Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25
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Concordia, KS, was probably the
hottest place in the United States,
Tuesday, with the mercury up to 1O4
degrees in the shade.
Mayor Dunno, OF Chicago, was ar
rested and fined $40 and costs, Sunday,
for exceeding the speed limit re-
gulating automobiles.
Eli Champaign had both feet and a
hand severed by falling against a saw
in Wright's mill at Cuur TAlene,
Wednesday morning. He died few
hours afterward. He was As years old
and married.
The sad news was received, this
week. that John Haynes and S.
Moody. two young men of Aberdeen,
were drowned recently in the Tanana
river, Alaska. The body of Moody
has been recovered.
The telegraphers' strike has ended,
having been declared off Saturday by
President Perham of the Association
of Railroad Telegraphers. The strikers
accepted the terms offered, which gives
them raise OF about $4,000 per
annum in wages.
An electric attachment for a self.
winding clock has been installed in
the Spokane high school building,
which rings such programme warnings
as it may be set to for the day, in
every room simultaneously, without
attention from anyone.
At Solomon, KS, a farm of 16O
acres is entirely managed by five wo-
men-a mother and four grown daugh-
ters-and boy of IL years, "to do
the chores" Each of the women has
her own department, and the labor is
thus about equally divided among
them.
Our Japanese friends evidently favor
diet of dogfsh. The barkentine
Hagashi Maru is now at Karta Bay,
near Ketchican, loading a cargo of
700 tons of fish, which will be sailed
down in the vessel by the 81 Japanese
crew. The vessel bought over $1,000
worth OF salt from Hokodate to use in
packing.
Marie Burkhart, of MENDOZA, Ill.,,
has the assistant management OF the
Great Northern hotel, at Chicago,
with its 1000 employees; except about
an hour each day she has direct con-
troll, that being about the time that
the general manager devotes to the
business, which is a pretty fair indica-
ton that the details are in safe hands.
Port Arthur cocktails have been
created" at Portsmouth, to tempt the
palates of the highly extraordinary
peace council. 1t is said to be built"
from a one part Russian kummel,
two.parts French vermouth ltypi.
flying Russian French Alliance) and
a dash of orange bitters-to represent
the overwhelming Proclamation of
Japanese methods.
Edison claims that he has elimi.
mated the objections of weight, short
endurance and expense from storage
batteries, by combination OF iron rust,
potash and nickel rust. This will
prove OF infinite service in supplying
the best automobile power, eliminating
with it smell and smoke, two of the
hitherto inseparable Inconvenience
of the horseless carriage.
And now the relations between Ger.
many and Great Britain are becoming
still more strained. Emperor Viii.
liam's latest conference has not been
in mid-ocean, but at Wilhelmshohe,
and with his own ministers. The
British government seems to appre-
bend that its object was to design
plans for an European combination
that will be hostile to that country.
The State Room Iun, one block
from the entrance to the Lewis and
Clark exhibition, in Portland, was de-
stroyed by fire, early Saturday morn.
ing. About fifteen people were in the
building, two OF whom, farmers from
British Columbia, were burned TO
death, and four woman and two men
badly injured by the flames. No
names are given, the hotel keeping no
register.
A poor laboring man in Denmark
has made new invention in life
saving. He impregnates clothes with
a substance which will keep a ship
wrecked person afloat for several days
without losing its property. A coat, q
vest, a travelling rug-in fact, any
piece of wearing apparel impregnated
with the stuff, is enough to keep any
one above water. The invention has
been successfully demonstrated.
A California hop-grower estimates
the yield this year in that State at
10000 bales, $1,000 in Oregon and
only 10000 in this State. He esti.
mates the New York crop from opin.
ions of nine farm papers of that State
at $4,000 bales. He says that it is yet
too early to forecast English crops, but
that il it is no more than average there
may be no apprehension, OF unremuu.
nerative prices for this years crop.
Nan Patterson has again broken into
public notoriety through her penchant
for married men, with q roll. The for.
mer chorus girl was masquerading
under an assumed name at Brighton
Beach, N. ", when she met q Duluth
lumberman of means who became
snamored of the beautiful but tickle
girl and began squandering a fortune
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