Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-11-14
STATE NEWS.

Briet summary OF News Gathered from Al
Parts Of the State.
Typhoid fever is prevalent at Tekoa.
The price OF fir and spruce logs has
advanced to Sc and So per thousand.
Proprietors OF drygoods and grocery
stores at Tekoa have agreed to close
their places OF business nightly al 6 80
o'clock.
Alexander Proctor, an old and re-
spected citizen of Snohomish, died
Saturday at his home in that city. He
was 80 years Of age.
o. w. Powell assaulted /. P. CALI
son, publisher of the Advocate at Che.
halls, Monday, and was fined $40 and
costs for the pastime.
Motorman J. Roam, on the Seattle.
Ballard electric road, is minus q leg as
the result of collision with his and
another Car Saturday night.
Jack Thompson committed suicide
near Everett Wednesday by diving un.
der Great Northern engine. and was
literally crushed beyond recognition.
Major A. s. Cole, one of the best
known men in the State, died at
his home at Whatcom, Wednesday, of
paralysis of the brain, after a weeks
illness.
Hidden in the woods near Machias,
in Snohomish county, q hobo found
800 quarts OF whisky. II 10 believed to
have been cached by a saloonkeeper
who left town to evade his creditors.
There is wood famine at Garfield.
Any wood will bring IS and Sc . cord.
where formerly good wood sold for
$3.50. A local merchant has let Q
contract for 81, 900 worth of wood to
be cut this winter.
The wife and relatives OF Samuel
Cayton, of Everett, who disappeared
in Seattle over . week ago, have fail. d
to secure any clue to his whereabouts,
and great fears are entertained that he
has been murdered. He had 500 on
his person when last seen.
While giving the Masonic grip to .
friend at Collar Wednesday morning,
Sidney 8. Benton expired without n
word. Mr.. Benton was one OF the
best known men in the Palouse coun-
try, and was q pioneer of the Pacific
Coast, coming West in 1856.
John Leary, of Seattle, has taken
up . note of $4,000 owed by the
Trinity Parish Episcopal church, Of
Seattle, and has likewise contributed
an altar to cost $4,000, and two mo.
memorial windows, ono 10 his wife
and the other Gov. Ferry to the new
edifice.
In . row in q saloon st Hoquiam
the other night over cards, Herbert
Fulmer was shot in the breast acci-
dentally by James Fennell. The doc
tors say Fulmer will recover. Neither
Fulmer or Fennell started the dis.
turbance. They were playing cards
with other parties when the trouble
began. In the mix-up Fennell at.
tempted to shoot another man, but
the bullet struck Fulmer. Fulmer
was formerly resident Of Tacoma.
The Northwestern Woodenware Co.
OF Tacoma is in receipt from the
Cudahy Packing Co. Of Omaha of an
order for $4,000 dozen lard tubs and
pals, to be delivered during the COM
ing year. This is the largest single
order for woodenware ever placed in
the West. The tubs are to be made
OF spruce lumber, secured along the
line of the Tacoma Eastern, A spec
ial freight rate has been granted by
the Northern Pacific in order that the
Tacoma company could secure the
contract.
Michael Demeen, a steamship fire.
man, committed suicide at Seattle
Tuesday because the boat on which he
had q job had sailed without him.
Demeen came in as fireman on the
Umatilla, and was to have gone out on
another vessel. Monday night he and
a comrade went on . spree. and next
morning went to the dock to 60
aboard, but too late. "Well," said
Demeen, here l am; in q swift town
with no money, no breakfast and no