Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-08-29
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.

A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.
A wooleu factory is to be started in
Tacoma.
James Tisdale, well-known logging
| man. was killed by falling tree, near
McMurray, Monday.
Tacoma postoffice has machine for
cancelling stamps on letters at the
rate Of As. 600 per hour.
Fred, the 9-year-old son of Bud
Partridge, of Wilbur, was drowned in
lake near that place, Friday after
noon.
During the past year there has been
an increase of 5000 acres in the i'm.
proved land in Yakima county. The
increases in assessible land amounts to
$4,000 acres.
The residence of ex-Mayor Daniel
Kelly, at McMurrsy, was destroyed by
fire, Friday. The flames started from
burning stump while the family was
away from home.
The Grays Harbor Packing Co. has
opened new cannery at Aberdeen.
The cannery is one OF the largest ON
the Coast and is fully equipped with
modern machinery.
A Yakima ranchman says he has
been offered 25 cents per pound for his
hops and that he will sell 300 bales at
that price. This is the highest offer
on record in Yakima county.
Because seeds grown in Washington
are superior to those procurable else
where. the firm of Lilly, Bogardus &
Co. is planning to establish a seed
farm of more than 100 acres near Sc.
attle.
Ten of the thirteen men who drank
water from well at Billwill, Skagit
county, the other day, were taken ser.
iously ill. All will recover and it is
not known what is wrong with the
water.
A spring has just been discovered
near Davenport and men have been
put to work to ascertain the quantity
ofthe water that can be procured from
it, with view of using it as a source
of water supply for the city.
Miss Morris, q young lady from
Portland, was accidentally shot at
North Beach Saturday. She was pre-
pairing to go out snipe shooting when
in some manner her shotgun was dis.
charged and the charge Of shot entered
her knee.
The badly-decomposed body OF q
man was found floating in the bay
near Everett, Sunday. 1t is believed
to be the body of member of the
crew of the tug Tyee, who was drowned
there when the schooner Lunsmann
was launched.
The fourth Sunday of tight clos.
ing" has passed in Wslla Walla and it
looks As if the days Of the old wide
open policy were over. There is no
way OF prohibiting street selling and
wagons are out on tho streets loaded
with ice cream and soft drinks, which
find ready sale.
George H. johnson committed sui
eide by jumping from the third story
OF the Edison hotel at South Tacoma
at 9 o'clock Friday night. No one
saw the fatal fall, but Mrs. Philip
Kueip and other roomers heard it, and
on investigation Johnson's lifelest
form was found on the concrete side.
walk. Dependency was the cause.
A strange disease has broken ou,
among the cattle in Walla Walla
county which is believed to have been
introduced by steers shipped in to be
fattened for the market. The cattle
show symptoms Of watering eyes fol.
lowed by scum of mucous coating
over the eyes. Later the eyeballs
burst and death follows. The malady
is said to be spreading.
A remarkable accident occurred on
the ranch Of John Cleman, in Wenas
valley. Mr.. Cleman was superintend'
ing the erection OF hay derrick, when
a hammer dropped by workman
after falling fifty feet, struck him on
the head. He fell to the ground and
was picked up unconscious. An ex'
animation disclosed the fact that nc
bones were fractured, and beyond q
severe scalp wound, Mr.. Cleman was
uninjured.
Two fires broke out in Whatcom
last Friday morning and at first they
we're thought to be Of an incendiary
origin. One OF them was in the Huh
restaurant and the other in q feed
store about $50 feet away. The res
taurant was gutted with loss OF 81,
100. It was found that the fire started
in the restaurant and one of the
sparks from there must have started
the fire in the feed store.
Farmers in Eastern Washington arr
quite jubilant over the good prices hog
are bringing at present. Buyers arr
securing the country and offering 6!
cents per pound for live hogs and it il
thought the price will soon 60 to
cents. 1t is said that one bushel o
wheat will make II pounds of pork, 81
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