Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-11-21
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts of the State.

Former Chief OF Police White Of
North Yakima has been acquitted OIL
the charge OF selling liquor to Indians
A 44-foot vein of bituminous coal
is reported to have been discovered on
the Menastash river, near Ellensburg
T. G. Pinenthal was killed by fall
ing tree in the Weyerhauser logging
camp in Maple valley, IS miles from
Seattle, Wednesday.
The annual statement of the Kittitas
creamery shows it made &c, 1886 pounds
of butter, for which it received an
average price of q cents.
Logging operations have been re
sumed at Ilwaco, the Portland mil
companies having secured tugs to do
towing on Shoalwater bay.
The Government has announced
that proposals will be advertised fol
soon for the building of additions
quarters for troops at Vancouver, at 8
cost of about $4,000.
A. ]. McPhail, an Everett saloon
keeper, has been arrested for chewing
the thumb of Jack McCue so badly
that blood-poisoning set in and the
member had to be amputated.
Nancy H. Tinker, who died at Sar
Jose, Cal, was buried at Ilwaco, Tues.
day. She was the wife OF the proprie
tor of'the Long Beach hotel and wal
among the early settlers OF Pacific
county.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Clara
A. Benson vs. the town of Hamilton
on trial at Mt. Vernon, for injury
received by stepping through hole
in the sidewalk, returned a verdict for
81 500 damages. The plaintiff sued
for $4,000.
E. G. Selby, OF Vancouver, has been
awarded 1900 damages against the
Vancouver Water Co. An employe
left a pile of rubbish in the street,
which frightened horse ridden by
Selby. He was thrown and sustained
a broken arm.
The Puget Sound Reduction Co. at
Everett made its first foreign ship
ment of arsenic, Monday, in the form
of 20 tons to Japan. This is the only
arsenic plant now in operation in the
United States. The output is 2OO
tons o month.
Peter Dreeland, 70 years of age, con.
victed of burglary and sentenced to
two years imprisonment, planned to
hang himself in the King county Jail,
Wednesday. The jailor luckily dis.
covered the rope he had concealed
about his person.
Within q few days articles of in.
corporation for one of the largest
laundry companies that has ever been
started on the Pacific Coast, vii! be
fled at Olympia and soon thereafter
the erection of plant will be begun
at Seattle. The movement, it is said,
has behind it the leading hotel res
taurant and steamboat men in the
Queen City.
Upon the charge that they had
stolen $3.50 from the person OF w.
Thomas, two girls, Myrtle Weston and
Mabel Harvey. alias Clifford, were
arrested at Seattle, yesterday. Ike
Lewiston, . bartender, is wanted BY
the police, charged with completely in
the crime. Thomas says the money
was lifted" while in the company Of
the girls and Lewiston.
Two footpads held up six men Mon
day afternoon between Spokane and
Hillyard. William Dyer, Jr., and c.
Smiley. who were walking to Spokane
on the Great Northern track with four
companions, stopped to rest . few
minutes. when they were accosted by
two men. One held a gun on the
crowd while the other went through
their pockets. The bandits wore red
masks. They secured IS. 10 and gold
filled watch.
Appearances point more and more
to q murderous assault having beer
committed on Gordon Dean, the man
found unconscious at the entrance to
Japanese house near Fifth avenue
and King street, at Seattle, on Friday
morning. 1t has come to light that
two Japanese men we're seen acting in
suspicious manner at the time, and
the injuries to the mans head are
such that it 10 improbable they we're
caused by fall. Dean, whose name
was at first supposed to be Lord, lies
in q precarious condition at tho Way
side Mission hospital. Yesterday
morning he became conscious for a
lew minutes, and stated that he had
come in on freight train from Butte,
where he had worked for DR.. Jordan.
He said that his parents live in Pue.
bla, COL, his fathers name being Britt
Young Dean. The man soon relapsed
into Inconsistencies, and it is not ex-
pected that he can recover.
At Seattle the attorneys for Paul
Underwood, convicted of murder in
the second degree, on the charge Of
drowning his 3-weeks.old daughter,
have made motion for q new trial.
On the original trial it was claimed
in proof of the drowning theory that
the baby's hands were tightly clenched.
Underwood's attorneys now claim that
they have indisputable evidence that
the physicians did not state the facts
when they 90 testified, and will pre-.
sent to the court in arguing for . new
trial the mute evidence OF q photo.
graph which was made of the babe
two hours before the physicians viewed
It, which shows that the child's hands
were not clenched. The photograph
which they have plainly shows the
left hand thrown across the chiid's
breast and the fingers are straight and
in q natural position. The right hand
il lying at its side and the fingers
thereof are just slightly closed, form.
ing cup.
As the result of his heroic effort to
rescue Paul Hoffman from the pc. il
into which he had fallen by coming in
contact with live wires in the Cataract
Company's power-house in Seattle,
Sunday, P. +. knight, Superintendent
OF the plant, lost both hands and part