Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-10-16
STATE NEWS,
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
All Parts of the State.

A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
All Parts Of the State.
/ A basket ball team has been organ
lied by the young ladies OF Elma.
The three prune- packing houses at
Vancouver are in full operation, about
200 people being employed.
1t is announced from Olympia that
Washington's secondhand Statehouse
is nearing completion.-Chehalis Bee
MuQget.
; The price of lumber has fallen very
materially at Vancouver and in Port
land. The prices OF logs has fallen 81
and So per thousand.
Fifteen prisoners, lately rounded up
at Spokane, we're placed in the U. S.
Penisentiary, on McNeips Island, Sat-
urday, who had been engaged in sell
ing fire water to the un,utored savage.
The steamer Coronado had a rough
time on her last trip to Gray's Harbor.
She was out in that exceptionally bad
weather. Her 20 passengers were
nearly all sick, and one became vio-
lently insane and had to be placed in
restraint.
The largest and most elaborate thea
ter in the Northwest, together with an
Office building, is planned to be built
in Seattle by James A. Moore, owner
OF the Washington hotel. John Cort,
the we'll known theatrical manager,
will have charge Of the theater.
The attendance At the department
for deaf and blind, School for Deiec-
tive Youth, at Vancouver, is at present
sixty boys and ffty.one girls, and in
the department for feeble minded. a
total of seventy-three of both sexes.
The schools are doing nicely and new
students are being enrolled weekly.
1t is said that only the machinery OF
the Northern Light, driven ashore last
week in Huggin's Slough, on the Swim
omish, can be saved. Her owners are
already making plans for building
new boat to receive the machinery
aud such equipments as may be taken
from the wreck.
Judge Netterer in the Superior
Court at Whatcom, has sentenced
Leslie Gardner to Is years in the
penitentiary. Gardner had pleaded
guilty to the vTime OF assault on sho |
person of his 15-year-old sister. The
crime was committed at Whatcom
two weeks ago.
At Whatcom, Saturday, Coroner
Clifford decided not to hold an inquest
over the body of Miss Clara link, the
20.year.old girl who died Thursday
night. The developments showing that
the girl had purchased strychnine, left
no room to doubt that she had COM
mitted suicide. What influenced the
girl to the rash act is mystery.
C. A. Beavers. one of the pioneers OF
Lynden. died OF heart disease while in
the woods with a party hunting, one
day last week. He was missed by his
companions and diligent search was
made for him, till late at night, but he
was not found till morning and he
had been dead evidently for several
hours. He was IS years Of age and
leaves widow.
The management of the Blalock
Fruit Company have been notified
from London that the five Car loads OF
prunes consigned to dealers in that
city several weeks ago had arrived in
excellent shape and the entire lot had
been disposed Of at good figure. The
dealers were so much pleased with the
fruit that they have entered into .
contract for other large shipments
next year.
A. H. Mackinnon, formerly Of Olym.
pia, is . party to an application for
writ of mandate to restrain the Land
Commission from selling certain wa.
ter-front property at Seattle, which
had been leased by complainants for q
term OF thirty years. The Land Com
mission has refused to execute the
lease and ordered the property sold,
and it is against this action the alter.
nate writ is directed.
Miss Rosa T. Smith. q handsome
lassie from Christian county, Mo-, came
to Walla Walla, few days ago TO wed
Walter Witt, . man she had never
seen. They were introduced and
vouched for by mutual friend, and
all their courting was done through
Uncle Sans mails. Mr.. Witt is a
rancher, and the couple were married
at sight, with apparent indications that
each has drawn o prize.
The body of q four-year.old daugh-
ter of ]. T. Bassett, of Vancouver, was
found on the shore of the Columbia
last week. 1t was thought that the
child had been stolen by band OF
Gipsies, and the father followed them
to Southern Oregon in search, when it
turns out that the statement OF q
medium, of Portland, who said she
clairvoyantly saw the child in the bot
tom of the river, was true.