Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-04-26
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
A new telephone company is being
organized at New Whatcom.
Tacoma school teachers have asked
that their salaries be increased.
Harrington will build a $4,000
brick school-house this summer.
E. F.. Beard, Minnesota newspaper
man, has purchased the Blaine Jour
nal.
The State exhibit for the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition will be ready about
May LIST.
A number of Prosser farmers will
plant considerable land to chicory
this season.
A large cannery is to be built at
Fairhaven this season by the Moth
American Fisheries Company.
The badly decomposed body of
man which was identified as that of
Marks Bnrns, was found floating in
the bay at Tacoma, few days ago.
Thomas Brown, an Englishman, As
years of age, was killed by a Great
Northern train, at New Whatcom,
Friday night. While drunk, he laid
down upon the track and went to
sleep.
Frank Reich, foreman of the rivet.
ers on a steel bridge being built on the
line of the Great Northern, four miles
east of Skykomish, fell so feet from
the upper supports and was instantly
killed Saturday.
The Edwards brothers, aged 2l and
1S, residing near Milton, a few days
ago discovered 16 cayotes in one den,
and killed them all and took the
scalps to Pendleton, where they re-
ceived $32 in bounty.
R. Malver, an employe of the saw
mills at Preston was thrown from q
high trestle into q burning slab-pile
recently while loading one OF the cars
used to carry out refuse. Before he
could be rescued his body was burned
almost to crisp.
The funeral OF Samuel Bell, who
was killed in q logging camp at Gray's
River last week, took place at Van.
couver Saturday. Mr.. Bell was at
taching line to sswlog when the
heavy iron hook attached thereto
broke, striking him in the head.
Death was instantaneous. He was
unmarried.
Rupert Mcclure, aged IL, was hor.
ribly burned at Wenatchee Saturday.
He filled baking powder can with
gunpowder and drove hole in the top
with a nail. He then dropped q
lighted match in the can. An ex-
plosion followed. Both his eyes were
blown out, and he was terribly burned
about the face neck and head. His
hair was nearly all burned off. His
condition is critical.
H. L. johnson, a well-known con-
tractor of Whatcom, left home last
Saturday. supposedly to look after his
work, and has disappeared, leaving no
trace which leads to any solution OF
the mystery. His son has instituted
a thorough search for him and has
followed up two or three clues only to
come to the conclusion that none of
them have any foundation in fact.
Mr.. johnson is 81 years old, an old
soldier, and somewhat feeble, although
quite active for man of his age.
Arthur Dhallin, aged Is, a student
in the Walla Walla High School.
was picked up in a dazed condition on
the ground floor OF the building Tues
day afternoon. His nose was broken,
the frontal bone of his skull fractured,
and it is feared that he is severely in.
jured internally. The High School
room, which he left shortly after
school was called Tuesday afternoon,
is on the third floor OF the building,
but it is thought that he could not
have fallen a distance of over eighteen
feet, which would be from the landing
of the second floor. Whether he at
tempted to slide the bannister and
swung too far over, or slipped and fell,
remains for him to tell, as there were
no eye witnesses.
George Otis Smith, of the geological
survey. will soon begin operations in
the Cascade Mountains, looking to
completion OF the location of reser-
voir sites and the mapping of the
country from geological standpoint.
Preliminary surveys we're made last
year, but the appropriation of $780,
600 was not sufficient to complete
the work, and an additional approp-
ration of a similar sum has been
made by Congress for this year. Con-
gress will be asked to build reservoirs
to impound water for irrigation in the
Yakima Valley. In the meantime
farmers are complaining that the
watershed is being destroyed by sheep
grazing, and if suitable protection were
given there would be no necessity for
the reservoirs. 1t is claimed that in
some places the water has decreased
so per cent. in the past 10 years, be-
cause of denuding the forests.