Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-05-26
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Items OF Interest Gathered Here, There and
Everywhers

Items OF Interest Gathered Here. There and
Everywhers.
The Scottish Rite Masons conferred
the degree on class OF % at Tacoma,
Wednesday.
The disbursements of the State for
the month of April aggregated $l2I,-
5000, AS checked up by Auditor
Clanssen.
William Josephson, aged 45, fell
down a flight of stairs, at Aberdeen,
Monday, while intoxicated, and broke
his neck.
Kenneth Martin, the year.old son
of l.. G. Martin, who lives at Des
Moines, on the bay between Seattle
and Tacoma, met death Monday by
being caught beneath caving sand
bank. The child was buried under
the sand and sufiocated.
A fire at North Yakima, Saturday
night, originating in the Famous
Clothing Store, resulted in a total loss
OF realty and various stocks, amount
ing to $50, 900, with partial insurance.
Morris Pieniek, manager OF the store,
is under arrest charged with arson, and
his bail was fixed at $4,000.
Alleging that they were forced
against their will to become the crew
of blockade runner, twenty.four of
the crew of the steamship Tacoma,
now forfeited prize Of the Japanese,
libeled the Northwestern Steamship
company in the federal court at Sc
attic, Tuesday, for $1,000 each. The
libelsnts are those men who were en-
ployed as a deck and engine-room
crew when she sailed from Seattle for
Vladivostok last January.
Two men giving names of Charles
Davis and William Donnelly, arrested
at Bellingham on charge of decoying
a drunken man from saloon, robbing
and beating him, are believed by the
police to be the murderers of +. E.
Danes, the aged butcher who was
slain with Ratchet on the night of
April IL. Search of the cabin in
which Davis and Donnelly have been
ASNSotCo uh ONCISOab luCutillSu
by four persons as having belonged
to the murdered Danes.
Benjamin S. Miller, Sr., formerly
Sheriff OF Jefferson county and for the
last eleven years a travelling salesman
for the Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co.,
of Seattle, was ground to death be-
tween the wheels of Great Northern
freight train on the water front some
time about II o'clock Tuesday night.
MIR. Miller was well known in Seattle.
He was brother of Leander Miller,
who was the Democratic candidate for
City Treasurer at the last election.
He was also the father of Miss Lillian
Miller, a we'll known musician, and
lived with his wife near Alki point.
He was one Of the pioneers of the
Northwest.
The State Board oil Land Commits.
sioners has directed that selections be
made of about 1850 acres of govern.
ment lands as school indemnity lands.
OF these selections about 600 acres will
be within the Spokane land office dis
trict, forty acres within the Waterville
district and LIP acres within the
North Yakima district. The selections
take the place of school lands lost to
State for various reasons, such as prior
occupation, etc. The State has still to
select about 100000 acres of govern.
ment lands to complete the grant from
the general government. Lands are
being selected from time to time as the
government throws new townships
open to filing.
In order to escape the disgrace that
wassure to follow, young man and wo-
man committed murder in the Man
haitian hotel, Seattle, Sunday morning,
when they destroyed the life OF a newly
born baby girl. The body of the in.
FAINT was found in jar in the room.
The child was fully developed, weigh.
ing about nine pounds, and every indi.
cation is that it breathed after being
born. The condition OF the body was
proof that no physician was present at
the birth. The mother of the child,
her companion and another couple
who were with them left the room
some time before daylight. Who they
we're or where they went remains for
the police to discover.
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