Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-05-30
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts of the State.

Everett is to have new manufac
turing plant. A concern has beer
organized to make sash, doors, saloon
and store fixtures.
Jasper n. Warren was found deaG
in bed at his home at Fremont, last
week. 1t is believed he died from
hemorrhage from the nose.
! Loren Weeks, 12-year-old boy
who was employed by the Robinson
Manufacturing Company at Everett,
fell into the bay last week and was
drowned.
All the gambling houses of North
Yakima have been closed and the slot
machines are laid away. The Sheriff
was notified by the County Attorney
the other day that all gambling must
stop.
A Wisconsin syndicate OF lumber
men are negotiating for the purchase
of the Palouse River Lumber COM
pany at Palouse. They will increase
the output of the mill from 100000
to 100000 feet per year. 1t is said
the new syndicate has capital OF ST.
100000.
The Snohomish Logging Company
has awarded the contract for build.
ing new logging railway. The Ever
EFT Herald says the branch will tap
body of timber back of Cathcart
station, on the Northern Pacific, that
will keep the company busy for at
least five years.
The gamblers and variety theater
proprietors OF Montesano are in trouble
among themselves and are invoking
the law to help run each other out. A
complaint was entered by the gamblers
charging the Olympic variety theater
with operating in violation of the State
laws, but through the mediation of
common friends the case was let go by
default.
EvereH Herald: Charles Coleman
and Lewis Rogers, OF Gold Bar, have
placed on file with the County Audi
tor a notice OF location and claim on
400 cubic feet of water per second
near the falls of Wallace river. The
locators claim the right to erect plants
for power, electric light, operating
railroads, milling and manufacturing
machinery.
J. r. Rickart, a contractor, blew
out his brains in a secluded spot near
the terminus of the Green Lake elec-
trio line, near Seattle, some time dur
ing Sunday. The weapon he chose
was 3S-caliber bulldog revolver.
Rickart was contractor and a men,
Der OF the firm of Layton & Rickar,,
of Seattle. He had been in poor
health for several weeks.
James Hatley had an exciting en-
counter with lone higwayman on
Thomas street, Seattle. a few nights
ago, in which he sustained a slight
wound in the side from revolver in
the hands OF the assailant. Because
Hatley refused to obey the command
to throw up his hands the footpad
opened fire. sending four bullets at his
intended victim, the last of which
took effect in the left side Just below
the floating rib.
The strike of the union iron molders
at Spokane, all of whom walked out
about ten days ago, has been settled
and the men returned to work. The
employers have conceded the demand
for a nine-hour day, with wages at
$3.50, the same as paid before for ten
hours work. 1t is stipulated, how
ever, that the schedule shall shall not
take effect for fifteen days. The
strike had crippled four foundries, and
it was feared might close nearly all
the machine shops unless it was quick
ly settled.
The Bennett barber shop, on F
street, Aberdeen, was the scene of an
attempted suicide last Thursday.
Early in the afternoon, Charles Roelfs,
a one-legged character about town,
entered the shop and, while being
shaved, rose up in the chair, pulled a
revolver, leveled it at his head and
was just in the act of pulling the
trigger when Bennett grabbed the
weapon and wrested it from Roelfs'
hand. He had been respondent for
some time and only few weeks ago
tried to end his life by taking poison,
but was saved by the timely use of a
stomach pump.
A crowded James street dummy, the
gripping mechanism of which appears
to have become deranged, dashed down
James street, at Seattle, Wednesday
afternoon, from point $50 feet below
the crown of the hill at Ninth avenue
and ran to Eighth avenue before it was
stopped. The car was crowded with
people returning from Athletic park
and in the excitement Miss Lille
Linge was thrown from the car and
suffered conclusion of the brain. John
Wooding jumped from the dummy
and his left ankle was severely
sprained. A man giving the name oil
McCoombs, who resides at Ballard