Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-02-16
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts Of the State.

all Parts Of the State.
Some OF the farmers of Kittitas
county are talking of engaging in the
raising OF fax.
Spokane is to have an Eastern
Washington inter-scholastic field day
the coming spring.
VIM. Carlton, a logger, was killed
Monday, by log running over him in
E. B. Roots camp at Cathlamet.
A new lumber mill, to cost in the
neighborhood of $3.50, 900, and employ
$50 men, will soon be built at Everett.
w. H. Pestross, OF North Yakima,
sold his entire flock of 5000 sheep to
Coffin Bros, of the same place, last
week.
All of the school children have been
ordered vaccinated at South Bend ow-
ing to the reported cases of smallpox
at Centralia.
Wiegand Roth, brewer and a
stranger. died in an epileptic fit ut the
Great Northern depot, at Seattle, Mon
day morning.
Public meetings have been forbid.
den at Wenatchee on account Of the
smallpox, and every effort is being
made to stamp out the plague.
Spokane is to send formal invita-.
ton to President Mckinley to visit
the town in October, when, it is said,
he will come to the Pacific Coast.
An artesian we'll will be put down
right away in the Wenatchee valley
rs an experiment, and if it proves sue
cessful the valley will be watered in
that way.
c. H. Bartlett, of Yakima City
bought $50 tons of hay last week oil
John Clemen. OF this lot, 200 tons is
timothy, and is now being baled fol
the Philippines.
An effort is being made at Spokane
to have VIM. J. Bryan visit that city
and deliver a speech. If they sue
coed he will undoubtedly speak at Sc
attic and Tacoma.
There are in Walla Walla county
84,e25 acres of vacant government
land. In Whitman there are 69,9l2
acres, in Columbia 30,778, in Garfield
q, 49l, in Asotin 13l ,234.
During the coming summer, q
model rifle range will be established
between Tacoma and Seattle, upon
which contests of the National Guard
will be conducted twice year.
Thurday 100 horses we're shipped
from Walla Walla to Vancouver. The
animals together with a number oil
other horses, will be transported to
the Philippines for cavalry service.
One farmer near Walla Walla
moved 50 acres of wheat few days
ago. 1t had grown so fast that it was
ready to joint, and it had to be cut to
keep it from heading out in midwinter
The inmates of the the Spokane
county Jail have just established a
kangaroo" court and its rules have
been approved by the Sheriff and pro.
mulgated for the government OF the
prison.
North Yakima merchants are moi
worried because a mild winter has left
heavy stocks of wooden goods on their
hands; the price on woolens has ad.
vanced % per cent. in the past three
mouths.
State immigration Agent d. B.
Ward has prepared an elaborate re-
port. covering immigration conditions
of Washington. He estimates that
10000 people have moved into the
State in the past year.
The large shingle mill plant of the
Monarch Mill Company, of Blaine
burned at $3.50 Wednesday morning
and with it w. L. Taulby, electrician
for the Blaine Electric Light Com.
pany, was burned to death.
Friday night some one entered the
store of M. J. Wage, of Pc Ell, and
attempted to drill hole in the door
of the safe. The parties probably be-
came frightened. as they left without
completing the job, but took about 81