Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-08-03
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts OF the State.


all Parts Of the State.
y broom factory is being built at
North Yakima
A new Touring mill is to be built at
Riverside, near Walla Walla.
Shipments of fruit and vegetables
out of Walla Walla last ~xeek were 80
cars.
An effort is being made in Spokane
to organize Il cavalry troop for service
in China.
A Bryan club was organized in Sc
attic the night of the 26th with 300
members.
Twenty-Five thousand pounds of
butter is shipped every month from
Spokane.
Spokane county has applied to the
War Department for two ten.inch
columbiads to guard and ornament its
courthouse grounds.
The Lynch shingle mill, near Port
Angeles, was burned last Thursday. 1t
was insured for $1,000. About 80 men
are thrown out of work.
The Walla Walla Union insists that
the employees of the Penitentiary have
found it expedient to contribute to
Rogers campaign fund.
A crippled 3-year.old daughter of
w. F. Hickman, of Co!fax, was so
neglected by her parents that the
authorities took her away and sent
her to hospital.
Mrs. Mary Young died very sudden
ly at the home OF her sister, Mrs.
Jane Cole, at Sumner, Saturday MORN
ing of neuralgia of the heart. This
is the fourth death in the family in a
little over year.
Mrs. Mary B. Gregory, wife of Rev.
Herbert Gregory, who was killed in
the car disaster at Tacoma, on July
4th, has sued the Tacoma Railway
and Power Co.. for $4,000 damages,
on behalf of herself and child.
A 2-year old boy at Cosmopolis a
few days ago was beaten into insensi-
bility and left in the woods. The
parents found him after several hours
search, and upon investigation it was
ascertained that 9-year-old neighbours
boy had committed the assault through
wanton viciousness.
At Colfax, Joshua WEIGH, age1 IA,
is suing his young wife, Emma, for
divorce. on the ground that she mar
ried him to defraud him OF his worldly
goods. They were married in Sep.
TENDER, 1899. The wife is now in
Iowa, having deserted her husbands
bed and board" one month after mar.
riage.
Eureka Flat, in Walla Walla
county, was the scene of another
grain field fire, Thursday afternoon,
the wheat consumed being the prop
erty of Charles F. Picard. The yield
Of Is acres, being in eight separate
stacks, was totally destroyed. The
property was insured at about so per
cent.
Seattle's telephone girls reject the
company's offer to take them back
from time to time, and say they will
absolutely refuse to entertain any
proposition that does not contemplate
reinstating them all at the same time.
The people of Seattle are plainly in
sympathy with the young women,
whose pay was poor for the exacting
service required.
The Editorial Association which
lately held its annual session at What
com elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: President. John
Hull, Whatcom First Vice President,
E. M. Day, Whatcom; Second Vice
President, w. H. linus, Kalan,a; Sec
Rotary, Grant Angle, Shelton; Treas.
urer, Lovette N. Wood, Seattle; His.
torian, Charles Prosch, Seattle; Ora.
tor, Mrs. Minnie Sargent, Pullman !;
Poet, Frank C. Teck, Whatcom; Elk.
ecutive Committee, E. G. Kibbe, Elma !;
]. ID. Dean, Hoquiam; c. w. Wheeler,
Waitsburg; c. A. Tonneson, Tacoma;
o. NJ. Moore, Seattle.
Centralia and vicinity was visited at
about Z 30 Tuesday morning by per-
haps the severest thunderstorm ever
Experienced in that locality. Two
horses belonging to Charles Moore
and Frank Stevenson were instantly
killed by lightning, on the Moore
place, south of this city. A COW was
also killed near town. A large fir tree
on the plank road east OF Centralia
was struck by lightning, and a splinter
nearly two feet wide and 60 or 70 feet
long was torn from the body of the
tree. The band on section hands
hat was burned off. The telephone
service was more or less injured.
| A. d. Fortier, of the Artesian settle
ment in the Mckee, has . COW to be
proud OF and he will probably enter
her at the State Fair. The animal is
a cross between a Jersey and Holstein
breeds. She is 4-year-old, weighing
1900 pounds, and calved last June.
Mr.. Fortier pastures the cow in
timothy and clover, but does not
otherwise feed her. The results of
three milkings daily are 60 pounds
OF milk. A cow in Canada that lately
beat the worlds record as a milk pro.
ducer. butter test not given, gave 80
pounds, but was highly fed with grain.
This COW recently sold for 81 100. Mr..
Fortier believes that with proper feed
and condition, his COW will be as re.
markable. Walter Reed has Jersey
that gives 48 pounds of milk daily,
that is per cent. butter fat; there be.
ing IL pounds to the gallon, Mr..
Reed'scow thus has q record of four
gallons daily.-Yakima Republic.