Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-01-18
NEWS OF THE STATE.

MontcSanO Is 10 nave splendid
concrete hotel in the near future.
Chehalis has raised the price OF
liquor licenses from $500 to $500 per
annum.
Geo. Finley, the convict held in the
State penitentiary year longer than
his sentence justified, has announced
that he will sue the State for unlawful
detention.
Seattle had fall of ten inches of
snow Friday night, the heaviest that
has fell since 1898. The street rail
ways had to clear their tracks with
snow plows.
A Washington, Cd. CO. dispatch
dated the 11th inst, states that Repre-
sentative Cusbman has announced
that he will not be a candidate for re-
election nor for Senator, giving as a
reason declining health.
H. A. Thompson. cook in Mason
County Logging Co. camp, was killed
last Friday about Is miles from Shell
ton, by falling off car, the wheels
crushing his head horribly. Deceased
was about q years of age, had worked
in the camp about a week. and was
said to have u sister in Seattle.
The Tacoma Chamber of Commerce.
accompanied by a party OF friends.
will leave on a special train for an ex'
cursion to California on Feb. 9th.
The special will be equipped with
Pullman sleepers and a dining car.
The party will spend a week in visit.
ing the principal objects OF interest in
that State.
ID. +. Percival, the pioneer banker
Of Cheney and for five consecutive
terms Mayor OF that city, died sud.
denly Friday night. He was father
OF the Cheney normal school bill. He
was a veteran of the civil war, crossed
the plains in his early manhood and
participated in many of the stirring
incidents of pioneer life.
Another raise in the price OF fir logs
is announced at Gray's Harbor. No.
l fir now commands $12, No. 2 is
listed at So; spruce at $40 and cedar
at SO. Logs have jumped so per cent.
in the last two years. This advance
is notable more in fir than in either
spruce or cedar. The stumpage at the
harbor has increased to SIS per thous-
and.
T. H. Bellows, an employe of the
Singer Sewing Machine Co. was vigor-
ously attacked with symptoms OF
poisoning Immediately after eating
pork, purchased at a Walla Walla
market, one day last week. 1t is sup.
posed the meat was from hogs Of.
hicted with cholera which is prevalent
in some parts Of that county. Doc.
tors call it suistoxin, but high
toned name probably does not render
it less distressing or indeed less dan.
gerous.
Washington leads all other States
in the extent of her lumber output.
For the first time in the history OF
the State, Washington in 1905 led sll
other States in the output of lumber.
Up to 1890 it's output was 80 small
that it was given no position on the
producers scale, but in that year it
started out in sixth place, being led by
Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin, and with Michigan in first
place. Ten years later, or in 1909,
Washington had advanced but one
place, with Wisconsin at the head
But in 1904 Washington is found in
second place, and Wisconsin still in
the lead, aud in 1905 Wisconsin re.
linqdished it's position and Washing.
ton marched. into the lead with a
total cut OF 4 4.9l7 1853 NJ feet. It is a
notable fact that. while the State of
New York has 1,l67 lumber mills as
against 557 like establishments in the
State of Washington, that States
lumber production in 1905 was about
one.sixth of the product in the West.
ern State. Outside of New York
i Washington has the greatest number