Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-05-02
STATE NEWS.

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Parts of the State.
A new foundry is being erected at
Hoquiam.
The Odd Fellows of Hoquiam are
planning to build a new hall.
The Horseshoers of the State met in
convention at Everett last Saturday.
The Alaska Packers Association
will operate fleet of 40 vessels this
season.
There is six feet of snow ut Mineral
City, in the foothills OF the Cascades,
in Snohomish county.
The estimated output of the Peni-
Tertiary brickyard at Walla Walla,
with Is convicts engaged, is 2,5OO,OOO
Mrs. Buckley, wife of Patrick Buck
ley, an old pioneer of Vancouver, died
at her home in that city last Saturday.
Thomas Robinson, charged with
the murder of John Hand on Orcas
Island, is on trial for his life at Friday
Harbor.
Theresa Knapp, laundress at
Aberdeen, is heir to a comfortable
legacy left by an aunt in Stockholm,
Sweden.
The Washington Shingle Manufac-
turing Association held a meeti ng at
Tacoma, Tuesday. No business of i'm
portance was done, but the general
sentiment expressed was that business
was improving.
Appraisement of the Rogers estate,
lately filed in the Probate Court of
Pierce county, shows that the ex-GOv-
ernor was possessed of realty and per.
sonal estate aggregating in value ST..
953.75, all community property.
Three weeks from to-day Alfred
Hawkins, or Hamilton, as he is gen.
orally called, will be hanged at What
com, if nothing should happen in the
meantime to prevent the carrying out
of the sentence pronounced by Judge
Neterer.
Allen White, the well-known shingle
mill owner, Drs. Jos. Kent and III.
Black and w. &. Coombs, with sew
eral prominent Chehalis county peo-
pie, have incorporated the Elma Co
operative Mining Co., to work group
of claims over in the Okanogan coun-
try.
Women are the prosecutors of two
saloon men at Orting for keeping open
on Sunday. A woman tried, at Gen.
tralia, q short time ago, to restrain a
merry-go-round from plying its &C.
cupation" on Sunday and the in.
human justice charged up the costs
against her.
Jealousy existing between two col
ored porters employed at the Pioneer
barber shop, at Seattle, resulted in
shooting scrape at the Queen City
Club, in Washington alley, Sunday
afternoon in which q disinterested
person was hit by a bullet and serious
ly but not dangerously injured.
Miss Mabel Burlingame, last Satur-
day. proudly exhibited handful Of
ripe Strawberries, says the Yakima
Herald, which were plucked from
California settings now growing in the
yard at the Birmingham residence. 1t
is safe to say these were long way
the earliest berries of the season.
Nominations were sent to the U. S.
Senate, Tuesday, of the following land
Offices for this State: Fred w. Stock
ing, Register, Olympia; Matthew b.
Malley, Register, Waterville; Lyman
B. Andrews, Receiver, and J. Henry
Smith, Register, Seattle; Miles Cam
non, Receiver, Yakima, and Alex. J.
Cook, Receiver, Vancouver.
Hiram Gragg, of Garfield. has
COW that is record-bTeaker. During
the past three years this cow has
raised six calves. having twins each
year, and these six calves are now val.
ued at $500. Mr.. Gragg estimates the
value OF the milk and butter produced
by the COW during three years at $2l6,
making q total of SAG the COW has
produced in three years.
At "hyas muckamuck" or big
feast held at the home of Mrs. Saltese
on Saturday an informal vote was
taken by the O0eur d'Alene Indians
for successor to the late Chief Saltese.
Peter Mocktillmsy received "a, Peter
Scharper 81, Peter Wildshoe Z. The
formal vote was postponed to later
date, when an effort will be made to
secure a larger attendance of the
tribe.
Miss Mabel Warning, charming
young lady of Aberdeen, was to be
married to Mr.. w. d. Simons, Monday
evening. All OF the preparations for
the joyous event had been made. A
case Of smallpox developed in the
family of Miss Waring and the house
was put under q strict quarantine,
with the soon.to.be bride inside the
ropes and the stalwart bridegroom on
the outside.
After wrenching revolver from the
hand of an angry wife, who had con-
fronted him with the proof of his
faithlessness, Ost McAllister, the Post.
master at South Park, q suburb OF Sc
attic, ran away from his home the
other day. and has not returned. His
whereabouts has not been discovered.
The name of a young girl who has not
yet attained legal age figures in the
affair.
Miss Rose Grath, 10 years of age,
was instantly killed Monday night by
falling tree, near Vancouver. The
young woman's mother was also Sc
verely injured. The two women were
driving in q covered buggy when q
large dead tree standing by the road.
way was overturned by the wind and
fell directly across the buggy, striking
tbs younger woman ON the head and
breaking her neck.
There are II candidates for the
United States district attorneyship. A
list of them is interesting. They are
Jesse A. Frye and Clinton r. Howard
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