Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-11-25
STATE NEWS.

The Mormons have invaded Ia.
coma also.
Six inches of snow covers the ground
in the Copper district.
Deer and bear are unusually plenti-
ful in Northwestern Washington this
fall.
Daniel r. Noble, formerly city jailcr,
was found dead in his bed ut his room
in Seattle, Saturday morning.
The sawmills at Aberdeen are hard
pushed to keep up with orders, part
going coastwise, and some foreign,
chiefly to Mexico.
A Westport logger has three big
RATS of logs ready for shipment, for
which he has refused an offer of Sc
per thousand feet.
The shingle mill at Acme cut an
average of 1884 shingles day dur
ing October, 1898, the largest cut of
any month for five years past.
The destruction of the Hastings
Shingle Company's drykiln full of
shingles, at Goshen, caused loss esti-
mated at 81 800; insured for $500.
ID. d. Siebert, of Pullman, was fined
$50 and costs for assault and battery
on Mrs. Helen Sturges, and $40 and
costs for carrying concealed weapons.
The postolfce at Licking is quaran-
tined, owing to the illness with diph-
liberia, of Miss Nora Campbell, the
postmistress. All mail for that point
is distributed at Nooksack.
The Rev. Dwight L. Moody has sent
to the Rev. Charles I. Macpherson, of
Walla Walla, 242 books for the Peni-
Tertiary, and in addition % copies of
the Christian Record, a monthly maya
zine
John Oliver, aged 10, of frail health
and believing his short life had been
failure, shot himself at Gig Harbor.
His dead body was discovered in an
isolated house by his father and a
friend
1t is said that some 100000 is to be
expended in enlarging the smelter at
Tacoma, making it the largest on the
Coast, and that the capitalists behind
it extend clear to London, with Roth
schild at the head.
A fire consumed the Camel building
at Everett, Tuesday. Both stories
were occupied by James Barron and
were filled with furniture and musical
instruments. The loss on the building
was $500 and on the stock 81 800.
There was no insurance.
John A. Johnson, a Swedish miner,
30 years OF ago, was killed on the
doubletrack at Buckley, by North
ern Pacific freight train, Sunday even
ing. In getting out of the way OF the
east-bound passenger train he stepped
in front of the freight train.
Almon Hodge. an insane man, died
at the hospital at Steilacoom, Nov. II.
The patient was formerly member of
the Salvation Army in Spokane, and de-
veloped a religious mania. He was af-
fected with an appetite for soap, and
consumed all he could secure.
James F. Girton, senior editor of
the Aberdeen Herald died in that city
recently, aged 40 years. He had
been ailing nearly two years. He
came to this State from Iowa in 1892
and the succeeding year he bought the
Herald and took up his permanent
residence at Aberdeen.
Port Blakeley shipped 16 cargoes of
lumber in October, of which 10 car
goes went foreign, carrying 6,123,5S5
feet of lumber, 400, $50 lath and 7l2,-
600 shingles. Two of these cargoes
went to Australia, three to Hawaiian
Islands, one to Africa, three to South
America, and one to China.
A dog poisoner got in his deadly
work at WhatcOm, Sunday night, and
as result seven dead CANNES were
taken to n premature grave outside the
city limits. Among them were several
fine animals and their death has rem
dered their owners furious One man
offered reward of 500 for the dis
closure of the identity OF the prisoner.
A handsome and valuable Gordon
setter, belonging to +. A. Young, q Sc
attic engineer, while out on duck
hunt with his master, the other day,
was found caught fast in wildcat
trap, set by the farmer close to his
fence. The trap had been set in
hole, and had caught the dog fairly
across the second joints of both hind
legs.
Three masked men held up Hans
Anderson and Hans Ericsson in South
X street butcher-shOp, at Tacoma,
Wednesday night. Anderson was pro-
prietor of the shop, and offered no OBJ
jections, at the point of revolvers, to
the robbers helping themselves to $40.
Ericsson, an Elbe farmer, lost $50. The
latter gentleman objected to dishing
up" but was beaten into submission.
George Agen, section hand on the
Washington & Columbia River rail-
way, was killed, Wednesday morning,
in an accident eight miles west of
Walla Walla. With two other men,
Agen was riding on handcar toward
Walla Walla. When they reached
a long trestle they saw freight train
coming around a curve $50 feet ahead
of them. Section Foreman Nelson
jumped off the trestle and broke his
arm. His brother attempted to jump,
but his coat caught on the handcar,
and as the engine was almost upon
him, he lay down on the ties beside
the rails and was saved. Agen was
too frightened to jump and chung to
the handcar. He was hurled into
the air and struck on some bridge ties,
nearly severing his head from his
body.
The dead body of Thomas E. Webb
was found Saturday morning, lying
face downward in the ditch beside the
Northern Pacific track, in Spokane.
The face and chest were crushed in,
and upon the left arm was a wound,
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