Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-18
a}'ashln9ton Standard
STATE NEWS.

Erht, Lyle. az hchallS county logger,
expects to employ 100 men in his
camp this season.
The halmy weather "f the last few
day hi- permitted the farmers around
nlyt ~ - begin spring blowing.
Iuu stump. who was shot 10y J. ii.
McNickcr, at Vance, in Levi, county
ah"ut two weeks ago, will recover.
Maurice Powers died oi drop>y ut
hi, home near Walla Walla, Friday.
He WAS 90 years old, and Il pioneer in
ia, " ALA Walla country.
1t j. said that Il party Is being
organized on Gray, Harbor to pur-
chase the steamer Title and take her
up t. Alaska, to place her on Il local
route there.
Bruce and Hcnscn are making, at
lloluiam, two masts for the schooner
Volunteer. These are each 112 feet
long, and said to be the longest ever
made on Gray's Harbor.
The highest price yet paid Il Yak
ina stock owner for sheep was given
james Wright few days ago. He
sold two cars for Tacoma shipment,
receiving 1912. head.
W. S. Starr, postmaster at Orting,
pleaded guilty to cmbexzlcmcnt in
the United States court the other day
and was sentenced to six months im-
prisonmcnt and fined $3.50.
The single mill, at Aberdeen, for
merly known as the Sherwood mill,
has been overhauled and has begun
operations under the management of
its new owners, Farnam & Coates.
"Indian joe" grandson of Princess
Angelina, daughter of Chief Seattle,
was found alone the other day in his
shack in Seattle, suffering from
rhumatism. There was no bed, food,
fire or fuel in the cabin.
The Whitman County Commission
CT, have offered reward OF $500 for
the apprehension and conviction of
the lynchers of Chadwick Marshall,
alias Blacky," who was taken from
the Jail and hanged by mob.
Colonel James Mcknight, T. former
Seattle lawyer, but now of new York,
received, it is understood, $4,000 as
his fee in the case OF the Lake Shore
bondholders against the Northern
Pacific. The colonel represented the
bondholders.
John Horn knot-sawed $4,000
shingles out of raw timber in 10 hours
one day last week at the Meridian
mill at New Whatcom. A good days
work by fast man in such timber is
$1,000, so that the run was a most
phenomenal one.
A man, supposed to have been NJ.
+. Antoine, was found dead, the other
day, in a vacant house at Tacoma.
The body was lying on the floor, and
it was evident that the man had been
dead several days. The cause OF
his death is shrouded in mystery.
The shipments of lumber products
from the State of Washington during
1897 were valued at 9,O65, 1903 at the
mills. With freight rates added the
total will not fall far from SIG, OO0, 600
The value OF the shingle shipments
alone footed up 81, Oh, 465 at the mills
The State Reform School at Che.
halls will go into the hop business
The State Board OF Audit and Con.
troll has ordered the planting of %
acres. This is one of the Hon. H. J.
Snively's ideas. He thinks the in.
mates of the reform school ought to
be kept busy.
The editor OF the P--L. has requested
the Salvation Army to exhort to some
other locality than in front of his
Office, as it interferes with his thought.
collecting machine, in other words,
causes the "wheels in his head" to
become Unfortunately mixed up
Heat Consf ponuIisf
The decomposed body OF liver Lar
sen, the 6-year-old boy who disappeared
from his home near Ferndale last
spring, was found recently in the
woods four miles from his home BY
some shingle-bolt cutters. The body
lay in the shelter of huge log, as If
the little fellow had thus attempted
to escape pcrishing from exposure.
Commissioner Huber, in Asotin
county, has an interesting keepsake
that he prizes very highly and which
reminds him of his march from At.
lanta u the sea. It is an original
map issued by the War Department
during the war to the advance guard
Of the company. Mr.. Hubert pro
cured the document from the captain
at the close Of the war, and also the
company's flag of the Ninth Illinois
mounted Infantry, which he still re-
tains.
ID. +. Hall, representing the o. r.
Il n. Co., was ut Skamokawa, last
Wednesday and adjusted the claim OF
Mrs. Charles Crater for injuries re-
ceived Mt the time of the accident to
the steamer Bailey Gatzert in Port