Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-04
STATE NEWS,

STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
All Parts Of the State.
Tacoma is having a decided building
boom.
The Pacific Coast Association OF
Traffic Agents meets in Spokane. Oct.
10th.
Ed. Sanders, of Spokane, is an
avowed candidate for Lieutenant.Gov.
ernor.
Agnes Holland, a 16-year-old girl,
has been missing from her home in
Seattle since August ii.
Every saloon and business house at
Lind, except those exempt by law, has
been closed to Sunday traffic.
A three.story building to be erected
at Spokane by the Washington Grain
and Milling Co., is to be built OF white
pressed brick.
The Moses block, on Second Avenue
south, between Main and Jackson
streets, Seattle, was destroyed by fire
Monday morning. Loss, $4,000.
Frank Fair, convicted at Seattle OF
having robbed Robt. G. Mills in I'm
ion Park, April 14th, of $40, has been
sentenced to fifteen years in the State
Penitentiary.
Deputy Collector OF Customs Thos.
R. Delaney and Inspector S. A. Brink
er lately seized 100 pounds OF am
bergris, alleged to have been stolen
at Victoria. 1t is worth about $4S,.
600.
Capt. John Brooks, for eighteen
years q steamboat master on the lower
Sound, died Sunday morning in Sc
attic, OF quick consumption. He was
a native of Wyoming, 80 years of age,
and left wife and daughter.
The immense shortage in the Sock.
eye salmon pack for the present season
as compared with 1902, will be about
5OO,OOO cases, and nearly 1000, 600
cases short of the pack OF 1901. High
prices are now bound to rule.
Senators Foster and Ankeny and
Representative Jones, left Wenatchee,
Tuesday, in an attempt to reach Ket-
tie Falls by steamer. This has been
accomplished very rarely in upper
Columbia navigation. They 60 on a
trip OF inspection.
Mike Burbin and Lulu Hoffman, a
l7:year.old girl of Spokane, attempted
suicide by jumping in the river at Spo-
kane, Monday, after tying their hands
together. The cold water soon damp
ened their suicidal ardor and the
young man made for shore, dragging
the girl after him. They were saved.
Edward Mcdonald, a stout crazy
man with big knife fairly stopped
the busy wheels of vitality in Seattle,
Sunday afternoon. The police finally
succeeded in rounding him up, how
ever, and he now pines in solitude
pending inquiry as to whether his in
generation shall not be made perma.
nent.
The list Of juvenile criminals is un-
usually large just now, Vancouver
having developed one in Andrew
johnson, a child Z or 8 years of age,
who has mania for theft as we'll as
destroying property he does not care
to appropriate to his own use. The
lad is now in Jail to answer a charge
Of burglary and destruction of prop
erty.
George B. Lathrop, a single man,
committed suicide in Spokane hotel
Tuesday, by taking laudanum. He
was subject to partial paralysis of
his limbs, which resulted in an in.
ability to control them. This mis-.
fortune caused him to brood because
people believed him to be drunkard.
H Q left note addressed to Mrs. J. B.
Bangs, of Chicago, in which he ex-
planned his action by saying that he
conld not stand the constant distrust
caused by infirmity.
The Washington Water Power Co.,
Spokane, has decided to run an OBJ.
servstion car called Seeing Spokane"
over its car lines for the benefit OF
tourists and sight.seers in that city.
The car will make two trips daily.
The observation car will be operated
on the same plan that has made it so
popular in other cities. The cars
have been success in Boston, Wash
ington, New York, Denver, Salt Lake,
Los Angeles and Seattle. At Spo.
kane the total trip will cover q miles.
Natural gas has been discovered
near Whatcom. while workmen were
driving q we'll for water. After the
drill had reached depth of 70 feet,
there was bubbling, and while en-
deavoring to ascertain the cause a
workman lighted his pipe and threw
the unextinguished match on the
ground. There was an instant ex-
plosion and sheet of flame bursted
from the we'll. One of the men work.
ing over the we'll was knocked in
sensible by force of the explosion, and
another was considerably burned about
the face. The flames shot up 70 feet
in the air, and the workmen had great
difficulty in extinguishing them. The
boring was made in the vicinity OF the
old Glen Echo coal mine. The coal
was of poor quality. but it is thought
the gas will be a good find if it exists
in sufficient quantity to be available.