Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-02-26
STATE NEWS.

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The old lIa~tir mill ut ruyallup i,
l"ng >hirped To- new location at Ia
coma
The council uf ChchaliS has I'M
posed tax OF ~ on all the dogs of
the village.
Fully 81 per cent. oi the red cedar
shlnglc mills in the State Of Washing
ton are running.
Scatco Mfg. Co., Of Bucoda is filling
a large order for lumber to be used in
building steamboats, at Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Eight carloads Of potatoes We're
shipped from North Yakima to Sound
points last week. The ruling price
was ST.
Receiver p. W. Stradcr of the Ben
net bank ut Whatcom has declared the
first dividend OF 90 per cent, payable
to depositors.
The Fidalgo canncry last week
shipped to Seattle 400 cases of salmon
and the Anacortes cannery shipped
| LOO cases, for rail shipment east.
LamOna farmers are watching with
interest the sugar beet factory PROPOSE
ton, and many will SOW beet seed in
the spring to test the soil of the To-
cality.
Farmers residing on Browns Flat,
four miles above Wenatchee, have,
organized an irrigation company and
will get water on 1900 acres of land
from the Pehastin river.
There has not been much moisture
in the ground in Lincoln county, in
the vicinity OF Wilbur, since the winter
of 1890, and farmers are correspond
ingly hopeful for this years crops.
A. Schmidt's brewery burned at
Collar, last week. 1t was q total loss.
The value of the property was about
So, 900, and the insurance 5000. The
fire started Oh the roof of the mailing
shed.
There are on the way to Puget
Sound from foreign ports and to load
for foreign q vessels, with 25,476 ag-
gregate tonnage, being one-third great
er than last years tonnage at the same
time.
A delegation of thirty people from
Pennsylvania, comprising the advance
guard of men who are to be employed
in the new steel works at Port Angeles
have arrived at that place, and an
other party is enroute.
An oft repeated rumor stated that
the sawmill at Port Ludlow will be
started up soon. The mill has been
idle five years, and the chances that
it will soon begin to cut is cheering
news for Port Townsend.
Owing to lack of snow this year,
the sawmill output of Palouse towns,
ordinarily 100000 feet, will prob
ably he less than 100000 feet. The
expense of hauling from the mountains
will prevent extensive log booms.
1t is said the Cumberland Coal
Mining Co. will begin building coke
ovens and operate their coal mine OPP
posite Hamilton as soon rs the
Hamilton Gold & Copper Mining Co.
have begun operating their mines in
good earnest.
E, T. Mitchell, about As years of
age, employed as laborer at the
Geneva mill, Lake Whatcom, What
com county, dropped dead in the
lodging-house ut the mill, Friday
evening. He leaves o widow and
two children.
The Northern Pacific railroad shops
ut Spokane have been completed and
turned over to the company by the
contractor. The work of putting in
the machinery is now progressing, and
in a few weeks the shops will be
thoroughly equipped.
The Tacoma Wooden Mill has been
awarded the contract for furnishing
fifty uniforms for the soldiers home
at Orting. The mills now employ Is
hands regularly, and will increase the
force to 1000 within year, if its pat
ronage warrants the same.
Claude Smith and George B. Miller,
two hobos, we're taken before Justice
Arberry on a charge of vagrancy, in
Walla Walla on the 10th inst. They
were bound over to the next term of
the Superior court. Miller is the son
of Joaquin Miller, the poet of the
Sierras.
Four young, foolish boys took
brakebeam passage on the outgoing
freight train from Montesano, the
other day, their destination being
Carson, New. They wanted to go and
see the Corcett and Fitzsimmons
fight. A telegram to Potter headed
off the runaways.
The Puget Sound feet reached
eighty-three vessels last week, the
largest in over four months. This is
due largely to the increased call for
lumber and coal, and comes at time
when the employment of men in the
industries necessary to supply these