Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-09-22
NEWS OF THE STATE.

Items Of Interest Gathered Here. There and
Everywhere.
The teamsters OF Spokane are on a
strike.
1t is said that the Yakima hop crop
is estimated to be 10000 bales.
The saloons at North Yakima have
been ordered closed on Sunday.
The Northern Laundry at Seattle
was destroyed by fire Monday morn
ing.
VIM. McClennan died in the Jail at
Bellingham, Wednesday, after suffer.
ing from delirium tremens for eigh-
teen hours.
Guy A. Jackson died in the hospital
at Centralia, last week, from injuries
received in the Perry mill, at Nc.
Intosh. August 2Sth.
The first convention OF the Indian
tribes of America is to be held at the
State fair grounds, at North Yakima,
for one week beginning Oct. I'd.
An audience in Plymouth church,
Seattle, subscribed $2l. 500 in fifteen
minutes, to the Foreign Missionary
Board, Sunday night, as The Seattle
Offering" IT'S we'll.
The body of an unknown man, who
had committed suicide by cutting a
cash in his throat with his pocket.
knife, WAS found three miles north OF
Bellingham, Wednesday.
John Williams was instantly killed,
and his wife seriously mi ured, by q
powder explosion, at Port Madison,
where the former was engaged in blast
ing out stumps, last Monday.
Mrs. Z. f. Carr, of Seattle, was
fatally burned at late hour Sunday
night while attempting to light a fire
with coal-oil. The victim was the wife
OF one of the earliest settlers on the
Sound.
The badly decomposed body of q
man discovered in the water near the
Hart Wood mill at Aberdeen, was iden-
titled rs that of John Impola. Rus.
sian Finn, 80 years old. who has been
missing since August 10th.
Frank Wilson was arrested at Aber.
deem the other day on an information
fled by the County Attorney. Wilson
is brother-in-law of Ruby Shannon,
for whose seduction Leo Cation is held
for trial. The girl is Is years old, and
the trial is likely to involve several
men we'll known in the community.
M. c. Smith, an early pioneer, died
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A.
A. Butler, Tenino, on the 18th. He
was native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and
u years of age. He crossed the plains
in 1919; was married to Cynthia
Allen in 1861, and leaves seven OF ten
children born to the family still living.
About IL o'clock Wednesday night
two masked men walked into the
Judge saloon at Cheney. covered with
revolvers the eleven men who were
there, and proceeded to rob the entire
crowd. Fred Riff and Arthur Mutt,
two harvest hands en- route to homes
in California, were relieved of $685.
every cent they had-and have gone
back TO the harvest fields. After clear
ing out the pockets OF the crowd the
robbers vanished.
Louis Peone, one Of the oldest set
tiers in the Colville Valley, died at
COlville, on the 10th inst. Mr.. Peone
was born at Prairie Du Chen, Wis,
March Is. 1923. In 1847 he enlisted
for the Mexican War and served under
Taylor. He crossed the plains with
OK teams to The Dalles, Or, in 1852,
whence he drifted north and located
homestead it is said 10 Thurston coun-
~. He abandoned the claim and
went to Kootenai country, Idaho,
where he engaged in mining and pack.
ing. He settled in the Colville Valley
in the summer of 1856, was married in
that year and settled down to farming.
He leaves large family of adult sons
and daughters.
Just few minutes before she died
~ 'VvsASnSO hoopAsotp AZ OO0teA0e 4ucS
week, Jessie H. Allison, daughter OF
John Allison, stock. broker aud prom
iuent in local society, confessed to her
mother that six months ago che was
secretly married at Tacoma to James
Sullivan, son Of Mrs. Margaret Sulli.
van, the wealthiest woman in Seattle.
Young Sullivan, who is manager OF
his mothers estate, feared her dis.
pleasure and the clsndestine marriage
WAS arranged. A few weeks ago the
young wife was taken i'll and sent to
the hospital for an operation for tu-
NOR. She grew worse and after ask
ing her physician if her case was ser.
ious and receiving an affirmative re.
ply, confided her secret to her mother.
She then begged that her husband,
who had been to see her frequently, be
sent for. He hurried to her bedside,
but when he arrived his wife was dead.
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