Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-10-10
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 night school has been opened at
Elma by Prof. f. l.. Brewer.
The Octoroon" company went to
pieces at North Yakima a day or SO
ago.
Margie Bjornson, year-old child,
knocked u lamp from table at Blaine,
Tuesday, and was burned to death.
Albert Burnett, s years old, was
drowned in Green Lake, near Seattle,
Tuesday afternoon by falling from a
raft.
Grace McArdle, a 16-year. old girl, of
Seattle, has eloped with a young man
In whose company she has spent a
great deal of her time.
George Meter, proprietor of the
Royal Cafe, at Walla Walla, has mys-
teriously disappeared, leaving a pros
porous business and few debts.
A fisherman's union has been Or
ganized at Aberdeen with 35 members.
Peter Mcneil is President and John
Grunneau Secretary and Treasurer.
The Aberdeen public library has
SS3 volumes of prominent books, and
262 regular patrons. The library was
opened June LIST with 464 volumes.
A. J. Johnson met a tragic death
Tuesday, while working in a camp
near Snohomish. While telling a
tree, it kicked back and crushed bis
head and chest.
George Mansfield, a sailor, has began
a suit at Seattle for $4,000 damages,
which he claims he sustained by fall
ing through into the hold OF one of
the Globe Navigation Coz steamers.
Superintendent McCroskey OF the
Whitman county schools, reports a
shortage OF six teachers for district
schools. The salaries range from $40
to $6O per month. He also has calls
from Asoiin for five teachers.
A drying kiln used for drying prunes
belonging to w. H. Ruddell, burned
near Elma Sunday morning. While
the financial loss is light the matter is
quite serious to great many people
who had large quantities to be dried
for market and home use.
Geo. Gibbs, the prizefghter, pleaded
guilty in court At Seattle, Tuesday,
to nearly choking an inmate of a dis
reputable house to death, to beating
q visitor, and to setting the house on
fire by throwing lighted lamp. He
was fined only $40 and costs.
The steel bridge across Lewis river,
on the Northern Pacific, between Ka-
lama and Vancouver, is nearing com.
pletion, but lack of material has put
back the work several months. This
is one OF the finest bridges in the
Northwest and will cost 100000.
John Robinson, q laboring man, for
merly employed by the Great Northern
between Index and Barring, was in
stantly killed at the Everett freight
station in attempting to jump from
the pilot of the westbound overland,
on which he had stolen . ride from
Monroe.
Roy Patrick and Frank Friese, of
Snohomish, have filed claims against
the city Of Everett for damages aggre.
eating $500. They allcge that they
were thrown from wagon on account
Of defective streets and sustained in.
juries for which damages are de.
manded.
The lannon's Hill case, which has
been in litigation ever since 1874, and
has rendered insecure the titles to a
large tract Of land within the city
limits OF Seattle, has at last reached q
conclusion, and the titles were finally
Quoted Monday under . decree from
the Superior Court.
At Tacoma. Tuesday morning, Judge
Chapman sentenced Tommy Santiago
Howard to 20 years in the penitentiary.
Howard 10 the young Indian convicted
of manslaughte for the murder of
Kate Arquette, q half-breed woman
who was living with an old Indian
known as General Spot.
A jury in Seattle. out from Friday,
returned a verdict Monday which en-.
titles John Murray to damages in the
sum OF 81 500 as . result OF injuries
sustained from fall into q hole near
the foot Of Main street. Murray asked
twice that sum, but probably will be
content with what was awarded him.
Bertha Lerner. a 16.year-old girl, was
badly and perhaps fatally burned yes.
terday BY the explosion OF q can of
kerosene, in Seattle. The explosion
was due to the girl pouring the fluid
on the flames in q stove. Her body
and limbs we're burned 20 badly in
places that the skin peeled of. while
in few spots the flesh was literally
cooked.
Elma is becoming an important
shipping point for fine celery. J. H.
Hale is the biggest shipper in that
line. His ranch, known as Beaver
Dale, is chiefly devoted to that indus.
try and that Of tomatoes. He shipped
last week nearly ton Of celery. He
has shipped ten or twelve tons during
the season. He also shipped last week
half ton OF tomatoes.
A new electrical company, with q
capitalization Of $4,000. 600. will soon
apply to the City Council, at Spokane,
for . franchise to do general electric.
power business in opposition to the
Washington Water Power Company,
which now operates all of the street
cars OF that city. The new company
has secured options on power in the
river nine miles below the city.
Miss Emma Bauer, aged %, com.
mitted suicide at Spokane Monday by
sending rifle ball through her heart.
She left q note informing her brother
that she would kill herself at 8 80
o'clock, and another. sealed for w. A.
Smith, of Lewiston, Idaho. Family
troubles and disappointment over the