Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-08-09
svashiagtua Standard
STATE NEW S.
a Brief Summary of News Gathered from All
Parts of the State.

stocked with cIawtish.
The sockeye salmon run is so large
on Puget Sound that, it is reported,
the fish had to fight desperately for a
chance to get into the traps.
The Seattle City Council will con-
slider proposition to raise retail
liquor licenses from 5000 to $1,000
and wholesale fees from 5000 to $3.50
per annum.
L. Henderson, an employee in an
Aberdeen sawmill met an accidental
death in the mill last week by being
caught in a swiftly revolving belt and
his body was terribly mangled. He
leaves widow and two children.
William S. Williams who was ar
rested at Walla Walla recently for
having criminal relations with Il To-
year-old girl, tried, convicted and sem
fenced, and within one hour and a
hnlf after his arrest was beginning
four years term in the penitentiary.
A man named Geo. Garner was sent
10 the penitentiary for a years term
simply for defrauding Josephine O'Day
at Tacoma out OF two dollars on
bogus check. Had it been 500 he
would doubtless have been sent up for
so years, which is equivalent to II lie
sentence.
G. b. lie and AL. Lynch, of Colville,
ost so acres of fine oats almost ready
Tor harvest by the filling in of trestle
on the Spokane Falls & Northern
Railway. The line fence of the field
Was built to the trestle, which was
also a cattle guard. When the trestle
was filled in no cattle guard was sup
piled, and the next morning nearly Go
head of stock were ranging in the
field.
A late number of the Tacoma News
says: The long spars that are seen
on the Northern Pacific cars for the
Atlantic seaboard are made by ]. B.
Jonas & Sons, at their spar camp near
Tenino, in Thurston county. The big
sticks sent out 60 to the ship-building
yards Of Maine, and also to New Bruins
wick. They range from GO to 12O
feet in length and from II to 80
inches in diameter. They are eight
squared, and are loaded on 10 flat-cars
two cars to load. Mr.. Jonas and his
boys are we'll known in Tacoma, where
hey haue lived, in aud near the city,
for several years.
Fruit shipments out of North Yak
ina now average from 1000 to 1900
boxes per day. Over 200 cars OF
peaches and pears will be shipped
from the lower valley this season.
Later on immense prnne crops will be
sent out, mostly to the East. Re-
ports from Eastern commission men
are at present very flattering. A car
OF Yakima peaches sold in Boston last
week ut $40 a box. Yakima farms
will this year turn off the largest crop
of fruit on record. The westbound
trains are bringing from one to two
cars day to the Sound, and returns
to shippers amount to nearly $4,000
. week.
The other night at Seattle five young
women found man under their bed
The discovery of the burglar was made
in the home of M. N. Robinson, who
resides at 1,011 East Union street.
The young women, who are clerks in
= local drygoods store, discovered the
man under the bed, and Immediately
summoned assistance by . unison Of
screams, which resoudded throughout
the neighborhood. The noise proved
too much for the intruder's nerves
He broke cover and fed precipitately
through the hall and into the street
Here two young men who had heard
the alarm gave chase down Pine street
and into Pike, where the fleeing burg
lar was overtaken and led back t.
Robinson's house. The young womer
identified him and the patrol wager
was summoned. The man gave thu
name of John Williams and said thai
until recently he had been employed
by Sells & Gray's circus in the ca
pacity ola cook.
Prof. Fulmer states that the outool
for sugar beets in Eastern Washington
is magnificent. Speaking of the prob
able yield, he says: II shall not b,
surprised if many fields yield 20 toni
per acre, as some predict, although
hardly expect such large yield.
really expect about Is tons per acre
While the per cent. Of sugar is no
likely to be rs high as last year, wher
it averaged about Is per cent. owing
to the dry season, yet We never get ,
lower per cent. of sugar in thi
country. The per cent. has neve
been as low as IL in this country
The prices this year are the same as il
the past years, 81 per ton for beet
averaging II per cent sugar, and q
cents additional for each l per cent
We rented land, paying So per acr'
cash, and we figured that if we cal
rent land, paying cash, hire all it
help at % per cent. more than it j
really worth, and come out even, tn
farmer who owns the land, his team
tools, etc., has some boys to help il
hoeing and timing, can make BIZ
money in raising sugar beets."