Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-12-13
W'ashlngtun Standard
STATE NEWS.
Brief Summary of News Gathered from All
Parts OF the State.

The Shelton public schools are
closed on the account OF the preva-
lence OF scarlet fever.
One firm at Puyallup is said to
have shipped thirtytwo carloads this
season of hops to the London market.
K. L. Bean was crushed to Aleath
near palOuse, on the 9th inst, by his
horse rearing up and falling backward
on him. He leaves wife and several
grown children.
The Master BARRIERS Association at
Everett has decided to charge five
cents extra when the customers neck
is shaven. and five cents extra for
curling his mustache.
The Washington State Teachers
Association will hold its annual meet
ing at Everett this year on December
&c, q and %. The Education Council
will be held December &c.
The Treasury Department has Or
dered the deportation OF two minor
sons OF Walla Walla Chinese mer.
chant, named Eng Go. The boys
whose father died on board the steamer
Olympia, were refused admission at
Port Townsend.
Safe-blowers visited Me dical Lake
the other night. The safe in a m eat
market was wrecked and the door
blown off, but the charge failed to
open the money compartment, and
the robbers secured a only a small
amount of money.
George Beckley, an aged man, COM
mitted suicide in South Tacoma. FRI
day night. Beckley selected the NOR
phine route. He was buried Sunday
under the auspices of the A. o. U. w.
and l. O. 0. F., of which orders de.
ceased was member.
W. ]. Hamilton, the pioneer drug
gist OF Colfax, is confined to his home
with badly scalded foot, caused by
to close contact with hot water bot.
tie. Mr.. HIS feet are partially para
lyzcd and have little feeling, aud lie
WIS frightfully burned before he rea.
Lied it,
Albert Tate, a logger employed by
the Wilcox Logging Company, was
drowned in the north fork of the Sno-
qualmie river, the other day, while
endeavoring to release a jam OF logs
near a boom. He was 2G years old
and a member of Camp 60, Woodmen
of the World.
DR.. c. L. Barnes, assistant PROBES
sor of veterinary science at the Wash
ington Agricultural College, at Pull.
man, had the first two fingers of his
right hand badly mangled, few days
ago, by the teeth of an Infatuated
cayuse on which he was operating at
the free clinic.
William Alexander Selkirk, q Cali.
fornia pioneer of 1850 and for nearly
half century prominent figure in
the newspaper and political world Of
the Pacific Coast, died in Seattle Sum
day mo1ning after lingering illness,
aged u years. The immediate cause
Of death was heart disease.
Elwell Dillingham;. traveller en-
route from Seattle to Trenton, N. j.,
became violently insane Tuesday
morning. Leaving the train at Spo-
kane he terrorized people at the depot
by aourishing revolver and shooting
in the air promiscuously. He is in
jail awaiting Developments.
The body of H. H. Warner, an en-
ploye OF the N. P. r. r., in Seattle,
was found floating in the bay near the
Occidental dock, on the 9th inst.,. and
considerable speculation has been
aroused as to the cause of his death.
Apparently the remains had been in
the water for two or three days.
The body OF J. c. Diedrich, an old
Grand Army man, was found on the
Northern Pacific track near Prescott,
Sunday morning. 1t could not be de-
cided whether the injuries resulted
from Diedrich's being struck by q
train or by being thrown from one in
motion. He left the Soldiers Home
at Orting Friday for visit to Tacoma.
Judge Richardson, at Spokane, has
sentenced four men to the penitentiary
the past week. S. d. Horbach to Is
months for shooting his brother-in.
law, Ralph Pidock, at Fairfield, last
May; G. H. Hicks, alias Wilson, wa
given four years for obtaining money
on bad check; Bob Miles was given
five years. and J. C. Moore three years,
for cattle stealing.
The home of ex-County Commits
sioner ]. NJ. Newman, near Ellens-
burg, was totally destroyed by fire the
other night. A seven-year-old son oil
Mrs. T. F. McAfee, Mr.. Newman's
daughter, persisted in the fire. Val.
liant efforts were made to rescue the
child and though some of the other
children we're carried out in an un.
conscious condition, the boy could not
be found.
DR.. Physer, who has spent several
years in Tacoma, was found in his
room in hotel in that city, on the
9th inst, in dying condition, and
breathed his last a few minutes after
the discovery was made. He had evi.
IDENTIFY committed suicide as several
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