Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-07-11
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts of the State.

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A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.
A severe rainstorm at Walla Walla
on the Sd, destroyed much of the
heavy graincrops.
One fish-trap near Whatcom caught
1000 sockeys one day last week, which
is the record for the season.
The Northern Pacific is putting in a
new steel bridge over the Teanaway
river, four miles east of Gle Elum.
Herman Quandt was fined 500 and
costs at Seattle the other day for un.
lawfully employing women to sell
liquor.
A fire at Everett the other day COM
pletely destroyed the stock OF millinery
goods owned by Mrs. Olga Heinrich.
The goods were valued at $500 and the
insurance was half that amount. It
is supposed that the fire originated
from firecrackers.
Ernest Woodland, an Elma lad, was
loaded down with fire-crackers, powder
and Roman candles and ready to
start out on his celebration. A spark
of fire caught in the fire-crackers and
the whole celebration came off with.
out notice. The boy was pretty badly
burned and bruised, but will recover.
A man named Norman Matson,
one of the crew OF the launch Transfer,
on Gray's Harbor, was thrown over.
board, on the night OF the 5th inst,
by a barge in tow, striking q snag
and was drowned. The remainder
OF the night was spent in search.
ing for the body Of the unfortunate
man without success. Matson was a
newcomer from Michigan.
Grain Inspector Arrasmith says
that the copious rains which fell in
the wheat districts, this week, practi.
cally insures cereal crop. barring the
slight danger of hot winds. "The
wheat growers told me on my recent
trip" said he, "that if a good rain
fell by the Fourth of July it would be
sufficient to develop the wheat crop,
and now they have what they want"
Among other features OF the enter
tainment being arranged for the mem.
bers of the State Editorial Association,
which convenes in Walls Walla in
September, is trip to the State Peni-
tentiary, and (many OF the boys will
be thankful to learn) return. A trip
to Fort Walla Walla, an excursion to
Dudley and drives over the surround.
ing country are other features of the
programme.
]. Minner lies at the hospital at
North Yakima with an ugly cash in
the abdomen, inflicted by Wesley
Beeks, who is under arrest on charge
of assault with intent to kill. 1t is
said that the men had an alteration
over Mrs. Beeks, who had not recently
lived with her husband, in the wo-
mans rooms, and that Beek's inflicted
the wound. Minner is in danger OF
death from septic@mia.
The remains OF man, supposed to
be those Of Henry Minckler, were
found under the Toledo bridge on the
3D. inst. Mr.. Minckler mysteriously
disappeared about four weeks ago.
No trace had been found OF him,
when several boys. while fishing in the
Cowlitz river, discovered the body.
Mr.. Minckler was a we'll farmer,
and for many years had resided near
Winlock. 1t is thought he ended his
life in fit of insanity.
Fred. Richards and Edward Ross,
aged II years, were sentenced to the
penitentiary in Portland, on the Sd,
for one year and eighteen months
respectively, for stealing horse and
buggy. The boys hired the rig from
livery stable and proceeded across
by ferry to Vancouver, where they at
tempted to dispose OF the rig. They
were arrested, sent back and pleaded
guilty. Both boys have parents in Sc.
attle. Ross was an inmate of the re.
form school at Chehalis for term.
"Hands up! Turn your faces to
the WALTZ That was the substance of
an order given by medium.sized,
plainly-dressed man with mask over
his face who appeared in the doorway
of Charles Schultz's saloon in the CEN
ter of Colfax about an hour before
dawn, on the night OF the Fourth.
Nearly a dozen gamblers and late
celebrators who heard the order and
saw two ugly-looking revolvers prompt
ly began looking at the plaster. Hand