Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-03-03
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From al
Parts of the State.

New Whatcom's school enrolment
now numbers l,5lJ.
Arrangements are under way to put
in fruit cvaporating plant at Elber-
ton.
A large fish fertilizer plant is among
the new industries to be established at
Blaine.
A telephone line is being built from
Fairfield to Wavcrly, in the Palouse
wheat belt.
James Wright, of Yakima, recently
purchased 1000 ewes and lambs from
J. T. Keenc, of PrOsser.
A new bridge will be constructed
over the Sumas in place OF tke one
recently washed out. 1t will cost $2,-
800.
T. ID. Haworth, OF Canto, has Of
fered 81 900 to anyone who will remove
the jam of logs and drift near his
place.
Michael Tebo, half-breed GO years
old, and squaw named Romeo, were
thrown from a skif near Kelso, Mon
day, and Tebo was drowned.
The Stillaguamish river was frozen
over last week between Stanwood and
Florence to depth of elk and seven
inches, something that has not hap
pened before for II years.
Homer Smith, a 5-year old Spokane
boy, the other day swallowed q chain
arrangement for holding trousers. At
last accounts the boy seemed to be
none the worse for his experience.
claimed that the worlds single
packing record has been broken by
Henry Fritz, an employe Of the Hiatt
& Bryan mill at Pilchuck. He packed
1000 shingles in eight minutes and
five seconds.
Sol Labrandt, Of Nooksack, killed a
large bear with an axe during the cold
weather. The hear was in hollow
stump and Mr.. Labrandt took good
care to keep it from coming out, hit
ting the bear on the head every time
it stuck its head out until he killed it.
Frank johnson was accidentally
shot at Snohomish, last Sunday, by
George McMullen, who was carelessly
handling % caliber revolver. The
bullet struck Johnson in the hip and
ranging downward lodged in the
knee. The wound, though painful, is
not considered serious.
During the year of 1898 the mills of
Ballard manufactured over 100000
600 cedar shingles. Think OF it!
Enough to shingle all over an So
acre farm. If they were laid side by
side they would make row over 49,
600 miles long, and if laid end to end
would reach round the earth twice
and as far as Humptulips on the third
lap, says the Vest Coast Lumberman.
John Wallace, clerk in dry
goods store, at Walla Walla, left the
city suddenly a few days ago without
bidding his wife and his friends fare
we'll. Wallace was married last Oc-
tober to Miss Bessie Sampson, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Sampson,
we'll known residents of that city.
Their married life had not been pleas
ant. The last seen of Wallace was
Tuesday afternoon, when on his way
to the depot to take the train for the
Sound, he stopped to bid friend fare
we'll, saying: al am not bidding
everyone good bye" He left his wife
in Strengthened circumstances.
Last Thursday morning between 4
and 5 o'clock, burglars entered and
robbed two stores and two saloons at
Centralia. The dry goods store Of L.
A Knox & Co. was entered from the
rear by prying up window, and $6.15
was taken. The grocery store OF w.
H. Kinks was entered, by turning the
key with nippers. The thieves succeed
ed in "lifting" all the money in the casl,
drawer, amounting to $3.50. They
then went to w. j. Jenkins saloon
and after effecting an entrance helped
themselves to Sc, all the money in the
cash register, and two revolvers. Only
80 cents was taken from the saloon OF
f. NJ. Thomas. Entrance was gained
through the transom.
A Toronto, Canada, special to the
Spokesman-R Review says: "The ter.
rible news of young Jim Hally's death
in a gambling-den at Spokane, came
as thunder-bolt to the lads father on
Saturday. The relatives were making
preparations for the boys return home
from the West this week. The cor
respondent called at the home of the
deceased. The father, out of sympa-
thy for the family, at first was disposed
to deny any connection with deceased.
Finally the father said he had received
an account of his sons death last
Saturday, but was not acquainted
with the facts leading up to the crime.
In March last young Hally left for
Vancouver, b. c. to go into business,
being sent out by his father, who gave
him substantial sum OF money.
Everything went well until his arrest