Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-03-15
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.

A Brief Summary of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.
The Centralia shingle mill was de-
stroycd by fire last Saturday night.
Four vessels are under construction
at Aberdeen for the Pacific Coast lum-
Der trade.
The steamship Palatinia has taken
aboard 100000 feet of lumber at
Everett for China.
Isaac Pincus & Son, of Chehalis, re-
Gently bought 81 bales OF hops from
Henry Foster for 10 cents pound.
Mr.. Eaton, who attempted suicide
at Centralia last Saturday, is still
alive and may recover. The reason
for the attempt on his life is not
known.
A deed was filed at Sedro-W oolley
the other day, conveying from s.
Prentice Smith and others to Lake
Whatcom Logging Company 1850
acres of timber land for $4,000.
The police methods of Seattle are
counterpart of those OF the "Circum-
locution Office" described by Charles
Dickens, whereby "How Not To Do
1t" was reduced to scientific axiom.
George Garrison, young man liv-
ing on Ford's Prairie, near Centralia,
while racing his horse Saturday, was
thrown and, his horse falling on him,
he received very serious internal in
juries.
Centralia has factory for the
manufacture of eaves-tronghs, which
seems to be assuming metropolitan
condition while still in swaddling
clothes. 1t is only in very large
cities that a vender may live on the
sale of collar-buttons.
Under the rule granting free mail
delivery to cities whose postal receipts
aggregate $4,000 or more annually,
Aberdeen seems assured of that facil-
ity. For the year ending March 31st
next its receips will be considerably in
excess of the required amount.
Albert Wetterer, proprietor of the
principal hotel at Marcus, by mistake
swallow ed liberal draught of So
luton of carbolic acid Sunday, and
but for the prompt arrival Of physic-
ian would have died from the effects.
At present he is rapidly recovering.
M. NJ. Laughlin, master mechanic
in the Treadwell mine, while alighting
from the cage, missed his footing and
fell 400 feet to the bottom of the
main shalt few days ago, and was
instantly killed. He left widow and
four childIen. He was formerly a
locomotive engineer on the Northern
Pacific, and was in the Tacoms fire
department..
A citizen of Seattle who has just re-
turned from trip East says that the
Puget Sound metropolis does not en-
Joy a very good reputation for morality
abroad and that it is believed that
lawlessness is tolerated to keep money
in the city. a condition they do not
approve. They have, it will be OBJ
served, sized it up about right. Sc
attle is the Vanity Fair, held all the
year round, to delude pilgrims from
the bounties OF the Promised Land.
James billiard, held in the county
Jail at North Yakima pending an ap-
peal to the Supreme Court, made an
ineffective attempt at Jail delivery and
is now in close confinement. He
used an iron case-knife, which had
been cut into saw and hardened.
The steel hinges of the door we're
sawed almost through when the at
tempt was discovered by Deputy C. E.
Lum. billiard is under sentence of
five years for robbing Northern Pa
cific freight train.
Thomas L. Gamble struck a flow Of
natural gas at the depth of 3S4 feet
near Gle Elum, which on ignition
cast upa flame about 80 feet high. The
opening of the we'll was with great
difficulty closed and the flame sub
dued, when half-inch pipe was con-
nected and run out about 20 feet from
the we'll. The flow from this was
ignited and has been burning a flame
three feet long ever since. Mr..
Gamble is now ready to wager his last
dollar that he will be Coal-gas
Tommy, if not Coal-oil Johnny.
Seattle is just now, figuratively
speaking, between the Devil and the
Deep Sea. Her Moral Sentiment calls
halt in vice that has become open
and arrogantly aggressive, while Busi-
ness Thrift proclaims for the Open
Town the fellow who carries the Long
pNV. ,nl, l.. L. n
simmon. NJ. S. calls for enforcement of
the law and B. F. demand that Police
Officers wear goggles over their eyes,
instead OF electric headlights in their
dark lanterns, and that Justices hood
wink be made of gauze instead OF
leather, which is palpably too long q
stride to be made at one step in any
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