Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-18
STATE NEWS,

STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered From
All Parts Of the State.
The Clarke county prune crop is the
largest in the history OF that district.
Merchandise nickel-in.the.slot ma
chimes are being operated in Walla
Walls in full blast.
Fred. Miller lost thumb and two
fingers in a mill at Hoquiam, Friday,
by his hand coming in contact with a
saw.
Three carloads Of Italian prunes
left Walla Walla, two of which are to
fill an order from London and one
from Liverpool.
Chas. Durant, of Wardner, Idaho,
was seriously wounded, last Friday,
by pulling a gun of the unloaded"
variety towards him from boat while
out duck.shooting ON Black Lake,
near Harrison.
James knight, q prominent con.
tractor and builder of Enumclaw, and
for twelve years resident of that city,
committed suicide in his house, Satur-
day, by blowing the top OF his head off
with q shotgun.
Fifteen carloads of stock sheep,
consisting of $500 head, were shipped
from North Yakima to Seattle last
week. They will be taken to Kadiak
Island for winter grazing, and will
be killed in the spring for the Alaskan
trade.
M. Cabot, q Coal creek farmer, has
sold his seven.acre place, near Cheha-
Lis to some West Virginia gentleman,
who will within few days begin the
erection of a brewing plant. A fine
quality OF water has been secured.
The plant will be located directly east
of town.
The Washington State Press As.
ISOLATION which met in Vancouver, B.
c., last week, decided to hold its next
meeting at Spokane. The following
officers were elected: C. w. Gorham,
President; J. d. Medell and F. c.
Teck, Vice-Presidents; Secretary, ID.
G. Ashman; Delegates to the National
Association, E. d. Furman and F. z.
Alexander.
The headquarters of the U. s. I'm
grafton bureau has been removed from
Seattle to Port Townsend. Its object is
to inspect incoming visitors and de.
termine all matters relating to
restraints imposed by Federal laws.
Three assistants will, however, be
retarded in Tacoma and Seattle, while
the main work will be transferred to
what is deemed a better field for
close inspection Of Chinese and other
Objectionable adjuncts to our popu-
latiOn.
A Seattle judge has set the proper
precedent for debauchery ofinnocence,
by sentencing q villain who criminally
assaulted child of ten years of age,
to the penitentiary for q term of rs
years. He is lucky in escaping with
his life, as the evidence on trial showed
that he was guilty of several other at.
tempts of like nature. He is in
luck that he did not encounter i'm.
pulsive relatives OF the victims and that
the public pulse was at normal beat
when his crimes became known, az
we'll as that he has not been bapdi.
capped by a black akin.
All over the State the people having
been called upon to pay exorbitant
court expenses in eenseless suits in.
stituted mainly through spite, the last
Legislature passed a bill providing
that the failure Of the plaintiff in civil
cases to deposit $l2 in advance should
constitute waiver of right of a jury
trial. After hard fight this was
passed and became law. Opponents
of the new law claim it is contrary to
section 81 Of article l of the State
constitution, which provides that the
right OF jury trial shall not be inter.
fered WITH" and the matter will prob.
ably be carried to the Supreme Court
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final adjudication.
State Grain Inspector Arrasmith
says that the heavy rains of last month
did not damage the grain crop mater.
tally, yet it has. in many cases, soft.
ened the grain exposed to it. The
effect of rain at this time on the dry
hard wheat grains is not only to
soften, but to cause the grain to take
a lower grading when submitted to
inspection. Just why is not known,
but it is declared such grain will not
afterwards test the same percentage
OF gluten. The inspector concludes
with the information that in case the
present fine weather shall continue,
the loss by the drenching and general
falling rain will not reach nearly the
reported figures.