Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-08-04
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts Of the State.

Seattle is raising $12, 500 subsidy 70
, an exposition this fall.
Pierce county's assessment roll 70
1899 foots up $39,62O,69l.
| The Centralia council has impose
an annual tax on bicycles.
An effort to close saloons on Sunda
is being made in Spokane.
walla Walla is talking of paying e1
penses OF its volunteers on the tril
home from San Francisco.
H. Z. Hutchinson, former residen
oil San Francisco, was drowned Sunda,
near Ballard, while in swimming.
Henry Penn, a Stevens count,
pioneer, was thrown from wagon al
Valley Station, Su nday, and killed.
Charles Davidson, Swede, 80 year.
old, was drowned in Wilson creek
near Ellensburg, Sunday morning.
Gus Erickson, aged 80, single, was
crushed to death, at Northport, Tues.
day, by huge mass of rock in a
lime quarry.
William Blackman, State Factory
and Railway Inspector, says there is a
big demand for labor in Eastern
Washington.
Sixty boxes of pears from Sacra.
meuto were seized at Seattle, Tuesday,
by Fruit Inspector Brown, who said
they were infected with Goblin moth.
The ferry-boat Vancouver. which
crosses the Columbia between Oregon
and Washington, connecting with the
electric railway for Portland, was de-
stroyed by fire last Friday night.
A cherry tree planted at Hawks
point, near South Bend, by Captain
Weldon, in 1853, was measured by C.
o. Rude and found to be nearly II
feet in circumference, and we'll pro-
portioned otherwise.
Charles Smith was arrested at
Blaine, the other day, charged with
cutting out the trap of the Columbia
Fisheries Company at Point Roberts, a
lew days ago. The company had Of
Tered 800 reward for the culprit.
A. Finley, third officer of the
Garonne, now being fitted up for a
transport at Seattle, has received word
from England that, through the
death OF his father, he is heir to an
estate amounting to 81 100000.
Miss Dun, young woman who
lives with her mother at the Cambrian
hotel, at Tacoma, attempted suicide
yesterday afternoon by elashing her
throat with butcher-knife. DR..
Schug was called aud sewed up the
wound, which nearly reached the
ljugular vein.
Charles Smith and Viola Graham
were refused a marriage license at
Spokane on the ground that the
young woman was under age. Smith
walked IL miles to to the home of the
girls parents to get their consent, and
walked back to Spokane in time for an
early morning wedding.
w. r. Gragg, the Whitman county
man who attempted to kill his wife
and another woman, and then at.
tempted to commit suicide, has been
held for trial in the Superior Court.
Gragg's condition is still serious.
Blood poisoning may set in and take
him of before his trial takes place.
The body of Jerry X. Cowles, of
Minneapolis, was found in the G.. A.
r. cemetery, at Seattle, Monday. He
had committed suicide with laudanum.
COwles was about 80 years old and
came to that city about two weeks ago.
His failure to secure employment is
assigned as the cause of his suicide.
Willie Rutter, a l2.year.old boy,
died at the dinner table at his home
in Ellensburg, Wednesday. He had
been working in the bayfield, for sev-
eral days with his father, and although
he was known to have Bright's disease,
and his parents had been warned that
a sudden death awaited him, it came
entirely unexpected.
A. Van Holderbeke, SnOhomish
County Fruit Inspector, reports the
Goblin moth has been found in the
California fruit brought to Everett.
He states that he has found several of
the pests, particularly in pears and
apples and that many of the boxes
contain cOcoons that if allowed to
hatch out would do considerable dam
age to the fruit interests.
Dick BurAend, foreman at the
Chuckanut quarry, near Blaine, was
seriously injured by a premature blast
last Saturday. He had placed dyna-
mite at the bottom OF deep crevice,
and was pouring sand on it. Having
lit the fuse, the explosion came un-
expectedly ard quantity of the sand
struck him in the face. He will
probably be totally blind as result of
the accident.
Miss Vera Warren, aged Is years,
was drowned at 6 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon while bathing near Cen
tralia in the Skookumchuck river,
with number OF other girls. The
body was recovered in forty minutes
by diving. She was daug liter of NJ.
Warren. Mr.. Warren is in Alaska.
The deceased was highly educated
young lady. Miss Warren was niece
of s. l.. Crawford and Mrs. Laurence
both of Seattle.
John Cavanaugh was shot and
killed at Republic, at an early hour
Tuesday morning by Willie Callahan.
Callahan acted in self.defence. Cava-
naugh tried to clean out the Republic
mine bunk-house. He drove the din.
ing-room girls out of doors in their
nightclothes, and armed with rifle,
went to John Callahan's room. Willie
Callahan, also armed, was in the
room, and he shot Cavanaugh when
the latter raised his weapon. The
coroner's jury rendered a verdict oil
justitiable homicide.
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