Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-06
STATE NEWS.

| dudley n. ln6Iee, prominent
citizen of Fairhaven, died there last
Monday of peritonitis. He went to
Fairhaven in 1890, and was closely
connected with the business life of
that city.
w. Langdon, who was arrested in
Moscow, Idaho, and taken to New
Whatcom to answer the charge of
classifying the books of Whatcom
bank, has given tond in the sum OF ST.
500 to appear aud answer.
The Little Greek church in Lake
view avenue, Seattle, which was started
few years ago, was dedicated last Sun
day by Bishop Nicholas. of San Fran
cisco. The ceremony OF dedication
was the celebration Of high mass.
Arthur Taylor has just harvested
nearly four acres of peas, and the
Forbes threshing machine will be over
next week to thresh them out, says
the Shelton Journal. This is the
largest crop of field peas ever raised by
a Mason county farmer, and the yield
was very heavy.
Charles Nelson, young man,
pleaded guilty of burglary in Judge
Humes' court in Seattle Monday, and
was sentenced to four years imprison-
ment in the penitentisry in Wslla
Walla. Nelson WAS caught burg
! larizing the residence of Charles
Truax, October 90 last.
John G.. Smith, formerly an engineer
on the Great Northern railway, has be-
gun an action in Spokane against that
corporation for the sum Of $G4 ,5S3, as
damages for injuries received in two
accidents alleged to have been due to
the careIessness and negligence OF
the neutrality-suspicious..
Charlie Eick, a former well-know n
Seattle newsboy, at one time president
of the local union is in the State
penitentiary in Walls Walla, having
been sentenced from Spokane under
the name OF Scott. He was sent up
for stealing. He was convicted in
company with Bob Donaldson, a Spo-
kane hard character.
The police of Seattle will have Mrs.
Mary Mcmahon, the South Seattle
terror, who, ever since the Charlotte
Fetting murder, has charged the OFT
family with being the real murderers,
tried before Judge Langley on char ge
OF insanity. The murder and the re.
peated charges che has made have. it
is thought, so preyed on her mind as
to make her a fit subject for an asylu IN.
THE Northern Pacific Railway Co.
has built cOal-bunkers on the Taco ma
waterfront that are 40x60 feet and SO
feet high, and will hold 1900 tons.
The loading is done by two conveyors,
one 200 and the othe' $50 feet long,
that are operated by electricity. The
bunkers are on solid ground instead
of piling, so that the teredo is not to
be feared. The cost of the bunkers
was $4,000.
G. E. Galbreath, of Ritzville, was ar
rested last week on a warrant sworn
out by Louis Watson, county clerk,
charging him with the seduction OF
Watson's sister-in-law, Miss McKellup.
The warrant under which he has taken
has been in existence since last spring,
at which time he left the county un.
known to any one. and, thinking that
the excitement had blown over, he
returned of his own free will, which
resulted in his arrest.
The corners jury that was en-
paneled to fix the responsibility for
the accident on the Oregon Railroad
& Navigation railway near Wallula,
last Tuesday, rendered verdict We'd
nesday that Williams and Carpenter,
the two men that we're killed, came to
their death by railway accident, the
cause OF which was to the jury I'M
known. The jury declared that from
the testimony sdduced, the RESPONSE
bility for the wreck could not be fixed.