Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-03-20
STATE EWS,
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
All Parts of the State.

A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
| All Parts Of the State.
The name of Claquato postoffice has
been changed to Littell.
The little town of Toledo has re-
vived the chain-gang to rid itself OF
hobos.
Chehalis has the promise of con-
densed milk plant if it can supply
the product Of 400 COWS.
The damage from the Fairhaven
fire, involving the total destruction of
the Murchison mill, it is said, will
amount to $4,000.
The Comm issioners OF Lewis county
have signified their intention to re-
woke the license OF any saloon which
permits gambling or keeps open on
Sunday.
A policeman at Ballard has re-
signed rather than to wear a uniform,
which did not cost him a cent. He
objec ted principally to the sombrero
with the braid around it.
The w. o. W. lodge of Chehalis
have made arrangements for Arnold's
Big Attraction about the 4th of July,
and it will take the shape of grand
carnival like that held here last fall.
Fireman R. D. Abbott, of the G reat
Northern, who backed the disabled
passenger train from Cascade tunnel
recently when the train crew had been
overcome with gas from the engine,
thus saving the lives OF everybody in
the coaches, has been rewarded with
81 900 in cash by the Great Northern.
The Loggers' Protective Association
at Snohomish has caused the arrest of
quite a number OF men charged with
stealing logs near Everett. Quite a
little sensation was caused over this
matter as one man, at least, was a
mill man who had previously borne a
good reputation. 1t is said that other
arrests will follow.
A shingle-mill plant has been start
ed on an S0-acre tract of cedar near
Elma, said to be the finest body of
timber in the world. The trees range
from q to s feet in diameter. One
tree was recently cut ten feet above
ground where the stump measured
fourteen feet in diameter. The stump
will be trimmed and preserved as q
curio.
The Alaska Packers Association oil
San Francisco, has closed q deal
whereby it comes into possession of
the plant, traps and other fishing ap.
pliances of the North American Fish
cries Co. of Anacortes, one OF the larg.
est salmon canning factories on the
North Pacific Coast, with a capacity
OF 1900 cases day. The considera.
tion is said to be $5OO.OOO.
The N. P. Railway Co. are having
built in the East, twenty monster
locomotives, 5000 box and 1000 fiat.
cars. The locomotives will be larger
than any now in use on the road. Six
OF this number have already been de-
livered and are now in use on the Ia.
coma-Ellensburg division. The weight
of these monster "battleships," as they
are called. is 1911 tons. The new en-.
gine is G8 feet in length, which makes
it impossible to get it entirely under
cover in the present roundhouses.
A new sort OF seine has been intro
duced by fisherman at Blaine which
will, it is thought, reduce the cost of
taking salmon about one-half, or to
seven cents per fish. Every succeed
ing season the increasing cost of the
raw material has been q menace to
the canneries, and the discovery of an
economical method of supply, by in
creasing the intake, will doubtless re-
store trade to its old time activity. It
is hoped. this year, through the new
device, to catch twice as many fish as
heretofore.
A gentleman who has had years OF
practical experience in logging on
Puget Sound writes to neighboring
newspaper that owing to the rapidly
increasing value of merchantable tim.
ber he estimates that Washington's
timber is worth as much to-day as it
ever was, although it is being depleted
at the rate OF two billion feet year.
He instances one 26.acre piece that
was logged off clean six years ago, as
logging was done then, yet from which
he has taken shingle-bolts, piles, ties
and rails to the value of 81 900, besides
large amounts of cord-wood. He says
the old custom of cutting a tree off
six or eight feet above the ground
must be abandoned, and that much of
the timber heretofore left on the
ground to rot or be burned will be
turned to account. There is much
force in the statement. Last year q
Wisconsin mill owner said, after look.
ing over several Puget Sound sawmills ::
"If had the refuse that is burned or
thrown away from any one OF your big
sawmills, and had it at my mill in
Wisconsin, l could accumulate n for
tune in short time by working it up
into merchantable forms and selling
it,"
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