Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-07-26
Washinetua STANDARD
STATE NEWS.
Brief Summary of News Gathered from All
Parts of the State.

the Seattle postofiice this year up to
the present time is ll9, as against 60
in 1860
Forest fires arc raging along the
southerly shores oi Lake Whatcom
and various other places in the county.
Already great deal of valuable tim
Der has been DESTROYED.
The Bethlehem Steel Company has
shipped ten-inch breech- loading gun
weighing upwards of forty tons, to Sc
attic. The piece OF ordnance is for the
equipment OF Fort Casey.
Secretary Root expects soon to
make an extended trip OF inspection
OF the various military posts in the
Northwest. The trip will likely in
clude visit to Fort Walla Walla.
About 100 men are at work on the
Hoquiam extension OF the Northern
Pacific which is being pushed under
the direction of Nelson Bennett, OF
Tacoma, who has the contract for the
work.
The police OF WhatcOm are trying
to locate A. G. Wright, a rancher from
near Lynden, who went to Whatcom
about July 10 to exc hange some
school books. Since then all trace of
him has been lost.
The new cheese factory at Fairhaven
has started up. About COCO pounds
of milk will be received daily. Mr..
Smith, the proprietor, contemplates
establishing a creamery next fall or
early in the spring.
The down-Sound canneries are dis
couraged at the apparent small run of
sockeye salmon this season. The Pa
cific American company of Whatcom
Saturday only had $4,000, when an
average run in the past for day has
been near $4,000. A great many
humpbacks" are running. The pres
ence of these is usually taken to show
that the run OF sockeyes is about over.
Commissioner Hermann OF the Gen.
eral Land Office has strongly recon-
mended 10 the Secretary of the In
terror that large tract in Clallam,
Jefferson, Mason and Chehalis coun-
ties, included in the Olympic forest
reserve, be eliminated from the reserve
and opened to settlement. Is is very
probable that his report will be adopt
cd, as this change has been strongly
advocated for some time by the Wash
ington delegation in Congress.
E. N. Fuller, Secretary of the State
Historical Society, compiled from the
State newspapers in June obituary
records of 1888 persons from q counties,
as follows: Chehalis 8, Clallam 3,
Chelan 2, Clark 4, Columbia l, Cow
litz 7, Garfield 5, Jefferson 2, King 70.
Kitsap2, Kittitas 5, Klickitat 2, Lewis
S, Lincoln 6, Mason 3, Okanogan l.,
Pacific z, Pierce %, Skagit 5, Snohom-
ish IA. Spokane Al, Stevens IL, Thurs
ton 8, Walla Walla 10, Whatcom Is,
Whitman 9, Yakima IL. The news
paper records gave the age Of but 166
Of the deceased, as follows: 20 to 80
years, 81; 30 to 40, 25; 40 to SO, IL;
so to 60, 81; 6Oto 70, So; Toto 80, 81 ;
50 to 81, Is; over 100, l.
More pure food litigation is prom.
ised at Spokane. A wholesale grocery
house has received a consignment OF
vinegar from the 0. l.. Gregory Vine
gar company, Paducah, Kentucky, as
pure cider vinegar. State Chemis.
Fulmer reports upon analysis that
the article does not meet the require.
ments of the State law covering that
commodity. The company alleges
that the State chemist of New York
has pronounced the vinegar pure, and
has given instructions to its broker to
sell direct to retailers of the State
with q guarantee that the article il
cider vinegar as represented, and that
any attempt toward interference on
the part OF the officials will be met
with the capital of the company in
the courts.
Experiments with the wireless teleg.
rsphy for reporting incoming ships
will soon be made between Tatoosh
island and Neah bay, at the entrance
to Puget Sound. At one time the
government maintained a station fol
reporting and observation on the
island, but the cable to Neah bay
broke several years ago, and since then
vessels have been reported from Neah
bay. The Government now proposes
to re-establish the Tatoosh island sta
ton and to reopen Geographic com.
munication with the mainland. II
the experiment with wireless teleg'
rapby fails, cable will be laid between
the island and Neah Bay. Owing to
currents and rocks between the island
and the mainland, the life of a cable
off Cape Flattery is very short, SO the
government will do its best to make
wireless telegraphy success in order
to save the coet of expensive cables
A reserve has been set aside al
Tatoosh island, and plans and speci
fcations have been made for a station
to cost 5000. It is expected that
bids will be called for at Washington
within q month.
The following Farmers wife" re.
cipe for making bread has been highly