Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-01-17
STATE NEWS.

during 1895, against 467 for 1894 In
1898 there were 485.
An assignment has been made by
the Sprague Lumber Company to
George L. Brooke to satisfy claim for
81 200 held by the First National
Bank of Sprague.
The Whatcom Falls Mill Company
is running full time, and has at pres.
ent, orders for so carloads of lumber.
They are shipping to Kansas, Indiana,
Ohio, New York, North Dakota and
Illinois.
William Wagner and James d.
Greer were taken to the State Peni-
Tertiary at Walla Walla, last Tuesday,
by Sheriff Lathrum, of Whitma n
county, to serve their sentences of
seven years each for burglary.
The Tacoma Chamber of Commerce
has established q fixed custom of
holding an annual dinner at the
opening OF the new year. The date
fixed for the coming meeting is Janu-
airy 23d, ut the Tacoma hotel.
The Norwegian steamship Aladdin
completed cargo Monday last, Of
1000 900 feet of lumber at Tacoma
mill, for Delagoa Bay, South Africa.
She also carries $50 tons Of flour from
Puget Sound FIGURING Mills Com.
pany.
The Auburn creamery turned out
an average OF 300 pounds Of butter per
day for the past season, being ex-
ceeded only by the Bourbon creamery
at Ellensburg, which made 1000
pounds and the Vancouver creamery
1900 pounds.
1t has been many a day since GAR.
field has been so stirred up as it is now
over the action OF the Council in
changing the rate Oh water supplied
the skating rink from So a month to
$40. The new rate is prohibitory, and
the rink is very popular.
At Shelton warrants are worth their
face value. The city has over $1,000
in the Treasury, Notwithstanding
improvements made in grading streets,
building sidewalks and repairing
bridges. School is maintained for
nine months in the year.
1t is reported that owing to Cali
fornia competition, Roche Hsrbor
lime can be purchased in San Fran
cisco for 50 cents per barrel, or just
one-half OF what it costs on the com.
pany's dock at Roche Harbor, and it is
also reported that it can be purchased
at 80 cents a barrel in Seattle,
The damage suit in which Jack
Fsllon sued the Blue Canyon Coal
Company for $4,000 damages for
negligence on their part whereby ne
was nearly killed in gas explosion
in their mine three years ago, was
decided in favor of the company,
Friday, by the jury after a 20 min
utes' consultation.
The total taxes OF Chehalis county
for the year 1895 foot up to $159. $685.
AZ. This includes State, county,
municipal, road and school, both
regular and special, and is $23,278.63
more than the total OF the 1894 rolls.
The difference is made up by the ex-
cess of the municipal taxes and road
and bridge taxes over those OF last
year.
The Pacific Lumber Trade Journal
learns from . reliable source that Sol
q. Simpson, OF Ksmilchie, WASH, one
Of the largest loggers in the Pacific
Northwest, has entered into contract
with the Port Blakely Mill Co., to
cut zoo, OOO, goo feet of logs at market
prices. As the Port Blakely mill will
require from 100000 to sO,OOO,OOO
feet per year, Mr.. Simpson will be
kept busy for the next nine or ten
years. This is the largest contract
ever placed on the Pacific Coast, if not
in the United States.
Although the Commissioners of
Whitman county audited all the bills
to date, warrants will not be drawn in
payment of them, the claims simply
being allowed. In their opinion, the
county cannot issue warrants on the
general county fund in the present
condition of the county's finances. In
place of issuing warrants, the Com.
missioners have authorized the issue
of certificates OF indebtedness, which
will show the status Of the bill as one
ordered paid by issuance of warrants
when the condition of the county
Treasury will admit OF that proceeding.