The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-22
STATE POINTERS

The double band mill of the Mucl1il-
teo Lumber company at Everett is al
most completed. One side is in oper-
alton and the other will be ready in a
few days.
Robert ingalls,, a crook with many
aliases, was sentenced in the superior
court at Spokane yesterday to seven
years in the penitentiary. The crime
for which he was sentenced was the
forging of check for $12.95 on the
Old National bank.
The two-year-old child of Charley
Johns, of Kalama, swallowed some
carbolic acid yesterday. The child
found the bottle while playing around
the house and after taking the acid
spilled lot over it's face and hands.
Though terribly burned and suffering
great agony, the physicians think the
child's life can be saved.
While adjusting the brushes on the
big dynamo, F. l.. Guptill, chief engi-
neer at the Ballard electric light plant,
came in contact with live wire and
received a shock of 1000 volts. He
was badly burned and will be con-
fined to the hospital for some time.
The Seattle Retail Clerks union,
with several hundred members, has
withdrawn from the Western Central
Labor union. The cause of the with
drawal was the refusal of the West
ern Central to recognize a delegate
from the clerks union in a convention
some time ago.
The chain gang is going to be insti-
tuted in Everett as means of reduc-
ing the number of vags who have
found easy picking there. The police
have provided them with lodging and
tender-hearted people have supplied
the food until Everett has come to be
known as the tramps' paradise. Here
after every man who sleeps in the po-
lice station or is caught begging will
be put in the chain gang.
The largest ice manufacturing plant
in the state has just been completed
at North Yakima at a cost of $685. 900.
The plant has a capacity of thirty
tons of ice daily and 10000 square feet
storage space. The first ice will be
made Saturday.
All the rivers in Western Washing
ton are running nearly full to the
banks. In some cases they have over
flowed adjoining farms, but no serious
damage has been done. People
living in the valleys regard the
surplus of water as an indication
of good fortune. They insist that
the fact that the rivers have been run
ming full shows the early SHOWS have
been melting and there is no danger
from floods resulting from sudden
melting of mountain SHOWS. The warm
weather prevailing now is expected to
take off much of the snow that re-
mains.
The records at the city Jail in Sc
attic were broken when 139 prisoners
responded to breakfast call yesterday
morning. With the exception of the
days when Coxey's army recruits were
travelling through the city, lis is the
largest number ever housed in the city
prison. When the justice court open
ed the line of prisoners more than
filled the dock to overfowlng, and II
was necessary to clear out the spec
tators and put prisoners in the space
before all could be arraigned. me
court worked until dark, and then
there were almost one-third OF the
number left over for today.
The commissioners of King county
Yesterday granted two franchises for
the construction of electric railway
lines, win telegraph and telephone at
tachments, over county roads. One
line is proposed to run from Renton
to Tolt. by way of Issaquah and Fall
City. This franchise was granted TO
w. H. Lord and William Entwistle.