Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-08-10
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered From
all Parts of the State.

ouI lew paupers.
North Yakima's school-tax levy is {
mills mills less than last year.
Charles E. Day, well-known citi.
zen OF Everett, died last Thursday.
Hoquiam is inviting bids for grad.
ing and planking some of its streets.
Mrs. Swanson is the only remaining
victim OF Tacoma's street-car accident
whose recovery is in doubt.
Many Palouse farmers are storing
their hay waiting for rise in the price,
which is now $3.50 for baled.
Eddie Eachapelle. s years old, was
drowned recently at Hoquiam. He
slipped overheard from log boom.
One salmon-canning company on
Bellingham Bay received $4,000 fish
August lst-the largest receipts of the
season.
At Tacoma, L. J. Pertecost has
filed suit against Nelson Bennett on a
promissory note executed in 1893 for
$2I, ,4O7.
Arthur Morse, s. Spokane boy, IA
years Of age, was instantly killed
Tuesday night by falling tree during
hard wind storm.
The wife of William Leadbetter, a
farmer living near Pine City, has been
adjudged insane and committed to the
Medical Lake Asylum.
The Pierce County Agricultural
Fair at Tacoma, has been declared off
because cutworms have eaten up all
the expected exhibits.
Fires still run wild in the Colyille
forests. A barn owned by NJ. Kuizer
and one owned by Geo. w. Seal at
Addy have been burned.
Ben Woodward is under arrest in
Spokane county for killing several
head OF stock belon onging to man who
did not pay him for work.
A Fairhaven, team backed a wagon
off wharf. Then the horses set"
themselves and held the suspended
wagon till workmen rescued it.
Counterfeit silver dollars have made
their appearance in Port Townsend.
They are dated 1879, and have the
appearance of being worn smooth.
John ]. Schick, formerly of the
Walla Walla Watchman. has purchased
an in: crest with his brother, Brown
NJ. Schick, in the Palouse Republic.
Edwin Hyde, but 81 years old, goes
from Tacoma, to the Walla Walla
Penitentiary for Is years, on convic-
ton OF assault upon and robbing of an
aged soldier.
Mrs. j. NJ. Pratt, of Rockford, died
on the 1st inst, at the age of so. She
left two children-Frank Madden and
Miss Maud Madden-both of whom
reside at Rockford.
Jim O'Connor, described as an all
round tough" is in the Yakima iail
for assault and battery on a squaw.
When through with this charge, he
will be tried for assaulting an officer.
At Chehalis, Andrew Jackson is try
ing to recover farm which he decided
to his daughter on condition that she
support him the rest of his life. On
the first trial, the suit went against
him.
Wong Gee, acquitted at Colfax of
the charge of murder, had made ar
rangements to cheat the gall ows, if
convicted. From half cotton blanket
he had plated rope, with a slip.
moose.
Two old Clarke county pioneers died
recently-H. ]. Pence, at his home one
and half miles east OF La Center, and
Father Gardiner, two and a half miles
northeast. Each left many relatives
and friends.
Mrs. William Jordan died last Mon
day at the home of her son, William
Jordan, four miles west of Cheney.
Deceased was 81 years of age, and An
old resident, having come from Texas
15 years ago.
A Puget Sound farmer turned his
ducks into his potato patch to destroy
the .cutworms. The ducks shoveled
up the worms in high glee for nearly
a day, but out of the flock of 63, 81
died before "a hours.
Cr. w. A. Spalding, who has for the
past 10 years been pastor of the First
United Presbyterian church of Spo-
kane, has rendered his resignation and
accepted the pastorate of the United
Presbyterian church of Seattle.
Fire destroyed the old Ross Park
car-barn, near the corner of Hamilton
street and Boone avenue, Spokane,
on the afternoon of the I'd inst. There
were some snowplows and cars inside
The loss is $4,000 covered by insur-
ance.
John Levin. wife and baby were
thrown into Silver Lake last week by
their boat capsizing. Levin is a good
swimmer, and was safe. His wife
clung to her babe with one hand and
to the boat with the other. Their
cries brought rescuers from a sawmill
and all were saved.