Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-21
STATE NEWS.
4 Brief Summary of News Gathered
From all Parts OF the State.

4 Brief sum- nry Of News Gathered
From all Parts OF the State.
Mount Vernon is to have Il cream
cry.
Republic now has a variety theater
and ID saloons.
The State Board OF Pharmacy met
at Tacoma Monday.
Plum trees around Cheney have
been injured by recent hard frosts.
Log bnyers in Skagit county are Of
fering $6 per thousand for cedar logs.
A slight advance has been made in
the wages OF the nail works Mt Everett.
A branch of the State Children's
Home Society is to be established at
Walla Walla.
The A. o. u. w. of Hoquiam are
building hall to cost about $4,000 on
land of their own.
A deaf-muie committed suicide at
Tekoa last week. He threw himself
in front of moving train.
One more attempt is to be made to
let contract for raising the sunken
ship Andelana liz Tacoma harbor.
A rich find OF molybdenum, a scarce
metal, is reported in the Carbon dis
trict, about 40 miles from Tacoma.
The Gray's Harbor Commercial
Company's mill, at Cosmopolis, is put
ting in the largest band saw in the
world.
A Business Mems League has heon
formed at Tacoma to counteract the
effects OF the so-called Law and Order
league.
Ex-City Treasurer Henry Presley, OF
North Yakima, has been arrested ON q
charge of ENLIGHTENMENT of $1,000 oil
the municipal funds.
An ordinance has been passed by
the City Council of Snohomish es.
tablishing license on slot machines
OF $50 per year for each machine.
The Walla Walla on her last trip
from the Sound called in at Everett
AMI took on board 1000 kegs of nails
and 40 tons OF paper, for San Fran.
cisco.
A great deal of the clover and
alfalfa has been frozen out during the
past winter, in some parts of Eastern
Washington, and reseeding has COM
menced.
The business people OF Tacoma are
agtating the proposition for having
the city dock at the foot of South
Fifteenth street, turned into q city
market-place.
Frank Tomly has been arrested at
Everett for attempted assault upon
two little girls by the name of Breybek
and Anthony. Tomly was bound over
to the Superior Court.
A contract has been let to Antonelle
d Co. for construction of the first Sec
ton of the Port Angeles and Eastern
Railroad. The firm are experienced
men in the business.
Tacoma has supposed case of
leprosy. The victim is Miss Daisy lie
May, a young woman born in that city
and who has lived there and in Port
land all her life, about 20 years.
Sixteen Occur d'Alene Indians, led
10y Chief Saltese, have made applica-
ton to join Colfax tribe, Improved
Order of Red Men. 1t is said their APP
plicatiops will be acted upon favor
ably.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Tokeo
will experiment quite extensively with
the sugar beet this season, and if they
meet with success will devote their at
tention mainly to beets instead of
wheat.
The steamship Lenox lately left the
Columbia river with 1883 barrels of
flour, the largest shipment of that
product ever put atioat from the Pa
cific Coast. Its destination was the
orient.
Jacob Morgan, one of the home
seekers hOcking to this State, jumped
from moving train near Thorp,
Saturday, and was severely injured.
He is from West Scranton, Pa, aged
40 years.
Judge Carroll, of Tacoma, has de-
cided that the local vagrancy ordi-
nance is valid, which will infuse, it is
thought, some life into the action of
the police towards the Weary Willies
who infest the city.
Jay Fike shot and killed large
wildcat which was in the act of de-
vouring lamb, four miles east of
Washougal, Sunday. About 20 spring
lambs have been killed out of one
flock, and the wildcat probably did the
work.
High water in the Chehalis river
broke the boom of the Hauser shingle
mill carrying adrift large stock of
single bolts, which have proven a
total loss. 1t is thought that from
the mishap the mill will be unable to
run for some time.
An accident occurred at a granite
quarry, near Colfax, Friday, by which
Andrew johnson, a laborer, lost his
life. The workmen were lifting a
heavy block of granite with derrick,