Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-07
NEWS OF THE STATE.


NEWS OF THE STATE.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
All Parts Of the State.
Snow fell to the depth of three
inches in Eastern Washington, last
week.
An investor from Oklahoma bought
farm OF $50 acres, log house and
barn in the Calispel valley, Stevens
county, for a compensation of $40, 900.
Hogs commanded 1926 per hum
dred pounds at Pullman, last week,
steers $3 and cows 81. An Ellensburg
dealer lately shipped 25 carloads Of
lambs to Chicago. There were about
$500 lambs in the bunch"
So scarce is fuel, q carload of coal,
consigned to the Northern Pacific sta.
tion agent at Wilbur, was confscated
by residents of that place, who were
desperately short on the commodity.
Earl Larrabee was appointed weigh.
master and dealt the coal out in 500
pound lots, turning the proceeds over
to Station Agent Hanke.
The Emma Claudina, abandoned at
sea November Ia, has been given up
for lost. Captain Stream of Aberdeen
believes she went ashore in the gale
the night OF November IA, as efforts to
locate the the vessel where she was
left at anchor, have proven fruitless.
Captain Stream has filed a wreck re
port. The men of the schooner lost
all their effects.
Total shipments OF lumber and
shingles from the State of Washington
via the Northern Pacific railroad for
the 6rst 10 months OF 1906 amount to
6l,856 cars. This is 1862 cars more
than we're supplied the lumber indus.
try by the Northern Pacific in the
same ten months OF 1905, and 16,S0O
cars more than we're supplied in the
same period of 1908, says the NeOs.
Moses Sampson, a well.to do Yaki-
ma Indian, now believes in the old ad-
age, at never rains but it pours." He
was on his way to North Yakima, last
week, with two wagon loads of hops
when he was overtsken by the heavy
rain and every bale thoroughly soaked
before shelter could be reached. His
loss is about 81 200. He is said to be
the only Indian hop grower in the
State.
Amos 3. Peters, leader of the Dunk
ard colony, has returned from an ex-
tended trip east with another colony
to settle on new irrigated lands across
the Columbia river from Wenatchee.
This is the second contingent to come
to the valley. Members of the Dunk.
ard colony now occupy that part OF
the Wenatchee valley known as Sunny
slope and no section has been so ra-
pidly developed.
With her sails gone and jigger
boom broken, the schooner Prosper,
flying q signal of distress. was towed
into Gray's Hsrbor few days ago, by
the tug Printer. For the previous so
days the Prosper had tried to make
Shoalwater Bay, but the storm kept
the vessel out. The crew was ex-
hausted and finally, finding that he
could not make his destination, the
captain hoisted . signal Of distress,
which was seen few hours later. The
Prosper will load at Hoquiam.
The old road from Ashford to Long.
mire springs was completely washed
out in the recent floods, and wrecked
beyond repair. The Tacoma fork ol
the Nisqually has changed its course
and bridges that formerly spanned i.
cover dry land. The new govern ment
road had been completed within q
mile of Longmire Spriugs, when the
floods came. One Of the construction
camps was flooded to depth OF three
feet. The road has not been injured
The government engineers have been
forced out by snow which followed
quickly on the cessation OF the rain,
The snow fell . foot deep at Long.
mire's.
Winter irrigation of the Hudson
Bay district below Freewater and Mil.
ton is now in full progress, irrigation
from the big ditch and its laterals
covering an era Of about 10000 acres
OF fruit and alfalfa land. At this sea.
son of the year all of the water from
the Walla Walla and Tumalum rivers
below the Peacock mills at Milton, is
available for winter irrigation, which
has proved to be very successful sys'
tenn in that district. The plan is to
allow the water to flow over the land
until it is thoroughly saturated TO,
several feet below the surface, the
deeper the saturation the better, and
much of the alfalfa land is literally
soaked during the winter months.
Quite number of years ago Jane.
McKinnon, at the time business man
ager OF the Simpson Lumber company
at Sunshine, at the mouth Of the Ma