Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-03-17
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.
The city of Dayton has practically
no floating debt.
Potatoes are selling at Yakima as
high as $50 per ton.
Hoouiam is to have an up-to-date
steam laundry in the near future.
An immense bed of Ignite coal has
been discovered in Asotin county.
There will be large addition made
this spring to the orchard acreage of
kittitas county.
Measles is epidemic at Pomeroy
and several deaths have occurred
from the disease.
Charles Ashton was fined 500 and
costs at Spokane Friday for stealing
milk from wagon.
John NJ. Callahan, lineman, fell
from telephone-pole, at Seattle,
Tuesday, and broke his neck.
Ivan Chase, editor of the Colfax
Gazette, is dangerously i'll of scarlet
fever, at his home in that city.
In parts of Eastern Washington the
snow is over a foot deep. Spring seed
ing will not begin there until next
month.
Peaches are somewhat damaged in
the Walla Walla section, but other
fruits are all right and promise to be
a good crop.
Isaac Bacus, of Whatcom, has been
fined 500 and costs for failure to pro-
vide for the maintenance of his three
young children.
The school district at Union City,
on Hoods Canal, is so deeply involved
in debt that the directors are unable
to maintain school.
L. H. Garfield, Superintendent of
the Centralia Water Co., died at that
place on the 9th inst, of the grip.
He leaves wife and little boy.
The Commissioners OF Adams county
have declared the Office of County
Treasurer vacant because the bond Of
| fered is insufficient in their estima-
| ton.
The safe of the Tacoma-Puyallup
Traction Company was broken open
Sunday night and robbed OF q small
amount of money, for the second time
within ten days.
Moritz Kohlmon, a German, aged
about SO years, who lived alone on a
little ranch on the river bank oppos-
lite Prosser, was drowned in the Yak
ina river Monday evening.
The congregation of the First Free
Church of Tacoma Sunday passed
resolutions protesting against the
| United States holding the Philippines.
The protest will be forwarded to Presi-
dent Mckinley.
Starbuck is filled with tough charac-
tiers, drawn there by the railroad build
ing. Sunday night there were seven
fights in half an hour, and during the
night the Jail was broken open and all
the prisoners liberated.
Two surveying parties Monday
morning began locating the line of
the electric road between Seattle and
Tacoma, distance of 80 miles. The
road is expected to be in operation by
the LIST of next November.
Mr.. Antrim, a section boss ut Castle
Rock, while running over the road on
q railroad velocipede, was run into by
freight train near Tucker and had
one of his arms badly injured. The
"speeder" was demolished.
Walla Walla will have the next
convention and tournament of the
Eastern Oregon and Washington Fire.
mans Association and it will be held
on the 18th and 18th of June next.
This was the decision OF the Board of |
Directors which met at La Grande, Or. |
j. Jackson, rancher, was shot and |
killed near Anacortes. Tuesday morn
ing, by Joe Henry. Henry is q mar
ried man, and is postmaster at Urvan,
Skagit county. Henry gave himself
up to the authorities. TIE killing is
said to have been the result OF an old |
feud.
Frank r. Pellet, a Great Northern |
freight conductor, was killed Wednes-
day morning, at Adrian, 90 miles west |
OF Spokane. He was on the caboose,
into which locomotive crashed. The |
caboose was crushed to pieces, and two |
cars were derailed. Conductor Pei.
lett leaves a widow and two children.
A man giving the name of Baylor
has been obtaining loans at New |
Whatcom on the strength of his
claiming membership with the order
of Odd Fellows and carrying a travel
ing card from q Seattle lodge. He |
disappeared suddenly and his new.
made friends are anxious as to his
whereabouts.
The Bell.Nelson Mill company at
Everett, last week, broke the record,
cutting 96, 900 feet of one-inch lum-
Der in 10 hours. 1t beats all previous
records made by this mill or any other
mill on the Coast or in the East, and
is record that will open the eyes
of those engaged in the lumber bust
ness, so the Everett Independent says.
Mrs. E. H. Van Patton, OF Dayton,
has received a curiosity from Manila.
1t is lady's handkerchief, made from
cocoanut fiber, and deliberately decor
ated by hand. At the corner is an
excellent imitation of native habita-
ton called kosa, in another a pic
ture of an otter, while in the other
two corners are banana and palm
tree.
A COW that strayed from the farm
OF E. H. Perry, near Puyallup, was
found after 80 days in a vacant dwell
ing. 1t is supposed that the animal
sauntered into the building, and, in
attempting to get out, closed a door
and Gagged herself in. The COW died |
shortly after being found, She had |