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State News In Brief.
Vruit is taking the place of grain on many of |
the farms in Ivlicitat county.
Seattle finds t'ue ownership of its water-works
a profitable investment.
John Walsh, v.v old Dubuque, lowa, canner, |
contemplates starting a cannery at South Bend. |
Thurston county shows a wealth of $12,797,
592, a tine increase over last year's showing.
('raisers are now out in the Snohomish anil j
Pillchuck valleys looking up cottonwood tim- j
ber for the new palp mill at Ijowell.
A New York syndicate is said to be trying to j
corral all lands on the south fork of the Nook- j
Hack, which carry indications of coal.
Waterville, despite '.ta name, has been hereto- ;
fore without water-works; which it will soon j
have, and also an electric light system.
Dr. Royneer, of Pomeroy reports having made j
a fabalons gold strike on the Hed river. He says I
it is a four-foot ledge absolutely thick all over j
with gold.
The fanners of Kittitas county are busily en- j
. gaged with their wheat harvest. The quality of
the grain is excellent, although the average yield j
■will be somewhat less than the early anticipa- j
tions. . I
The tirst coal shaft to be sunk in this state
will be in th? lloslyn mines, at a cost of $300,
--000. It wil. be sunk 600 feet at first. The di- i
j mensigns will be 14x24 feet, and will admit four j
TSges with capacity for hoisting 4000 tons a day.
Corbin's road, the Spokane Falls and Northern,
it seeking other than water connections with the j
Canadian Pacific. It is believed tliat if these :
connections could be secured large quantities of
ore which is now smelted atßevelstoke could be
carried by that road.
W S Jameson, a well-known pioneer and log
inc man of Port Gamble, says: "The lumber
business Meiaa to be improving ia quite a
marked degree. Both mills are now running. |
and seven or eight ships are now at the wharves j
loading lumber for domsstic and foreign ports. !
Lewis county is in a prosperous c.ndition.
H.7wealth thU year is W.79M*. The county
more money iuveste.l in sewing machines
K««;l- ***** in -ty lots, and $0.-^
i 805,331 in acreage.
Th. territorial supreme court of *£*f™
j -A^A three years ago that woman suffrage was
\ "tf court 1 the United States, where I will
Glided during the October term.
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DO YOU KEEP HEMS?
IF SO, TRY THE IMPERIAL EGG FOOD. IT PROMOTES DIGES
TION AND KEEPS THE FOWLS HEALTH )'. IT STIMULATES LA Y
LYC AND FURNISHES JUST WHAT IS REQUIRED TO MAKE EGGS
ITS VALUE IS ATTESTED BY THE FACT THAT IT IS USED IN
NEARLY ALL THE LARGE POULTRY YARDS IN THE UNITED
STATES. IT ONL F COSTS SI FOR TWO AND ONE-HALF POUNDS,
AND ONLY NEEDS A TEASPOONFUL AT A M E.I L FOR TWENTY
FOWLS.
ports. The law library is almo»1 complete. In J
■ short ti.nc tho commission will purcha ■ a
number of hifitoricalj'and scientific >v:>rk* and
hook* of reference.
Puget sound herring, cured <'m<l packed at
Point Roberts, are declared to be superior to tho J
Eastern fish. The curing of herring is destined j
t<> become v. leading industry on the Sound. |
The waters of the Gulf of Georgia and all the j
bays and inlets thereof Bwarm with this fish at j
certain seasons of the year.
The three colleges at Spokane havo consolida- i
ted to form a oniversity, with a present fund, in
land, of about 1250,000 and immediate expectu-;
tions of about $150,000 more. There will bean
academic, a le<»al, a medical and a theological
department. Key. 11. E. Bisbee, of Cambridge,
Slass., will be president of the university. The
deanahip of the law school has beed offered to
Edmund P. Dole, of the Seattle, reoentlj of the
New Hampshire bar.
The farmers of thU coast go hopping around
from one thing to another. If one happens to
strike a good thing in a crop one season all his
neighbors pitch into it the next and the thing is
overdone. A few struck it rich on potatoes in
southern California last year. This year there
wen thousands of acres planted and the market
will be glutted, the yield being enormous It i
the same in other —Fairhaven Herald.
Shipbuilding over on Grays harbor goi - brave
ly forward. Already one largo ocei sailing
vessel, the Weatherwax, has been launched from
there this year, and tho four-masted barkentine.
Chehalis, to have a carrying capacity of 1,000,
--000 feet of lumber, will get afloat September Gth,
when another vessel of lesser proportions will be
immediately placed on the stocks. Captain A.
M. Simpson, the millionaire lumber king of San
Francisco, is superintending in person the com
pleting of the Chehalis.
Indian John is a well-known rancher of the
Teannway. A few months ago he lost his wife,
which he charged to the evil iniluence of a
medicineman named Jacob. He made an on
slaugh on J&cob and the law had to interfere. A
short time after this his only daughter died, and
last week her husband was killed by being run
over by a locomotive. Indian John is now
more than ever convinced that Nemesis is
camped on his trail and that his days are num
bered. — Herald.
