Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-05-23
tt'ashingtou Standard
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered from All
Parts of the State.

Ben Armstrong has moved ms !og'
ging camp from the Nasel to Bucoda.
He employs 40 men.
Harry George, convicted in Yakima
county Of rohhing Chinaman, was
senced to eight years in the peniten-
tlary.
In Aberdeen the increase OF yalua-
ton over last year will be nearly $780,
600, and in Hoquiam the increase will
be fully 100000.
For the first time since its construc.
ton, Fort Worden, near Port Town
send, is now occupied 10y q battery OF
United States Artillery.
Roy Woodruff, working in the West
* Slade mill at Aberdeen, received n
severe cut in the forehead by a flying
tooth from the boiling saw.
Aaron Cohn, a we'll known citizen
OF Seattle, having been in the mer.
chant tailoring business there for II
years, died recently OF heart disease,
aged 81 years.
City Clerk Reynolds OF Walla Walla,
was severely cut in the abdomen by a
soldier named Logan on Sunday night
in an alteration over the destruction
of Mr.. RS picket fence by the soldier
Pc Els crack shot, G. E. Hamaker,
and IL. C. Bilger, the well-known
hardware salesman, had a friendly
shooting contest the other day when
Mr.. bigger visited Pc Ell. Mr.. Ha-
maker broke "a out of % clay pigeons,
Mr. Dilger 81 and DR.. Powell of Che.
halls 16.
James Chevers, a workman in a
stone quarry near Vancouver, was
crushed to death Saturday, by the fall
OF a seven-ton rock. He was working
with other men to dislodge the rock
when it slipped and fell upon him, in.
flicting fatal injuries. He was 81
years old.
Russell Hubbard, aged % years, was
found dead in tank of gasoline near
the N. P. coal bunkers at Pasco, last
Wednesday. He had entered the tank
for the purpose of cleaning it and had
been overcome by the fumes. His
face and hands were frightfully burned
where they had came in contact with
the liquid, although there was no fire
near.
State Labor Commissioner Black
man believes the Supreme Court will
sustain the validity Of the law passed
by the last Legislature making IL
hours the maximum to be required o.
female workers for days work. The
question is before the court on appeals
from Snohomish and King counties
and the two cases will be presented in
conjunction.
The 1l-year-old daughter Of Mrs.
Phelps, a Whatcom milliner, came
near being burned to death Saturday.
The little girl was playing in the vi
cinity of the depot, and in some man.
ner set fire to her clothes. She was
all ablaze in a moment and only for
the prompt action OF E. E. Sherwood,
who happened to be close by, would
have sustained fatal injuries.
That the prune crop OF Clarke
county will be short this year is now
conceded by all growers. A conserva-
tive estimate of the output is 125 car.
loads of dried fruit, as against $50
carloads last year. The crop is re.
ported blighted in all the principle
fruit districts of the county, and the
orchards are badly spotted. Other
fruits will be plentiful and the cherry
crop will be unusually large.
While riding a horse across the
Kalama river at Blair & Moorback's
piling camp, last Sunday morning,
Thomas White met his death instant.
IL. The horse stepped into hole and
fell, throwing Mr.. White under it and
in gaining its feet struck him about
the head and under the arm. The
water was not deep but he could not
regain his feet and was drowned be.
fore the men could get to him.
Gay Hayden, a pioneer of 1850, died
at Vancouver, last week, at the age OF
SO years. Death was due to old age.
Deceased was we'll known in Clarke
county, having been engaged in bust
ness at Vancouver for many years.
He was born in Rome, N. Y. and
crossed the plains to Oregon in 1850,
settling on a donation claim. In
1856 he went to Vancouver, where he
had since resided. His wife and four
children survive him.
A wreck occurred on the Northern
Pacific near Seattle, on the 18th inst,
in which w. T. Shaw, a fireman, was
killed; Engineer w. H. Watson and
brakeman Walto injured, and the
company suffered a property loss of
approximately $4,000. The victims
of the accident were members of the
crew of an incoming freight train and
the wreck resulted from the neglect of
the men to observe rule OF the divis-
ion regulating the speed of trains
within the limits of the INTERPLAY
yards.
Mrs. B. F. Van Horn, sister of Judge
w. r. Bell, of Seattle, is what the DO.
lice term woman of nerve" H.
stead of screaming and fainting when