Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-03-29
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered from All
Parts of the State.

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Everett will hold race meet July
4-5-6.
Colfax will adopt system OF house.
numbering.
The new creamery at Uniontown
will be in operation by April Is.
The Boys and Girls Aid Society
Of Seattle will build new home.
The steamer Majestic was launched
At the Everett shipyard Saturday.
Prohibitionists of Eastern Washing.
ton will assemble at Spokane April 3.
Whitman College has received a
gilt of $1,000 from an Eastern philan-
thropist.
The enlargement OF the State Nor
NAL school at New Whatcom is to be
begun at once.
An Eastern syndicate has been pros
pecting for gold near Getchell, Sno.
homish county.
Henry Kampeter, of North Yakima,
has planted 33 varieties of onions to
determine the kind best suited to the
Yakima Valley.
The new wing OF the Normal school
at New Whatcom will have six class
rooms, twelve recitation rooms, and
an auditorium.
The Electric Light Co. of Aberdeen
propose to make improvements on it's
plant which, when completed, will
have cost fully $4,000.
Contracts have been signed at
Aberdeen by Louis Kern, H. Rutshow
and Henry Knust OF Seattle, for a
brewery to cost $4,000.
There is an increasing demand for
heavy draft horses, says a Colfax dis
patch, and the Palouse country is be.
ing secured by Eastern buyers.
1t is reported tina. the Pacific Sheet
Metal Works of Fairhaven has gone
into the trust being formed under the
name OF the American Can Company
The Yakima Creamery and Produce
Company has organized at Yakima
City. Machinery will be put in for q
plant of 1000 pounds Of butter per day
Goldendale will have city election
April l. The saloon issue will be
paramount. At present the town has
two saloons which pay an annual tax
of $500 each.
H. r. Cayton, editor of the Seattle
Republican, was arrested Saturday
night on charge of criminal libel,
the complaining witness being Chief
OF Police Meredith.
A new sawmill will be erected on
the Chehalis river west OF Centralia,
on the site of the one burned last
Fall. The new mill will be of larger
capacity than the old one.
David A. Grim, farmer whose land
adjoins the town of Colfax, on the
north, has received a letter from the
Department of Agriculture. at WASH
ingion, informing him that his wheat
was among the lot that captured the
grand prize at the Paris Exposition.
The quail, commonly known as
"Bob Whites" imported from Kan
sas and turned loose in various parts
of Whitman county several years ago,
are doing we'll, and there are a mum.
Der Of birds in the vicinity OF Garfield.
Bryan Westacott, who lives three
miles south of Garfield, near the
Palouse river, says more than fifty of
the birds are living ON his farm.
At a meeting Of the City Council Of
Aberdeen, Saturday night, Alderman
Benn presented a resolution, which
was passed, giving the Mayor power to
appoint an expert to investigate the
accounts of ex-City Attorney Cross,
who, Benn alleges, is short in his pay.
meuts to the city for collection of
street improvement taxes. A sharp
fight was made against Cross re-elec-
ton in November last, and he was de.
feated. Cross has sent communica-
ton to the Council alleging that he
has been victimized by false receipts
made out by his stenographer, Savage,
who left several months ago, and is
wanted on charge of forgery by sew
eral business men to whom he gave
checks, signed in Cross name. The
charges are causing a sensation, as
Cross is a prominent lawyer and a
member of the Methodist church. The
affairs of the city have been run in
rather a lax way until the new ad-
ministration came in, and the Mayor
has recommended full investigation
of all the city's finances in the past.
Mr.. Cross friends say the proceedings
are simply done for political effect.
Lizzie Bosqui and Pearl Evans, aged
Is and IA years, were Saturday bound
over to the Superior Court for at.
tempting to burn the Central school
building at Dayton February 22d
Gladys Cunningham, aged l3 years
was acquitted On like charge, the
date of her alleged offense being
February I. knowledge OF the CRIME
is due to a reward OF $3.50 offered by
! the County Court of Columbia county