Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-02-21
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.
The Puget Sound Tugboat Associa-
ton will build two large tugs. at a
! cost of $4,000.
Tacoma expects large starch fac
tory to be established there by Michi-
gan capitalists who are looking for a
site.
The Snoqualmie Falls Electric Com
pany are contemplating extending
their lines to Portland, with o view to
not only selling light and power in
that city, but all along the line.
Eight parents have been ordered to
show cause in the Superior Court at
Seattle as to why they have not sent
their children to school in conformity
with the compulsory school law.
The Vancouver public schools won
the Irving piano, put up four months
ago as a prize in voting contest in
stituted by a dozen Vancouver mer-
chants as an advertising scheme.
A jury at Mt. Vernon is reported to
have decided that the Sunday closing
law as applied to saloons is void. The
defense offered no testimony, but ar
gued the case to the jury on the ques-
tion OF policy.
Since the advent of the railroad
Vancouver has been overrun with
hobos, and to rid the city of these
characters, it has been decided to put
them to cleaning the streets. Two out
OF batch of five which appeared be-
fore Chief Justice Haine the ether
day did unwilling service on Main
street. A ball and chain was fastened
to the leg of each, as a guarantee that
he would not leave before the job was
completed. The police department
is seriously considering the matter of
instituting q rock-pile.
A Mrs. Give J. Uzafoyage, of Ia.
coma, through her attorney, Frank H.
Graham, has filed with the county
authorities bill for $1,000 damages
claimed on account of being injured
while driving on a public road in
Lewis county. According to the
claim of the attorney the county an.
thorities were negligent in allowing
timber to lie in the road; q stick
caught in the wheel of the buggy in
which the claimant was riding and
was thrown with great violence, strik-
ing her on the back of the left hand
and breaking some of the bones, perm
anently crippling the hand. The
Commissioners rejected the bill.
Tuesday of last week a party of
three men, Geo. Thompson, Mr..
Adkins and young BARLEY. of Messy
rock, started in search Of q cougar
which was known to be in that vicinity.
They took provisions for two days, and
as they did not return Wednesday
night a relief party was organized and
went into the mountains after them.
Up to Saturday night neither the re-
lies parties nor the hunters were heard
from, but Sunday morning both par
ties reached home. The hunters
caught the cougar, but as they failed
to kill any other game they were com.
PEELED to subsist on cougar meat un.
til they found their way out of the
woods.
| Frank NJ. Baker and his daughter
Minnie Baker, of Walla Walla, has
begun an action through their attor-
neys in that city to secure the share
coming to them in the famous Colonel
Jacob Baker estate of Philadelphia,
valued at $3,SOOOOO. A few months
ago the Bakers at Walla Walla were
visited by an agent sent out by the
heirs, and they have thoroughly es.
tablished their identity, Frank NJ.
Baker being . great-grandson OF the
old Colonel Of Revolutionary fame
who late in the 18th century gave q
99.year lease on the property in the
heart Of the city OF Philadelphia. For
moro than 20 years the recovery of
this property has been contested in
the Pennsylvania courts, and the
Bakers have been given assurance
that their claims will be settled with.
in year.
By using q red-hot cabin stove for
an anchor, Capt Cumin several days
ago saved the steamer Echo from he.
ing dashed to pieces on the upper
Columbia river. The Echo had left
Wenatchee and was making her way
up stream against current of over
twelve miles an hour. Some distance
above Wenatchee the cylinder-head
blew out and the vessel was soon
drifting down stream stern foremost.
The Columbia river there is very
crooked and Capt. Cumin appreciated
that speedy action would be necessary
if he saved his steamer from becoming
. total wreck. Several attempts to
lessen her speed proved fruitless, and
by this time she was below Wenatchee
and drifting at a rapidly increasing
speed. Capt. Cumins then hit upon
the expedient OF throwing his cabin
stove, which was red-hot, as the
weather was much below zero. Tying
chains around it the stove was lifted
bodily to the main deck and thrown