Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-01-22
STATE NEWS.

A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
All Parts Of the State.
Ingersoll Stanwood, a pioneer resi-
dent Of Clarke county. is dead.
Nine lumber mills of Aberdeen are
closed from light demand for product.
The Farmers Institute at Walla
Walla, will be held on February I'd and
Sd.
Moses Shenyor, II pioneer farmer,
residing near Snohomish, died Mon
day. from the effects of drinking wood
alcohol.
The master builders at Spokane
have made good their threat, locking
out the union men on a number of
buildings.
The new creamery of the Washing
ton Agricultural College at Pullman
will be completed soon and the open
ing will take place on February 80.
The Chehalis opera house, by an
order of the City Council, will be
thoroughly examined and the neces-
sary repairs made to protect patrons
in case OF fire or panic.
The safe in the Office OF the Robin
son Manufacturing Co., at Everett.
was blown open by burglars, Wednes-
day night, and about $22 in cash, all
the money there was in the safe, So
cured.
Oliver T. Parker, formerly well.to.
do farmer OF Walla Walla county, 40
years old, committed suicide in the
city Jail at Walla Walla. Wednesday, by
taking laudsnum, which he had con-
cealed about his person.
Preparations for the poultry show
at Walla Walla are progressing very
nicely. The management will keep
up with the times, and in addition to
the cash prizes. blue ribbons are to bs
distributed to the winners.
Yancey C. Blalock has resigned the
position of Receiver of the Land Of
flee at Walla Walla, to succeed his
father in his extensive practice as .
a doctor, which is becoming too exact
ing upon him through age.
A sensation was created, Monday, at
Ellensburg, when women OF the Re.
form League caused the arrest Of
keepers of cigar stores and billiard
rooms for keeping their places open
Sunday. A few days ago all saloon
men were arrested.
Thos. Reyes has made his final re-
port at Colfax as administrator OF the
estate Of Joseph CANISTER, the bache.
lor miser, who lived for twenty five
years on ranch near Sunset and died
in April, 1902. The sum OF $27 S44.50
is now in the hands OF the admins
traitor.
Mrs. Margaret Adams committed sui
eide by drowning in the Touchet river.
Monday. She was mother.in-law OF w.
H. Hall, prominent contractor, rs
years of age and quite childish. The
rash act was committed in a fit of
anger at her daughter. The body has
been recovered.
The death OF little Hazel Richard
son. the 12-year-old daughter of J. M.
Richardson. of Waterville, Monday,
is q shock to that community. A
day or 90 before the pretty little girl
was playing with her friends in the
afternoon. In the evening she was
stricken with a disease, the nature of
which baffled the doctors, and death
soon ended her suffering.
]. G. Wiley, q mill.han living at
Chehalis, was fatally injured while get.
ting off the esstbound N. P. train, at
that place, at 3 o'clock, Tuesday morn
ing. A light fall OF snow had made
the depot platform slippery, and the
man missed his footing, and was
thrown under the wheels. His right
leg was cut off close to the body; also
his right arm. He was severely cut
in the side. He leaves q wife and
three children.
The situation in the prune market
is not very encouraging at present in
Clarke county. Many prune growers
built new dryers last Summer and
otherwise expended much money, and
now that the prunes cannot be sold
they are somewhat embarrassed. 1t
is estimated that 100000 worth OF
prunes are tied up. So far as the
handlers are concerned, they say that
there is no immediate prospect of any
change in the market conditions.
Ike Horsell, an sx.convict, shot his
divorced wife, Jessie Horsell, at Sc
attic, Monday evening. and left her
lying on the sidewalk. The woman,
with five wounds in her body, crawled