Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-03-14
STATE NEWS.

A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.
A big starch factory is to be erected
at Tacoma.
Tacoma is to have 2,OOO- barrel per
day fiour-mill.
North Yakima Catholics will build
$20, 900 cathedral this summer.
There are ten cases of smallpox in
the insane asylum at Steilacoom.
Eighteen men deserted from the
army post at Walla Walla, one day
last week.
Experiments in raising tobacco in
Snohomish county have been highly
successful.
Spokane has 7,434 school children
enrolled. OF these 3,543 are boys and
1891 are girls.
A fir.door factory is under construc-
ton at Chehalis. The city has va.
Gated certain streets to give it "elbow
room."
Geo. s. Baker q prominent citizen
and Odd Fellow of Colfax, died last
week OF kidney and stomach troubles,
at the age of 63 years. He leaves
wife, con and brother at Colfax.
Hoquiam is to have a new shingle
mill, with capacity of 100000 shin
giles per day, which will employ so
hands to start with. Its projectors
are R. F. Little and J. r. Kuhn.
B. w. High, . we'll known citizen of
Montesono, lost his life last week, at
Caldwells logging camp, near Ocosta.
The deceased was cutting q prop from
under q windfall when the mass of
logs fell upon him, crushing his head
to a shapeless mass.
Aberdeen is to have paper mill, to
be built by Eastern capital. 1t will
be what is known as . sulphide fiber
plant, and will make manila and ex.
press papers from spruce and hemlock
pulp. The company is capitalized as
500, 900 and will have a capacity of
eight tons per day.
The Inland Empire Retail Drug
gists' Association held its regularly
quarterly session Wednesday evening
of last week, in the parlors Of the
Hotel Palouse, at Palouse. The ses-
sion was both for business and pleas.
ure, and after brief business session
q banquet was served in the hotel din.
ing room. and q smoker was held.
Adam Eckert marketed {. 900 baskets
of grapes last season from his four.
acre vinyard at Detroit, in Mason
county. The baskets contained eight
pounds of fruit and averaged 25 cents
each in the local markets. The var
iety was principally Concord and all
other kinds will be discarded for this
popular market grape, as it bears well
and sells better than any other grown
here.
The Yakima Commercial Club has
adopted a resolution asking the Secre-
tary Of the Interior to close Rainier
forest reserve to stock after this year.
The matter was brought to the atten.
ton Of the club by the Yakima Hus-
bandry Association, which is COM
posed Of farmers and cattlemen. The
Commercial Club some months ago
asked the Interior Department to per-
init grazing on the reserve. and has
heretofore stood with the sheep-raisers.
John Case, who keeps q small
candy store at Spokane, last week, re-
ceived Information that he, with .
sister living q few miles from that
city, Mrs. E. 8. Hill, and another
sister, Mrs. Rachael Marsh. OF Mount
Carmel, ILL.,, have fallen heir to half q
million dollars from the old Case
estate in Cleveland, Ohio. The value
of the estate is placed At $50 OO0, 600.
It is to be divided among about
twenty lineal descendants and several
indirect heirs.
A large pulp and paper mill, capa.
bic Of supplying the trade of the en-
tire Northwest, will be added to the
manufacturing industries centered
in Tacoma in the near future. Half
of the capital necessary to equip the
mill has already been supplied by
prominent Wisconsin capitalists. to
which Henry Hewitt, Jr., has added
$50, 900. An option has been secured
on large body of spruce timber, and
only the arrangement Of few details
is necessary before the definite an
nouncement OF the beginning OF oper-
atoms 10 made.
A telegram was received recently by
the Chamber OF Commerce, at Everett,
stating that q favorable report had
been received from the Treasury De.
partment authorizing the expenditure
OF $4,000 for a lighthouse and fog
station at Mukilteo point. The re-
port is now being considered by the
Senate Committee on Commerce.
Marine men and navigators as we'll as
the business men of Everett and
other Sound cities sent in several pati-
tions to our representatives in Wash.
ington regarding this station. Mukil-
teo point is regarded as extremely
dangerous to navigation, owing to the
configuration OF the coast line, which
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