Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-11-30
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered from
all Parts of the State.

all Parts Of the State.
Everett will have free mail de-
livery after January LIST.
The receipts of the Catholic fair at
Spokane last week were $4,000.
n. r. Lee has been sentenced at
North Yakima TO GO days for pocket
picking.
The Merchants Hotel, at Everett
was sold to Eastern buyers last week
for $50, 900.
The fair at Tacoma last week for the
benefit of the ChilIren's Home Melted
about IS, 800.
The State Convention of the Y. NJ
c. a. convened at Seattle TO day and
will close Sunday.
Two cases of smallpox are reported
at Fish Hook Point on Snake River
near Walla Walla.
A car of homeseekers from Penock
Benson and Wilmar, Mimi, arrived al
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Land Commissioner-elect S. A.
Calvert has appointed as his Chief
Clerk John L. Murray, of San Juan
county.
Adam SPENCER has been bound over
at New Whatcom to the Federal
Court on a charge of selling whiskey
to Indians.
The high brick stack of the North
port Mining & Smelling Co. is com
pleted. The stack, from foundation
to summit, is 200 feet high.
An effort will be made at the com.
ing session of Congress to secure an
enlarged appropriation for the benefit
Of the Puyallup Indian school.
An epidemic of scarlet fever, mumps
and diphtheria is prevalent at Tacoma
All the buildings will probably be
fumigated and strict quarantine es
tablished.
The verdict OF the jury which in
vestigated the death of Robert C.
Schultz on the Occur d'Aleue reser
walton, two and one-half miles east Of
Tckoa, was that he was murdered BY
persons unknown.
Suit has been filed by Seth Warren
contesting the election of H. B. Mar
tin AS Auditor of Chehalis county
The grounds alleged for contest are
malconduct on the part of election
boards and failure to properly count
votes.
H. L. Crosby, who was released only
month ago from the Walla Walls
penitentiary, was arrested at New
Whatcom Tuesday night for uttering
forged checks, to which were signed
the name OF L. w. David, Mayor oi
Blaine.
The salmon pack for 1900 of this
State is disappointment. Little
more than half that of 1899. The
value of the pack this year is $2,34S,.
142. The big falling off this year is
due to the total failure OF the run Of
humpbacks.
The best lot of logs ever seen on
Gray's Harbor were lowed to the mill
of the Northwestern Lumber Com.
pany the other day. There were 81
logs in the raft 81 to 100 inches in
diameter, and averaging 5000 feet of
lumber each.
Wheat is quoted at 80 and 40 cents
bushel at Colfax, and at other grain
shipping points in Whitman county.
Sale 10 slow. Aaron Kuhn, the grain
merchant, reports that there still re-
mains in the county unsold ut least
4 600, QUO bushels.
David E. Blaine, who built the first
church in Seattle, died in the Queen
City, Monday, of old age. He was
born in New York in 1924, and was
sent to Seattle as a missionary in
1853 by the Methodist Episcopal
church. The church. was built the
following year.
The Spokane Jobbes' Association
has appointed committee to confer
with State Senators on new laws for
the collection of debt. The associa-
ton will work with the associations OF
Seattle and Tacoma to secure the pas
sage of stricter laws to protect the
creditor.
Last Wednesday night an explosion
of fire-damp occurred in one of the
tunnels at the Cokedale coal mines,
severely but not dangerously burning
two men, Joseph Peterson and Ed
ward Castren about the face and
hands. The injured were next day
taken to st. Elizabeth hospital at
Sedro-Woolley.
Anton Beede, aged Is years, of
Auburn, met with a painfnl accident
when out hunting near Nelson's
Lake, Monday. In climbing over a
fallen tree he struck the hammer OF
his gun, which discharged a heavy
load OF buckshot in his leg, tearing
away the muscle and flesh from the
knee to the body.
The f. X. Wood Lumber Company,
the recent purchasers of the big Bel
bingham mill, have a force of men en-.
gagged in the work of preparing large
amount of new machinery which will
soon be installed. The plant will be
completely equipped, and large sum
will be spent in remodeling the prop.
erty and in building docks. etc.
A Northport correspondent says
that the recent cold snap, together
with the heavy SHOWS. has brought the
deer down from the high mountain
tops in larger bands than have been
seen in years. Old hunters report
that the hunting OF game of all sorts
along the Columbia at the present
time offers more inducement than at
any time in the past 10 years.
A fight between a Roman Catholic
and a Greek, at Wilkeeon, Monday,
grew into pitched battle, with 200
Greeks against as many Roman
Catholics, the fighters on both sides
being coal miners. Clubs and iron
bars were used. and several heads
were broken, FINALLY reyolvers vere