Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-05-07
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Reference to Matters of Fact
Gathered Here, There and Every.

Gathered Here, There and Every.
where.
Forty sacks of flaxseed grown neal
Ferndale, last year, have been shipped
to Oregon.
l.. Coates, of Boise, Idaho, wa!
robbed of $3.50 in money and badl,
beaten and bruised in Spokane "dive'
last Monday.
w. G. Cullen, of Walla Walla, ha.
been awarded the contract to build O
telephone line for H. z. Isaac, from
Walla Walla to Prescott.
Captain James b. Erwin says that
the cavalry troops will not be moved
from Fort Walla Walla to Fort Yellow.
stone before May Is.
There are five sawmils in the neigh
borhood of Napavine, Lewis county,
and all OF them are running full time.
Common laborers there are paid $l.30
a day.
The Rev. r. G. Pettibone, the Pres
byterian clergyman at Hoquiam, who
was SO badly injured 10y fall from a
bicycle into Fry Creek, is not expected
to live.
Several cases of insanity, said to be
traceable to the new religious move
ment started in Tacoma by the " come
outers," have developed in Pierce
county.
Burglars broke into the Western
Union Telegraph Company's office, in
the Bailey block, in Seattle, Tuesday,
and got about $S5 from d money
drawer.
In street-car accident in Everett
recently, the car wheels ran over A.
ID. Warmers foot, and last Saturday it
was found necessary to cut four toes
off the foot.
Quarterly teachers examination will
be held in Ellensburg on the 18th inst.
Under the new law each applicant for
examination will be required to de-
post 81, which goes to the institute
fund.
The city of Tacoma has issued 1874
bicycle licenses. Last month 1,O55
licenses were taken out. Acomparison
with last years record shows that on
May l, 1896, there were but 1856 Ii
censes issued.
An amateur trick bicycle rider ran
into Mr.. and Mrs. John Wounacott,
who were riding tandem on Pacific
avenue, in Tacoma, Sunday night.
Mrs. WounacOtt got bad fall, and it
is feared that her injuries may prove
fatal.
The Tacoma warehouses of the
Standard Oil Company, which were
last week destroyed by fire, will be re-
built on the same site on Center street,
and it is expected to have the main
building completed with the ensuing
60 days.
The sawmill OF the Lowell Company
at Everett, burned Wednesday. The
fire started in the boiler-room, and in
few minutes enveloped the entire
mill, which, with the lumber in stock,
was valued at $4,000. The insurance
was only $1,000.
Farmers living along the Columbia
river, near Wilbur, say that the body
OF a white man was seen floating down
the Columbia last week. A handcuff
was attached to one wrist, and the In
dams who discovered the corpse were
afraid to touch it.
E. Hersey, the ranchman who was
struck by Northern Pacific freight
train near Tacoma Saturday, died from
the result of his injuries Tuesday.
Hersey had three ribs broken, lung
ruptured and several cuts about his
head. He leaves two sons and widow.
The Montborne Single & Lumber
Company's mill and dry house, in
Sedro, burned last Saturday. Neal &
Nelson, who were operating the mill,
lost about 100000 shingles. There
was So, 1000 insurance on the mill, and
81 600 on the shingles. The company
will not rebuild.
Charles E. Miller, the Port Blakely
wife-murderer, confined in the King
county Jail, at Seattle, for safe keep
ing, cut his throat Monday morning,
and may die. His trial was to have
come off the same day at Sydney,
Kitsap county, and, while the Sheriff
was waiting for him to dress to 60 to
Sydney, he cut himself.
Tyee Peter, ex-chief of the Sno-
homish tribe of Indians, died on the
reservation the other day. The tyee,
who claimed distinction as a high
chief and close tillicum of the Boston
man, had been to Everett and got
tangled up with some of the county
seat whisky. The result was a
foregone conclusion - bad whisky;
good Indian, says the Globe.
Mrs. Charles Williams, one OF the
pioneer settlers of Thatcher, and her
daughter, had narrow escape from
drowning Sunday while fishing from a
small boat in Rosario straits. In try
ing to land big ling cod the boat
was capsized and both were thrown
into the water. Neither being able to
SWIM, they chung TO the upturned boat
and finally succeeded in reaching the
shore.
B. H. Waller, cook of the steamer
Compeer, loading lumber at Ballard
for Central America, was drowned in
Salmon Bay Monday. He had quit,
intended to 60 to Alaska, and new
COOK had been engaged for the schoon-
er. They started in small skiff for
the ship, the skiff capsized and Wal
ter was drowned. The new cook
saved his life by clinging to the over
turned boat.
Work has been begun on the light
house to be built at Peterson's point,
on Gray's Harbor. Contractor E lick
son and Superintendent Hull are ON