Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-07-06
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts of the State.

oh o'eS VI titS StotSs
Two cases of smallpox have been
discovered at New Whatcom.
The wheat crop this year promises
to be the largest in the history of the
State.
Harvest is on in earnest in the
Walla Walla valley. Many machines
went into operation the first of the
week.
An addition to cost 5000 will be
erected at the st. Paul Episcopal
school at Walla Walla. work to COM
mence in a few days.
Charles McAllister, of North Yak
ina, was dangerously and perhaps
fatally shot while toying with re-
vOlver, the other day.
The United States Marine Hospital
authorities have issued an order that
all vessels returning from Alaska with
sickness on board must stop at Port
Townsend for inspection.
The Scandinavian American Bank
of Seattle will erect a new double
block shingle mill at Arlington. 1t is
expected to have all the material on
the ground in 10 days.
Four thousand ewes and 1000
lambs were sold at Ellensburg Thurs
day, to Shearer, of Oregon, for $22 100,
which is $2.75 head straight through.
They were bought for stock purposes.
Dayton grain men and farmers have
received four carloads OF grain-bags
for the crop now being harvested,
three cars coming from the State
Penitentiary. This is the largest
shipment of State bags ever made to
Dayton.
Construction work on the Northern
Pacific cutoff from Palmer to Auburn,
a distance of 81 miles, is nearly COM
pleted. 1t is expected that through
trains will be operated over the line
by July l. This cutoff will effect a
saving of about q miles between Spo-
kane and Seattle.
c. w. Meyer was struck by the
outgoing o. r. & N. train six miles
east OF Spokane Saturday morning
and instantly killed. His body was
thrown 70 feet from the track, and
the horse he was riding was hurled 60
feet in the air, and fell 20 feet beyond
the rider.
Work on the jetty At the entrance
Of Gray's Harbor, is progressing rapid
ly. About 1000 feet, or about a mile
and half, is now completed, the con-
tract calling for total length of four
miles. The supervising engineer esti-
mates that it will require two years
yet to complete the work.
The Puyallup river is up to the top
of its banks in the lower valley and
threatening to break over and do great
damage to the market gardens in the
Puyallup reservation. The rise is
caused by the warm weather of the
past few days, which has caused the
SHOWS on the mountains to melt
rapidly.
The Japanese must 60 at Mount
Vernon. This was the decision of a
meeting of about 100 business men,
mechanics and laboring men held
last week. Ever since the introduc.
ton of Japanese section hands there
has been more or less hard feeling,
which eliminated in the meeting and
subsequent action. After the meeting
the men marched to the shack occu-
pied by the foreigners and informed
them that they must leave town,
which they did at once, hastily pack
ing their belongings.
Anew insect has attacked the trees
in the vicinity OF Dixie, 10 miles from
Walla Walla, and considerable dam
age has been done during the past few
days. The leaves turn brown and ap-
parently die rapidly, while the wood
of the tree shows an unhealthy ten
dency. The fruit appears to feel the
effect at once and soon becomes soft
and wizened. Upon examination
there are seen thousands of small in.
sects working in and under the bark
OF the trees, taking the sap away from