Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-04-25
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.
Joe Dawson, a laborer, dropped
dead in the Niagara restaurant at Sc
attic, last Friday, from what is thought
to have been heart disease, as he was
seating himself at table to order
meal.
Minnie Cruel, servant in the
employ of Mrs. Grace ID. Stevens,
at Seattle, was arrested last week on
a charge of grand larceny in the theft
of pair OF diamond earrings valued
at $3.50.
A logger named Lawrence Scoggin
was instantly killed while engaged in
Doty & Stoddard's logging camp, 20
miles southwest of Chehalis. last FRI
day. A tree he was falling struck
kead stump or snag and a flying piece
OF the latter struck him.
Grain sacks this year sell at $500
per hundred against $S.75 hundred
last harvest. The farmers are some
what in quandary as whether to buy
now or wait and run the chances of a
rise. They have been low as S. per
hundred in some former seasons.
The city of Whatcom enjoys the
possession of historic landmark. 1t
is bridge built over Whatcom creek
by General Pickett in 1858, when
stationed there in charge Of the United
States troops. 1t is claimed that
Gems. U. s. Grant, Phil Sheridan and
Geo. b. Mcclellan, with other noted
men, have used this bridge.
The Indians of the Hob river coun-
try are reported to be up in arms
against an oil company, claiming that
the oil from the we'll being driven is
running into the river and killing the
salmon, thus depriving them of their
chief source of livelihood. They say
they will have the agent petition the
government to stop work on the we'll.
The funeral of the three children OF
Alfred Bandrau, who died at Tacoma, 4,
last week, from the effects of ptomaine
poison from eating canned salmon,
was held on the 18th inst. The three
bodies were laid to rest in one grave
beside the fourth child who died five
days before. The distracted father
and mother are nearly heart-broken
over the overwhelming sorrow that
has marked their advent into their
new home. They arrived in Tacoma
only few days ago from the East.
Yakima Herald: The public spirit
ed ladies of this city are wise enough
to see the utility of beautifying the
lawns and parks, and are endeavoring
to encourge wider interest in such
work by offering premiums to those
who maintain during the summer the
best kept lawns. The stimulus for
such work is the love for home and
the beautiful in nature, and the
ladies who have taken the matter in
hand deserve praise for their enter.
prise. There is nothing that rebounds
more to a community's good name
than a spirit of this kind.
One OF the saddsst exemplifica 'ons
! of the uncertainty of human life took
place, few days ago. when Mrs. G. E
Erickson of Douglas, Alaska, arrived
in Seattle and found that her husband
who came on the preceding boat, had
died at the hospital the day before hei
arrival, after o brief illness. Mrs
Erickson knew nothing OF her hus'
bands sickness, and expected him tc
meet her at the steamer, but as she
stepped from the boat to the wharf in
Seattle elated at the prospects before
her, no husband was there to extend
the glad hand of love and greeting
When told OF Mr.. Ereckson's unex.
pected death after q brief sickness
she was almost prostrated with grief
Friends assisted her to q room in the
Diller hotel and did all in their power
to console her in her sudden and great
bereavement.
Men prominent in the business and
political affairs of Seattle and State
have announced their intention to
construct a railroad through central
Alaska. 1t is proposed to build the
railway from point on Resurrection
bay by the most feasible and the
shortest route possible to Rampant
City, on the Yukon. The length oil
the proposed line is 574.S miles. The
promoters of the enterprise, which is
undertaken as business and money.
making venture, are John H. McGraw,
former Governor of this State; United
States Senator George Turner. George
w. Dickinson, Charles F. Peck, ]. w.
Goodwin, John E. Ballaine, Capt. E. E.
Caine, Chas. l.. Denny and C. NJ.
Anderson. All except Senator Turner
and Mr.. Peck, whose homes are in
Spokane and Omaha, respectively, are
residents of Seattle. They have in.
corporased as the Alaska Central rail-
way, articles being filed at Olympia
last week. following the approval of
the preliminary survey as shown by
maps and field notes submitted to the
Secretary of the Interior at Washing
ton. The survey was made in 1878