Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-11-18
STATE NEWS.

Franklin X. Lane, formerly pro.
prlctor OF the Tacoma Ncws, was
elected city and county attorney in
san Francisco at the recent election,
on the Democratic ticket.
The Rltzvlle couhcil has decided to
grant franchise to some corporation
, to put III light and water plant.
Several companies are known to be
figuring on the proposition, and the
rlty will have Il plant in Il few months.
The contract has been signed bv
Hoquiam parties with dredging com.
pany to dredge out two long slips on
the mud flats i'll front of Hoquiam,
extending up to the railroad grade.
This will be supplemented by wharves
| built out.
Spokane grocers propose to put an
end to bad accounts accommodating on
their books. In order to do this
people known to be slow pay will be
put on "black list" and every
grocer i'll the city will be furnished
I with the information.
After an absence of several months
the ColfaX volunteers are again at
home. When asked if they would
again enlist should war break out one
of them said: "Not much; unless we
could go into active service, for we
have had enough of garrison duty"
Andrew Peterson, the man who
killed an Indian woman and seriously
wounded another at Port Townsend
some time ago, was sentenced Monday
by Judge McClinton to 90 years in the
penitentiary. The prisoner pleaded
guilty to murder in the second degree.
VIM. Fink, farmer living 10 miles
south of Tyler, was killed Tuesday
night in Il runaway. He had been to
Sprague, and was returning with Il
load of fruit trees. The wagon evil
IDENTIFY ran into chuckhole and
tipped over, as the contents were
scattered on the ground. His body
was discovered next morning.
The federal penitentiary on Nc
Ncil's island has had its roster of con-
| victs increased by the addition of II
names of men convicted last week at
the Walla Walla term of the United
States court. All were found guilty
OF selling whisky to the Indians. Ten
| of them were from Yakima and four
from Spokane. They were sentenced
to terms varying from three months to
two years.
A suit for $4,000 damages was be-
gun Tuesday against the Spokane
Street Railway Company by William
Olson, administrator of the estate of
Amelia Olson. The suit is the out
come of the accident occurring at the
| intersection of Lincoln street and Sec
ond on the 25th of last March. Mrs.
| Olson was crossing the street at the
time, and in some manner was run
| over by street car, receiving injuries
from which she died.
Sunday morning the safe in the
Wynkoop.Vaughan drug store in Ia
coma was broken open, the money
drawer emptied of gold and green.
backs, apparently leaving no clue. At
l:30 Detective Ashby had recovered
the stolen property and Will Mitchell,
n young man who has been employed
in the store for about three years past,
had confessed that he did the Job 1t
is understood that the case against
Mitchell will not be pushed, on ac-
count of his family, who are respec-
table people, and his former good rep
| utation.
A log cabin in Chewelah, formerly
used as dwelling by Mayor James
O'Neil, and one of the Oldest buildings
in the town, was burned to the ground
early Monday morning. The supposi-
ton is that tramps who were sleeping
in II part OF the building arose and de-
parted early in the morning, leaving a
fire burning, which spread to the main
building, which was empty at the time.
Quite II history is connected with this
old landmark. DR.. Morgarn, Indian
physician, occupied it at one time as
an office. In the early days jealous
lover attempted to kill Miss King in
this building, taking three or four
shots at her without effect. He then
turned the revolver upon his own per-
son, with fatal results. Marks of the
bullets still remained in the walls.