Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-03-23
Washin9tou Standara
STATE NEWS.


Five men from Missouri We're in
Elma one night last week, looking for
homes.
Extensive veins Ct coal are reported
10 have been found in the hills near
Elma.
Fishmen on Puget sound are begin
ming to set traps for the first run of
salmon.
Fully hal: the nlea. consumed in
Chehalis county is shipped in from
the outside.
The salmon catch in the waters
about Blaine has been unusually heavy
for some weeks past.
Building in Seattle is about twice
as lively as it was a year ago, says the
Post-Intelligencer.
Ex-Congressman Doolittle, of Ia
coma, is reported seriously i'll at
hospital in Washington.
The secret societies of Aberdeen
have taken up the subject OF building
sewer system for that town.
Fairhaven, WASH, is looking for
ward to a new mammoth lumber mill,
to be erected by eastern capitalists.
Several cases of diphtheria being re-
ported, the public schools of Port
Angeles have been closed for two
weeks.
The Weyerhauser syndicate is
actively at work securing timber in
the valley OF the Nooksack, Skagit
comfy.
Retail grocers of Spokane propose
the formation of a boycott against
jobbers who sell to merchants that
cut rates.
Pomeroy's City Council has passed
an ordinance that no gate opening on
q sidewalk in that city shall swing
outward.
w. b. Thomas has sold his farm of
80 acres, on Mill Greek, to Jacob
Kibbler for 1871, 200, says the Walla
Walla Union.
Five gun carriages have just been
added to the defense Of Point Wilson,
and large shipments of heavy ordnance
are to follow.
The new building at the Fort
Steilacoom insane asylum is nearly
completed. 1t is over 16O feet long
three stories and basement.
Washington Independent: Govern.
ment ownership of transportation
lines is coming as rapidly as abolition
came after Frement's defeat in 1856.
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee will meet at Spokane April l:
to fix the time and place for holding
the State Convention, TO elect dele
gates to the National convention.
Clarke county fruit growers have
organized for the purpose of grading
and packing the entire dried prune
product of the county. The exchange
will also establish minimum price
for prunes.
Frank Chord, a clerk in q store a.
Deep Creek, was sandbagged by rob
bers, but fought them off until hell
arrived, when they fled, without get
ting any plumber. He was knocked
down four times, but each time at
tackled the robbers.
It took $63S in revenue stamps TO
the sheriff's deed transferring tn
property of the Tacoma Land Com
pany to the Tacoma Land & Improve
ment Company under the sale mad,
by the foreclosure of the Providen
Life & Trust Company, February Is
and 20, 1899.
Thesa Fisher was arrested in Seattl
Tuesday by Sheriff Marsh of Van
couver, WASH, on warrant charging
her with perjury. She is accused o
swearing to false affidavit to the ef
feet that Vivian Nichols and JESSIE
Cawson, an clipping couple from Port
land, who were married in Vancouver
we're OF legal age. 1t is claimed tn,
girl was under age.
John Crotts, who has spent tn
greater portion of the last two year
in the Pierce county Jail, under 10
year sentence for granddaughter, ha
been granted new trial by the Su
prcme Cont. A Tacoma paper say
that as matter of fact, it is extreme
ly doubtful if he is given another tria
at all, and it is more than probabl,
that he will, when all of the fact
have been considered, be allowed to g
free.
While Tacoma was making sucl
strenuous efforts to quarantine Contra
liza, sending two Of her doctors to tn
little hamlet to ascertain if the erup
eruptive disease prevalent was small
pox, she had herself four well-devel
oped cases, two of which were at tn
Star hotel, on Pacific Avenue, abou
which nothing was said, nor OF tn
fact that % cases existed, in a mill
form. at the Sheltering Arms, found
ling hospital. Here again the selfisl
impulse prompted community t
conceal a menace to life for pecuniar
benefit.
As an instance of endurance an
pluck the following will certainly pass