Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-02-24
NEWS OF THE STATE.

John L. Sharpstein has withdrawn
from his candidacy for Federal Judge.
The contest now lies between Brents
and Whitson.
There is a strike in several of the
county offices at Walla Walla from
reduction of pay of clerks from SO to
$3.50 per day.
Hold-ups and robberies are OF night
ly occurrence in Seattle. Monday
night twelve houses were entered in
one section OF the city.
Fred. G. Tilley the embez cling Treas
urer of Hoquiam began his residence
at the State hotel for wicked people
at Walla Walla on the 10th inst, on
three years term.
As the result OF the careless handling
OF a shotgun, an Indian boy, Will
Olney, was instantly killed and Miles
Dodd, white boy, is in the hospital
at North Yakima, with six shot in his
right knee. The boys were hunting
ducks. Olney attempted to break the
ice With the butt of a gun when one
barrel was discharged.
Mrs. Albert Raymond, of Sunny.
side, King county, went quietly from
her home to her barn Monday night.
tied q rope around her neck, fastened
the other end to a rafter and jumped
from the box and strangled to death.
An hour afterward her dead body was
found. The husband left home q week
ago to 60 to Seattle, but he has not
been found.
The J. E. Murray Lumber Co. Of
Oakville, has shipped two of the
largest pieces OF square timber ever
cut in that section. They are eighty
feet long and thirty.seven inches
square. To do this required q stick OF
timber at least four feet across at the
smallest end. These timbers are being
shipped to New York aud will be used
as dredging "spuds."
The Sherwood Logging Co. sent
down fir log from the logging camp
at Maple Valley which, when the
McVay & Balloon CO. attempted to
pull out of the bay, broke their ma.
chinery. The log had to be let back
into the bay and sawed in two pieces
before the machinery would handle It,,
1t was forty feet long, more than six
feet in diameter. and cut up into over
5000 feet of first-class lumber.
A houseboat being built by the Sc.
attic Shipyards Co. is nearing COM
pletion and will be launched in a few
days. 1t will be towed to Seattle to
have the interior trimmed and fitted
mp by the owner, J. Z. Chilberg. The
boat has large hold for storing
freight, deck with many rooms, and
an upper deck to be used as an obser-
walton platform, having an awning
extending over it. The boat will be
used in camping and will be towed
from place to place.
Seattle is making q determined
effort to secure the Christian Endeav-
orers International meeting in 1907.
She has been endorsed by the State
Society of Spokane, last June, and the
Oregon association which met at
Portland, last month. The only other
city in the race is Los Angeles, Cal.
The average attendance at these gath
erings has been from 10000 to 10000,
and it is probable from the rapid in.
tcrease of membership. it wi i'll exceed
tine last figures in 1907.
! Alice Whitman, a daughter Of the
missionary. Marcus Whitman, and his
wife, was the first white child born in
the now State of Washington. She
was born in 1887, but was drowned in
the Walla Walla river when but two
years old. The next was Cyrus IL.
Walker, who was born in 1888 and
J now resides at Albany, Oregon. The