Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-28

coolly ransacked the premises at hi
leisure and walked away with a satche
full OF valuables, including papers ant
momentoes, worth to the family sew
eral hundred dollars.
| The genuine San Jose scale ha,
been discovered on fruit in the Kittita:
valley. California shippers have beer
accused of sending fruit infected with
this pest into the State, but fruit men
are now alarmed over the evidence o.
the insects on our native trees.
Orders have been issued for the re
moval OF all the records OF the First
Regiment National Guard from What.
com to Aberdeen, where the regi.
mental headquarters will hereafter
be established, that being the home oil
the new appointee, Colonel Fox.
ID. johnson, a farmer of Mob Hill
east OF North Yakima. is missing, and
is believed to have been drowned. He
was suffering from heart trouble at the
time OF his disappearance and parties
are now in search of his body in some
of the many creeks and bitches near
Yakima.
DIR. Augustus B. Eastman, OF Van.
couver, will be appointed Receiver OF
the First National Bank of that place.
He was the original candidate brought
out soon after the sensational suicide
OF the President and Cashier and is
said to have secured the recommenda-
sion OF Senator Foster.
A seam of quartz seven inches wide
carrying both gold and silver, has been
discovered within half q mile of the
heart of Spokane. 1t runs through a
thickly-settled portion OF the city, un-
der fine dwellings for long distance.
The rock was essayed and it went Al
cents in gold and 60 cents in silver.
At New Whatcom, Monday, Judge
Neterer sentenced Alfred Hamilton to
be hanged August 16, for tho murder
of ID. NJ. Woodbury., at Anacortes, last
September. The attorneys of tho de.
fendant appealed on the ground that
there is no statute at present in the
State to cover the case. Appeal was
submitted without argument.
Three men were killed and five
others injured by the premature ex.
plosion OF a blast on the Oregon &
Washington Railroad, near Kalama,
last Friday. The scene of the acci-
dent was in a deep cut about half a
mile from that place. The dead are
Thomas Graham of Portland; Hugh
Jamison of Portland, and "Scotty'
Heeney of Vancouver, B. C.
Two newspaper changes are an
nounced in Lewis county. George I.
Brooks has purchased the Winlock
Pilot of G. E. Leonard, and the latter
will 60 to Canada. Thos. H. Dunckley
& Sons, of the Chehalis Examiner,
have purchased the Centralia News
and will remove to Centralia, where
they will consolidate the two papers
as the Merchantmen, July LIST.
E. E. Bosworth was taken back to
his home at Dayton, Monday, by his
,, wife, after being absent for several
weeks. Bosworth is in dazed condi-
ton and seems unable to remember
his past life. He left home for Walla
Walla and since that he remembers
nothing that happened to him until
he found himself near his boyhood
home, Forest Grove, Or. Here his
wife found him, although he failed to
recognize her, and he is now at home
and expected to recover. He is be-
lieved to have been sandbagged or
drugged.
Henry Fish, son of Col. J. NJ. Fish,
OF Kettle Falls, and James Aldridge, a
well-known mining man OF the same
place, were killed by an explosion OF
dynamite in the Acre mine, near Col
vile, Monday. Ten blasts had been
set. Seven exploded. The two min.
ers waited while. and then went into
the mine to investigate. Soon the
fatal explosion was heard. Aldridge
was blown many feet from the mouth
of the tunnel, and Fish was found a
few feet nearer, both with their heads
literally torn off and their bodies
shockingly mutilated.
A gigantic specimen OF snohomish
county fir, measuring fully fifteen feet
in diameter and without flaw, proba.
bly, the largest stick of timber in the
State OF Washington, is about ready
to be forwarded to the Pan-American
exposition. A part OF the stick is to
be followed out and fitted as an Office
for Commissioner johnson at the ex.
position. A seat designed to hold
about thirty people will extend around
the trunk, and accompanying the ex.
hibit will be two planks, eleven feet
in width, from the Tacoma mills, and
equally appropriate exhibits from the
Seattle and Whatc om mills.
Sensational proceedings occurred in
the Superior Court, at Spokane, the
other day in the breach of promise
case OF Lizzie Schumacher against B.
C. Kingsbury, wealthy mining man
of Spokane. Some time ago the jury
gave Miss Schumacher judgment
against Kingsbury for$lOO. Saturday
morning her attorneys withdrew from
tho oosa statipp in omen court that