Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-01-11
aFashinaton Standard
NTATE NEWS.
\ Bri.f summary Il News Gathered from Al
Parts Of the State.

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". VI Morrill, wi! start a bank at
Kent about Feb. II.
capt II. b. kirby has located q
ship vlr1 II Everett.
\i.rrd,on is raising 500 for the
Nerau l,tt!o-ship fund.
Yakima county doctors have orga-
,ilcl medical society.
:. \. Perkins, OF Tacoma, has bought
tuc T. .orctt Iad'pca'ct.
The seattle Polio" 'purt collected
$53,543.UG in fines in 1890.
Free delivery at Everett has been
postponed to February lst.
The Waitsburg Gazette has been
purchased by J. l.. IloutchcnS.
Spokane has accepted plans for
crcmatory which will cost $500.
The Midwinter term of the Supreme
Court will begin on the 14th inst.
The Eagles lodge OF Aberdeen is
about to begin the erection OF So, 900
hall.
\ man named Rayberger was robbed
of $2j at Everett, Friday, by highway
men.
Dave Morgan, the S-year-old boy
who was run over at Tacoma, died
Tuesday.
The Everett City Dock caught fire
on the Sd inst. and $1,000 in dam
ages ensued.
David Burns, of Seattle, is arrang-
ing to erect large shingle mill at
Sedro-Woolley.
The Walia .Walla Statesman has
been improved and enlarged to an
eight-page paper.
Establishment OF another sash and
door factory at Everett is planned by
Eastern capitalists.
The Tacoma City Council has
changed the name OF Railroad avenue
to Commerce street.
In Whitman county last year ITO
marriage licenses were issued and q
divorces were granted.
Everett Colby, of New York, will
build three.story stone and brick
business block at Everett.
The paint shop of Bryson & Liggett
at North Yakima was robbed the
other day of about $50 in tools.
The latest returns reveal the fact
that 1856 patients are now in the
Two insane asylums of this State.
James Musso, an Italian coal miner,
was killed at Roslyn, on the 4th inst,
by piece of coal falling upon him.
James Wilson was held up at Spo-
kane the other night by two masked
men and robbed of $62 and watch.
The big water-wheel for the Walla
Walla Electric Light & Gas Company
has arrived. 1t weighs over 10 tons.
]. N. Pickerell, attorney for NJ. O.
Reed, of Colfax, who was debarred for
one year, has filed motion for q new
trial.
S. n. Baird, Treasurer of the Monte
Carlo Railway Company, was held up
by highwaymen, at Everett, the other
evening.
Mcdonald & Cunningham will re.
open and operate the Washer & Nc.
Donald lumber camps near Sedro'
Woolley.
Ralph Shoemaker lost his left hand
at Bryant, Saturday, while working a
knee-bolting machine. The member
was cut completely off.
The fishermen of Gray's Harbor are
circulating petition to be presented
to the Legislature for a law prohibit.
ing the Use of fish-traps.
John Herzig, postmaster at Wash
ougal, died Tuesday night. His death
was sudden and unexpected. He left
awidow and four children.
An opium joint was successfully
raided early Sunday morning al
Arlington. Two men and two wo.
men were found in the den.
A Tacoma physician resented being
snowbalied on the Attn inst. and
thrust his umbrella into the eye of g
colored lad. The injury is serious.
ing Chow, a Spokane Chinaman
Monday night lost 5000 at faro. He
became respondent and swallowed
opium with suicidal intent, but was
restored.
Scarlet fever has again made its ap.
pearance at Garfield. The authorities
thought the disease had been stamped
out and raised the quarantine a few
days ago.
The store OF the Thomas Robinson
Lumber Company, at Rainier, wa
broken into few nights ago by burg
lars, who secured about 500 worth O
groceries.
Word has been received from Wash
ington by the Superintendent of State
Forestry Reserves that applications TO
grazing privileges for the coming yea
will now be considered.
The Great Northern Railway Com
pany's icehouse at Leavenworth wa
completely destroyed by fire lasr weel
The house had only recently bee,