Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-11-28
STATE NEWS.
A Brio: Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts of the State.

A Brio: Summary Of News Gathered from All
! Parts Of the State.
The Washington wheat crop this
year is estimated at 25,OO0,O0O BUSH
els.
1t is estimated that 10000 fruit
trees will be planted in the Yakima
valley next spring.
Three fires OF Mount Vernon the
same night, indicates that fire-bugs
have getting in their despicable work.
]. G. Megler, Of Wahkiakum county,
who has been q member OF the Legis-
lature ever since Statehood, is a candi-
date for Speaker OF the House, this
session.
Burglars entered at S03 Pike street,
Seattle, the other night. and secured
from a room occupied by c. Hagen
cash and deposit checks amounting in
value to nearly 81 900.
There are thousands of tons Of 1902
potatoes stored away in the Yakima
valley awaiting rise in price. At pres
ent from 81 to $40 per ton is being
paid and no market at that figure.
It is stated on the authority of
President Mellen that the Northern
Pacific will soon build a line from
Vancouver TO North Yakima and
another line down the north bank of
the Columbia to the Coast.
Many thousands of infected fruit
trees from the Brown Brothers Nurs-
cry in New York, have been burned by
the State Commissioner of Horticul-
ture, at Tacoma. the past week. They
were loaded with parasites.
Tacoma claims that she is to have
81, 2,O00, 900 spent in an immense cleo
.rical plant to supply heat and power
for every purpose, by Boston com.
paoy, who own twenty.four other sys-
TENS in various parts of the United
States.
A young man named Harry Corbett
is under arrest at Spokane for holding
upa drygoods clerk. He claims to be
son Of former Senator Corbets Of
Oregon. He ie believed to be ono oil
two masked men who held up and
robbed the inmates of a disorderly
house at Kendrick.
A young man named Haskins, %
years of age, has been held at Seattle,
to answer at Topeka, Kansas, for OBJ.
tanning money under false pretenses.
It seems that he answered . matri'
moniai advertisement OF . farmer in
Kansas who sent him money under
the belief that he was woman.
The machinery Of match factory
is being set up At Tacoma which will
afford an output of four carloads oil
lucifers per day. It will require about
four months to install all the ma.
chiuery for making and packing fol
market, and the product will not
therefore. be on sale till next Spring.
James Manning, who broke into the
Great Northern Office at Hillyard,
some time ago, and stole number oil
blank time-checks, one of. which he
filled out for SIC aud passed. has been
sent 70 the penitentiary for eight
years. w. T. Clark, of Spokane, q
years of ago, his accomplice, 10 under
trial at Spokane.
A fire originated in Kings book and
notion store At Colfax from very un.
usual cause. It seems that . very
heavy fall OF snow prostrated electric
light and telephone wires, . huge
cable of the latter being burned Out
by coming ia contact with the wire ol
heavy voltage. As both wires entered
the store it is thought that "cross'
Get FIRE to the woodwork.
Ten thousand boxes OF apples are
rotting on the orchard grounds tribu.
tary to Waitsburg, including the creek
bottoms as far south as Summit and
the Touchett bottom north of Hunts.
vile. Waitsburg growers can find
scarcely any market and prices have
fallen 80 that it is scarcely profitable
90 try 10 cave the fallen fruit. Apples
were heavy crop this season.
The body Of Frank Dement,, a we'll.
known young man who lost his life by
drowning and exposure, has been found
floating at Deer Harbor, near What.
com. Young Dement,, apparently af.
ter he had battled with the waves in
which his sloop was overturned, got
into the dory attached to the sloop,
and tied the painter around his body.
The dory was overturned and his life.
less body tied to the dory was found
floating.
By the provisions OF the will of the
late Joseph L. Stubblefield, a wealthy
farmer, the bulk OF his estate is to be
invested and the income derived
therefrom set aside for the mainten.
ance Of an orphans home TO be To-
Gated in or near Walla Walla. The
clause of the will relating to the in.
mates of the Home says: "For tie
support OF a Home for the fatherless
or motherless and INDECENT children,
residents of the States of Oregon and
Washington and worthy elderly indi'
gent widows residents of Oregon and
Washington, and to their mainten.
ance and to the giving of common