Col. D.l*. Jenkins, who, for many years, lived
in Seattle, now a wealthy resident of Spokane,
lias brought suit against the Northern L'acitic
railroad at that place for the recovery of land
donated by him as right-of-way in the city limits
on the north side, on the grounds that the com
pany has forfeited its rights by neglecting to
run trains for a year over the road. One of the
points in the contract was that the company
should erect and keep open a depot on Monroe
streat. This the company lias not done during
the year the road was id'e. The laud is very
valuable and the suit will prove an interesting
one. Mr. Jenkins claims (£O,O damages for
the failure of the company in not putting in a
s:d» track, as agreed, the return of the land nnd
the #700;) specified in the contract for th-- failure
; to maintain the depot.
Talouse Country Xews.
H. H. Griffin, a sturdy old farmer liv
ing within two miles of Garfield, took a
! wild ride down First street Saturday
! nooa, in an open buggy behind a pair
!of frightened horses. The team became
} unmanageable as Mr. Griffin turned the
corner at Coonradt's grooerv, and fairly
| Hew down the street. Before reaching
JBartlett street the tongue dropped
down. As the team crossed the side
walk within a foot of the band 6taud the
tongne went under the walk and broke
I ill the same time raising the buggy
several feel in the air. Bui on they
j wen! for thirty yards, when one of the
horses fell and the jig was up. The old
gentleman took a frightful spin and was
lucky to escape unhurt. The damage
'to tiio buggy amounted to a broken
i tongue and dashboard whilo one of the
j horses was slightly scratched up: — San.
The body oE the unfortunate Peter
Paulus, who was drowned last spring at
I Zirngibl & Sherman's mill, was found
• Sunday evening, says the News. The
I remains were discovered by Goodwin
i Wrighi about .1 mile and a hali below
j the mill in a slough between a small
island and the west bank of the river.
I When the nver is high the.water flows
! through ibis slough. The body drifted
into it but was caught by the thick
underbrush which arches over the nar
i row passage. The remains were badly
decomposed. The head had rotted away
from the body and the trunk was only
heid together by the clothes. The
j coroner was notitied but did not consid
!ei an investigation necessary so the
body was buried Monday.
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Last week a warrant was placed in
j the hands of Constable Moore for the
! arrest of Henry S. Hazlitt, on the
| charge of cutting and removing timber
| from government lands. tiazlil! some j
time ago took a contract to furnish sev- :
eral thousand posts to the Union Pacific, ]
I and had nearly completed his work when !
: he was taKen to Cobut d'Alene City by \
I Deputy U. S. Marshal Dryden. . Mr.
j Eazlitt is well known here, where he has
lived for a number of years ard has
a number of friends, ail of whom refuse
! to believe him guilty of wilfully violat- j
j ing the law. He claims that he cut no
I green timber except what was on his
I own land, and all that was takon from
| government land was fallen, Jie was
j giveu a preliminary hearing before Com
| missioner Hoffman Wednesday, the re
! suit of which we have not heard, but
i there is no anxiety among his friends as
' to the outcome. — Tekoa Globe.
On Friday last as Thomas Liddle wa6 ',
! driving out of town in his hack his team
became frightened and ran away, says
the Commoner. The cause of the team
taking fright was a portable engine be-
I longing to Jamee Adams-, which was be-1
I ing moved along the road. One of these
I engines is a bad affair to bo allowed upon
I a public highway, when most carefully
j guarded with respect, to passing teams, j
i But in this instance, jnst as the team of
I Mr. Liddle was noar it, th • engine blew
off steam, startling the horses and caus
ing them to run away. Mr. Liddle was
j thrown from his hackand biidlyjamtn d
I up, though no bones were broken. Ho
jis ble to be about again. The toaai
j and hack were fortunately but little
>' damage,!. Men who handle portable
ARE YOU BUILDING?
IF So IT WILL PAY YOU TO GET OUR PRICES OX BUILDING
MATERIAL. WE HANDLE ALL KINDS, EXCEPT LUMBER, AND
WE SELL MOST OF IT AT A MUCH LOWER PRICE THAN HAS
EVER BEEN CUSTOMARY IN THIS COUNTRY BEFORE. WE
MAKE SPECIAL LEADERS OF LIME AND PLASTER, SHINGLES
AND NAILS, SASH AND DOORS, PAINTS AND OILS. WE HAVE
A STOCK OF VERY SUPERIOR TERRA COTTA DRAIN AND CHIM
NEY PIPE AND FANCY CHIMEY TOPS.
±r uiiiiictll, w aSfllnglOH.
j engines on the public iiigliways should
I bo required to exercifie«gjcat care in
i casc3 of meeting or passing teams. Un
less euch care i;i exercised the busy har
vesting season of tho next few weeks
will witness many such accidents as the
'above, only possibly muoh m;>re fatal
; and damaging in their character. En
■ gine men. be careful.
