Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-04-18
aVashin9tun Standard
STATE NEWS.
A Brist Summary of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State

Parts Of the State.
Sixty-iive deaths were reported in
Seattle during March.
Il. Perkinson, Of Cowlitz county, has
been sentenced to eighteen months in
the penitentlary for passing worthless
checks.
l.. Patterson, a section foreman, was
shot dead 10y a small boy, who was fir
ing a 22-calber rifle, near Spokane,
last Saturday.
CT. Woodman, a machinist in the
Sumner Iron Works, is heir to a
legacy OF $4,000 by the death of his
uncle, J. T. Woodman, OF Chicago.
Spokane Masons will build a new
temple at cost OF $4,000. The
front will bear a striking resemblance
to the White House at Washington.
An unknown japanese Saturday
afternoon shot a countrywoman called
Mase in disreputable resort below
the deadline at Seattle. The Jap
then committed suicide.
The truck-driyers of Tacoma are
out on q strike. They want $50 per
month for days work of 10 hours
and the employment OF none but I'M
ion drivers. Heretofore the men
have received $50 month. Not over
30 men are out.
George II. Slower, a prominent
veteran of the Civil War, and a pio
neer OF this State, died at his home at
Guy, Monday, of softening Of the
brain. He was 10 years old and had
lived in Whitman county Is years. lie
left widow and several grown child
rem.
Chief Lot, OF the Lower Spokane In.
dams, who ranked as one of the ablest
chieftains among the Northwestern
Indians, died Monday at his home at
Wellpenit, on the Spokane Indian
reservation. He was about GO years of
age, and had been ailing for some
time prior to his death.
The trustees of the Whatcom State
Normal School will at an early day
announce the completion of the new
annex and issue invitations to q for
NAL opening and reception ON May 2,
at which Gov. Mcbride, State Super
intendent Brown and President
Graves will be present as guests.
Patents were granted in this State
during the past week, as follows: E.
Clark, Seattle, cooking stove; s. E.
Claussen, Walla Walla, bedstead; ].
Hammer, Tacoma. dress-skirt litter;
Frank Virgins, Tacoma, self-tighten.
ing key for pulleys; Royal H. Wade,
Elma, jewelers. tool; John w. Travis,
Reardon, vehicle reach.
The Janeck building at North Yak
ina, burned last Friday, with losses as
follows: Mrs. M. T. Janeck, $1,000 |;
w. E. Ayres, drugs, $1,000; DR.. D..
Rosser, Office, $500; Dr.. F. Stephen
son, Office, $500. The losses are COW
cred by insurance. The fire is be-
lieved to have originated from an ex.
plosion in the drug store.
The Postoffice at Palouse was robbed
Monday night. Burglars gained en-.
trance through a rear window, blew
open the safe and secured $500 cash,
leaving stamps, checks and drafts on
the floor. The work is believed to be
that of experts. The safe was blown
to atoms. and the postofice fixtures
badly damaged. No clue.
Henry Frye shot and came within
a hairs breath of killing a farmer
named Anderson near Gig Harbor on
the 9th inst. There had been bad
blood existing between the two for
long time over their love for q woman.
The bullet wound stretched from over
his left eye and ranging diagonally up
ward across his forehead. Frye is I'M
der arrest.
]. H. Horst announces that at an
early date he will begin the erection of
an opera house at Chehalis, on his lots
on Chehalis avenue, north of the Bap.
tist Church. The auditorium will be
on the ground floor and the building,
with it's stage, ETC., will be fitted with
the purpose of giving the town thea
ter that will have ample stage.room
and other accommodations.
Suffering under long continued sick
ness which had produced melancholy
of the most serious form Mrs. Minerva
Morrison ended her life on the 11th
inst, 1t the home of her son.in.law,
Knapp Moore, at Midland, in Pierce
county, by tying handkerchief about
her neck and strangling herself to
death by hanging on the bedpost. The
sad affair happened shortly before 6
o'clock, while the members OF the
family were at breakfast. She had,
been left alone scarcely 20 minutes
when her daughter, Miss Nettie Nor
rison, returned to find her mother
dead.
The Inland Empire Teachers As.
ISOLATION which met at Spokane, last
week, has decided to meet at Walla
Walla next Spring. At Fridays ses.
sion . resolution was adopted calling
on the Legislatures of Oregon, WASH
ington and Idaho to pass laws enab-
ling school districts to consolidate and
transport pupils to central school at
public expense where the cost Of such
consolidation would not greatly ex.
coed the cost Of separate schools.
s. B. i. Penrose. of Whitman College,
was elected President; Mrs. Young, of
Idaho, First Vice. President. and Miss
Shepherd, of Lewiston, Secretary.
The dining, halls OF the dormitoriss
of the State University will soon be
closed, it is stated, if the present exodus
of students continues. With the ex.
ception of eight or ten, all the men
have stopped boarding at the dormi-
tories and have gone to private resi-.
dences. II the existing condition, it
is stated, continues it is more than
likely that the same action will be
taken by the young women. The
students are said to be thoroughly
aroused over the present management
of affairs. The cost of board has con.
stantly been rising, it is claimed, I'M
til during March it reached $3.50.
A runaway tramcar plunged down