Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-29
STATE NEWS.

Colsi.lc ha9 begun preparations for
by 4th vi July celebration.
The next manufacturing establish
mcnt for llwaco is to be a sawmill.
Senator George Turner will leave
Spokane next week for London, Eng
land, to sit as one OF the members of
the Alaska boundary commission.
Joseph Cook has begun action in
the Superior Court for Sz5 sec 50 for
injuries received while in the emplov
OF the Stimson Mill Co., at Everett.
y movement is on foot in Tacoma,
says the Ne,cs, for closing Of business
houses at ! o'clock on Saturday after
moons during the months of July and
August.
Henry Ashenbrenner, sheepherder,
10 years old, was arrested at Colfax.
Wednesday, for criminal assault on a
l5-year'old daughter of John Schmidt,
a rancher.
Clarence Waddle, of Tumwater, has
taken the championship for big fish
this season. While fishing below the
falls, on the Deschutes, he caught a
trout twenty-five inches long.
S. F. Olson, a blacksmith from
Touchet, was fatally injured at the
depot, in Walla Walla, as the Presi-
dents train was leaving that city. He
was on his wheel and was run over by
several carriages and crushed.
They have a baseball team COM
posed OF Quiniaul. Indians at Hoquiam
which gave, the other day. the local
team Of " Boston" men a lively tustle
for the score. Mr.. Richards, their
organizer, teacher and manager, ex-
pscts to tour the State with them.
President Mellen, Of the Northern
Pacific, states that while tire Port
Townsend Southern branch road to
the straits will not be built this year,
nor till the reservation is open, it will
be completed that far, opening up an
especially fine tract of cedar timber
land, and connect with a fine ocean
beach.
Shorty" Brown is suing the city OF
Colfax for $4,000 on behalf of a iel.
low by the name OF Huber who fell in
the South Palouse river last winter
and got wet. The man was carrying
a heavy load and lost a corner of his
ear when he fell up against the stone
wall. If the northwest corner of a
drunk mans ear is worth $4,000, how
much would the whole carcass be
worth?
Amy Williams, daughter OF Mrs.
Alice Williams, aged IA years, died at
the family home at Pullman, Tuesday,
OF spinal meningitis. Mrs. w. seems
to have more than her share of sorrow.
She recently lost two other children,
and few months ago her husband
was shot and killed with his own gun,
while hunting. She is about crazed
with grief, and grave fears for her
sanity are entertained by her friends.
Miss Julia Porack. aged 20, daugh-
ter of Rudolph Porack, pioneer
brewer of Sprague, was decapitated at
the N. p. depot, in Spokane, Tuesday
night, at II 20 o'clock, by the west
bound train. The crowd waiting to
board the train was so large that the
girl was forced up against the cylinder
head of the engine, then coming in
slowly. She lost her balance, fell un.
der the engine wheels and was de-
capitated.
A man giving his name as Pat
Rooney and his home at Boise, Idaho,
has been taken to Colfax by a farmer
named Sheriff, who found Rooney
wandering in his orchard and NUT
tering to himself. He tells q pitiful
story of having been deserted by his
wife, who was much younger than
himself. He says his wife took So, 500
which he had deposited in the bank in
her name. and their two children, a boy
OF s and girl aged 4 years.
The first strike in twelve years &C.
Cured at the Port Blakeley mills
Tuesday morning, when 200 men re.
fused to go to work until they were
supplied with better food at the com.
pany's boarding-house The strike
forced the mill to shut down, but at
the request of the management the
men appointed a grievance commit
tee which proceeded to lay the matter
of poor food before the officers of the
mill company. After some delay the
company decided to grant the de-
mands made. At noon the men re-
turned to work and the strike was at
An end