Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-10-12
lington Standard
STATE NEWS.

The SPOKANE school tax levy viii b.
: mills.
About 800 citizens have registered
at Tacoma for the Fall election.
lii" new >thoolhon;e proposition at
Farhayen wa> defeated 10y Il vote Of
H. to IL.
The Spokane County Annual Insti-
tutc will hold session at Spokane from
October 22d to 9th.
The Palousc River Lumber Com
pany has sawed nearly 100000 feet
OF logs during the past season.
The gross earnings of the Spokane
Falls & Northern for the year ending
June 80, 1900, were 1852 ,29l2S.
Chehalis comfy will pay $ll4,G97.-
- in State and county taxes this
year, as against Sl03,7 G5 last year.
Ora Reeves and Miss Emma Farris
were held up at Palouse Monday even
ing and Reeves was relieved Of $50.
A number of young men have
started the Star Athletic Club at Fair
haven, making use OF the old y. NJ. c.
A. gymnasium.
Two cases OF scarlet fever have lie.
veloped at ColfaX. Precautions have
been taken to keep the disease out of
the crowded schools.
Everett has been asked for q FRAN
chisc for establishment OF gas plant.
The petitioners propose to supply gas
by September l, 1901.
The State Land Commission has
purchased 5000 worth of school bonds
of district No. rs, Whitman county.
The bonds we're purchased at par.
The Methodist Episcopal pastors OF
Seattle formed a union of their
churches October 9. The objects OF
the union are cooperative and frater-
nal.
John Thurman, an employe in
Smith & Browns shingle mill at Cas-.
tie Rock, waa seriously injured Friday
morning by being caught in the ele.
vLtor.
The Erie Shingle Company's mill,
at Blaine, was totally destroyed by
fire OH the morning of the 5th. Loss,
$4,000; insurance. $1,000. 1t was
one of the best in the State.
John g. Foster, commission mer.
chant at Hoquiam, has on display
three pumpkins, raised in Chehalis
comfy, their weights being 594, 543
and 80 pounds respectively.
The demand for logs seems to hold
good in spite of the dubious prospect
of month ago. The Mason County
Logging Company has orders for a
half dozen RATS Of logs ahead.
Chief of Police Kaufman has given
official warning to business men OF
Walla Walla to beware of counterfeit
money in denominations of $40 gold
pieces and silver dollars and half dol
lars.
The Walla Walla Produce Company
and w. 8. Offner are shipping an aver
age OF five carloads of apples out OF
Walla Walla daily. There is a great
demand for the product of the Walla
Walla Valley this Fall.
Superintendent E. c. Morrow, OF
the Walla Walla Electric Company,
while repairing transformer Tuesday
was subjected to 1yO40 volts of cleo
tricity. 1t did not have any serious
effect, and he was soon at work again
Charles De Frnnce, who was re-
Gently convicted after long and ex-
pensive trial OF having stolen six car
loads of wheat from the Farmers
Warehouse Company, at Shawnee, in
Whitman county, has been granted
new trial.
L. b. King has been bound over to
the Superior Court at Arlington to
await trial for highway robbery. He
is charged with taking a gold watch
several dollars in money and knife
from Jack Rock. logger, Monday
evening, by cutting the pockets from
his clothes.
A recent census of the Swinomish
reservation, opposite Laconner, by
Deputy Agent J. Y. Roe, shows there
are 3l3 indians and half castles, 16(
males and 1853 females, the Oldest In
dian being 70 years and the majority
about IS. There were but six births
during the past year, and II deaths.
Prosecuting Attorney Inman has
been found guilty by Judge Mcdonald
at Colfax, of contempt of court, and
punishment will be inflicted Thurs.
day, Inman filed an affidavit charging
the court with having private reasons
for releasing Boyle on habeas corpus
who was arrested for assisting prisoners
to escape from the county Jail.
The steamship Tacoma, lately ar
rived from Alaska, has been libeled by
123 former passengers for $91 600
They assert that the ship on the trip
down last August had 200 passengers
more than allowed by law, and that
they were subjected to Inconvenience
and wrongs for which they consider