Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-08-25
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered From
all Parts of the State.

A Brief Summary of News Gathered From
all Parts of the State.
Spokane has sent Go men to tn,
Thirty-fifth regiment.
A Spokane plumber has fallen he'll
to a large fortune in California.
Whitman county has $50 schoo
districts and 9,046 children of schoo
age.
South Bend boasts of man who
has for IA years sent $25 month to
his parents in the East.
Malcolm NJ. Baker, one of the fast
est linotype operators on the Coast
died at Seattle, last week, OF neuralgia
OF the heart.
Philip Sheridan, who had lost in q
Walla Walla gambling game, grabbed
all the money in sight and ran. He
was arrested.
The White river valley hopgrowers
will pay uniform rate OF 81 box for
hops this season. Picking will begin
about September II.
The railroad earnings for the past
five mon this are the largest on record.
Pacific northwest roads make a par
ticularly fine showing.
During the past eight months 1872
prisoners have been received at Walla
Walla county Jail. This is three
times rs many as have been received
In the same period of any year since
1894.
Robt. Getz, while sinking a we'll on
his farm two miles east Of Chehalis,
struck a vein of white clay which he
believes to be kaolin. Samples are to
sent to the State Agricultural College
for analysis.
Arthur Chapman, who has been
working at Belfast, eight miles north
of Mount Vernon, fell asleep on the
railroad track at that place Friday
night, and lost his right foot by a
passing freight train.
A South Seattle gardener lately ex-
hibited a head of lettuce weighing
four pounds, and now Mr.. Bushnell,
ofLVashoE Island places on exhibition
as Tacoma product head of the
same vegetable weighing four pounds.
Moses Williams (colored), retired
ordnance sergeant United States army,
formerly with the Ninth cavalry, was
found dead in bed, at Vancouver,
Wednesday morning. A coroner's jury
rendered verdict of death from nat
ural causes.
1t is announced officially by the
custom-house people at Port Town.
send that there are several hundred
gallons of whisky held under seizure
In Seattle which no one will have at
any price. No one seems to know
what will become of the stuff.
A fishing boat containing two men
was run into Wednesday night by the
steamer North Pacific near the mouth
OF the Fraser river. One of the occu-
pants, David Gordon, was drowned.
His companion, Louis Smart, was
picked up by the North Pacific.
A great game of baseball is to be
played Sept. 9th between the railway
traffic men OF Portland and Tacoma,
on the baseball grounds near the lat
ter city, in a mammoth tent, I'M
der the patronage of the ladies man.
agement OF the Children's Home.
The mail stage from Bossburg upset
a mile east of Republic Saturday after.
noon and threw out the seven pas.
sengers, breaking the leg of Albert
Smith and injuring the others slightly.
The stage is wreck. The driver was
incompetent, losing control of the
four horses.
George Morris, who was incarcerated
in the Colfax city Jail Tuesday for a
minor offense, and was serving time to
pay his fine, wearied of hard bed and
work on the streets, early Friday
morning crawled through q l2-inch
stove-pipe hole and escaped. This is
the second escape by this method.
L. H. Badly, secretary of the What.
com County Lumber & Shingle Man.
ufacturers' Association, is sending out
notices to the members of the associa-
ton to the effect that the price OF
shingles will be advanced 8 cents Der
1000. The advance applies to clears
and CAS-" and this raises the price to
$l.30 for stars and $1.45 for clears.
The contract for carving the mail,
from Seattle to Skagway, Alaska, has
been awarded to the Washington &
Alaska Steamship Company. The
contractor will be required to make
three round.trips month from Seattle,
by Juneau, to Skagway, 1000 miles
and back, commencing September 2,
1899, and running to June 80, 1900.
A saloon within block of Seattle
police headquarters was held up by
two masked men at 4 o'clock Tuesday
morning. Gus Gaulke, the night
bartender, who was in charge of the
place, was robbed OF a silver watch and
the till tapped for $14. When the
two men thought they had secured
everything they left the place as quiet
ly and as coolly as they entered.
Conrad Machleid, Russian farmer,
living on Alkali fiat, southwest of
Colfax, died at st. Ignatius hospital,
Colfax, Saturday morning. Machleid
was taken to the hospital, about mid
night, suffering intense agony. Phys
icians were called in and found he had
been suffering from An obstruction of
the bowels since last Tuesday. Gan.
creme had set in, and, although an
operation was performed, the patient
died.
Frank P. Slavin, the ex.pugilist, is
in Seattle again. shipping additional
mining machinery into the Klondike.
Here and in San Francisco and East.
ern cities he and his associates have
purchased about $4,000 worth OF
engines, boilers and steam thawing
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