Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-06-17
STATE NEWS,
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
All Parts of the State.


All Parts of the State
The salary OF the Seattle Postmas ter
has been increased from $1,000 to 49,.
800 per year.
NJ. A. Calhoun, claiming to be a
lawyer from Denver. was found dead
in bed at hotel in Walla Walla, the
other night.
David Murray, aged 10 years. q
pioneer of the Kittitas valley, at one
time known as the cattle king o
Washington, died at Ellensburg, re.
Gently.
After this every physician in Seattle
attending case of typhoid fever o,
tuberculosis, who fails to report to the
Board OF Health as required by city
ordinance, will be arrested and prose-
cuted.
Faith Henderson, 16 year old girl
is missing from the Seattle seminary
near Fremont. The young woman il
said to have left with another girl who
lives at Fremont. The police have
been requested to keep a lookout fol
the runaways.
A farmer named Morton, living near
Pullman, attempted suicide Saturday
by cutting his throat with a pocket.
knife. He had been drinking heavily
of late and was respondent. He is a
widower without children. 1t il
thought he will recover.
A heavy hailstorm, accompanied by
thunder and lightning. passed over the
southern portion of Walla Walla
county on the night of the 9th inst
The storm was OF short duration, bu,
the fall of hail was very heavy. Light
ming struck the residence of Samuel
Drumhcller, at Walla Walls, burning
the walls slightly and damaging the
roof. Nearly all the telephone line,
were Frustrated.
There is a great improvement in the
condition OF Mrs. William Nave, ths
Wallula woman on whom were grated
nearly 1000 pieces of skin three week,
ago at Walla Walla. The gratis arr
nearly all growing well and larg'
patches Of skin, as smooth and pretty
as a babes, have grown over th'
burned surface in many places, ant
will shortly cover all. Mrs. Nave nov
suffers much less and is much i'm
proved in appearance.
The school authorities at Everett
are becoming worried over the matri
monial situation among the corps o
teachers, the Superintendent having
learned that another member of tn,
corps, who has not resigned, was mar
ried in Seattle. There are rumors
that seven more contemplate a similar
step. Two OF the twelve who have
already resigned have done so with
matrimony in view. The Superinten
dent regards the situation as serious.
Ed. Patterson, the Cowlitz county
hop king, is loading his 1908 hop cror
at Kalama, for shipment to Water
vile, N. Y. He has $50 bales, raised
on about sixty-five acres, for which he
received 90 cents per pound, amount
ing to $4,000. The cost of produc'
ton is given out as $1,000. leaving
$2l 900 net profit on the years crop
Mr.. Patterson has seventy-one acres
in this year that are in excellent con
dition and promise better results than
the crop did last year at this time.
In Miss Maggie McConkey, house
keeper at hotel in Everett, r. ]. Nc
Conkey, vaudeville performer, now
in that city, has found sister whom
he had not seen or heard from in
twenty years. He had no idea she
Was in this part of the country, but
hearing her name and recognizing il
as that OF his lost sister, he made her
acquaintance and found that she was
his missing relative. She left the
family home in Wausau, Wis, about
twenty years ago. Later, through the
death OF the parents. the family be-
came scattered, and through changing
addresses all trace OF Maggie was lost.
After months OF corresponding in a
futile effort to find a wife, Frank
Masonz met death in the bay At Sc,
attic, a few days ago. 1t is believed
he committed suicide. A receipt for
the rent OF vault in the Sale Deposit
building was found, together with q
kew to the strong box. The receipt
was under q fictitious name, that ol
Henry Dupont. The vault which had
been rented by him, contained only
love letters from a hundred women
in as many different cities in the
United States. From his effects il
| WAS evident that he had formed q
mania for writing letters to young
women who were subscribers to var
ious matrimonial journals. In his
box in the vault were not less than
100 pictures OF himself, taken in many
noses, There was one sheet OF STAMP
pictures, evidently foI use in CORE
spending with applicants for matri
monial honors.
HE-Darling, 1 simply can't hul