Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-19
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered From
all Parts of the State.

all Parts of the State.
Everett will expend 100000 for
sewerage system.
The police of Seattle made 6,744 ar
rests during 1899.
North Yakima reports an enroll.
mcnt Of S45 in its public schools.
OF 90 divorce cases filed in Spokane
in 1899, 80 were granted by default.
The New Whatcom Normal School
publishes an official advertisement for
Is cats.
The dog-poisoner has broken loose
at Whatcom and killed 20 CANNES,
some of them valuable animals.
The curfew bell has ceased to ring
at Shelton, and the small boys are
careful not to call attention to the
fact.
Fish Commissioner Little has ar
ranged to plant carload of Eastern
Holsters in Puget Sound waters as an
experiment.
Puget Sound extends 200 miles
from the ocean, with surface area of
1000 square miles, and shore line of
1884 miles.
The Walla Walla Statesman says
there is plenty of hay in that section
to supply the demand in Honolulu, at
SIS per ton.
The Snoqualmie Falls Power Com.
pany has applied for q franchise in
Everett to distribute electricity for
heat, light and power.
c. w. Murphy and wife, of Cheney,
celebrated their golden wedding an
niversary the first of the week. They
have lived on the same farm q years.
During the past 10 days ocean
steamers took 4O,SOO sacks of oats
from the warehouses at Anacortes.
This is small proportion of the crop
raised on the flats. in the vicinity of
LaConner.
A Colfax dispatch of the 18th inst,
says Edward Ballaine, q resident of
Endicott, was to-day adjudged insane,
and has been taken to the Medical
Lake asylum. He is a brother of
of ]. E. Ballaine, of the First Wash.
ington regiment.
w. A. Foster, a young blacksmith,
has been arrested at Spokane on the
charge of stealing $115 from fellow
workman ON the ranch of Patrick
Russell, near Walla Walla on New
Years day. Foster admits his identity,
but denies his guilt.
The 18-months-old son of farmer,
named Stout, living near North Yak
lima, was burned 90 badly Monday that
it died Wednesday. Its injuries were
caused by the burning of q celluloid
comb with which it was playing, and
which it held over lamp.
Tacoma has spent fully a million
dollars on improvements of various
kinds and modern equipment during
the year, says the NesOs. A quarter
of this has been for public work !;
another quarter for buildings, and the
remaining half has gone into the
factories and mills and has been used
for better mechanical equipment and
modern facilities.
The Cascade tunnel on the Great
Northern, one of the greatest pieces
of railroad work ever attempted in the
United States, will be completed by
October l, 1900, and thirty days later
trains will be running through it, do
ing away with over II miles of switch
back and saving nearly an hour and q
half in time across the continent, now
spent in climbing the Cascade range.
Louis Martin, colored, who shot
and killed another African, Tom
Johnson, in front of q disre2utable
house in North Yakima, about four
months ago. was last Saturday found
guilty of murder in the second de-
gree. The men had quarreled over
their respective titles to the affections
of colored woman who, until the
appearance of Johnson, was Martins
mistress.
G. N. Woodward, who lives one
mile east of Stevenson, recently dis.
covered a hot spring on his place
flowing out of the bank into the
Columbia river. He is now engaged
in excavating. hoping to be able to
follow the vein far enough back from
the river to avoid the high water.
The water is quite warm and the flow
ample. The new discovery is three
miles west OF the famous st. Martin
hot sprinps