Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-04-24
STATE News.

The saw mill at Port Angeles has
started up.
J. A. Larrabee will plant 80 acres to
corn this spring near Waterville.
The Pacific county fair will be held
in South Bend September %, II and
%.
The Gambrinus saloon, in Spokane
was entered last week, and the money
drawer ritled OF $l1.
C. f. Coon, one of the best-known
men of Alaska and the Sound country,
died in Seattle Friday.
The residence Of f. NJ. Grim, in Col
fax. burned last Sunday. The loss is
200, and the insurance 5000.
Six dozen Bob White quails have
been liberated by r. B. Dyer near
Menlo, in Pacific county, for breeding
purposes.
J. II. Cavanaugh, of Francis, recently
loaded 10000 shingles in one car.
The shingles were Tor Kansas City
firm. The freight was $240 on the car.
J. F. Cass, of Skagit county, COM
missioner of the third horticultural
district, has succeeded c. A. TOnneson,
as Secretary of the State horticultural
board.
A Palouse correspondent Of the
Spokesman RepieW estimates that 80
per cent. of the wheat in that vicinity
was destroyed by the cold weather dur
ing March.
An unknown man was run over and
killed by train three miles north of
Tacoma ON the 18th inst. Nothing
by which he could be identified was
found on him.
William Hume, the veteran cannery-
man and hunter, of Eagle Cliff, in
Wahkiakum county, killed 400
pound black bear last week, in the
woods back OF the cannery.
The Everett hospital, since its open.
ing, January II, 1894, to April 6,
1896, treated 352 patients. The hos
pital is in good financial condition
and is doing excellent work.
A man named Joe Montgomery,
supposed to belong at Dayton, has
been found demented near Riparia. A
guard will be sent from the Medical
Lake asylum to take him to the asy-
lum.
David Carstairs died of cancer at his
home in Satsop Valley, Mason county,
last Monday morning, at the age of
Ga years. He was one of the best
known farmers of the county and
leaves large family.
Ivan N. Walker, of Indianapolis,
Ind, commander.in-chief Of the Grand
Army of the Republic, is expected to
be in Spokane about the last of this
month for brief visit with the veterans
of Eastern Washington.
An East Clallam correspondent of
the Vest Coast Lumbermdn informs
that journal that there is fir log, two
miles from that town, 100 feet long,
measuring SO feet at the butt, 7 feet at
the top, and scales $4,000 feet of clear
lumber.
Logging operations are again becom.
ing active along Lake Whatcom. From
the Gruber camp, now nearly ready
for business, the logs will be shot into
the lake through chute about 5000
feet in length, from an elevation OF
500 feet above the lake level.
At Waitsburg, Friday, while riding
to school, the 15-ysar-old daugh-
ter OF James Braden was thrown from
horse and rendered unconscious.
She partially regained her senses, but
wandered around the hills, unable to
either find her home or the school
house. When found by neighbors she
was in a critical condition, but will
probably recover.
An old Hintlock gun, smooth bore,
and bearing the date OF 1867, was
found in cabin on the Colville In
dian reservation by two prospectors,
the other day. They also found a
string of curiously carved beads and
scalp.lock OF a woman. The old cabin
evidently had not been visited for
scores of years, and is relic OF the old
Hudson Bay Company.