Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-02-14

Harry Gable, OF Chehalis. John
Maurin. OF Chehalis. has secured the
contract for the daily service between
Forest and Mossyreck. A move is ON
foot to secure an extension of the daily
service from Mossyrock to Verndale.
One of the largest damage verdicts
EVIL given in Spokane county was an
nounced last Friday, when the jury
awarded Fireman Ellie N. Howe $751;
QUO manages from the Northern Pa
cific. Howe lost leg liz a collision
near Almira during the snow block
ade in 1899.
Seven years in the penitentiary at
Walla Walla is the sentence imposed
by Judge Rudkin on Emory A. Lewis,
at Spokane this week. Lewis was
convicted Of stealing more than 81 600
from Mrs. Nettie Brauer Platt, one OF
his clients. Lewis was formerly a
prominent attorney of Spokane.
The Henriot crop OF hops, l75 bales,
was sold this week to Phil Neis, of
Portland, at Ia cents, and thirty one
bale lot went to a Tacoma dealer at
II cents. These we're the last hops in
Southwestern Washington and not a
bale now remains in growers hands in
Lewis, Cowlitz or Chehalis counties.
F. L. Bell. of Garfield, operates a
portable sawmill, rendered SO by being
placed on a raft, whereby it may be
run anywhere on the st. Joe river,
where water is deep enough. The
same power that does the saving when
placed, also is the motive force oper-
ating paddle wheels, when the mill
is being moved about.
VIM. Llewellyn committed suicide
in Seattle, recently. He and his wife
had been living apart, and he came
out from the East with the hope of
bringing about a reconciliation. When
he arrived in Seattle he learned that
his wife had obtained divorce in No
vember and was married in Olympia
on December "a under the name OF
Cora Bliss to Fred Kamsdell.
Governor Mcbride the other night
made a statement declaring the
charges made by President J. II.
Miller OF the Cheney normal school
against the trustees utterly unfounded.
He said that the resignation of Mr..
Miller before hearing could be had
upon the charges was q practical ad
mission that he was wrong. The Gov
ernor will not ask any resignation
from any member of the board.
According to . report from Port
Townsend, an earthquake and land
slide occurred in the Olympic noun
tains up in jefferson county, a few
days ago. The Indians claim that a
number of earthquake shocks were
felt, followed by a crashing noise.
The next day Indian hunters reported
that one of the peaks in the Olympic
range had broken off and slid into
small valley almost filling it with dirt
and snow.
A fatal train wreck occurred on the
Seattle-Sumas branch of the Northern
Pacific railway at Lake station, fifteen
miles north OF Seattle, late Saturday
night. The north-b bound freight train,
which left Seattle about IL O'Clock, ran
into q huge Landslide shortly before
midnight, and in the smashup which
resulted, Chas. Feitz, the fireman, lost
his life. He was caught between the
locomotive boiler and an overturned
hny.oor onI k,r~~l -
others OF the train crew escaped.
State Horticultural Commissioner
Van Holderbeke says that from re-
ports 80 far received the cold weather
has not materially injured fruit trees,
rs the temperature has not been low
enough. The Inspector in Yakima
county, he says, has been granted full
time by the County Commissioners,
and is making rigid inspection OF
orchards in that county. Where the
San Jose scale and Goblin moths are
found orders are given for spraying the
trees as soon as the weather will per.
init.
Work has been commenced for the
construction OF wireless telegraph
system between Tatoosh island, at the
entrance to the Straits of Fuca and
Port Crescent, q distance OF fifty miles.
The Government will establish the
system for the benefit OF commerce.
A tower is being constructed on
TatoOsh island and a receiving tower
will soon be started at Port Crescent.
The towers will be experimental, and
is the system proves successful the
government telegraph line between
Port Crescent and Neah Bay will be
discontinued.
A peculiar funeral was held from
the Hotel Collar, when the body of
" Trixie," the pet dog OF Fred Coleman,
which has been around the hotel and
was general pet for long time, was
buried with the grandest dog funeral
ever held in Colfax. The dog had
been killed by a larger dog. which
seized him and threw him under the
wheels Of the bus. A neat coffin,
trimmed iu black cloth with silver
mountings. was provided and the body
of the pet dog, covered with flowers,
was placed in the casket and buried
With due respect and solemnity. The
dog was . great favorite with the
travelling public and patrons Of the
hotel.
Judge Griffin. Of the Superior Court
in Seattle, has declared the law to
regulate the hours of employment Of
women in stores and factories uncou-
stitutional. It was urged by the at
torney for the defence that the law was
unconstitutional in that it violated
the constitutions of the United States
and OF the State of Washington, pro-
viding that no person shall be deprived
OF his property without due process Of
law, it being pleaded that the right to