Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-29
STATE NEWS.
Brief Reference tn Matters OF Fact
Gathered Here, There and Every
where.

chimes in New Whatcom has been IN
creased t. So year 10y the city
council.
The dwrlling-hull>, ui David Reeves
at Porter, in Chchali> county, burned
last week, together with Il greater part
OF it, contents.
The farmhouse Of W. A. Mathcncy
in Columbia county, was destroyed 10y
fire last Monday. The loss is $1,000
with no insurance.
The crcamerics OF ChehaliS county
have started up for the season. The
butter product OF the county has be-
come an important item.
Hops are growing rapidly i'll the
Puyallup valley, and growers will be-
gin to train the young vines to climb
the poles in week or 10 days.
The steamer Morgan City arrived
in Everett last Thursday direct from
New York, with 800 tons OF wire rods
for the Puget Sound Wire Nail & Steel
Company.
A cougar measuring six feet and
seven inches and weighing 10l pounds
was brought into Chehalis from Alpha
prairie last Monday by a resident, who
killed it couple of days before.
Fire caused by the explosion of a
kerosene lamp, over which curling
iron was being heated, destroyed the
residence of John Berg, at Roslyn
Tuesday. The loss is 81 900, partially
insured.
The Hoquiam baseball team easily
defeated the Aberdeen second nine in
Il game at Aberdeen, last Sunday. A
gang of boys from Hoquiam engaged
in fight with several Aberdeen boys.
In separating the combatants a gen.
eral row was narrowly averted.
Hopgrowers are busy working in
their yards in the Puyallup valley.
Hop roots have wintered we'll, and
with the advent of warm weather the
new shoots will make rapid growth.
Everything is indicative of an encour-
aging season for the hop farmer.
The Walla Walla Statesman says it
learns from an apparently reliable
source that the troops at Fort Walla
Walla will leave in a short time for
the Pacific Coast, to assist in guard.
ing the cities there. Arrangements
have been made for a hasty departure
Allen Bagley, who burned the
school.house at Ocosta, and shot at r.
S. Austin, was found guilty in Che
halls county last week. Bagley re.
fused the services of a lawyer, and
tried to persuade the jury that he is
insane, but the jury declined to take
that view Of the matter.
Mr.. Orlando Mitchell, a well-known
citizen of Chehalis county, died sud-
denly at his home near Juno, on the
Satsop, recently. He had just re-
turned from hunt and complained to
his wife of pain in the region of his
heart; she stepped out of the room to
prepare a remedy, and on her return
found him on the floor dead of heart
disease.
A. NJ. Simpson, who has vessel
loading lumber at the Northwestern
lumber mills at Hoquiam, Gray's
Harbor, for the west coast of South
Africa, has ordered the vessel not IT,
proceed to her destination because ol
fear of Spanish privateers. Mr.. Simp
son is owner of the lumber and the
ship. He is a San Francisco man and
part owner of the Northwestern mill.
A tramp named John Wallace was
mangled to death beneath the wheels
of Northern Pacific passenger trair
No. 2 at Pasco last Thursday. HI
was attempting to ride the brake
beams and his coat caught in Tho
wheels. His face was crushed to .
pulp; the rails and ties were strewr
with blood and brains for several yards
A brother of the unfortunate mar
was travelling with him.
A project is on foot for developing
the beet-sugar industry in Eastern
Washington. W. ]. Stewart, repre-
senting firm Of British capitalists, is
working upon plan to secure a grant
of 5000 acres of land near Waverly, az
an inducement for establishing a fac
tory, and as guarantee that there
will be sufficient acreage of beet,
planted to make the project success
Over one-fourth of the required acre
age was guaranteed in a few hours.
William Laird and A. P. johnson
have bought the William Corbett
farm, six miles east of Garfield, il
Whitman county, for $25 an acre. Tit
land is we'll improved, and is cheap Al
the price paid. L. E. Carter and Err
nest Lloyd have purchased the Charlie.
Warren farm of 220 acres, near Step
toe butte. The farm is one of the best
improved in that vicinity, and has {
fine artificial grove. It is all in wheat
excepting 20 acres, the crop going t.
the purchasers. The price was 1925 ar
acre. There is quite a demand fol
farm lands in that vicinity, and thu
price is steadily advancing.