The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-16
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

OOluubDld COUNTY HAS OIeAHlIOu O soA
payers league
Wilson Creek will be incorporated as
a town of the forth class
Machinery has been bought for a
new electric light plant at Ballard.
Masons of Walla Walla are consider
ing the question of building fine tenn
pie.
The Everett Masonic lodge is cores
ponding with Private Secretary Loeb
for the purpose of ascertaining whether
or not President Roosevelt will lay the
corner stone of the new Masonic temple
when he visits Everett
1t is reported that Seattle men are
figuring on building smelter at Muk-
ilteo. 1t is also stated that a trolley
line to that place will be in operation
as soon as the big mill now being built
there is completed.
Bud Armstrong, gambler well
known on the coast, committed suicide
at Spokane by jumping from the Mon
roe street bridge onto the rocks, fully a
hundred feet below Nearly every bone
in his body was broken. Ill health was
responsible for the act.
Ballard is to have a sewer system.
The cost is estimated at 100000.
Plans have been perfected for large
capacity Touring mill at Waterville.
The machinery is to be delivered by
June /.
John Seymour. of WILDLY Island,
blown up recently by dynamite cart
ridges, has just lost the sight of both
eyes in the Everett hospital.
A sailor named Alfred Erickson, be-
longing to the crew of the barkentine
Encore, fell off the South Bend mill
dock early Sunday morning and was
drowned.
Samuel B,ail, an old one-armed SOL
der, who lived on a farm ten miles
north of Davenport, committed suicide
last Saturday morning by shooting
himself through the bead.
The state has purchased 800 acres of
land On American lake for the National
Guard encampment grounds. The
purchase of this land was authorized
by an act of the last legislature. The
purchase price was $4,000.
DR.. .. G. Chase, of Hoquiam, is
dead. He was rs years of age and has
been very active in politics, municipal
affairs and the upbuilding of that town.
He came from Yokohama in 1890 and
has been a resident of Hoquiam since.
W. II. Shields, an old employe of the
Northwestern Logging company, of Ho-
GUAM, lost a leg by accident in the
mill. In some manner he became en-
tangled in the slasher chains, crushing
the leg below the knee. He was taken
to st. David's hospital.
With the addition of three prisoners
from Skagit county the population of
the state ,penitentiary at Walla Walla
last week increased to the highest point
in the history of the institution. There
are now GA prisoners enrolled. Thus
far 106 have been received during 1903.
Sunnyside and Mabton, adjoining
towns, each have clause in thier deeds
prohibiting the manufacture or sale of
spirituous liquors., and a majority of
the people of Mabton signed remon-
STRANGE against the granting of license
for saloon in that burg. Matters
now seem to shaping themselves for
permanent deliverance from the saloon.
The last legislature passed bill ap-
propriating IS, 900 for the purchase of
forty acres of land adjoining the school
for defective youth at Vancouver for
the use of the school. The board did
not secure the land, as twenty acres
had been secured by local nursery
firm. This will probably prevent the
contamination of the proposed pur-
chase. The price obtained was higher
than that offered by the state. l