The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-08-28
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

The Nanaimo lacrosse team defeated
the Seattle team Sunday by score oil
6 to in an exciting game.
Corporal James Morris, OF the TWEEN
| ty-sixth company of coast artillery at
Port Townsend, was carried out to sea
in boat without oars and persisted
from exposure.
Wheat is beginning to come to the
warehouses of Walla Walla in large
quantities, and the roads of Walla
Walla county are becoming very dusty.
From all parts of the county huge loads
of grain are being brought direct from
the fields, and the real harvest is Oh.
In most parts about half of the grain is
is threshed, and piled in the fields ready
for the Warehouse. But little is being
shipped or sold, and no movement is
| Likely to occur for a month.
The j. X. Mitchell sawmill at Teni-
no was destroyed by fire.
The coal output of the Washington
mines is not detrimentally affected by
the use of fuel oil.
The big freighter Shawmut has sailed
for the Philippines with the largest sim
gle consignment of lumber ever leaving
Seattle.
julius Gobeaux has been experiment.
ing with clay at Everett and says it is
of the finest grade for the manufacture
of fire brick, tiling, terra Gotta, sewer
pipe and fine statuary.
Dr. Frank Pierrepont Graves, for the
past four years president of the Univer-
sity of Washington, has rendered his
resignation to the board of regents of
that institution. 1t was accepted and
will become effective January /, 1903
In the meantime DR.. Graves has been
granted a leave of absence on full pay.
The aportionment of school funds for
Whitman county for the quarter ending
August /, 1902, has been made and
found to be $40 900 in excess of that of
the same period last year, showing
remarkable growth in school attend
ance for the past year. This is the
greatest increase in the history of the
county.
Mrs. Mary A. Whealdon, pioneer of
Ilwaco is dead at that place.
Fred Partridge, nine-year-old boy
of Wilbur. was drowned in Aitch lake
five miles from Wilbur.
Dorothy Day, a fve-year-old girl of
Washongal, fell from steamer near
Vancouver, this state, and was drowned.
The Ancient Order of Hoo Hoos drew
large crowd to witness their big pa
rade on Lumbermen's day of the Seattle
carnival.
Captain Charles H. Jones, veteran
mariner, president of the Puget Sound
Board of Pilot Commissioners and har-
Dor master of Port Townsend, died
there after lingering illness from
asthma. p
According to letter received from
Washington by Assistant Postmaster
Colkett,> of Seattle mails for transpacitic
destinations. which heretofore have
cisco, will hereafter 60 direct from
Puget Sound. This is concession
that has long been an object of Mr. Col
kett, and he consequently is highly
gratified that his well laid plans should
at last bear fruit.
Ladies' and children's day at the
Setatle carnival was success in every
way.
Robert Burns is under arrest charged
with having stabbed T. n. Mitchell of
Blaine in a Seattle saloon.
The battleship Wisconsin is now i'll
Seattle harbor as an added attraction
for visitors to the Elks' carnival
Great indignation has been aroused
at Wilbur by the murder of three
year-eld girl. The mother claims that
robber killed the child while strug-
Cling with the woman. No trace of the
man can be found.
Peter Undergrad, formerly we'll
known member of the First Washington
volunteers, is dead in Manila. Ender-
gard. who had been in the island coun-
try ever since his discharge from the
regiment, fell victim to the cholera
epidemic that has harrassed the resi-.
dents of Manila and tributary districts
for the past several months.