Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-08-01
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathe red from All
Parts Of the State.

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Judge Daniel l.. Fry, for many
years resident of Seattle, died al
Nome recently, of brain fever.
Mrs. Mary J. Lake, the woman who
was shot by her husband at the Ere
donia house, at Seattle, died Saturday
VIM. Eldridge, a Jefferson county
pioneer, died at his home. in China
cum valley last week. He settled there
in 1855.
Otto Krickeburg has sued the st.
Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. for So, ,0OO
for injuries sustained while working
in the mill.
Prof. S. w. Fletcher has resigned
his position as Professor of Agricul'
ture in the Pullman College, to take
effect on August 1st.
The City OF Tacoma has been sued
by Joe Myrel for $4,000 damages for
injuries sustained by falling into an
unprotected excavation.
A Garfield dispatch says that there
is little smut in the wheat in that
section and only in a few instance
will the yield be reduced to any appre-
ciable extent.
Over 200 boxes Of California peaches
have been condemned by the Snohom.
ish County Fruit Inspector, at Everett,
on account of being infested with
pc ach twig-borer.
The Chehalis Lumber Co. last week
made shipment of long timbers tc
Pittsburg for barge construction
There were 80 pieces SKIS inches in
size and SO feet in length.
Doctors coming to this, State can
not, under ruling of the State Board
of Medical Examiners, enter upon q
practice until the semi annual exami
nation for q certificate to issue.
The Western Cooperage Company OF
Aberdeen is making preparations tG
extend its plant. New machinery hal
been ordered and will be installed al
soon rs the extension il. completed.
At Ellensburg the other day two
Italian laborers attempted to cross the
Northern Pacific railroad tracks aheai
of west bound passenger train. Ont
man was struck and had HE leg cut
off below the knee.
Mrs. Ida Thompson, wife OF John NJ
Thompson, q bartender at Seattle
committed suicide, Saturday, by swal
lowing half the contents OF a four
ounce bottle OF carbolic acid. There
was no cause assigned for the rash act
Mark w. Bullard, a pioneer OF Pa
cific county, is dead at his home ir
Menlo at the age Of so years. He set
tied in Pacific county in 1858 and two
years later served as volunteer in the
Indian outbreak and the war that
followed.
Major Mills has received instrnc-
tions from the chief OF engineers Of
the U. S. army to lease the military
reservation on the east side OF Shaw
Island, in San Juan county. The
reservation contains 623 acres. The
lease will run for a period of five
years.
"Curloy" Munroe, the coatless sour.
dough of the Klondike, had Joe CLARK
arrested for libel. Joe apologized
"Curley" withdrew the charge, and all
is serene. Munroe has acquired fame
becauses he refuses to wear coat in
the bleakest OF winter weather in the
North.
At least one Missourian has been
shown something in Seattle. C. z.
Granger, who halls from Rolla, Mo.
was initiated into the mysteries OF the
lock trick Monday morning, and fol
the accretion to his knowledge paid
$3.50. This is the largest amount out
of which any innocent has been bun.
coed in Seattle for some time.
Henry. y..Blumer was afflicted by the
notion that he was an apostle. Hi.
worry over the wickedness of the
world became so great that his mind
was affected. He was examined be-
fore Judge Emory at Seattle, was
found insane, and committed to the
Steilacoom asylum. He is native oI
Switzerland, a printer, and 80 years o
age.
The State Supreme Court holds
that one co-partner is entitled to main
tain an action for a dissolution o
partnership and an accounting where
differences arise between the partners
owing to the failure and refusal OF one
OF them to account for money collect
ed by him. The decision was rem
dered in the case of Mullin vs.. Brum
mitt OF Spokane.
In May, 1901. large fir stump was
cut near Chehalis and brought into
the city and placed near the depot tt
he used as a stand from which the
late President would address the peo
pie OF that section OF the State. Tht
stump has been named the McKinle.
stump and arrangements have beer
made to convert it into band.stant
and erecting pagoda over the roof.