Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-10-06
STATE NEWS.

Cougars have recently killed several
calves in pasture near Hoquiam.
Oysters will be brought from Japan
for propagation in Willapa harbor.
Two girl burglars, 10 and ~ years
OF age, have been caught at Aberdeen.
Whitman College has its fine new
dormitory nearly finished, and the new
memorial hall is we'll under way.
Roscoe Allen, a 7-year-old Pullman
boy, is a slave to the tobacco habit,
and will be sent to school for de-
fective youth.
John Fritz, convicted at Ellensburg
last week OF assault to commit muir.
der, was Tuesday sentenced to IA wears
in the penitentiary.
John Blessinger, q Columbia county
farmer, raised 1900 bushels OF wheat
and barley this year. He also has all
of last years crop on hand.
Chas. Zines, young man of Spo-
kane, has been sent to the penitentiary
for seven years for attempted criminal
assault on girl IL years OF age.
A monster totem pole. so feet long
and 3 feet inches in diameter, at its
base, is to be erected in a conspicuous
spot on Pioneer Place, Seattle.
A project for the construction of a
railroad from the coal fields OF Lewis
county to the Columbia river is said
to be making considerable progress.
Frederick w. Haeger and Miss
Maud Endicott, and Emmit Brown
and Miss Mollie Haeger, all of Delphi,
we're married few days ago at Ia
coma.
The cranberry marsh presents a
lively appearance just now, says the
Ilwaco Journal, there being about It's
people employed in picking the favor
lite berry.
Mrs. jolly ]. Owens, of Dayton,
made violent attack with a club on
the schoolmaster for his method of
correcting her boys. She was fined
$25 and costs.
Master G. Lester Cole, of Lakeside,
Lake Chelan, who was Ii years old
the last of August, has killed IS rat
tlesnakes this season, and last year
he disposed of rs.
G. w. Campbell, who lives between
Bossburg and Colville, will stock his
lake with rainbow trout, the United
States Fish Commissioner having
shipped him car of young fry.
A Waitsburg inebriate set the town
Jail at that place on fire Tuesday
night. He was nearly burned up and
when the water was turned on to put
out the fire he was nearly drowned.
Fred Robinson, lad OF 10, was ar
rested lately, near Oakesdale, on q
charge of having assaulted q young
girl named Lottie Mccall. He has
been bound over to the Superior
Court.
In many parts of the county thresh-
ing-machines are going from dawn till
dark, says the Waterville Empire.
The increased number of machines
this year has facilitated matters; but
there remains lot of grain yet to be
threshed out, north.
The shingle shipments from Castle
Rock for September will not be very
much short OF 100 carloads, including
both rail and boat shipments, and the
payroll for the month for Castle
Rocks various industries will not fall
much short OF SIS, 600.
Although figs are tropical fruit,
they are grown very successfully in
the Cowlitz valley, says the Cowlitz
Advocate, E. r. Huntington has tree
well loaded with this fruit this season.
j. +. Mash also has a tree with num-
Der of well-matured figs on it.
Sunday night an unknown man
was injured by a train at Winona,
and he died Monday night. In his
pockets were an old bank book from
which it is inferred that he came from
Elwood, Kan, a silver watch and $50
in money. The money was used to
give the body respectable burial.
A phenomenal growth of potatoes
is being displayed at Colfax. The
growth consists of several large potato
vines or bushes, on which there are
scores of potatoes, ranging in size
from birds egg to n mans fist. The
potatoes grow entirely on the bush
above, instead of under the ground.
Fish Commissioner Little says the
great hatchery curse is the voracious
trout, the Dollie Warden being the