Few people realize what the produc- j
j tiyo capacity of Whitman, the banner '
agricultural county of Washington, is, j
' sa\s the Garfleld Enterprise. Under'
; the present system of utilizing its re- I
sources it is now probably producing I
I one-half of what it is capable of doing, |
but whi large farms are subdivided,
| fruit is grown more extensively, and the '.
' country is in a more thorough state of ;
cultivation, tho increase will be many
fold. This year the county will export
about $8,760,500, divided as follows :
10,000,000 bushels of whe-it at 75 cents,
87,500,000; 800,000 bushels of barley at
50 cents, 8400,000; 500,000 bushels of \
.oats at 50 cents, 8250,000; 100,000]
\ bushels of flax at $1, 8100,000: 150.000 I
bushels of potatoes at 50 cents, 875,000;
! 500 tons of fruit at $40, $20,000; 2,500 |
j horses at $75, $187,500; 3,000 head of
j cattle at 820. 860,000; 10,000 mutton
| sheep at $2, $20,000; 300,000 pounds of
; wool at 16 cents, $48,000; butter, eggs j
! and vegetables to the amount of 8100,- j
i 000. This is the product of the county |
i when it is but half developed, and the j
; part that is put to use is but imper
fectly so: yet but few counties in I
America can surpass it, and when the j
resources of the county are fully util
ized it will scarcely have a peer between
tho Atlantic and Pacific.
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Preparations are now being made to
i place the school land, one luile east of i
Moscow, upon the market in October. j
1 Since Moscow had its birth a portion of
this school section has beeu used as a
cemetery for the city and adjacent coun
try. It is now proposed to divide this
property up into tea-acre los, with
! streets eighty feet wide, and thus dis- j
j pose of it to the highest bidder, $10 per
acre being the lowest amount the state
will receive for its lands. A cemetery
association is now being formed to se
cure a traot of this land, forty acres at
the very least, plat it into cemetery lots.
I dispose of such lots at a reasonable
valuation, convert all profits into im
provements for the. cemetery, as tree
setting, making beautiful drives and ;
j walks, and, in fact, making our cemetery
| a beautiful home of the dead. When
I this sale takes placo any person who
! would co far forget himself as to enter j
■in any rivalry by bidding against the
, cemetery association would ba one not
1 deserving the name of a man, or en-1
■ titled to a place in manhood. We are I
: satisfied that there are none among us
'of that disposition.' Of the association'
we learn thnt care will be exercised in
selecting trustees, who are men of prob
ity, excellent judgment, and thoroughly
reliable and honest. This is a move,
coming at last, thnt has beeu looked
forward to for many years -the making
of a beautiful homo for our dead.—Star.
The \> heat Outlook.
ILcdger.]
Every computation made shows tho
wheat crop of Europe is far short of the
average this year, while our crop i.s an
excellent one. There will, therefore, be
a very strong demand made on us for
food products for the coming year. and '
our market is sure to be active. The
gold that has been going away to Europe i
;in sui'li a prodigious stream for some
months past, must soon come back, and
tho indications are that it will come far
more rapidly than it went away.
William E. Bear, of New Fork, has J
lately published a summary of the crop ;
conditions in all the wheat producing
countries. Mr. Uear is reported to bo a
yery conservative statistician, and his
; figures have attracted very general at
tention in the east. He finds that the
crops in all the wheat-exporting coup- ',
' tries of the old world, without exception, \
is far below the average. The figures i
showing the probable export for these
countries for this year are as follows:
Kii^iu 40,0U<i,000
Austro Hungary 8,000,000
Ronmanin I JJ0,000,000
Bulgaria and Servia 12.000,000
India H3,000,000
Total 123,000,000
The countries which usually imported
wheat will require a much larger supply
than heretofore, the total demand for
the year being estimated as follows:
IMPOI.TINIi COI"NTKIi:S.
United Kingdom 145,000.000
Prance 85,000,000
Italy 25,000,000
Spain anil Portugal 16,000,000
Germany 35,000,000
Switzerland 8,000,000
Turkej 10,000.000
Other countries 82,000,000
Total 806,000,000
Then^ is=. therefore, the enomous de
liciency of 183,000,000 bishela to bo ex- j
ported from America. The principal de
pendence, of course, will be upon the
United Slates, for the South American
countries, although famous wheat grow
crn, have but little forexpoit when com- ;
p;ired with the vast whole. The maxi
mum export of Chili is about 2,500,000
bushels, and that of the Argentine Re
public a little over 8,000,000 bushels, po
that the United States and Canada will
have a foreign market this year for near
ly 178,000,000 bushels of wheat. The
greatest export from the United States I
for any one year since 187 V) was 1~>3,000,
--[ 000 bushels, which was exported in 1880.
lln 1881 the export \v:is 151.000,000; in
1883, 106,000,000; in 1887, 102.000.000.
In other years the total export varied
from 50,000,000 to 95.000,000 bushels.
It seems cle;ir, therefore, that large as
our crops are in nearly eveiv part of
our country, there will* be a strong de
mand for every busUe'i for export, and at
j ractioajiy our own prices.
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