Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-05-26
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts of the State.

all Parts of the State.
Spokane's y. NJ. e. A. has 32J menu
berS.
Gray's harbor Indians predict cold
summer.
\ wooden mill is to be erected at
Spokane.
The new depot at Colfax is under
construction.
The town Of Blaine will soon have
electric lights.
Strawberries are ripening east Of
the mountains.
Mount Vernon has decided to levy
a tax on bicycles.
Everett merchants will organize a
mining exchange.
The new Presbyterian church at
Garfield has been dedicated.
Whitman county fruitgrowers have
formed L horticultural society.
Hops on Puget Sound are extremely
backward owing to wet weather.
The State Epworth League has been
in session at Pullman this week.
The Nut Food factory ut La Conner
is reported doing good business.
Several hundred acres are sown to
flax in the Walla Walla country.
Two telephone companies are build
ing lines from Spokane to Republic.
Three new churches are being built
at Granite Falls, Snohomish county.
Tim McClare killed large Ameri-
can eagle near Boisfort the other day.
Sugar-beet growers in Eastern Wash
ington are employing japanese labor.
The Nem Era, Waitsburg's populist
paper, has been absorbed by the Times.
A Seattle estimate is that 435 for
eigners settled in Washington during
May.
The new telephone line between
Harrington and Mohler has been COM
pleted.
1t is said that Michigan capitalists
are planning to build large sawmill
at Aberdeen.
There were 90 members of the
graduating class in the Whatcom high
school this wear.
DR.. I. C. Green, of Springdale, has
been arrested for practicing medicine
without license.
Out of 100000 acres of land in
Chehalis county only $1,000 acres are
under cultivation.
The Hoquiam Wdshingionidn places
Levi Ankeny in nomination for Gov
ernor ON the Republican ticket next
year.
saltwater Bill" Gates has re-
turned to Seattle, from London, where
he organized new Klondike mining
company.
1t is estimated that 5000 new set.
tiers have established themselves in
the State of Washington since last
September.
A 10-year-old son OF A. J. Prater fell
off the Doernbecher boom in the Che
halls river, at Chehalis, last week, and
was drowned.
A threatened jail-break Mt Spokane
was frustrated by information furn-
ished by children who overheard the
inmates plotting.
A post of the Grand Army has been
organized at Colfax. 1t is John M.
Corse post, No. 90. Andrew Perkins is
post commander.
Last week shipment of Washing
ton wheat, oats, white and black bar
ley, yellow and green peas and rye
was made from Seattle to Minneapolis.
The Pacific Sheet Metal Works at
Fairhaven is making 30, 900 cans daily,
employing 70 hands. Next week it
will run full capacity, 10000 cans
daily.
An Ellensburg schoolboy who was
anxious to be the school drummer of
fered the principal 5 cents as bride
to get the place. The youngster still
has his nickel.
1t is rumored plans are being made
for two refrigerator steamers to collect
salmon on the lower Columbia river
for immediate transierence to refriger.
ator cars for the East.
John Ryder, charged with rape and
incest, his 12-year-old daughter being
the victim, pleaded guilty at Colfax.
Monday afternoon, and was sentenced
to four years in prison.
o. NJ. Sparks residence and con.
tents we're burned at Tekoa the other
day. The loss was $4,000; insurance
81 400. The family was visiting on
the Sound, and the house was unoccu-
pied.
John Mohr and Lew Henderson en-
gagged in a shooting fracas. ON Hast.
ing's gulch, near Sunset, Wednesday,
as a result OF which Mohr is at st.
Ignatius' hospital with bullet in the
back of his neck.
Mount Vernon fruitgrowers claim q
great discovery has been made there
in the incubation of fruit trees for the
destruction of fruit pests. Expert
ments have proven eminently success
full, it is claimed.
Charles w. Whitney and Frank
Whitney, brothers, were drowned
Tuesday at Palouse Rapids. near Star.
buck. They were shooting the rapids
in a canoe, when it struck rock and
capsized. Both men were carried
down by the strong current.
Homer Hayden, proprietor of the
novelty store at Dayton, has commit
ted suicide. He took strychnine Fri.
day and died few hours afterward.
He gave no reason for the act. He
was member OF the Masons, the Odd
Fellows and the Grand Army.