Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-03-04

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The Northwestern Lumber Co.'S
mill. ut !foluiam, is running over
time.
\ 2o-r"nnd son was born t" the
wife oi Gu>tavc Zri-lcr, at Walla
Walla, lat Monday
Everett is soon to have u public
library that will he opened to the
public in the city hall.
unc freight train from Gray. har.
Dor last Tuesday took out :3 carloads
al lumber shingles, ties, etc
The Miller * Mcaly Lumber Com
rany, Of Chchal>, is running their
,awmill full time and their planning
mill night and day.
The Western Laundry Company, OF
Portland, has purchased the plant of
the Centralia Steam Laundry, and
will move it to Portland.
J. j. Fall, of Tacoma, was run over
and killed by the Northern Pacific
local train, near Puyallup, the other
day. Fall was about 50 years of age
The Skookum Box & Lumber Com
pany, OF Centralia, has begun the
erection of sawmill ut Pc Ell. 1t
will have a capacity of $4,000 feet per
day.
Fish Commissioner Little will get
after all millowners in the Gray's
harbor district, who persist in throw
ing sawdust and mill refuse into the
streams.
There are 296 patients in the hos
pital for the insane at Medical Lake.
This is 30 more patients than the hos
pital had eight months ago, on a daily
average.
Ex-Treasurer E. NJ. Rigney has been
sued in Pierce county by the town OF
SteilacoOm for balance deposited
with the defunct Merchants National
bank, amounting to $713.29.
S. S. Peterson, of Outlook, in Yak
ina county, has lately fallen heir to
$4,000 in money, besides large
tract OF land in the Old Country. He
will not go to the Klondike now.
A scow belonging to the city of Sc
attic and loaded with 100 tons of coal
sunk in Lake Washington Monday.
As yet it has not been suggested that
she was either torpedoed or under
mined.
The yacht Ida J. S. was launched at
Port Townsend last Monday. She has
been shipped north ON the steamer
Rival, and will be used in Prince
William sound and the Cooks Inlet
country.
Engelbert Bailor died at Friday
harbor, Island county, last week.
About three weeks ago he stepped on
email rusty nail, which entered his
foot about an inch. Blood poisoning
set in and caused his death.
A few days ago brakeman known
as Kid" Coleson, on the Great North
ern Railroad, was drowned on the
Cascade division while going ahead OF
the work train to flag the passenger.
The body has not yet been recovered
and is supposed to have been washed
down into the Sound.
State Grain Inspector Wright, who
has just returned to Tacoma from a
visit to Eastern Washington, says he
found in the vicinity of Walla Walla
100000 bushels of AL wheat. He
says the acreage in spring wheat is
very large, and that everything points
to large crop this summer.
Allen Bagley, who set fire to the
Ocosta schoolhouse, donated IA ricks
of wood to the school authorities oil
Ocosta, to help them out of the bad
position in which he had placed them
The school building cost about $13,.
90, and there was no insurance. The
district is in debt SIS, 900 on bonds is.
sued.
Joseph Schwartz who is known
from New York to San Francisco as
"the diamond king" was arrested at
Seattle, Saturday evening, on the
charge of stealing watches and dia-
monds from Wolfshon & Livingston,
of San Francisco. Schwartz says that
he owes the firm 500 for diamonds
purchased in the regular course of
business.
The orchards in Walla Walla county
will be in better shape, that is, freer
from scale and other pests, this year
than for several years past. This is
due to the vigorous action of Inspector
H. c. Chew, who is ordering all dis
eased trees rooted out. The fruitgrow-
ers also realize that all fruit pests
must be dealt with vigorously or the
orchards will be ruined.
Land Commissioner Bridges and AS
sistant Attorney-General Vance were
in North Yakima, on Tuesday, for the
purpose of giving hearing to the par.
ties interested in the school-land con-
tracts, which were declared forfeited
some time ago. The land in question
embraces the township of Zillah, and
as a result of the conference, an ami.
cable adjustment of the trouble is ex'
pected.