Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-06-10
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered From
All Parts of the State.

the earnings of fallen women were
lately sent to the State Penitentiary
from Snohomish county.
Two soldiers we're killed and three
seriously injured, by the blowing out
OF breech-lock OF an eight-inch gun,
at Fort Casey, near Port Townsend,
Saturday afternoon, while a company
was engaged in target practice.
BY the fning system imposed by
Mayor Wright of Tacoma, the city
has, during the past month, taken in
81 ,5S5 in fines from gamblers, $I,O35
in fines from women, and $235 on slot
machines, making in all about $2.SOO.
Two new gambling houses took out
licenses in one day this week.
Ernest Lamkin, lad eleven years
oi age, was killed by collision with a
street car while coasting down hill
with a little express-wagon, at Bel
lingham, few days ago. A compan-
ion who was riding with him, Joe
Hill, about the same age. had his
thigh broken and foot badly crushed.
A married couple, aged 80 and 80
respectively, Henry Altnow and wife,
passed through Kalama, Saturday,
from Gaylord, Mimi, bound for Wood
burn, Oregon, where their son, Henry
J. Altnow resides. The aged couple
celebrated the Goth anniversary of
their marriage, April 9th, of this
year.
The revenue cutter Bear was struck
by the lumber schooner Spokane, in a
fog, thirty miles west of Point Rayes,
Saturday, while EN- route for Seattle, to
begin her seasons patrol duty in the far
north. She came out Of the encounter
badly damaged, but her stout hull
saved her and she put back to San
Francisco.
At the Ballard celebration OF the
4th, in the shingle packing contest,
$3.50 will be hung up in cash prizes,
the first being 500, second $35, and
third $l5, the entrance fee being S..
The judges of the contest will be Tom
Mclaughlin, VIM. Hubbell and Ly.
man Burke, OF that city, w. II. Clock,
OF Everett, and Gus Larsen, of Bel.
lingham, and the rules used in the
Labor Day contest at Everett, last
year, will prevail.
After several years of experiment,
the Department of Agriculture is con-
vinced that portions of Eastern Wash.
ington are we'll adapted to the produc.
tion of sugar beets, especially the
Palouse country, which has shown
remarkable results in sugar beet grow
ing. So satisfactory have been the
experiments in that vicinity. and in
the vicinity Of Davenport and Rear
don, that there is talk OF establishing
sugar factories at those central points.
The first suit to be begun as result
Of the wreck of the steamer Clallam
in the Straits OF Fuca, on January 9th
last, was filed in the Federal Court at
Seattle, Saturday, by Mrs. Lura c.
Smith, wife of James ]. Smith, as
sistant engineer on the vessel. Smith
went down with the boat. His widow,
for herself aud her dead engineers
two minor children, demands $4,000
damages from the Puget Sound ::Ns,i.
CATION Company, owners of the Clal-
lam.
The Board OF County Commissioners
OF Snohomish have by eliminating
certain officers and reducing the sal
aries of others, effected saving about
5000 a month. One Deputy Sheriff
was dispensed with, two Assistants for
the County Surveyor were dropped,
the Road Commissioners salaries were
cut to So a day, the Jail Fireman was
dropped and the services OF an As
sistant Assessor will be dispensed with
after the rolls are completed, which
will be about August ]. The officers
are not to employ deputies or as
sistants without the Commissioners
sanction.
Some persons shot and killed two
deer in the Hoquiam city limits last
week and quickly disappeared, leaving
the animals on the ground where
they fell. A large number of men saw
the offender shoot the animals and
Deputy Game Warden Livermore is
out for the culprit, who will be ar
rested for killing game out OF season.
Owing to the forest fires which have
been raging in the woods north of
that city all the game has been driven
out of the woods, and great many
deer have appeared on the flats. The
authorities will make q lesson out OF
this case to warn those breaking the
laws.
While attempting to cross the Nook
sack river near Deming, last week, in
their canoe, an Indian family OF father,
mother and five children were cap
sized. All escaped to shore save one
three. year old girl, who was drowned.
Crazed by the loss of their child, both
father and mother attempted suicide
next day, the mother by jumping into
the river, the father by hanging him.