Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-05-03
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.

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for railroad up the Washougal river
!, to Salmon Falls.
Editor ]. ID. Medill of the NORTH
Yakima Democrat, is to engage il
mining in Alaska.
The Yakima High School will have
q class OF 2G graduates for the June
commencement exercises.
A three days convention of the
State Sunday School Association will
be held In Seattle, beginning May 10.
Mayor Bacon, of Whatcom, has
ordered the Chief of Police to seize all
slot machines paying either money OF
merchandise, and prosecute the own.
ers.
A man giving the name of John
Trent has swindled Dayton, Palouse
and Pasco merchants by getting goods
) on credit and disposing of them else
where. A $500 piano was one Of the
purchases on credit.
The contract for the building of the
annex and gymnasium in the State
Normal School at WhatcOm has been
let to S. E. Booker, of that city, for
$43,O63. The State has appropriated
$4,000 for the work.
The police of New Whatcom have
unearthed a youthful gang of burglars
there, and arrested five boys between
the ages of and Is years for breaking
into one OF the largest stores in the
city last Sunday and robbing the till
of $l5.
An anti-saloon league has been or
ganized at North Yakima. Handbills
giving the law on gambling, Sunday
closing and other offenses have been
circulated by its order. This is sup
posed to be preliminary to an attack
on the saloons of the city.
State Superintendent Bryan has
just made a ruling of great import.
ance to teachers. Heretofore it has
been the custom to allow an applicant
for a teachers certificate repeated
trials in the event of failure. Mr..
Bryan has determined to enforce the
school code in this particular, and the
applicant must wait until the next
regular examination.
An unknown man was found Tues.
day near Everett, with his forehead
crushed and brains oozing from
deep wound on the top of his head.
The trainmen, who discovered the
man, thought he was dead and pro.
ceeded on the run. Next morning at
o'clock the same train picked up the
man, who was barely alive, and took
him to Everett. He had been lying
unconscious by the track during the
night, although there were several
houses in the vicinity. The injured
man is about 40 years old, well-dressed
and not a laborer. Nothing by way of
Identification was found on the man.
Mortimer Montpetit has returned
to Walla Walla from his former home
in Ohio, to find that he was buried
some time ago, after being fatally
burned in fire. These alleged facts
are matters of record in the office of
the County Auditor at Walla Walla.
Montpetit disappeared about two
years ago, and body found in the
ruins OF burned building was identi-
fled as his. 1t was buried by q lodge
to which he belonged, and o marble
headstone placed on the grave. Mont
petit has removed the tombstone, and
has applied to the Superior Court to
have the record of his death stricken
from the Auditors books.
Mrs. Roth, wife of a farmer living
near Colfax, made desperate attempt
at suicide Tuesday, by cutting her
throat with razor and leaping head
long into 14-foot we'll. She was
rescued and will recover. Mrs. Roth
had measles and was respondent over
domestic troubles. She has five child.
rem, ranging in age from 10 months to
ten years, and is 36 years old. When
her children told her TO be brave and
live for her children, she said: al
have been brave, out no one knows
what | have suffered" 1t is believed
she WAS temporarily insane, but
talked nationally and freely OF the
deed after being rescued from the
we'll.
Michael Mclaughlin, a laborer en-
ployed at the Tacoma smelter, was
instantly killed by falling through an
ELEVATOR shaft at an early hour
Wednesday morning. Mclaughlin
was pushing car loaded with ore.
The track extends over an elevator
used to raise and lower the car be.
tween the wharf level and the refining
room. He was pushing the oar from
the rear and could not see the open
shaft which had been left open by mis-.
take. The front wheels OF the car ran
off the edge of the track. He tried to
stop it aud in so doing lost his balance
and car and man went over together.
He fell a distance Of 30 feet, the car
turning in the descent and falling
squarely on his head and shoulders.
He leaves a wife and FIVE children.
A boiler at the King county oil
we'll, eight miles south of Seattle, ex.
ploded Monday forenoon at 1890
O'Clock, burying 4" Doc" Twombly un.
der IL feet of sand. Twombly was at
the bottom OF the we'll which is being
suuA 70 peorocK py the ordinary pro-
cess OF excavation. The we'll was
down 81 feet. When the explosion
came the vibration of the earth caused
the cavern. The body was dug out
one hour later. The main part OF the
boiler, weighing about two tons, had
been listed by the force of the explo-
sion and thrown 80 feet, clearing in
its flight stump standing about six
feet high. The force of the explosion
must have been terrific, for the firebox,
huge piece of iron and steel weigh
ing about thousand pounds, was
lifted in the air and blown over the
roofs of two houses, and finally crashed
its way through the roof of a barn,
fully LOO feet away from the scene of
the accident.
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