Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-04-14
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Gathered Here. There and
Everywhers.

Everywhers.
Cinnamon are flocking to the sal
mon canneries on the lower Sound.
Every week several hundred are land
ed at Anacortes and Blaine, and the
rush is just on.
About a hundred OF Everett's citi-
zens have been duped into buying
stock in get rich quick scheme.
They were promised so per cent. on
their money in few months, and let
loose of sums ranging from 500 to
800. And among the list are several
prominent business men and me-
chanics.
Marie Kinsella, sewing machine
agent. at Seattle, on the 9Th inst,
swore out warrant for the arrest of
Mrs. T. J. Stinson on a charge Of as
sault and battery. In the complaint
the plaintiff says defendants dislike
for solicitors caused the trouble, plain
tiff attacking defendant, pulling her
hair and setting the dogs upon her.
Miss Jennie Mcleod OF Bellinghsm,
for two weeks, when Governor Mead
and his private Secretary, A. N. Brown,
were on their Eastern Washington
trip, is said to have conducted the
Office of the Governor of the State and
to have done it we'll. She even at
tended to extradition matters, under
the Governors instructions by long
distance telephone, and affixed his
signature when it was needed.
Bids for supplying $4,000 feet Of
lumber to the government, to be used
in repairing the old Spanish buildings
at the provinces of Mindano and Jolo,
in the Philippine Islands, we're opened
at the office of Quartermaster Frank
Grant, last week. That of the st.
Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co. for $685..
1880 was the lowest, and that firm
will probably have the contract, al
though the bids will have to be sub.
mitted to the department at Washing.
ton.
Gov. John A. johnson, OF Minnesota,
has refused to honor the requisition
papers OF Gov. Albert Z. Mead for the
return OF bessie Allen to Douglas
county, WASH, where she is charged
with murder. The girl, according to
the evidence given at the hearing, is
the alleged murderess of her child
while teacher in Washington. The
evidence OF the existence of a family
feud, and insufficient evidence of the
crime charged, cause the rejection OF
Gov. Mead's request.
Spokane wheelmen are go slow in
purchasing tags for their bicycles that
the abolition of the bicycle paths
throughout the city is threatened.
The money used from the sale of tags
is used by the Street Commissioner in
maintaining the cinder paths for the
exclusive use of wheelmen. 1t is
stated at the city hall that these
paths are liable to be torn up and the
material Of which they are composed
scraped into the main roadway, unless
money is forthcoming from bicyclists.
Axel johnson has been held at Spo.
kane on the charge OF seduction. the
complaining witness being Marie Hoy.
land. johnson confessed to the. Sher.
iff bis guilt and also stated that he
left Europe after having gotten into
trouble there for the same offense, and
that in this country he had once been
forced to marry q woman whom he
had wronged. Johnson was captured
by a Seattle Deputy Sheriff at Alder.
1t is stated that johnson expresses a
desire to marry the woman he is said
to have wronged.
The rush of spring salmon is now
on and fishermen all over the Sound
are busily preparing to secure good
catch. Traps are being driven at diff
ferent points. on the Sound and will
soon be in operation. In Bellingham
Bay at the mouth OF the Skagit river,
around WILDLY Island and other
places where the springs run, men in
row. boats and fishing smacks are en-
trapping them in their nets and SELL
ing them to cold-stOrage companies
and the city markets. They bring
from 6 to cents pound.
Two fires which might have proved
serious but for prompt work on the
part of the crew, broke out ON the
upper deck of the steamship Senator
on her voyage from San Francisco to
Seattle. A large number of crates OF
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the hurricane deck and covered with q
piece of canvas to protect them from
possible rain. Sparks from the smoke
stack dropped on the canvas and
started both fires. The first blaze was
discovered Friday night about II
o'clock, when the Senator was off
Destruction Island. The other fire
started about noon the next day. Both
fires were put out in short order with
but little damage. Capt. Cousins,
master of the vessel, was in command
of the steamer Queen when that ship
caught fire about a year ago. The
Senator is now on the Queens run
while that vessel is taking the place
of tho steamer Santa Rosa r,nderuoiuo