Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-05-22
STATE NEWS.

There are within the corporate limits
OF Cosmopolis, according to a census
just completed, 1888 men and 1913
women.
Safe-crackers entered the postoflice
at Pullman last Monday night through
a rear window, blew open the safe and
appropriated about $500 in money
and $3.50 worth of stamps.
Thomas English, the Mount Vernon
logger, has bought four tons of iron
rails from the street railway company,
in Whatcom, and shipped them to
Mount Vernon, where he is putting in
a logging spur.
The Washington State Medical So
ciety elected the following officers:
President, DR.. X. l.. Thompson, of
Spokane; Vice-Presidents, DR.. F. H.
Coe, of Seattle, DR.. J. w. Bean, of Ell.
lensburg; Secretary, DR.. ]. NJ. Semple.
For the first time in several seasons,
many of the farmers around Daven-
port are breaking up lot of prairie
land, which they are preparing for
next years crop. The season has been
unusually propitious for spring break
ing.
A horsesale at Waitsburg the
other day created more excitement
than has been seen there for some
time. There were l26 horses sold at
an average OF about $6 per head,
ranging all the way from 5 cents to
$35.
Walla Walla is likely to take ad-
vantage OF an act of the last legislature,
enabling cities to establish and main.
tain by taxation public libraries. A
donation of $1,000 in cash or books is
required, and the tax must not exceed
half q mill.
No new cases OF diphtheria have
been reported in Spokane recently,
and the health department is on an
active sanitary crusade which will be
continued until the city is cleaned
and disease can no longer find breed
ing ground, says the health officer.
Twenty jury cases have been set for
trial in Chehalis county by Judge
Irwin, for the June term of court, and
Clerk Lyons estimates that there is
enough business already docketed for
a two weeks jury term. There are
only five criminal cases appearing for
trial.
Miss Bromberg, Spokane county
young woman, last week, brought to
the commissioner Office, 81 squirrel
tails, for which she got warrant for
81 cents. This is the largest number
brought in yet by any lady, and is the
result of just 81 shots on the part Of
Miss Bromberg.
The State Dental Society have
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, DIR. c. A. Darling, OF New What
com; Vice-Presidents, DIR. r. Il. Gen.
tie, of Seattle, DIR. w. A. Wright, OF
Spokane; Secretary, DR.. C. L. Lincoln
Erwin, of Seattle; Treasurer, DR.. H. l..
Hedges, OF Tacoma.
The Ellensburg Localizer says that q
band OF horse thieves 10 securing the
Columbia hills in the eastern part Of
kittitas county, and stealing all the
best horses they can catch. Some of
the stockmen are in great fear of
the loss OF stock that they have been
breeding for several years.
The Garfield Enterprise says that
Craig mountain, on the Nez Perces
reservation, is ostensibly the most
popular camping-out resort in the
Northwest at present, il reports be
true. A man who arrived from there
q few days ago reports that there are
100 wagons stuck in the mud on that
mountain and that the owners are
camped beside the vehicles, waiting for
the mud to dry up. New teams arrive
daily and attempt to get around the
mud holes only to hang up in a new
one. They are constantly coming, but
seldom going.
A few days ago, while a workman
was excsvating for the Stahl building
In Walla Walla, he found a coffin con-
tanning human bones, under the Albeit
building. The new building will be