Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-03-22
STATE NEWS.
"A Brief Summary of News Gathered from All
Parts of the State

Brief Summary of News Gathered from All
Parts of the State.
1t is proposed to raise saloon licenses
ut Pullman from $500 to 81 900 per
year.
Forty-five sticks OF giant powder ex-
ploded at Fort Candy the other dav,
but fortunately no serious damage was
done.
Mary MOTIF, a 16-year.old girl liv-
ing with her aunt and uncle on the
marshes near Everett, has been adj
judged insane.
Physicians OF Everett have formed a
protective association to guard az ainst
quackery and to establish a uni form
schedule of fees.
The Chehalis State Bank has gone
into voluntary liquidation, and has
transferred its accounts to the bank
of Cotfman, Dobson & Co.
One of the latest industries proposed
Tor Okanogan county is creamery,
to be located at Alma, Sumner, Wash.
Dairymen are the promoters.
w. M. Arthur, United States
prisoner in the Yakima City Jail,
charged with sale of liquor to Indians,
has developed case of smallpox.
Residences and business houses of
Aberdeen are being numbered accord
ing to law recently passed by the
Council. Street signs will also be put
up.
Judge James Z. Moore and William
I. Stoll, at Spokane, Sunday night,
had personal encounter. Moore was
rendered unconscious by blow from
a cane.
Henry Hickman and a number OF
neighbors living between Colfax and
Almo:a are equipping q barbed wire
telephone line. The line connects
their farms with Almota.
Judge Smell, in the Superior Court,
at Tacoma, has decided that the State
law prohibiting the Sunday theater is
class legislation and is therefore un-
constitutional and void.
A carpenters union has been organ
lied at North Yakima. The member
ship numbers As and is increasing.
The union demands rate of 80 cents
an hour and nine hour day.
Several of the old Government
houses at the Skokomish agency are
being torn down. The school will be
moved about Il mile up the river to a
more central part Of the reservation.
1t has also been decided to divide the
agency farm into lots and to assign
| them to various parties.
The United States lighthouse tender
Columbine, with = corps of Govern.
ment engineers, has been surveying
near Point Partridge, WILDLY Island
about six or seven miles south of the
present location at Admiralty Head, OF
Fort Casey, and it is the intention to
move the old light to some place near
Point Partridge. 1t is probable that
the government will place some of the
new guns of Casey near the site where
the light now stands.
In the little town OF Dixie, a few miles
north OF Walla Walla, Monday night,
the cigar store OF Frank johnson was
entered and broken up. So thorough.
" did the raiders perform their work
that the building will require refitting
with windows and doors. johnson
had opened up few days before and
celebrated the event by inviting his
, friends to assist him ip disposing of a
key OF beer. 1t became rumored
about that he was selling intoxicants
without a license and his place was
demolished.
| w. r. Ross, farmer living near
Kent, was shot and instantly killed by
Alex. Simpson, another farmer, early
Wednesday morning. A Winchester
repeating shotgun was used. The
charge was fired from a distance of
| about 30 feet. 1t tore away part of
Ross left shoulder and several shot
entered the heart. The shooting was
witnessed only by Simpsons 14-year-