Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-11-10
NEWS OF THE STATE.

them.
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Gathered Here. There and
Everywhere.
Ellensburg is to have a beet-roo.
sugar factory.
The State Board OF Education will
meet at North Yakima, Dec. 2Sth.
Az orchardist in Whatcom county
has picked 700 barrels of Baldwin ap.
Piles from single acre of trees, So in
number, and they Melted him 800.
In a Justice court at Montesano,
Tuesday, Miss Jean Ireland, who
teaches school near Oakville, was fined
$40 and costs for whipping boy
named AL. Fredson.
A broom factory is to he established
ut Spokane and opened in a new brick
building so by 50 feet in size, capable
of producing Is dozen per day. The
building will cost $1,000.
Puyallup is to have a gravity water
system, from Salmon Greek, through
five miles of piping. which will con-
sist of main ii inches in diameter OF
wooden stave pipe bound with gal
vanized wire.
A $4,000 hotel at Moclips was de-
stroyed by fire Monday morning. Mo.
clips is situated at the terminus of the
Gray's Harbor Railway, and was com.
pleted only short time ago. 1t was
insured for $1,000.
Frank Conlon, a young man well
known at Hoquiam, was instantly
killed, Sunday, on a gravel train on
which he wss employed as brakeman,
by the Poison Logging Co. He slipped
from top OF the load and fell beneath
the wheels.
Thomas Mitchell, Polish miner,
was killed by train at Wilkeson,
Sunday, while returning to Carbonate,
from a wedding Of a companion. No
blame is attached to anybody. Nit.
chell was "a years of age, and leaves a
widow with l6.mont tbs old child.
VIM. Patterson, proprietor of the
Louvre hotel. At Mt. Vernon, was shot
and killed, Tuesday, by L. d. Fergu-
zen, owner of the Totem Pole saloon
in that place. Ferguson, whose wife
recently obtained divorce from him,
laid the blame for his domestic trou-
bles at the door of Patterson, hence
the result.
It has been found that two days be.
fore Frank B. Hubbell killed himself
in Seattle, he had transferred to his
wife $4,000 worth OF his real estate.
A will, drafted week before his death,
had not been signed. The total value
of the estate if estimated at $25O,OOO.
1t is evident that Hubbell contem-
plated suicide for at least . week.
A burly negro struck down Gather.
inc Horton, q respectable young wo-
man, as she was walking on Spring
street, Seattle, early Sunday morning.
He then rendered her completely in
sensible by applying cotton saturated
with chlorofOrm to her nostrils and
robbed her of Sc. She was found
short time later by newspaper boy.
Pat Rowe, a riveter, slashed his
throat Sunday, at Seattle. but didn't
finish the job because it hurt. Fur
Their consideration of the matter led
him to try the Sound. No sooner had
he risen to the surface than he yelled
for help. Help came and Pat was
rescued. "Livin' is bad" he unused,
"but don't ye know dyin' is worse"
He has fully determine to attempt to
get along with the world for a while
longer.
A raft containing So logs, but aggre-
eating the stupendous amount of over
286. 900 feet was taken to the Gray's
Harbor Commercial Co.'s mill At Cos
mopolis, recently. The longest log in
the raft measured 30 feet. The logs
we're cut at Chas. Clemon's camp on
the Chehalis river and comprised both
spruce and fir. It is seldom if ever so
small a raft contains such an enorm.
GUS quantity Of timber. The raft
averaged 5,377 feet to the log.
Convinced that he had ouly few
] more hours to live, Ray Mcdonald,
! who was shot by George Beede, Friday
night, in Seattle, while walking the
street with Beede's wife, made what
he believed to be a deathbed statement
in the presence of witnesses, exonerat.
ing Beede. "Beede did just right"
said Mcdonald. II would have done
the same. If 1 live 1 will not prose-
cute Beede and If die don't want
him prosecuted for killing me. Don't
blame him one Bit"
From the present outlook, accord
ing to Congressman Wesley L. Jones,
the south half Of the Colville reserva-
ton will be thrown open to settlement
some time during the coming year.
There has been considerable agitation
with regard to this measure the past
three years and every possible pres.
sure has been brought to bear by the
Washington delegation in Congress,
but thus far without results. There
has been strenuous opposition to the
passage OF the bill on the part of the
Indian Rights Association and they
have done everything that could be
done to block the legislation necessary
to its opening for settlement.
What was the largest haul OF salmon
made in local waters this season, says
the Tacoma News, was made Monday
night by Andrew Berry near the Old
Town mill. Considerably more than
5000 big dog salmon we're surrounded
by the net and made prisoners. 1t
was found to be impossible to take all
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