Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-04-03
STATE NEWS.

Whooping cough is epidemic at
North Yakima.
The presbytery of Walla Walla met
in Lewiston, Idaho, Thursday.
The Palouse creamery re-opened last
week under the management of c. NJ.
Averill.
The residence OF Mrs. Augusta
Plummer Foster, at Everett, WAS de-
stroyed by fire, Sunday afternoon.
Waitsburgh will soon have electric
lights. The plant has been bought, is
in the town, and work has been begun
on the surveys.
HI. NJ. Herrin & Co., wholesale COM
mission merchants, of Spokane,
made general assignment Monday
for the benefit of the firms creditors.
A fire last Friday at Fort Simcoe, in
Yakima county, destroyed the boys
dormitOry and the hospital. The
buildings were erected only a short
time ago.
A merchants and farmers organiza-
ton has been formed at Wenatchee,
for the purpose OF securing the con.
struction and operation OF two new
industries-a creamery and caunery.
John Oston Gillion dropped dead
while attending to his horse in his
stable, at Lyle, Klickitat county, last
Monday forenoon. He had lived in
Klicki,at county for the last 90 years.
Farmers living in the vicinity OF St
John, Whitman county, say that
thousands of acres OF fall grain have
frozen of, and will have to be replanted.
The squirrels are worse than ever be-
fore.
The Spokane Street Railway Com
pany has made an order that no en-
plOye OF the road is allowed to talk to
passenger. Neither the conductor
nor the motorman can enter into con-
versation with person on the car.
C. Cline is putting in logging road
to take out timber q mile and half
above Kalsma. The road will be about
] miles in length, and taps an ex-
cellent body of timber. Mr.. Cline will
use traction engine to haul the logs.
A party of Yakima young ladies
have under consideration a bicycle
trip to The Dalles. They propose to
have a wagon accompany them loaded
with creature comforts and prepared
to pick up the injured, says the
Herald.
John Eddings, who has been for a
number of years in the employ OF the
government at Vancouver as store
keeper. was found dead in his Office at
the depot quartermaster's building at
that place, Tuesday. His sudden
death was due to heart trouble.
An old man, who gave his name as
George Moulen was arrested at Cakes
dale, Monday, on n charge Of insanity.
He had been terrOrizing people in that
vicinity for several days. One day last
week he took several shots with o.
rifle at a citizen OF Oakesdale. He will
be taken to Medical Lake.
The Sunset Telephone Company
has contracted with Tacoma con-
tractors to rebuild the line from the
Sound to Gray's Harbor, setting cedar
poles at equal distances and doing
away with the present plan Of hang
ing the wire to trees or other con-
yenient points along the line.
The body of an unknown man was
found on WILDLY Island beach, across
tho channel from Port Townsend
Tuesday morning. The body was
partly buried in the sand, and life had
evidently been extinct three or four
days. Near by was a sailboat sup
posed to belong to the dead man.
The schooner Doncaster arrived at
Tacoma Monday from Cape Flattery
banks, with ii 900 pounds Of halibut.
The schooner was out five weeks, and
the captain reports bad weather and a
scarcity of fish on the banks, the
season being yet early. She is the
first fishing schooner to return to port.
Most OF her cargo will be shipped East.
At Port Townsend Monday, Alex
ander Wood. aged 81, fell from the top
OF the elevator shaft, 10 the Tourist
hotel building, to the bottom, a dis.
lance of so feet. He alighted on a
pile OF boards and broken glass, but
when hauled out by his companions
it was found he had sustained no in
juries beyond few bruises.
Ida Ahlord, whose real name is
Florence Rosenbrock, took a dose Of
morphine, at Spokane. at 9 o'clock
Tuesday night, which proved fatal
next morning. She was the mistress
OF AL AFFORD, cook in Seiffert's res
taurant. She said her lover bad
ceased to care for her, and she would
put herself out of the way.
c. d. Daniels, who run the Hyde
Park house. in Seattle, was arrested
Monday morning for shooting Pat
Dougherty, machinist. in the back.
Dougherty may die. Daniels also beat
policeman, Frank Krebs, almost to
death. The tragedy eliminated as
result OF a row at Daniels saloon. The
latter is a well-known character in Sc
attic, and the Hyde Park house is a
notorious resort.