Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-22
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
All Parts Of the State.

DfIef >ummary OF news Udtnereo from
All Parts Of the State
The Palouse country i. rejoicing in
a heavy rainfall that will assure ex.
cellent crops.
Elbow is the name of new town on
the Columbia river that proposes to
crowd its way in.
Holders OF last years hay crop in
the Yakima district have combined to
hold out for better prices.
Northern Pacific engines are now
equipped with search-lights by which
their drivers can see the track mile
and half ahead.
A farmer who has farm in Lower
Ra.tlesnake hills, Yakima county, has
a wire-fence 80 miles in length, en-
closing a single tract OF land.
The Golden Northwest Canning Co.,
OF North Yakima, expects to turn out
100000 cases OF fruit and vegetables
during the coming season and employ
1G0 operatives.
The family of John Wuerch of
Hillyard has another addition, through
the birth OF ten-pound girl. This is
the eleventh girl born to Mrs. Wuerch,
who is also the mother OF six boys.
w. H. Crispin of Helena, Mont, has
purchased 900 head OF horses OF Ben
Rosencrans and o. G. Brown of lower
Yakima. They will be shipped to
Montana, where horses are said to be
scarce.
The holders of the balance OF the
1902 hop crop have formed trust to
fight the brewers against bearing of
prices. Fully 95 per cent. OF the hold
ers in Oregon and this state have en-.
tered the combine.
The Hackett Cold Storage Company
has decided to locate ut Fairhaven.
The plant will cost about $4,000 and
will be located at Deadman's Point.
1t will use surplus fish of traps as we'll
as other varieties of food fish not
utilized by the canneries.
The Lewis County Commissioners
have reduced the interest rate on cur.
rent expense fund warrants from s to
6 per cent. At s per cent. the war
rants. which run for but few months
are snatched up at l per cent. prem
ium by the warrant buyers.
E. T. johnson, marine engineer Of
Seattle, attempted to make his way
alone and without provisions for dis.
tance OF 200 miles through the heart
of the Copper River Valley, and wa.
never heard from again. He left the
Cheskstena Station a year ago this
month for Wakes.
w. B. D. Newman died at the Steil-
accom- asylum, on the 14th inst Mr.
N. was a native OF Illinois, and was 7G
years of age. He came to Olympia in
1852, where he remained for some
time, and then went to Elma where
he lived for nearly so years. He
at one time owned sawmill, proba-
bly, the first that was ever operated in
that portion of Chehalis county.
P.-L.: All honor to the Thurston
county jury that refused te admit the
plea of emotional insanity as defense
against q charge for murder. The
time has been when such a case as was
made out would have acquitted the
guilty party in almost any State of the
Union. One of the most fragrant and
usual miscarriages Of justice is doomed
with the passing of the insanity plea. u
With the latest apparatus for the
completion of wireless telegraph sys'
tenn in Alaska, Richard Pfund, of the
Marconi Company, left Seattle for the
North, few days ago. His apparatus,
weighing several tons, will be trans
ported over the White Pass and down
the Yukon past Dawson to Fort Glib,
bon, whence the system will be estab.
lished up the Tanana River to the new
diggings at Chena and Fairbanks.
A new bank is about to be opened
in Elma as branch OF the Montesano
State Bank, with A. L. Callow as
Cashier. Mr.. Callow is an expert &C.
countsnt, having had charge of the
books of E. L. Minard & Co. and
Wakefield & ODonnell. There have
been several attempts to establish a
bank at Elma recently, but the pro-
jects all failed until this one, which is
so far under way as to be assured of
success.
Orvilla Holman, an employe of the
Northwestern Lumber Co, met with a
serious accident Saturday, while at
work in the blacksmith shop at Ho-
quiam. He was striking a piece Of
red-hot iron, which had been sharp
ened at one end, when piece broke
off and lodged in his right eye, which
caused a painful wound. DR.. Camp
bell was Immediately called and Or
dered the patient removed to Seattle
to consult a specialist. Holman will
probably lose the sight of his eye.
Major Evans, Assistant Adjutant
General of the army, stationed at Fort
Vancouver, lately made an examina-
ton of the Reservation on Satas
Creek, in Yakima county, has decided
that there is too much sagebrush on
the propOsed tract for q good location