The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-02-08
STATE NEWSgxk

| Inc Gfeau NOftDefn Is preparing 10
build new depot at Everett.
The Clallam Bay Record is running
% columns of land notices.
The Athens Touring mill at Walla
Walla is about to go into the hands OF
a receiver.
Six children were badly injured by an
explosion of stove tank at Whatcom
a few days since.
jeff Taylor of Klickitat county lost
$50 sheep last week. They smothered
to death in jam.
The grain receipts of Tacoma during
the first 81 days of 1902 averaged 50
car loads per day.
The Presbyterians of North Yakima
are preparing to construct $4,000
edifice in that city.
Grant Neal of Skagit county will sue
coed Lester or Drum on the state board
of audit and control.
The young peoples convention Of the
United Presbyterian church is to be
held in Tacoma in July.
The Chinese laundries OF Spokane
employ $50 hands at $500 per month,
a total of 1872, 900 per year.
Senator Geo. Turner is expected to
visit this state the latter part of this
month or the forepart of next.
A steel and smelter works company
has been incorporated at Tacoma with
a capital stock of $50, 600, 900.
A young shinglebolt driver named
Joseph Morivez, was drowned in the
Newaukum river near Chehalis.
A Jap section hand was badly hurt
near Yakima recently as a result of let
ting hammer fall on u torpedo.
The cut of the Port Ludlow mills for
the year 1901 was: 80, 843, 500, besides
3,425,376 laths and 1872, S57 pickets.
A company is being organized in Ia
coma with $4,000 capitalization for
the purpose of building freight cars.
The store of NJ. +. Shaw of Buckley
was entered by burglars and robbed Of
$500, 90 worth Of goods Saturday night.
The mayor Of Waitsburg vetoed the
curfew ordinance on the ground that it
IS an interference with personal liberty.
1t is generally believed that attorney
general Knox will recommend the
abandonment of the Mcneil island peni
Tertiary.
At the annual growers association at
Yakima last week, John Cleman was
reelected president and S. j. Cameron,
secretary.
The attorney general has refused to
intervene to help the American Book
trust in its suits with Westland Pub
ishing company.
J. H. Crenshaw, journeyman print
err, aged about so years, was found dead
in room at the Pacific hotel, Ritzville,
d few mornings since.
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haven well is now down about 1000 feet,
the Tacoma we'll is down 800 feet and
the DesMoines we'll 700 feet.
The hardware stores OF Spokane en-
ploy 159 men, to whom is paid an aver
age salary of $50 per month or total
of Sl3, $50 per month or $l65, 800 year.
Larry Desmond, while in drunken
fit at Everett Saturday, struck his wife
half breed squaw, on the head with a
double-bit ak. She is not seriously
hurt.
Major A. S Cole, a prominent attor-
ney of Whatcom, has been disbarred
for one year for conduct unbecoming a
lawyer. He used clients money and
was unable to replace it.
The state auditor last week drew a
warrant to the Washington state sugar
company, of Spokane, for $40, 2O7.6O as
state bounty for the past year on the
manufacture of 1920, 760 pounds of beet
sugar made within the state.
There was sent out by express from
the town of Wenatchee during the year
1901, 1860 packages, boxps, crates
and barrels of fruit, aggregating in
gross weight, l, 700, 134 pounds, or near
ly "A ordinary freight car loads.
Patrick Maloney, head Teller at the
Hobert mill near Issaquah, felled one
of the largest trees that has ever been
cut in that section of the state. The
stump measured Ii feet in diameter.
The logs had to be blasted before they
could be handled at the mill.