Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-11-03
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered From
all Parts of the State.

has been looking up the lumber III,
dustry around Fairhaven.
Genuine hog cholera and plague al,
making big lnroads in herds OF swine
in the Walla Walla country.
Sportsmen are reported to be trap
ping quails in Lewis county and sell
ing them, in violation OF law.
Walla Walla seems to be enjoying a
moral wave There have recently
been but few cases in the police court.
A goat fell into dry we'll at Ia
coma, and was there six weeks before
rescued. 1t is recovering on diet OF
milk and bread.
Fifty new residences have been
completed at lIo1uiam this year, and
the fine hotel, which has been closed
for years has been reopened
A wild deer came out of the woods
at Centralia, crossed the depot plat
form, where there were number Of
people, and escaped unframed.
A large rock on the banks of Medi-
cal Lake is known as Matrimonial
rock, deriving its name from the num-
Der OF matches made there by lovers.
Capt. w. H. Marmount, formerly of
the steamer Mascot, has departed for
England, where fortune awaits him
on account of the death OF his mother.
The Spokane exposition was visited
by $4,000 people. The total receipts
were $31 900, and expenses $4,000,
leaving $1,000 to be made up by the
guarantors.
County Auditor Van Wick, of New
Whatcom, last week sold to H. A.
Parish, of San Francisco, 5000. IS
worth of timber and $349.5O worth OF
school land.
The 5-year-old daughter OF Joseph
Giskra, of South Bend, was nearly
crushed to death last week by slabs
falling upon her while she was play.
ing around a sawmill.
Ray Gilbert, one OF the sporting
men who tried to open up a place in
Montesano, was arrested in Seattle on
a charge of stealing valuable dia.
mond ring at Aberdeen.
The WASHINGTON STANDARD saws
to look out for Bill" White, as he is
a born coquette and knows just how to
ravish the common foe. True, Bill''
is born masher and one cannot al.
ways tell the depth OF his admiration
by the size of his grin.-White River
Journal.
Yakima county took the first prem.
ium of $500 for the finest general dis.
play of fruit and vegetables at the Sc.
attic exposition. Pierce county came
in second, 5000, and Whatcom third
500. Several individual display
premiums were also awarded to What.
com county.
The body OF man, evidently a
fisherman, was found on the beach in
front of the Tioga hotel, at Long
Beach, Sunday afternoon, by Henry
English. 1t had been in the water SO
long that it was beyond Identification
1t was clothed in gum boots, sweater
and two pairs of pants.
The Montesano Videne says tina,
George Parks, of Quinault, harvested
, the following products from one acre
OF ground: About one ton of good
timothy hay, a ton of potatoes. 2O(
pounds threshed oats, Z sacks onions
1000 heads cabbage, 1000 pound.
carrots, besides much kitchen.garder
, truck.
Recently q burglar entered thu
Liewcllyn house on South D street, a
Tacoma. Mrs. Liewellyn, the pro
prietress, heard him and followed him
into room he was burglarizing
Though unarmed she compelled hin
} to hold up his hands while she alb
stracted the stolen articles from hi
pocket.
The 3-year-old daughter of C. A
Inman, whose family was visiting OF
Wilson creek, near Creston, disappeared
Sunday afternoon, and, though search
ers were out within half an hour ate
the child had been sitting in hel
mothers lap, no trace OF her has been
discovered. It is supposed the child
was kidnapped.
It is somewhat in the nature of 6
surprise that NJ. Earles, one of tn,
largest loggers on Puget Sound, ha
decided to close down all his loggin,
camps but the one which furnishe.
his own mill. Mr.. Earles says ther,
is no money in logging at presen
prices of logs and wages. He say
that wages must fall or logs advance
he prefers the latter. 1t has been con
tended by those best posted that log
ging was not the profitable bushes
this year that it appears to be, yet
excepting in the Gray's Harbor dis
trict, no logging camp of any size ha
shut down on account of the unfavor
able conditions.
An Expensive Economy.
Here's the first law of health-Kee,
your feet dry. We all know that tn
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