Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-22
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts OF the State.

A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts Of the State.
Whatcom county collected $42O, 900
in taxes in the months OF October and
November.
Walla Walla is talking OF a park
on land owned by the city just west of
the race track.
Walla Walla wheelmen are taking
steps toward the construction of q
cycle path to Dayton.
But It's Chinese are now in Fair
haven, the Others having departed for
Portland to spend the winter.
Wheat sells for $1.25 per 100 pounds
at Kettle Falls-more than twice what
it will bring in the Palouse country.
A trolley-car loaded with passengers
left the rails on a tall trestle at Ia
coma, the other day, but it was stopped
before falling from the trestle.
A movement is on foot for the
parole of ex-Treasurer McCauley, of
Tacoma, who was sent to the Peniten-
tiary for misuse of public money.
By five years OF experiment it has
been demonstrated that proper cult
vation increases the weight of the
Puget Sound oyster 80 to SO per cent.
The Skamokawa Eagle still runs in
its official directory John L. Wilson
as Senator and J. Hamilton Lewis and
w. c. Jones as Representatives in
Congress.
The Nooksack river is gradually
filling up its new channel by which it
empties into the Gulf of Georgia, and
resuming its former channel to Bel
lingham Bay.
A drunken man tried to kiss dog
in a Walla Walla saloon . few days
ago, and the animal bit him SO severe.
ly that seven stitches were necessary
to close the wound.
The Seattle City Council has under
consideration a claim of $4,000 for
the totem pole the P..I. excursion
party "abstracted" from an Indian
graveyard on the northern coast.
The three banks of Walla Walla
have deposits aggregating $2,2S3, ,319.-
20. The Union estimates that this is
$3.50 for each man, woman and child
in Walla Walla and the tributary
country.
The safe of the Standard Oil Com
pany's branch, in Tacoma, was blown
up by burglars the other night, dyna-
mite being used. The door was blown
off and the safe fell forward, prevent.
ing the robbers from getting anything.
There is movement on hand in
Chehalis to build new opera.house.
The proposed building will be larger
than the present one, and nearer the
center OF town. The intention is to
form stock company for this pnr-
pose.
Roads to Republic camp are i'm.
passable. Stages have stopped run
ming, freighters refuse contracts, and
provisions in the camp are getting
comparatively scarce and high.priced.
A little freight is getting in via
Grand Forks.
The Washington Red Cedar Shingle
Manufacturers Association will be
continued another year. This was
unanimously decided by rising vote
at meeting attended by so members
from all parts OF the State held at Sc
attic Saturday.
W. w. and S. NJ. Whitbcck, father
and son, met in Republic a few days
ago. and though each was expecting
to meet the other in town, both had
so changed that neither knew the
other when they met. They had
been separated 19 years.
State Fish Commissioner Little says
that the Nooksack river is proving
one of the best streams in the State
for silver salmon. Many fish will be
shipped from there to Little Spokane
and other hatcheries, where the supply
of the parent fish has been short.
At Tacoma, the 18th inst, Adam
Crist deliberately shot his wife fat
ally, killed his S-year.old son, seriously
wounded a second son, aged 5 years,
and then ended the tragedy by putting
q bullet through his own brain.
Jealousy is the only motive assigned
for the crime.
At a meeting of number of mer-
chants and other citizens of Spokane
Saturday night, resolutions of sym.
pathy with the Beers were adopted,
and over $500 were collected for the
benefit of the wives and children of
Beers in the field. The money will be
sent to Pretoria.
The Red Cross Society of the State
has taken action to relieve suffering
in the families of the miners recently
killed in the coal mine at Carbonate.
Money is being subscribed in the
larger cities of the State. In Tacoma,
barrels are placed on the street corners
to receive the contributions OF cash.