Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-07-15
STATE NEWS,
"A nfief Reference To Matters Of Fact
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Rltzvllle merchants have orders for
lVo,OoO grain sacks.
he Christian church near Ritzville
Will be dedicated next Sunday.
Spokane intends to compel CITY
prisoners to work on the streets.
An Ellensburg firm sold $1,000
lambs at $l.55 per head last week.
kittitas county producers are talk
ing OF making big irrigation ditch.
Centralia has just called in a $500
warrant, on which 1893 interest had
accrued.
Elmer Mcdowell, of Ellensburg,
caught 425 trout in Menastash can
yon, few days ago.
I. j. Stack, a street-car conductor.
Is on trial at Spokane for knocking
down fares, amounting to So.
Iakima's Assessor has assessed
sheep at $3.50 per head. Growers
consider the assessment excessive.
The body of James Butler, a laborer,
was found floating in the bay at Sc.
attic, Tuesday morning. His family
lives in California.
Nearly $4,000 was received in Port
townsend, Thursday, to pay for land
appropriated by the government for
the Point Wilson Notifications.
The G-year-old son of VIM. Art, of
Ritzville, found dynamite cap Fri
pay and exploded it by hitting it with
a rock. The finger and the thumb
of the boys left hand were blown off
at the first joint.
Geo. b. Shepard was fined 800 at
Tacoma Friday for assault and bat
terry on 12-year-old girl. Shepard
would have been sent to the Peniten-
tiary only that he was not charged
with the crime which he ATTEMPTED
to commit.
While out hunting near Vancouver,
Sunday, the 12-year-old son of Far
mer klinkwitz, accidentally shot him
self. The contents of his gun entered
his left arm near the shoulder, SER
iously fracturing it, and he is in a
critical condition.
Seattle's police can find no evidence
to prove that Henry Adler, who died
suddenly in a saloon early Friday
morning. was murdered, and the sus-
poets under arrest have been released.
There appears to be no doubt, however,
that Adler was given n knockout drop.
The jury in the case of the State vs..
Mary Williams, for the murder of
Edward kearney on May l, lately on
trial at Shelton, brought in a verdict
of manslaughter, after being out
twenty-five hours. The case was
bitterly contested. A motion for a
new trial was denied and an appeal
taken to the Supreme Court.
Charlie Carl, 13 years old, was run
over and killed by a train on the Sc
attic & Northern railroad, one mile
west of Avon, Sunday afternoon.
His body was badly mangled. Young
Carl ran away from his home at
Burlington, six miles east of where
he was killed, five weeks ago, and it
is supposed he was on his way back
when the accident occurred.
The weather bureau station at
TatoOsh has been removed to Bahadia
point, Neah bay. The latter named
place is about three miles in an air
line from Tatoosh island, and it is q
much superior location for taking
meteorological observations than Ia
toosh. 1t will now be almost i'm
possible for vessels to pass the mouth
of the straits without being seen from
this point. Tatoosh is quite frequently
enveloped in dense fogs, while the
weather at Bahadia point is perfectly
clear.
Joseph Jandos, who lives at Fern
Hill, just outside the city limits OF
Tacoma, had a terrible struggle with a
black bear Monday, near his home.
Upon discovering the animal he fired
a charge of bird shot into it. Bruin
attacked the man, who drew a large
knife he had with him and slashed at
the animal, the bear closing its jaws
on Jandos' left arm. The knife was
repeatedly plunged into the bears
body, finally reaching the heart, when
it rolled under log dead. Jandos'
clothes were torn to shreds, his left
arm and leg badly lacerated, and his
body covered with blood. Many bears
have been seen in that locality lately.