Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-06-02
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Gathered Here. There and
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Ballard has at present twelve mills
manufacturing shingles and two more
will be ready to begin work within
fortnight. The combined daily ont
put will reach approximately three
million per day.
Paul Hopkins, an instructor in
chemistry at the State University, and
graduate of that institution, has
gone to Fairbanks, Alaska where h5
will take an excellent position with
the Fairbanks Banking Co., as as.
sayer aud chemist.
.: Interest in the potato growing con-
test among the school children oil
Whitman county grows apace, and in
some of the towns OF the county
practically every pupil in the school
has a patch that he is carefully culti-
waiting in the hope OF winning one oi
the many prizes offered.
A kissing bug and hugger were
arrested while operating on the streets
of Seattle, Saturday. Pat Riley, a
drunken lumber jack, succeeded in
kissing three protesting damsels before
help arrived. He was lodged in Jail
after small sized riot began. A short
time after Riley's arrest, James Mars
burg began a hugging crusade on
First Avenue. He succeeded in en-
bracing half q dozen irste females be-
fore their cries attracted the attention
of the police. Riley, while waiting
for the patrol wagon, attempted to
kiss another passing woman, but was
prevented by the officers.
Nick Brown, living north OF Water
vile, in the eastern part OF tine
State, uses an alarm clock to wake
himself mornings, and about daylight
Saturday he heard what he thought
was the clock. Jumping out OF bed,
he heard the same sound coming ap-
parently from the bed and, turning
around, he noticed the Ted quilts
moving. He put on pair of leather
gloves and made grab at the moving
quilts. To his horror, he found that
he had grabbed large rattlesnake by
the neck. Brown held on, while the
rattler coiled around his arm. Brown
finally secured butcher knife and
had to cut the snake from his arm and
smash its head before it would give up.
The snake had fourteen rattles and a
button. Under the quilts where the
rattler lay was found number OF
little rattlesnakes.
A storm lately, at Spokane, played
havoc with band of sheep that were
being driven through the northeastern
part of town. Nearly 200 Of the ami
mails were killed and the others were
scattered for blocks in the northeast
ern part of the city. The sheep be.
longed to band Of 10000 that we're
shipped to Spokane by w. H. Vespers
Of North Yakima. The animals we're
unloaded at the stockyards and driven
northeast. They we're in poor con-
dition as a result OF the recent spring
storms. They had just been shorn
and were unusually susceptible to q
change in the weather. When the
storm struck the herds the animals
succumbed by the score. The sheep
we're driven in four or five large herds.
The herders paid no attention to the
fallen animals, but drove ON. Accord
ing to the humane society's officers,
who investigated the case, the animals
were in very poor condition and cas-
lily fell victims to the cold aud rain.
Emile Sondstrom, An expressmau
of Ballard, who claims the Panama
canal, completed tournament Of
depredatlons the other day by stealing
up behind an unsuspecting horse and
cutting off the animals tail with a
big bowie knife. A little later he
captured q passing street car and told
I the motorman that he must 60 slower.
Sondstrom then spied the public
drinking place, and, rushing up to it,
he pulled the two pipes out, causing
the water to burst forth. 1t was at
this juncture that he thought he
owned the Panama Canal, and when
he saw the water flowing he yelled at
the top OF his voice that he was ruined,
and, rushing out into the middle Of
the car tracks, crouched there till he
was picked up by the police. When
taken to the police station he started
to put that place out of business, be.
ginning by tearing a new mattress to
pieces. He then tore the stovepipe
down and wound up by turning on the
water in two places. His next act
was to wrap blanket about him and
dance in a pool of water up to his
ankles.
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