Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-01-03
STATE NEWS.


The Taxpayers League of Tacoma,
now has between 1900 and l,60O
members.
Snow was 81 inches deep on the
level around Oakesdale the day after
Christmas.
The Sprague Independent has sus.
pended, and part of the plant has been
taken to British Columbia.
Charles King, of Tacoma, has been
awarded contract for constructing
narrow guage tramway between Ross
land and Trail. B. c., the work to be
completed within 100 days.
The Commissioners OF Lewis county
have failed to make any provisions for
the payment OF interest on the
county's bonded Indebtedness. The
interest was due January LIST.
Mrs. Emma Malloy. Barrett, the
woman revivalist, who has been at.
tracing attention in Eastern Oregon
towns, is to begin protracted meetings
at Spokane this week. She halls
from Port Townsend.
Palouse City has renuced the salar-
les of its city officials to the following
figures: Treasurer, $25 per month !;
Clerk, 1888 per month; Attorney, 81
a year; Health Officer; Water Super.
intendent, $40 a month.
The town of Palouse has adopted an
ordinance providing as follows
"That the treasurer's salary be $500
per annum; clerk, 500; attorney and
health officer, each 81 superintendent
of waterworks, $3.50. The salary of
the marshal was left to the next coun-
Gil.
The mystery surrounding the muir
der Of Salvador Conchilla in Tacoma,
in February, 1892, has been partly
cleared up by a statement from reli-
able authority that Giovanni Moreci
confessed to the murder shortly before
leaving Seattle, in the early part of
1893.
The new road machine recently
purchased in the East by the Mckee
company was given a good test last
week. The machine with the aid OF
three men and six horses, made three
quarters OF mile of excellent road in
two days, which is said to be most
satisfactory.
The Kalama Bulletin is distressed at
the prospect OF war, because the Eng
lish gunboals would never be able, it
thinks, to get over the shosl places
just above the town. This would be q
cruel punishment for Kalama's imme-
mortal claim of being the head OF deep
water navigation.
Five hundred and ninety.eight VOL
umes of bound magazines were re.
Gently added to the library of the
State university. They had been
bound by the State Printer for the Ell
lensburg normal school, but as they
could not pay for them, they fell into
the possession of the university.
Nurseryman G. L. Whitney, of
Walla Walla, warns young orchardists
against planting too many kinds of
apple or other fruit trees. He says
that when Colonel 1. N. Peyton's
1900 Ben Davis apple trees on the
ranch near Cheney get to bearing the
colonel can load a whole train with
apples and start it across the cont.
nent.
Miss Mamie Rogers, aged % years,
daughter of ex-County Treasurer
Rogers of Whatcom county, died at
her home in Whatcom last Friday
night. Her death was entirely nm
expected, she having been i'll only
three days. She had been money
order clerk in the postoffice for the
last two years, and was prominent in
social circles on the bay.
John Simmonson is in the What
com county Jail, bound over to the
Superior court on a charge of arson.
1t is said that on Christmas night he
burned small house in Fairhaven.
He had been drunk, the story goes, for
two weeks. He was rooming in the
little house with another man. His
partner had been talking about him.
He came home drunk, and thought
he'd burn the house and his talking
partner. The partner had just time
to get out alive. Mr.. John is sober
enough now.
A mass meeting of the White river
valley farmers was held Friday after
noon at the White river bridge, near
Cochrane's farm, at which it was re.
solved to petition Congress for an ap-
preparation to dredge White, Black
and Duwamish rivers, to take out the
snags and restore the old channel. A
committee, consisting of Sheriff Van
de Vanter, ex.Sheriff Cochrane, Doc
Geppler. Dave Hughes and Martin
Nelson, was appointed to have the