Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-27
STATE NEWS.

A new town, to be known as Silver,
has been started in the Methow dis
trict.
The pack of F. C. Barnes cannery,
on Willapa haibor, this season, was
5000 cases of salmon.
Frank Mckinley, of Oakesdale, is
killing 100 chickens day, and will
continue to kill and ship until after
the holidays.
A stray engine ran into a band of
several thousand sheep below Ellens-
burg on Thursday, and killed % and
crippled many more.
The shipments of farm products
from Garfield during the month of
October last, not counting wheat,
amounted in value to about $1,000.
A. C. Elderkin was sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary by Judge
Sturtevant, at Asotin, last week, for
assault with intent to commit rape.
Lewis X. Arnold, of North Yakima,
has been awarded the contract for
building the new dornitory at Fort
Simcoe. The contract price is 50, 100.
A hay stack with dozen chickens
upon it went down the Columbia
river last Monday. The fowls were
rescued for Thanksgiving purposes at
Freeport.
An epidemic of measles has struck
the south end of Tacoma; over 200
pupils of the Longfellow, Logan and
Hawthorne schools being down with
the malady.
The attorneys for Theodore Gushing,
who was found guilty of manslaughter
for the killing of Thomas King, in
Spokane, Thursday, will appeal to the
Supreme court.
General Manager J. w. Kendrick, OF
the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany, arrived in Tacoma from st Paul
Sunday night. He is OH tour of in
spection of the road.
The two-story frame dwelling of A.
II. Harrington at Deming, Whatcom
county, was burned on the 18th inst,
with all the contents. The property
was insured for $500.
A few days ago, while Mr.. S. ].
Johnson was driving four head of
cattle across bridge near Mt. Solo,
Cowlitz county, the structure gave
way, killing the four animals.
The many hold-ups and burglaries
that have taken place in Seattle and
Tacoma recently are causing many
citizens who have business out after
dark to leave their money and watches
and rings at home.
Persons from Quiniault lake report
that the water was the highest ever
known by white men by at least three
feet, and that most of the houses along
the river bottom were overhowed, dur
ing the recent food.
A jury at Cathlamet decided that a
logger must cOnfine his operations
solely to the stream on which he is
logging and must pay damages to the
owner of land which may be damaged
on account of floods.
There will be no Mayor elected in
Cosmopolis this year, as the statutes
provide that in cities of the fourth
class, the Mayor is elected every other
year, for two years. Mayor Mocine
has another year to serve.
A band of gypsies have been camped
on the outskirts of Oakesdale for the
last week. They seem to be syste-
matte beggars, for they are visiting
all the ranchers in that city and tax
ing all that is offered them.
AS one of the signs of improved
times the Spokane Chronicle records
that there have been 81 more licenses
issued by the auditor from January l
to the 18th of November this year than
in the same period of the last year.
Thomas Burlingame, of Pomeroy,
recently bought 800 head of range
cattle, to be delivered next spring, on
Salmon river, Idaho. In returning to
Pomeroy, he was compelled to come
across the mountain from Cottonwood
on a sled
A deal was closed in Pomeroy, last
week whereby Samuel l.. Silverton, of
Butte, Mont, became the owner of
some of the Idaho Gold & Silver Mining
Company's property situated in the
Elk City district. The purchase price
was $1,000.
The Shelton Tribune says salmon
fishermen are reaping quite a golden
harvest in that section. They are
getting 8 cents apiece, and are catch
ing large quantities of them. One man