Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-05-02
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.
A recent special jury term cost Che
halls county $1,000.
The Press Association will meet at
Wslla Walla in June.
Chicken thieves are raiding the
roosts in the suburbs of Spokane.
1saQuah is to have new shingle
mill with daily capacity Of $4,000.
l.. A. Metsker begun the cdhstruc.
ton OF sawmill at Winlock, this
week.
M. H. Upston, of Blaine, a resident
OF Whatcom county for over thirty
years, is dead, aged GO years.
The postoffice safe at Napavine was
blown open Friday night, and about
$50 in money secured by the burglar.
The estimated output of the peni-
tentiary brickyard at Walla Walla,
with Is convicts engaged, is $500, 900.
The Aberdeen Brewery is now in
operation, and employs % men. The
force will soon be increased to 40 men.
The skull OF a whale which meas
ures over seven feet across, is being
prepared for shipment East at Aber-
deem.
The census shows that Washington
has taken the lead of Oregon in the
production OF both cheese and cream
cry butter.
The State land Office has received
and remitted to the State Treasurer
from Nov. l, 1900, to March 81, 1902,
the sum of $s94,179.
Prof. W. w. Hewitt, of the Elma
High School, has formed a stock COM
pany for the purpose of starting
another newspaper at Elma.
Lumber and shingle shipments from
Elma are fast increasing, and for the
last two months they have been 25
per cent heavier than last year.
Prof. A. B. Warner, of Iowa, has
been selected as Superintendent of the
Tacoma schools. He was chosen
from list of fifteen applicants.
The city of Everett is putting in a
new sewer system which is to cost
$l0O, 900, and likewise a new fire alarm
system, which is to cost $4,000.
Frederick Grunwald, aged 10, a
clerk in the Golden Rule Bazaar, in
Seattle, blew out his brains with a
revolver, Sunday night. No cause has
been found for the deed.
OF the three Pacific Coast States,
Washington easily ranks first as a coal
producer. with California second, al.
though in 1896 and 1897 Oregoa's out
put exceeded that of California.
Watson Mcdowell, freight brake
man on the Northern Pacific, fell un.
der moving train at Palouse, Wednes-
day, and both of his legs and one arm
were severed. He died soon after.
H. H. wilkins, a well.known young
plumber Of Seattle, was drugged in the
Goo Goo Eye eaIoon the other night,
and nearly died from the effects. Two
physicians pronounced it chloral poi
soning.
With five contraband Chinese packed
like sardines among the thwarts OF q
sailing canoe, George Ross and John
Williams, alias William Stewart, were
captured near Moran's, works, at Sc.
attic, Monday.
At the advanced age of 80 years
Linus Long died at the residence ol
his daughter, at Latona, Monday. Old
age was the cause of his death. Mr.
Long had been q resident of King
county for Is years.
The fishery product OF the State ol
Washington for the year 1901 was
worth $4,000, 200, the coal product ST..
SOC, 600 and the breadstuffs over &c..
100000. while the lumber cut in the
State was worth $5O,OOO,0OO.
John Hinson, an old resident of
Steilacoom, died Monday in the Seth
year OF his age. He was born in Ber.
muda and, after following the life of a
sailor for many years, settled at Steil-
accom- in 1855. He leaves no rela.
tives, so far as known.
A stretch of the upper Columbia
river, from Bridgeport almost to Ket.
tie Falls, a distance of 120 miles, gen.
orally considered unnavigable, was sue.
cessfully traversed by steamer last
week. A large section of country will
thus be opened to transportation.
The Kent Lumber Company's dry
kiln at Barneston was consumed by
fire last Monday. The loss, including
the lumber, was about 5000. Had
it not been for the energetic work of
the mill hands. the entire plant would
have been consumed by the flames.
Plans are under way for the laying
of the keel of the battleship Nebraska,
at Seattle. July 4, with elaborate cere-
monies. A big civic celebration is
planned, and if present arrangements
are perfected, Governor E. P. Savage,
and his staff, will be invited to attend.
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