to pay his fine and
was sent to Jail.
A. b. Weed, of North Yakima, has
sold the balance of his hop crop, IO7
bales, to A. f. Poole, for l05 cents.
This was the largest holding of the
'96 crop left in the hands of the
grower, and there are now less than
200 bales unsold.
The Yakima Times is practically a
thing of the past. NJ. F. Satterlas, the
publisher, has leased the Port Towns
end Leader and will leave for his new
field this week. Some arrangement is
reported to have been made to con-
solidate the Times and argus.
Bob Robertson, one of the best
known and most popular employees of
the Northern Pacific in Tacoma, was
killed on Tuesday, the 10th inst, by
being knocked from the trestle work
of bridge on White river, the repairs
OF which he was experimenting.
There is talk OF organizing a coyote
drive on large scale in Garfield. 1t
is proposed to make a circle six or
eight miles in diameter, embracing q
large part OF the country between
Garfield and the mountains to the
east and surround the "varmints."
On account of the heavy Chinook
winds last week, the Stillaguamish
river is rising fast. If the wind keeps
up, it will melt the snow in the
mountains, and the river will rise high
enough to go over the dikes and flood
the town of Stanwood. Many logs