Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-04-07
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Gathered Here, There and
Everywhers.

Tony Juerwick has been sentence,
at Seattle, to Ii years in the peniten
tiary for burglary.
According to Senator Carey l.. Stew
art, who has just completed a tour o.
the Puyallup valley, the hop acreage
of the valley this season will show
70 per cent. increase this year.
David Aschenbrenner, who elope,
| with his brothers wife and was cap
tured by his father, after sever
fight, pleaded guilty at Colfax, las
week, to a charge Of unlawful co
habitatiOn. The maximum penalt,
is six months in the county Jail and ,
5000 fine.
Snow fell throughout the Palous'
country last week. In some localities
it reached depth OF four inches, an(
1t Is estimated fully that as much fell a
Colfax, but it melted as fast as it fel
and was absorbed into the soil. North
OF there the snow remained on the
ground for several days.
The new county of Benton has 5.
600, an assessed valuation OF ~ 100000
and is formed from Yakima county
and a small portion of klickitat. II
also has 10000 acres of irrigated land
with 100000 more that will be irri
gated within five years and is destined
TO be one of the richest counties iu
Washington. Prosser is the county
seat and is growing rapidly.
The Board of County Commission
ers of'Pierce. have appointed John
Blaauw as manager of the Pierce
county exhibit at the Lewis and Clark
Fair. The Commissioners did not GO
into details in making the appoint.
ment, and left the question of salary
open. MIR. Blaauw appeared before
the board and outlined his plan oil
making the exhibit noteworthy one.
At meeting OF the Congregational
Church held at Walla Walla, last week
resolutions were unanimously adopted
protesting against the acceptance by
the American Board of Commissioners
of foreign missions of the gift from
John ID. Rockefeller. The resolutions
set out that the members of the local
church do not think that Christian
society should accept money acquired
by iniquitous methods and in defiance
of the law. The resolutions will be at
once forwarded to the prudential COM
mittee OF the American board.
Port Angeles experienced vexing
water famine five days last week and
had it not been for the presence in the
city of private wells scattered at con.
venient locations the inconvenience
would have been something dreadful
AS it was it was deplorable to say the
least. The trouble was near the in
take where shifting of dirt opened
the badly decayed pipes and prevented
sufficient pressure being secured to
force the water over Pine hill from
Tumwater valley. 1t took several
men three days to find the cause, and
two more to remedy same. A good
supply is now in the pipes.
The Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany has put a large part of Its re.
naming lands in w Washington and
Idaho on the market again, after hav.
ing them off for reclassitication for
ten months. The lands listed again
for sale aggregate about $3.50 acres,
OF which 20, ,l30 are in Clarke, Cowliiz
and King counties; 1O.400 acres in
Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce and
Thurston counties aud $40 acres in
Kootenai county. Idaho. The lands
are classified as timber, mixed timber
and farm lands. They vary in price
from 81 to $l2 an acre or less. The
company requires cash for its timber
lands, while other lands may be
bought on five or ten-year credit plans
The company sells its lands direct
through it's own land office at Tacoma.
Senator Foster, on retiring from the
Senate, said that he was satisfied with
the result of the work he has been
able to accomplish during the past six
years. His record shows a total OF
eighty-four bills passed in the Senate
with q total of fifty-seven that became
laws. The oil fuel proposition is the
most serious proplem now confronting
the coal producers in the State OF
Washington. AS result Of the in.
creasing use of oil as a steam produc-
ing fuel few OF the mines in the State
are now running on more than hall
time, and the demand for coal shows
a large decrease. Not only is the coal
output affected by the more general
use of oil in California, but it is being
felt in the local demand. In the local
field, where there has always been q
good demand for coal, oil is coming into
use and is said to be proving most
satisfactory. 1t is being largely used
by the Sound steamers, and some OF
the Tacoma manufacturers are adopt.
ing it as fuel in the place of coal.
A timber testing station is to be To-
Gated at the Washington State Uni
versity, the regents having set aside
$5 500 for that purpose. During the
last session OF the Legislature the
lumber interests of the State support.
ed and worked for the passage Of a
bill providing for the establishment of
a timber station at the university, but
it was loston account of the size Of the
general appropriation bills. The re.
gents took the position that as a recog'
milton of the needs of the lumber in.
dustry they were under obligations to
put in the station as a regular part oi
the civil engineering work. "The new
station will be for the purpose of test
ing structural material, especially tim
ber and cement" President Kane is
quoted as saying: ave already have
considerable money invested in thi:
work, and before the year is over viii
have plant worth about " 800. Tht
apparatus we will install will be Al
outlined by the federal authorities
While no definite arrangements have
been made. in all probability the Unit
ed States government will put an ex
pert in charge of the station. Th'
work OF the new station will be o
great value to the lumber interests o
the State, and especially SO il gov