Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-03-14
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.
Capt. Julius Flint, a Port Townsend
pioneer, is dead.
1t is said that new Democratic
paper is to be started at Shelton.
+. g. Roberts. of Walla Walla, Il
pioneer in the marble business there,
is dead at the age of 66.
A dangerous derelict is floating off
Cape Flattery, in the form of a
a schooner about 30 feet long.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Thimble cele-
brated the Goth anniversary of their
wedding at Walla Walla, last Wednes-
day.
A $25O,OOO irrigation company has
been incorporated at Ellensburg to
reclaim arid lands with water from
the Yakima river.
The Washington State Sugar Co..
is making improvements that will
cost $40,O 600 to their plant at Waverly.
Most of it goes for machinery.
A farmer named Olof Pearson, who
lived near Ethel, Lewis county, was
killed Saturday afternoon by a tree
falling on him. He leaves a wife and
five children.
The Central Hotel and saloon
at Shelton, closed its doors last week,
JOppick, one of the firm having left
the town with the firms assets a short
time previously, says the Journal.
The dredger Anaconda, which did a
seasons dredging in Olympia harbor.
a few years ago, took fire at Seattle,
while at work this week, and was dam
aged between $4,000 and $4,000.
John Glensesky, Postmaster at
Clipper, in this State, was arraigned
ON u charge of unlawfully opening
letters, in the Federal court this week.
He pleaded guilty. The punishment
is $500 and imprisonment for one
year.
Frank Church, H. G. Jacobs and
John Costello were capsized in a sail
boat at Everett Sunday. They chung
to the gunwale for a time but at
length Jacobs and Church released
their hold and drowned. Costello was
rescued.
Aberdeen has prodigy in the per-
son of Master Verne Larson, a 12.year.
old boy who exhibits artistic talent of
a high order. Master Verne is de.
voted to drawing and has the ability
to transfer the faces of his friends to
paper in q remarkable manner.
Robert Patterson, a oolored piano
player, was shot in the neck and in
stantly killed by Joe Hughes, colored,
in a bagnio at Tacoma. Monday. The
shooting was the result of quarrel the
night before, but is generally regarded
As cold-bloOded murder. Hughes is
in Jail at Roslyn.
Actor James Neill, whose action in
refusing to submit to what he regard.
ed as personal indignities at the hands
OF the degree team of the Spokane
lodge OF Elks. creating . widespread
sensation in Elkdom few weeks ago,
has acknowledged his error and has
asked for the supreme clemency of the
Grand Exalted Ruler Of the order.
Joel and Catherine Dixon, for q
years residents OF Willamette Valley,
celebrated their golden wedding at
Pennington last Sunday. Mr.. Dixon
is aged SO. while his wife is four years
his senior. They were married in
Illinois. March 8, 1852, and the same
year they crossed the plains with OK
teams. locating in the Willamette
Valley.
U. 8. Marshal Hopkins has been in.
structed by the Department At WASH
ington to make his headquarters at
Seattle. He takes possession on the
18th, and will retain Frank l.. Crosby
the present chief deputy, and in fact
virtually announces that there will be
no change in the personnel OF his aids.
Now hear the wall from the back seats
at the pie.counter.
Alexander P. Vance, who is under
sentence OF death, at Tacoma, for the
murder of Charles F. Franklin. has an.
piled to the Superior Court for an or.
der requiring the county clerk to ad.
vance funds for making a transcript
OF the evidence in his case to be for
warded to tho Supreme Court for the
hearing Of his appeal. Vance AYERS
that he il without funds.
Charles Eisenbeis, a pioneer of
Puget Sound, died At Port Townsend,
Monday, in his 10th year. At almost
the same hour F. e. Eisenbeis, q mer.
chant at Steilacoom, his brother, died.
When q member Of the family of
Charles Eisenbeis was in the telegraph
Office. sending news of the death OF
Charles, lie received . message an
nouncing the death of F. E. Eisen.
beis.
An attempt is being made to con.
solidate the remaining independent
salmon canneries on Puget Sound.
and Deming & Gould, of Chicago, who
assisted in organizing the first COM
bine, three years ago, are said to be
behind this attempt. At present there
are IL of these independent canneries.
and they are said to hold options on
four Of them. Mr.. Deming 10 expected
to arrive from Chicago at once 10 close
up the deal.
The largest crowd dispatched 10
Alaskan regions since snow fell last
fall and the Yukon surrendered to the
ice king. left the Sound on the steamer
City of Seattle, which sailed Wednes-
day night. Two hundred and seventy.
five people took passage on the liner.
OF these. fully 200 are bound for in.
terror points. The larger number goes,
OF course. to the Klondike, but in the
crowd were people for Rampant and
iar-away Koyukuk. The latter con.
tingent included several women.
1t is rumored that Attorney General
Stratton will soon begin suit to dis.
solve the merger OF business and pollti-
cal interests formed by b. s. Grosscup,
the Northern Pacific attorney, George
Stevens the lobbyist, guardian angel
OF Temple flat, and Levi Ankeny, the
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