Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-05-05
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts Of the State.

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public roads.
Yakima is considering y wooden
mill proposition.
The new fruit cannery at Walla
Walla is nearly completed.
The telephone line between Monroe
and Snohomish is now completed.
Oscar Wilson, of Hamilton, has been
arrested on charge of moonshining.
A tramp committed suicide near
Pasco last Sunday by drowning him
self.
A savings bank system is to be in
troduced in the public schools ut
Everett.
Everett dance halls were raided last
Saturday night and the inmates fined
IS each.
Walla Walla farmers are talking of
having a poultry show at the fruit fair
this fall.
The new Salem hatchery, on the
Little Spokane, will be in operation by
August LIST.
The share of Stevens county debt as
sumed by Ferry county amounts to
about SIT 900.
Michigan capitalists have bought
1000 acres of timber land in Skagit
county for $4,000.
Patrick McClusky, a mortar-mixer,
fell into the bay at Seattle Saturday
night and was drowned.
The three street car companies OF
Tacoma consolidated Monday morn
ing under one management.
The Japanese cruiser Hiyel arrived
at Seattle Tuesday from Victoria, and
after a short stop will proceed to San
Francisco.
Homer Gilman, Yakima boy II
years old, tried 10 steal n ride on n
gravel train. His crushed leg has
been amputated.
Reports from all over Kittitas val
ley agree that the strawberry plants
are badly frozen out, and in many
places they are entirely killed.
The shinglemen of Snohomish,
Whatcom and Skagit counties have
made combination to protect them
themselves from the rapacity OF scalp
ers and dealers.
A man named II. ID. Rowley,
charged with simple assault, went raw
ing mad while being tried before a
justice at Mount Vernon, in Skagit
county.
A sailboat containing five men was
swamped in the harbor at Port Ange-
les Sunday afternoon. One man,
Fred Williams, of Wales, was drowned.
The Others were rescued.
w. S. Hamilton, first officer of the
U. s. lighthouse-tender Manzanita, is
missing. He left the vessel at Sc
attic last Saturday to go to a dem
lists and has not been seen since.
Early Saturday morning the slot
machines in Laughran's saloon at
Chehalis were looted by burglars, who
secured $40 in nickels. Billiard balls
valued at as much more were also
taken. The job is believed to be the
work of amateurs.
The old Theater Comiquc, the origi.
nal haunt Of vice in Tacoma, was filled
to the doors Sunday night by crowd
assembled for purpose which must
have made the old walls feel they were
in strange country. The services oil
the Salvation Army were the attrac.
tions.
In the Washington intercollegiate
Oratorical contest at Tacoma recently
the first prize was awarded to Henry
Hartman, of Tacoma, representative
of the University of Washington. The
second prize was given to Miss Agnes
Mittlestadt, of Whitman College
Sumner.
The Western Canadian Press AS.
ISOLATION, 200 strong, is headed West
and will, if the programme is un.
changed, be in Tacoma about June Z
The members expect to celebrate the
Queens birthday at Victoria, take a
trip to Alaska, and later visit Seattle
and POI land.
Jim Anton killed large bear which
got caught in his trap last Friday
His bearship had been getting away
with some of the hogs in the neigh.
borhood and his demise is appreciated
by all concerned. On Wednesday OF
this week he trapped and killed another
one which weighed $50 pounds
NOoksack Reporter.
The body OF Adolph Miller, aged
fourteen, was found hanging to tree
on the road from La Camas to Fern
Prairie, near his home, Wednesday
morning. Coroner Smith was sum.
moned and held an inquest. There
was several circumstances which in.
Dictated foul play, but no evidence was
found sufficient to point to the guilty
parties, and verdict of suicide was re.
turned by the jury. Miller was the
son of a German farmer.
William r. Spence, a well-known
Tacoma contractor, died Friday. He
had an operation performed few
weeks ago, but had apparently re-
covered and his death was unexpected
Spence had premonitiOn of his death
Two months ago he went to undertaken
Hoska aud told him that he felt that
he would die before long, and wished
to give his own directions for the last
rites. He ordered written estimate
OF the funeral expenses, and arranged
everything as he would have it, choos.
ing everything OF neat but not expen-
sive design, in order, he said, that his
wife need not 60 to needless expense