Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30
NEWS OF THE STATE.

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vote OF 172 to 1G5.
The tota! enrolment of the State
Penitentiary has reached 708.
Eleven recruits were able to pass
the Naval examination at Walla Walla.
Robt. Lynch was sentenced to three
years servitudo in the State Peniten-
tiary, at Walla, for horse-stealing, last
Saturday.
A building in Centralis, occupied by
Fred Hanson, druggist, and Jesse Lat
shaw, furniture dealer, was entirely
destroyed by fire, Sunday night.
Louis Knight, a Seattle man, is now
Governor OF Neuva Eiscaya, n province
of the Igarrotes, in the Philippines.
He went there as school teacher.
Mrs. John johnson died at her
home in Columbia City, King county,
Monday, from drinking carbolic acid.
She had been i'll for several months.
Booker 7. Washington, the dis.
.inguished leader OF the African race
is announced to speak at Whitman
College, Walla Walla, on the evening
Of June 18th.
Charles A. Bogart, q butcher, was
killed near the corner Of Plummer aud
Grant streets, Seattle, Sunday night.
1t is believed he was murdered. The
fatal wound was in the back OF his
head.
The request presented by the Sp0-
kane Library Commission TO Andrew
Carnegie for an additional donation OF
$25 900 to furnish and decorate the
library building. for which he has al.
ready donated 5000, has teen re-
fused.
Simon Wellington, . railroad sec.
of being the purchaser of the largest
sized hat ever sold in Spokane. 1t
was an St Fedora and special block
upon which to frame the hat had to
be made. Its cost was $3.50.
A farmers carriage, containing four
children and two grown people, WAS
struck by an o. X. & N. passenger
train at Pennington Sunday morning.
One of the children was fatally hurt.
The horses were instantly killed and
the carriage completely demolished.
A deal has just been closed by B. S.
Weed OF Ellensburg whereby he sells
to syndicate composed OF Eastern
and Tacoma men 10000 acres of land
lying on the foothills of Kittitas val
ley. The purchasers purpose to estab.
lish a colony on the land on which
wheat and fluit can be proftably
raised.
An advance in barley is expected
soon after the first of the year and
stOckmen in the vicinity of Walla
Walla will have to pay high prices for
feed. The price Of wheat has been
too high for feeding this season and
the demand for barley has been heavy,
the supply being snapped up early
in the season.
The funeral of Leon Carron. the
McNeips leland convict who died, was
held in Tacoma. this week. Guarded
by u. s. authorities, Mrs. Carron, the
widow Of the dead man, and herself q
convict ct the Federal penitentiary
was permitted to attend the funeral.
She did not wear prison attire. She
has been allowed to care for aud watch
over her husband during his long i'll
ness.
Everett physicians say the typhoid
fever situation is under control and
that there ia no further danger. DIR.
Hegg, President of the State Board OF
Health, reported upon the samples OF
milk secured by the city health office,
and stated typhoid bacilli were found
in the samples. They were secured
from q source outside the city limits,
where milk cans are washed with city
water.
The big steamship Minnesota was
visited by probably 1900 people at
Seattle, Sunday, and although an
nouncement had been made that no
one would be allowed aboard before III
A. NJ, the crowd began to assemble
two hours earlier. During the seven
hours allotted to visitors the stream oil
humanity kept continually coming
and going and when it was ann urced
no one else could get aboard, several
hundred were still standing in line,
anxiously waiting to ascend tho gang.
plank.