Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-08-08
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts of the State.

A Bricf Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.
One white man and four Japs were
severely injured in collision of
handcar with an engine near Madison
Saturday evening and are now laid up
in an Everett hospital.
DIR. n. J. Rossiter, a prominen t
physician and surgeon OF Hoquiam,
died at his home at that place on the
lst inst, of blood poison. He was ac-
knowledged one of the best surgeons
in the State and was widely known.
He leaves wife and little daughter.
E. H. Gray, a laboring man, was
killed near Everett, Saturday, by
Great Northern switch engine. Both
his legs were cut off between the
knees and ankles, his left hand was
severed from the wrist, his left elbow
and shoulder broken, and his body was
otherwise badly mangled.
At Gle Elum, on the LIST. at a special
election the citizens defeated a bond
issue for the purpose of building q
school house. The total enrolment
of pupils last winter was 1913, all of
whom were crowded into a room
building. The coming season will
have at least seventy-five more pupils.
One of the monster log RATS which
A. B. Hammond and his associates
have been building at Stella. will start
for San Francisco in about a week.
The raft will be in charge of Captain
Bailey, OF the tug Tatoosh, and another
OF the Puget Sound Tugboat Com
pany's tugs will assist in the operation
OF getting the mass of logs down the
Coast. There will be no delay in get
ting the raft started, as the water at
Stella is very deep at present.
Robert Mathews, a young man who
resided at Vacouver, was struck by
train at Roy, Saturday, and instantly
killed. With companion he was
walking along the track mile east OF
the station when the accident oc.
CURED. The train was running at a
high rate of speed and must have
taken the young man by surprise for
he appeared to make no effort to get
Que of the way OF the train. He was
thrown across the rail and the body
was cut in two and otherwise mutilat-
ed.
William Henry Martin, who has
long had the distinction of being the
oldest Odd Fellow in the State, died at
Pennington on the 1st inst. Mr..
Martin was born in Virginia in 1917,
and hence he was IS years old. He
had been member OF the /. o. o. F.
for over "a years, having joined the
order in Kentucky in 1S48. Mr.. Mar
tin lived on the frontier all his life, in
Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas,
California and Washington. He was
resident Of this State for % years.
He leaves four children, fourteen
grandchildren and eight great grand
children. All OF his children were
present at his deathbed except one
daughter who lives in Texas.
About two thousand people gathered
at T. G. Reeds shipyard, at Ballard,
last Saturday night, to witness the
launching ol the four-masted schooner
Willis A. Holden, which had been
ready for several days, but the crowd
was disappointed as block that could
not be gotten from under tie stern
quick enough, stopped the vessel at
the waters edge. The fact that the
ship stopped when she did was all
that prevented tragedy, as work.
man by the name of Ladner was
caught in small hole under the stern
in which he would have been crushed
to death had the progress of the ship
not been retarded when it was. He
was running to get out when q big
timber started sliding and blocked the
exit, his quarters getting smaller
as the vessel proceeded down the ways.
Fortunately for Ladner refractory
block made the launching failure,
but saved his life.
The award by the Government of
the contract for the construction OF
the now cooling plant at the navy
yard to the Puget Sound Bridge &
Dredging Co., of Seattle, at $265.OOO.
was one OF the most important local
contracts that has been placed by the
Government for several years past.
Practically all the materials used in
the construction OF the dock will be
supplied by local concerns. One OF
the most important Of the sub-con-
tracts in connection with the bridge
company's bid is that of the Perfection
Pile Preserving Co., of which Mr.. H.
c. Henry is President and Mr.. L. E.
Smith Manager. This company will
furnish all Of the piling and timbers
used in the construction Of the founda-
ton and of the wharf. Under the
contract, all piles and timbers in the
foundation under the wharf are to be
treated by the Perfection Process to in
sure a permanent protection against
the teredo. The Perfection Pile Pre-
serving Company's plant, at Port
Madison, is the largest Of its kind on