Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-09-21
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts Of the State.

for the fair at New Whatcom.
Registration at the office OF the City
Clerk Of Spokane is over 5,Joj.
Mrs. Granland, who for years has
been the proprietor OF Central ferry,
on Snake river. has been adjudged in
sane at Pomeroy.
Tacoma has disallowed the claims
of Mary Lyons for $1,000. The sum
was asked for injuries received from
defective sidewalk.
The Spokane tax levy has been adj
vanced S mills this year. Last years
levy did not provide enough money
to pay interest on bonds.
A white man and three Chinese
were caught at Blaine Tuesday, by the
customs officers. The white man was
plotting the Chinese into the country.
All are in Jail at Blaine.
The Bank of Asotin has opened
for business, and the transactions
OF the first day were far beyond the
expectations of the management.
Deposits made have been large.
School District No. l, New What
com, has refunded $4,000 worth of
bonds. The district got $3.50 prem
ium. The bonds run 20 years, but re-
demption is optional after 10 years.
Charles Wright has purchased
25-foot lot on Holly street, New
Whatcom, for $1,000. This is $3.50
per front foot, the highest price ever
paid on Bellingham Bay for inside
property.
A. L. Riggs, at Walla Walla, plead
ed guilty to the charge of assault with
intent to commit rape, and was sen.
fenced by Judge Brents to serve a
sentence of Is months in the State
Penitentiary.
A dead body has been found in
Skykomish river, five miles above
Sultan. The Coroner's inquest failed
to identify the remains or to give any
certain cause of death. Deceased ap-
peared to have been a man of about
35 or 40 years of age, and the body
had laid in the water for some months.
No articles to identify him were found
on the person. A skull wound was
found over the forehead.
The schooner Carrier Dove, of SO
tons, arrived at Seattle last week from
South Amboy, N. j., from whence
she sailed January 16, completing one
of the longest voyages on record for Q
craft of her size. Captain John Grot-
tic and crew of five men were the
only persons making the trip. She
accomplished the difficult feat of sail
ing through the Straits of Magellan,
taking six weeks time in passing from
ocean to ocean.
Quite freak was discovered last
week at Ludlow, says the Port Town
send Leader. 1t was in the shape of q
newly born kitten. 1t had its tongue
divided lengthwise, one-haM being
fastened to the side of the mouth, and
from the other half a peculiar sack
like growth passed to the outside of
the mouth and was fastened to the
side OF the head. From the roof of
the mouth flap of skin protruded,
covered with hair much resembling
white feathers. The kitten seemed
as we'll and strong as the others in the
litter for several days, but from being
unable to obtain nourishment it died.
A. Y. Crowell, manager of the Great
Northern Express Company, at Spo-
kane, died on the night OF the 18th
inst. under peculiar circumstances.
Crowell had just returned from visit
to Seattle, and was in the Rankin
saloon, where Max Karter. q personal
friend, was behind the bar. Crowell
went into the back room and began
to tear up the furniture, overturning
tables and making general commo-
ton. Karter went back and remon-
strated, but Crowell. who was under
the influence of liquor, refused to
desist, and it is said struck Karter.
According to the stories of bystanders,
Karter lightly smote Crowell on the
cheek, and the man fell to the floor
and was dead in a few moments.
That the blow was trifling is proved BY
the absence Of any mark or bruise on
the dead mans cheek. Karter is un-
der arrest on charge of murder.
Crowell's parents live at Tacoma.
The largest movement of immigra-
ton to Washington and other Pacific
Coast States ever sent out from St.
Paul at one time will start from there
October 2, and is expected to number
upward of 2,0Co persons. by the Great
Northern alone. The movement will
be made up of parties of fifty and one
hundred from communities in the
Eastern States, who have been plan
ming to locate in the West for q year
or more. Michigan, Indiana, Illinois,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Missouri,
South Dakota and many of the South.
ern States are we'll represented. It
will require several special trains to
accommodate them. A year ago
representatives of these respective SET
tiers went West to look over the
country and give it a practical test.
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