Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-11

sam G. Hyde is now cOmmandant
oil the Soldiers home, at Orting.

Sam C. Hyde is now commandant
oil the Soldiers home, at Orting.
1t is said that Hartman will spend
Sl0,OO0,O00 in railroad building in the
States of Oregon. Washington and
Idaho, within the next year.
First Lieutenant Francis A. Pope
will be Major John Mills successor,
in charge of the Notifications, aud
river and harbor work on Puget Sound.
He will assume duty on Sept. LIST.
From 25O,OOOOOO to 275,OOO,OOO
bushels Of potatoes are raised in this
country every year, and yet there are
annually imported from other coun-
tries no less than 100000 bushels.
Seattle is considering a plan for
placing patrolmen in the residence
districts, for better protection at night.
stationed at the fire quarters, in small
police shacks, equipped with bicycles
and connected by telephone, to be
able to give more prompt service on
emergency calls.
Mrs. Schwab, of Aberdeen, while
fishing on Elliots slough from log,
Sunday, fell into the water. Her hus-
band, who fell with her succeeded in re.
turning to the log, but the wife was cal
ried beyond reach by the current and
drowned. A strange coincidence is
that it occurred just three years TO a
day when two girls were drowned at
almost the same spot.
Crazed with suffering and refused
an operation by several surgeons, who
informed her that the tumor growing
on her side would soon kill her, Kath.
crime Agnes Spillman, of Portland,
Ogn.. aged "a, took large butcher
knife and cut from her body the thing
that had doomed her. She died and
was buried Tuesday in Lone Fir GENE.
terry beside her first husband.
Milne Dayton, of Portland, grand
son Of the late Gen. VIM. McMickeu,
Of this city, and nephew of Maurice
McMicken, OF Seattle, and Herbert
Nc Micken, OF this city, was drowned
at Seaside beach, near Astoria, in the
breakers, while returning to shore,
last Friday, in Hawaiian canoe. He
was Is years OF age, a son Of Frank
Dayton. a prominent hardware dealer
in Portland.
Several Japs were killed in an
encounter with white laborers, at
Blaine, Monday, and the Japanese
Consul at Seattle Immediately tele-
graphed Gov. Mead for protection and
redress. in response to the executive's
inquiries to Sheriff Williams, OF Bel
lingnam. a report came similar to
Mark Twain's denial of his own re-
ported death, wherein he declared the
statement to be greatly exaggerated.
There now seems to be some doubt
as to whether the bones brought over
/ from France with so much buster, and
at so much expense, are the veritable
structural remains of John Paul Jones.
or just some individual OF common
mould. 1t seems rather late to raise
the doubt, and it would probably have
been as we'll to let time roll on and to
have spent the money where it might
have been of some benefit to the living.
Capt. Leonard ID. Wildman has in.
stalled wireless telegraph system be.
tween Nome and st. Michael, 107
miles in length, which has been oper-
ated over year without a single error,
or suspension OF service an hour, day
or night. Capt. w. is inventor OF
every piece OF apparatus used, which
he has decided to the Government and
the world at large, one OF the stipula.
tions being that the Government, or
any person, may use them without
payment of royalty. During the year
nearly million messages have fash he'd
over the space with absolute accuracy
Gov. Mead has ordered the discharge
OF all the penitentiary guards who
made false oath to perfect their regis.
tration as voters in the Walla Walla
election. Their names are ID. II.
Woolery, H. Kinsman, r. r. Halle
ton, Charles b. Wood, #. F. Donahue
Fred Scott, w. H. Dixon and G. l.
King. 1t seems that while they are
not technically guilty of perjury, it is
not to their credit that it 10 so. They
subscribed to the oath, but did not GO
through the formality Of raising the
hand. probably because the person
who had charge of the registry had nc
authority to administer oaths. That
the statements signed by them were
untrue, however, is clearly shown. as
well as an intent to corrupt the ballot
Maple Falls, town of 400 inhabi.
tants near Bellingham, is overrun with
countless thousands of strange bugs
whose origin is unknown. For weeks
the town has almost reeked with an
unaccountable Odor, and not until
this week was the cause discovered
when citizen removed a lot OF old
clothes. The insects are less than
half an inch long, but they are now
found everywhere. They throng the
houses, from cellar to garrett, and in-
fest beds, cupboards, stores and offices.
The village has been aroused and q
strong effort will be made to eradicate
the vermin. Some people have been
driven from their sleeping apartments
by the stencil. The people are search.
ing far and wide for remedy to re.
lieve them of the plague, and unless
they are successful soon it is said the
census of the town will dwindle, and
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