Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-06-16
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts of the State.

all Parts Of the State.
Aberdeen claims a population OF
$500.
The Waverly bcet-sugar factory will
DC :56x4+:1t feet, and viii cost $4,000
An addition to cost 81 600 is being
built to the Castle Rock public school.
The Northern Pacific lunch counter
at Pasco was destroyed by fire Sunday
night.
a horseless carriage owned by the
late Paul Schultz was sold for $3.50
at Tacoma the other day. 1t cost Mr.
Schultz 1880.
Prof. ]. T. Forrest, OF the Chehalis
high school, has accepted the profess
sorship of mathematics in the What
com Normal School. Prof. Forrest
has been teacher in Lewis county
since 1854, with the exception of two
years, when he published the Chehalis
Bee.
Reports received at Tacoma from
the Cascade mountains indicate that a
flood of enormous proportions will
take place in Western Washington
streams and the Columbia river in
this month if the big banks of snow
in the mountains are melted suddenly
by spell of warm weather.
The body of Fred Williams, who
was drowned in the bay near Port
Angeles by the capsizing of a boat
just five weeks ago, foated ashore
about mile east of that place Tues.
day. The portion Of the body not
covered by clothing was void of flesh.
Identification was possible through
the clothing and coin and trinkets
found in the pockets.
William Wallace, well-known
school-teacher, met death in q horri-
BILE form on she high road near Spo-
kane. He was found lying in the
road with the back of his head
smashed in, his neck broken, deep
gashes in his face, and his left heel
badly crushed. The runaway team
that killed him was caught two miles
beyond the point where the body was
found.
A Spokesman-Review special from
Colfax says: A passenger train on
the o. R. & N. collided with hand
car, containing some japanese section
hands. A crowtar on the hand car
was driven through the abdomen and
hip of one of the Japanese, protruding
from his back. One of the men held
him while two others pulled the bar
out. He was taken to Colfax for
treatment and will probably recover.
Sliding mountain, just below Cas-
cades, as good many know, has for
years been literally sliding towards
the Columbia. 1t moved on an aver
age of four feet year, and the road
bed was continually pushed out of
place. With view of stopping the
glacial action OF this mighty mount
ain, several 0. R. & N. officials scaled
the peak. Back of it they found
couple of lakes with no outlet. The
waters from these lakes undoubtedly
seeped through the earth which prob.
ably rested on slanting slate rock, and
in this manner propelled the earth
downward. The lakes were immed-
lately drained, since which time the
mountain has not budged an inch.
The little town of Russell, WASH,
a mile and half from Cascade, B. c.,
was the scene of row Tuesday night
which for a time completely terror
lied people. Rough-Lock Nell and
Scrap-Iron Minnie, as they are known,
who had been run out of Cascade, en-.
tered the store OF G. P. Person and be.
gan to abuse the proprietor. The
women were put out OF the store.
They got axes and broke every win
dow in the building, as we'll as those
in store adjoining, and were so saw
age that no one dared modest them.
They returned to Cascade, were ar
rested, and again ordered out of town.
The moment they stepped again on
American territory, Deputy Sheriff
Lerry arrested them. The property
damaged at Russell reaches $500.