Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-05-01
STATE NEWS.

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Five members of the Salvation Army
at North Yakima have seeded.
The machinery for the flax mill al
Whatcom is being built, and will be
ready about June 1st.
A family named Keller have been
suffering, in Hoquiam, from trichina,
having eaten of improperly cured
pork.
All the members of the Electrical
Workers Union, OF Spokane, went on
a strike Monday. The trouble arose
over question of pay for overtime.
The postoffice at Orting was bur
glarized Wednesday night, the safe
broken open and from 800 to $500
worth OF stamps distracted therefrom.
The health officer at Seattle dis
covered = mild case of smallpox, about
two blocks from police headquarters
Monday. The patient was immediate
ly quarantined.
The home OF o. A. Turnbow, near
Colfax, was destroyed by fire Saturday.
The house, which was completely
burned. was valued at 81 500, only
partially covered by insurance.
Word reached Port Townsend Tues
day, from Neah Bay, that six Indian
sealers, OF the schooner Deeahks,
which carried full Indian crew, were
lest while sealing off Cape Flattery.
Horation N. Belt, Populist Mayor of
Spokane, has been denounced by the
Populist county central committee,
for the position the Mayor is said to
have assumed on the question of
fusion.
The dead body OF an unknown man
was found in the bay at Seattle last
Tuesday. There was frightful wound
on the right side of the head, but the
real cause OF death has not been as
certained.
Judge Miller, Of Vancouver, last
Monday, ordered Ollie Hartzell. of La
Camas, committed To the reform
school at Chehalis. The girl is an
orphan, II years old. She is reported
to be incorrigible.
A cougar recently went into Robert
Wallace's barn, near Messy Rock, in
Lewis county, and carried Off a pig.
Wallace and two neighbors went after
the beast with dogs, and freed and
killed it. 1t measured over seven feet.
Walter Geiger, a boy Is years old,
was knocked down a coal chute at the
bunkers in Whatcom last Sunday
morning. and carload OF coal came
pouring down on top of him. He was
so badly injured that he has only a
slight chance of recovery.
Rose Hester, the 81 year old daughter
OF Mrs. Kester of Spokane. jumped
from the second story of the Alki
block in Spokane, head first to the
sidewalk. Strange to say, no bones
were broken and the girl does not
appear to be badly injured.
Miss Edith Leonard died at Seattle
Monday morning from an overdose of
morphine. taken with suicidal intent.
She left letter to her mother, in
which she said that life was not worth
living, because Earl" had forsaken
her. Earl is q well.known hack. driver.
The little girl of Frank Endsley,
OF Colfax, met with serious and
probably vatal accident Wednesday BY
drinking part of the contents of a
small can OF lye. 1t was only the very
prompt administration Of the proper
antidOtes that has made life possible
for the little one.
A birthday party OF more than usual
interest was held at the Mock farm,
one mile north of Oakesdale, Sunday,
the occasion being the Oath anniver-
sary of the birth OF " Grandpa" Mock.
More than 40 children, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren were present.
The old man has full possession of all
his faculties.
At 1916 P. NJ. Friday the dry kiln at
the Metcalf & Wade shingle mill at
Anacortes, was discovered to be on
fire, and in less than 80 minutes both
the kiln and contents and the mill
proper had been totally destroyed. 1t
is believed that the fire resulted from
spontaneous combustion. Nearly L.
0O0, 900 shingles were also burned.
There were two fires At Hillyard
Monday morning at 2 O'Clock. One
consumed q residence and a grocery
store. The residence was valued at
5000 and the grocery store and con-
tents 500. The other fire was in the
Great Northern carshops, and for a
time threatened the coal-bunkers, but
was extinguished with but little dam.
age.
1t is claimed that there is snake,
measuring about three inches in length,
in the eye of a horse belonging to
Alex McAllister, of Yakima City. The
snake can be plainly seen wriggling
around in the ball of the eye, and the
horse is gradually becoming blind.
Mayor Lake and George Gervais vouch
for the truth of this statement, says
the Yakima Herald.
George H. Wolf, one of the men
found guilty Of robbing the Chinese
section men at Kennewick, has
made a confession, in which he admits
the offense to the extent of assaulting
the Cinnamon and trying to drive
them from the country, but disclain-
ing the robbery part OF the charge.
He denies that Hettinger had any
thing to do with the assault, and says
he was assisted by Dave Simpson. who
has since left the country