Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-01-03
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.

S~'.ssss.'J
Parts Of the State.
The number of persons now in the
State Peuitentiary is $50.
A big campfire of veterans is to be
held at Spokane tomorrow.
]. J. Hill is principal stakeholder
in the new bank just started at Everett.
Cedar timber land in Chehalis
county is now worth from $25 TO $50
per acre.
The schooner Minnie A. Cain, went
ashore on Smiths Island during Q
recent blow.
The battleship Ohio is coming to
Puget Sound to 60 into the dry dock
at Bremerton.
A new shingle mill is to be erected
near Blaine, having q capacity Of 10O,.
OO01hingles day.
King county has the largest repre-.
sentation in the pen at Wslls Walla,
her quota numbering nearly the three
figure mark.
Sand.bank caves seem to be quite
common. Wilmer Mingo, . Seattle
boy. was snlothered by one, in that
city, on the 28th ult.
The N. P. Railway by building .
cutoff from Ellensburg to Lind, it
10 claimed, save 100 miles that have
hitherto been traversed between those
points.
A boy in Seattle is suing the tele-
phone company for $lO,OOO for al
legged damages sustained in coming
in contact with live wire" Of the
company.
A number OF Waitsburg citizens
have promised to take stock il . com.
pany is formed in that city for the
erection of . new theater building to
cost $4,000.
Three rural free delivery routes will
be established from Pslouse in Febru.
airy, covering total distance OF nearly
IS miles and serving $50 families
with daily mail.
The train boys who peddle peanuts
and sell newspapers on the Northern
Pacific train have had to 60. Nuts
and nugates may now be obtained oil
the dining-car conductor.
John Dix, the Whatcom bank de-
faulter 10 coming back to this country,
and his presence is 20 much desired
that an escort will be furnished him
in the shape Of = blue-coated officer.
Carnegie has declined to furnish
money to Spokane for public library,
although the request was sup
ported BY = woman who went East t.
urge the benefaction. He simply re-
fused to zee her.
| A man giving his name ~ Frank
Mcclure passed . forged check for
$l19 bearing the name Of Charles
Clemens, the Montesano logger, upon
the Aberdeen State Bank. No trace
of the man has since been found.
Davis 4 Horizons furniture store
at Tacoma was burglarized Wednes-
day night Of $500 worth Of goods. De.
fore noon, yesterday, the police had
arrested the leader Of the raid and
recovered nearly all the articles taken
| An undertaken war 10 ON 1t Spp-
kane, and one of the rival firms has
offered "a bury all Numbers OF the
Grand Army post free. 1t 10 doubtful
il any Of the veterans will hasten to
take advantage OF this munihcen'
offer.
In the presence OF q crowd 1t Seattle
Wednesday night, thief hurled 9
coupling-pin through the window oil
Mayer Bros.' jewelry store and through
the broken glass seized tray of dia'
monds worth 81 500. successfully max
ing his escape.
The Pacific Coast Clipper line'i
Nome City is the first vessel whose
Nome sailing date for the season o.
1902 has been definitely fixed. She
is scheduled to sail April 81 from Sc
attic, eight days earlier than her firs'
departure last season.
Lieutenant James n. Bevan com
mitted suicide 1T Fort Candy, Wednes
day morning, by blowing out his
brains with y revolver. The Officer
was one of the most popular at thii
post and was OF joyous disposition
The suicide OF the young man is
shrouded in mystery.
Daisy Lotion, aged Is years, wen
into drug store, at Seattle, the Other
night, and asked to use the telephone
She took revolver in one hand and
a bottle OF carbolic acid in the other
She swallowed the contents Of the
bottle and fell screaming to the floor
and died soon after. Unrequited love
was the cause.
Dynamitcrs blew up . home d
Berlin, . small village near Skykom
ish, last Sunday afternoon, and Incl
dentally created an excitement, which
is still at fever heat. Sheriff Cudihe'