Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26
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STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts Of the State.

all Parts Of the State.
A Pomeroy man has been fined $40
for allowing his son to remain on the
streets after 1880 o'clock in the even
ing, in violation of curfew ordin-
ance.
Five masked men held up farmer
near Hartford, Snohomish county,
Monday night, and robbed him of 73.
Several shots were fired, but no one
was injured.
The tailoring esta blishment Of A.
w. Stincel, at Chehalis, was broken
open on Thursday night OF last week
and about $500 worth of goods and
clothing carried away.
William Cruikshank, of Hartford,
placed some frozen dynamite in an
oven to thaw out, and then sat down
to wait for it. His remains were
gathered up in basket.
Doc. Hunt, a prominent farmer of
Columbia county, died at his home re-
Gently of smallpox. Smallpox has
also broke out among the Indians of
the Colville reservation.
VIM. Smith, an employee OF the
Columbia paper mills, at LaCamas, &C.
cidentally fell overheard from the
steamer lone, between Vancouver and
LaCamas, lately, and was drowned.
The longest train that ever came
into Chehalis arrived few days ago,
and was distributed along the Chehalis-
South Bend branch ut the various
mill centers. 1t consisted OF GO empty
cars.
A Vancouver girl died at the Che.
halls reform school. This is the first
death among the female inmates re-
corded since 1891, when the school
was founded. Two boys have died
there.
The Commercial Club, of North
Yakima, is considering a cannery en-.
terprise for that city. 1t can be Sc
cured for bonus of from 5000 to
5000, according to the amount Of
machinery put in.
The sum of $500 is to be expended
this year in experimenting in the
propagation of oysters on Puget Sound
and Willapa harbor. There is that
amount of State appropriation ap-
plicable for this object.
Several young toughs in the Ia
coma Jail refused to work in the chain
gang, and they were placed on q diet
of bread and water, and without
blankets or tobacco, and remained SO
until they concluded to work.
His accidency, Gov. Rogers, has re-
fused to recognize the requisition of
Gov. Tanner of Illinois for VIM. B.
Armstrong and the woman who came
to this State with him, and who is
jointly charged with him of the crime
of adultery.
Last Saturday night little 4-yr-ea
old New Whatcom boy found q cart.
ridge and laid it upon a hot stove.
The explosion that followed blew a
piece of the shell into the little fell
lows temple, making quite q severe
cut. Fortunately the boy lives to tell
the tale.
The class to be graduated from the
Spokane high school January 25th,
consists OF nine girls and four boys.
When the class entered the high
school in 1896 it had so members, and
the reduction in numbers has been
greater than in any class ever gradual.
ed there.
According to the Spokane Chronicle,
that city is infested with a gang Of
bold robbers. Among the list of theil
latest depredations, the Chronicle com
plains of the burglary at a residence
then night burglary on horseback
next daylight holdup, and the latest
a safe-blowing soiree.
Forrest Charland, the 14-year.old
son of John Charland, of Seattle, wal
killed while hunting ducks on Lumm
marsh, six miles from Whatcom
few days ago. The boy was Out
alone and the position of the body