Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-11-09
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered From
all Parts Of the State.

kalama Is to have new sewerage
system.
The Catholic fair at Colfax last
week was very successful. The net
receipts were $500.
The residence of Colonel w. S.
Mckee, at Seattle, was robbed of ST.
5OO worth of articles Sunday after
noon, while the family was absent.
Emil Brandt, who was sandbagged
at Snohomish, Tuesday night of last
week, regained consciousness Sunday,
and there is hope Of his recovery.
Wenas district, No. SO, has pur.
chased the old Congregational Church,
near the David Longmire place, and
will remodel it for school house.
As a result of quarrel over their
respective duties, Leonard Maier, a
brewer, aged 30 years, was struck with
a brick and killed, by Frank RACER, in
the plant of the Bayview brewery, on
the Grant street bridge, Seattle, at 3
o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
II. Hanger was arrested Friday at
Tekoa on a charge of selling whiskey
to a minor. At the preliminary hear.
ing he waived examination and was
held in $500 bonds to appear before
the grand jury at the next sitting. AS
sistant Prosecuting Attorney Roberts
attended the hearing and gave instruc-
tions to the local officers to enforce
the Sunday closing law to the latter.
a cavern at mine No. 7, at Car
bonado, Tuesday, resulted in the
death of three mine employees. The
dead are: Karl Huntela, Matti
Leedem, Gust Sandberg. Leedem was
a married man, the others were single.
The accident was caused by the giving
away of one OF the large supporting
beams. About SO men were working
in the mine at the time, but all ex-
cept the three killed escaped unin.
jured.
A Cathlamet dispatch of the 4th
inst. states that Harry Gentry, II
years of age, committed suicide Mon
day afternoon at Deep River by shoot
ing himself through the head with q
rifle. lie had been working in log
ging camp with his father, but for the
past few days had remained at the
family residence, as he complained of
being sick. His body was found seat
ed in a chair and a wound i'm his head
and a discharged rifle on the floor by
his side. 1t would have been believed
that his death had been accidental
had not a note been on a table in the
room in his handwriting saying,
Goodbye, mother" The family had
recently come from Pennsylvania and
the boy was constantly homesick to
return. His mother believes that his
brooding over this rendered him tenn
porarily deranged.
The farmers OF Walla Walla are u.s.
ing their barbed-wire fences for tele-
phone conductors. Nine miles OF tel
ephone is being operated along a
barbed wire fence. There are no in
sulators being used and the line is do
ing good work and the results are sat
isfactory. Several farmers who de-
sired to be brought into closer COM
munication with each other procured
the ordinary receivers and transmit
tiers and attached them to lines of
barbed wire strung on a common cat
tle-proof fence of the variety that is in
general use among stockmen. The
wire is nailed to the fence posts in the
ordinary way with staples and no eff
fort to insulate the wire was made
Where roads had to be crossed poles
were set in the ground on either side
and the wires strung in this manner
sufficiently high to insure safety from
passing vehicles. This line has been
in operation for several weeks and so
far there has been no break in the
communication by reason Of "ground-
ed" wires or other causes that would
seem impossible to avoid. 1t is OF
great benefit to those who employ it
and they say that within the next few
years all the farmers in the country
will be employing similar means OF
communication.
One OF the most desperate and reck-
less shooting scrapes ever recorded in
the history of Republic occurred last
Wednesday evening about o'clock on
the sidewalk in front of the Montana
saloon on Clark avenue. the main
thoroughfare of the town. The par
Elephants were Frank Wells and Ed.
Lathrop. 1t seems that Lathrop at
one time got into trouble at Spokane,
ana Wells evidence in the case was
the cause OF a conviction. Wells has
lately come to town, and Lathrop, it
is understood, still bearing grudge
against the former, met him during
the day and chastised him, as satisfac-
ton for being responsible for the
previous inconvenience and trials he
was put to at that time. This abuse
was more than Wells would stand,
so after drinking considerable Repub-
lie whiskey he provided himself with
30 40 rifle and went hunting for his
man. He met him at the location
above referred to and opened fire on
him, not desisting until four shots had
been fired. Lathrop jumped behind
an awning post for protection, and
drawing a 3S-caliber revolver, returned
three shots in defense, then rushed
into the saloon. None of the shots
took effect. They we're fined 500