Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Items OF Interest Gathered Here, There and
Everywhere.

Items Of Interest Gathered Here, There and
Everywhere.
An Inland Empire Historical So
ciety has been organized at Spokane,
to preserve records OF early history.
Washington has been fortunate in
leading all other districts in the ex-
hibits of lumber at the Lewis and
Clark exposition, receiving in the
awards thirty-three gold and ten silver
medals.
Already the steamship Dakota,
scheduled to sail for the Orient ports
December l6, has been booked full OF
freight. Eastern exports have taken
all the space allotted them, and refuse
to yield any of it to the local shippers.
Samuel Osborne, of Tacoma, lately
sold 3Ol acres of tide-land on Wapato
Creek, extending from the Puyallup
bridge to the box factories, for $780,.
324 or 81 200 per acre. He purchased
the tract about ten years ago for $i5
per acre.
A few days ago Mrs. Agnes Lester
was divorced from her husband, at Ia
coma, the provisions OF the decree tax.
ing one OF her children from her. She
has since become insane over the sepa-
ration and is now an inmate of the
Steilacoom asylum.
Seattle celebrated her fifty-fourth
birthday on November ID. A granite
shaft, presented to the city by Miss
Lenora Denny, was unveiled at Alki
Point, where, tifty-four years ago,
twelve adults and twelve children, pill
grim fathers and mothers OF the pres
ent generation, landed.
The Shaw Crucible Co. announces
that work will begin at Damon's point,
North beach, building plant for
manufacturing tool steel direct from
the black sand. Dwellings for the
officers and employees of the company
and hotel will be erected. The
company has been incorporated with
100000 capital stock.
Survey ship Patterson has returned
to Seattle from the north, where it
has been surveying practically un-
known waters and collecting data for
new charts which will be issued by
the United States as soon as the in
formation obtained by the Patterson
can be put into shape. The present
charts now in use are inaccurate to an
alarming degree, and the government,
is making an effort to correct the fault.
The board of directors for the en-.
,erprise has decided that an Alaska.
Yukon exposition shall be held in Sc.
attic in 1907, and that it shall be
confined wholly to the display of the
resources of Alaska and the Yukon,
the directors voting to abandon all
idea Of making the undertaking either
a Pacific Coast or a worlds exposition
for fear that the diversified interests
which would be attracted here would
make what is now the main idea a
mere incident in the scheme Of ex-
ploitation.
"A bill for opening the south half of
the Colville Indian reservation to white
settlement will again be introduced in
the House this winter by Representa-
tive Jones. The measure failed last
year because OF an objection that the
Indian rights were not properly safe
guarded. 1t is expected that Inspec'
tor Mclaughlin, who is now in the
Colville reservation for the purpose OF
making an examination of these native
rights, will make his report within a
few days, and that this will clear the
way for the new bill providing for
throwing open the reservation to set.
Element.
The annual fish product OF the State
amounts to SIC, 1861 ,3638O. The capt.
tai employed is $4,365, 600; the gross
earnings of labor amount to $3,0l8..
S65, and persons employed to I'LL.
In Puget Sound district "a salmon
canneries we're operated, Z cold storage
plants, 4 fertilizer factories, Goldfish
plants, 2 clam canneries, 36 steam
boats, 26 Launches, q pile-drivers. 300
scows, 625 fishing boats and dories,
l4l pound.nets, 81 purse seines, GO
drag seines, SCI set nets and BAT gill.
nets. The pack aggregates follow:
Salmon, 1,0l8, 64l cases, of which $685..
SAB were sockeyes; $500 boxes OF
CLANS packed, and 31.905,00 pounds
of fresh, sailed and smoked fish shipped
and consumed locally. The shell fish
output included 5000 boxes of clans,
IS, 600 dozen crabs and 225, 900 pounds
of shrimps. There were $4,000 sacks
of native oysters and $50 boxes of
Eastern oysters marketed in the Puget
Sound district, employing 500 men at
wages OF $250,OO0, and 500 acres Of
native and 80 acres OF Eastern oysters
cultivated.