Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-06-30
STATE NEWS.

! neat lOOkS ilIc aIOuuu Wdiid
Walla.
Gray's Harbor sawmills are short
of men.
Joseph III. Smith won the Chehali.
oratorical contest last week.
The haying season will not com.
mence until the middle OF July, being
three weeks later than usual.
! The new county of Chelan is short
1,l97 in the population required for
the organization of the county.
The school census in the town OF
Arlington, SnohOmsh county, in
cludes eight married women who are
under 81 years of age.
John Haller, who recently sold his
jewelry and bicycle store at Chehalis,
last week started for New York awheel,
| with Switzerland as his ultimate desti.
nation.
Pete Miller, who has been on trial
at Tacoma, for killing Tiederman
Magenton, last March, was Tuesday
convicted of murder in the second
degree. This indicates that the jury
thought it case Of modified insan-
ity."
At Mcekcr junction, last week,
three fine hop houses, a dwelling and
barn went up in smoke. The fire
originated in one Of the hop houses
and spread from there to the other
buildings. 1t is thought to have been
the work OF an incendiary.
During the oyster planting season
just closed on Willapa harbor, over
200 men were engaged in longing in
the various channels for young growth
for transference to the artificial beds.
About 150, 900 baskets were taken and
% sloops and 40 batcaux were en-
ployed.
Lester Sweet, n teacher in one of
the Blaine schools, had occasion to
punish one of his pupils, the son of
William Senff. The father took ex-
ceptions and chastised the teacher
MIR. Sweet swore out a warrant for Mr..
Sentf's arrest. A hearing was had be-
fore a Justice of the Peace and the
defendant was fined $25 and costs.
John Steinmitz, German, says he
has $1,000 or 1000 in a Seattle bank
that he cannot get hold of, and lie
has called upon Mayor Humes to as
sist him. Steinmitz says the money
was sent to Seattle from Germany to
his son, who died in the meantime in
California. The money is understood
to have belonged to Steinmitz himself,
but was sent on an order OF the son,
who used the fathers name.
While Miss Nellie Kendall and c. J.
Batting were walking on Jackson
street, Seattle, Sunday night, they
were held up by two men. Without
warning, one of the highwaymen fired
at Batting. The bullet passed through
his coat lapel, the powder burning his
face. Batting fell to the sidewalk.
While one Of the robbers held Miss
Kendall the other went through
Batting's pockets. He only had 10
cents on him, and the robber did not
| find it.
Sunday, during the most violent
thunder storm that Spokane has ever
experienced, lightning struck two
houses and played pranks bordering
on the marvellous. One bolt struck
the gable of Frank Hutton's residence.
In a room directly under the gable
Mrs. Hutton and her young son were
sleeping. When Mr.. Hutton reached
the room it was in frightful confusion.
The furniture was overturned, pictures
on the walls were awry, and the bed.
stead in which the mother and child
were asleep was in pieces strewn about
the floor. The feather mattress on
the bedsteai still occupied its relative
position in the room, but rested on
the floor, where a moment before the
bedstead had stood. There was gap
ing hole where once the gable rested
Neither woman nor child was injured.
Another bolt struck the pumphouse at
the Natatorium Park, an amusement
resort, and set fire to the building.
The pump-house, two lighthouses and
their contents were burned. Loss,
$4,000. The thunder storm occurred
at 5 A. NJ, and was followed by heavy
rain.