Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-07-13
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts of the State.

fell in five minutes at Walla Walla on
the Fourth.
At Montesano, a spruce is reported
G3 inches in diameter at the small end,
and scaling 4,472 feet.
A fruit and vegetable evaporation is
being erected at Colfax. 1t is intend
ed to handle this years crop.
A. C. Patterson, OF Everett, lost two
fingers of his right hand by explosion
Of giant firecracker on the Fourth.
The Japanese population of Fair
haven is about 400, and it is estimated
that 300 of these have arrived within
q week.
Fifteen soldiers from Fort Walla
Walla were transferred to the Pre-
sidio at San Francisco Thursday.
They will do service in China.
Convicts at the Walla Walla peni-
Tertiary were permitted to celebrate
the Fourth With athletic exercises,
musical oddities and cake.walk.
At Walla Walla it is reported that
Governor Rogers sent to the peniten.
tiary officials for a contribution OF
$500 to his campaign fund, and that
his demand was refused.
A Chinaman jumped from the win.
dow of car running IS miles an hour,
to escape deportation to China. He
was badly hurt, but evidently preferred
death to leaving Yakima.
Reports from the traps received
Thursday demonstrated that the run
OF sockeye salmon on Puget Sound
has commenced in earnest, and at the
same early date as last year.
Colfax claims to have had, as a fea-
ture of her celebration, an automobile
built entirely in that city-even to
its electro-hydro-carbon engine. It
showed q speed of IL miles an hour.
The hat of Otto Dobbins, the man
found dead near Everett, has been dis
covered. It is black Derby, with the
back crushed in, and strengthens the
belief that he was foully dealt with.
We have often wondered that wo.
men do not have their kitchen dresses
made as low-necked as their party
dresses. 1t would certainly be cooler
in working over hot stove.-Centralia
News.
Fire destroyed 25 acres OF standing
grain on the farm of T. Rondema
near Climax, Friday night, and for q
time threatened the entire crop oil
$500 acres. The origin of the blaze is
supposed to have been accidental.
Two Young fellows named Vanor.
man, arrested at Chehalis recently on
charge of cattle-stealing, are suing
their prosecutors, H. E. Randle and
Byron Bassett, for $1,000 damages
and alleging malicious conspiracy.
Will Bartel, working on railroad
bridge near Trinidad, Douglas county
fell ITO feet into a gulch on the Sd,
and suffered the fracture of both legs,
several scalp wounds and many
bruises. 1t is thought he will re-
cover.
Two Indian women were assaulted
q few days ago, near North Yakima,
by a white man and brutality beaten
with q club. One of the women, 70
years old, was left unconscious. She
died. Her assailant is known, but no
arrest has been made.
Everett has a pretty squabble over
"Sewer Inspector"-two men claim
ing the right to see the work done on
the new sewer, from time to time, at
$75 per month. The Independent
says there is job in the effort to get
rid of the first inspector.
A new vein of coal six feet thick
has been uncovered in the Salzer VAL
ley coal mine near Centralia. The
quality isfirst-class Ignite, and the
owners will increase the capacity Of
the mine. The new vein is much
lower than the one they have been
working.
The body of Valentine Kappus was
found July 6 hanging by rope around
& the neck from a tree near his house at
Pioneer, Clark county. Kappus had
shown signs OF mental arrangement
for some time, and his friends con.
clude he ended his own life while in a
fit OF insanity.
American Boxers" at Skagit have
driven out the Japanese section hands
of the Great Northern Railroad. The
company has brought in new ones,
and demands that the Sheriff give
them protection. 1t also offers $500
reward for the conviction of persons
concerned in the trouble.
The Board of State Land Commits.
sioners reports the sale of 1890
chains of shore land in Skamania