Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-01-06
NEWS OF THE STATE.

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Colfax suffered from fire to the
extent OF $25. 900 Saturday night.
The old flour mill at Cheney will
be reopened before the commencement
OF the grain season.
The Commissioners of Cowlitz county
Tuesday decided to have an exhibit at
the Lewis and Clark fair.
Fire destroyed the stores OF d. A.
Hanna and S. o. Keek at North Yak.
ina Monday. Loss, $4,000.
The Everett militia, Company K,
will ask for an appropriation of $l5,.
GOO of the pext Legislature for an ar.
mory.
Albert johnson, miner, who was q
discharged patient from Medical Lake
insane asylum, killed himself at Ros.
Ign, Monday night, with q revolver
shot.
The records of Cowlitz county for
the year 1904 show that 80 marriage
licenses were issued during the year
and ID mismated couples applied for
divorce.
Or. Henry Essig has sold the last
piece of his wheat land near Daven-
port which he bought few years ago
for $4,000. The land has been sold
for over 100000.
En-. Glasford, "a years of age, while
suffering from la grippe and alcohol
ism, Tuesday, at Wslla Walla, broke
away from his attendants at home,
ran into the street and Tell dead.
C. c. Kennedy. charged with shoot.
ing his bartender, J. T. Brown, at
Granite Falls, on the 9th ult., and
lately bound over to the Superior
Court, was Wednesday released on ST.
500 bail.
Three physicians of Walla Walla are
anxious for the position Of prison
physician. They are DR.. v. c. Bla.
lock, P. G. Cannon and J. G. Mack.
The Office pays $l65 month and the
duties are light.
Snow began falling on the Canal
last Thursday morning, and by night
was from two to four inches deep along
the Canal; six inches at the Middle
Skokomish; 10 or II on the bills cas-,
of the Canal, and about 20 at Poilatch
camp, west of it.-Shelton Tribune.
Mrs. Nave, of Wallula, who under.
went skin-grafting operation abou,
two months ago for severe busna
about tho body, had one arm ampu.
tated at . Walla Walla hospital Tues.
day. The wounds had not healed and
blood poisoning was threatened. Hel
condition is said to be critical.
Gertrude Herke, with wrath in hel
eye and o shotgun in her hand, drove
three surveyors who were surveying q
line across her land for an irrigation
ditch, from her place in Yakims
county Saturday. The men had pro-
ceeded but a short distance with theil
work when the woman appeared
They lost no time in arguing the mat.
ter and left the place as abe directed.
Whether L. L. Hunt, keeper OF the
Walla Walla county poor, can b. com
PEELED to care for patient. afflicted
with tuberculosis lie q question County
Attorney Wilson must decide. The
question came up when Waitsbura
parties asked the Com missioners e
care for Mrs. Meachsm, An aged LADY
of that place suffering from cousump.
ton. Hunt demurred to taking her.
Some time Sunday night some one
put dynamite in the firebox OF Guy
Rountree's logging eogiue and ex
ploded il, destroying the boiler.
notice was scrawled on Q box lid and
left near by which read: Rountree's
camp not wanted. II he does not
keep out OF these woods he will get q
bullet through his head" Mr.. r. il
logging for the Wisconsin Lumber Co.
| on the south fork OF the Chehalis
river, south OF Boisfort, Lewis county.
Mrs. Eva J. Miller, widow of the
late P. B. M. Miller, of Seattle, will
inherit her deceased husbands for.
tune Of $4,000, but should she re-
marry she will lose it ell and the
estate will be divided equally among
his six children. The widow, should
she remarry, will also cease to be an
executrix of the estate. The testator
requests that during the lifetime and
widowhood of his wife all his real prop.
erty shall be kept intact. When DR..
Miller died short time ago, his body
was cremated at Portland according
to his request. He was one of the
best known Of Seattle physicians.
The strange story OF woman's mar.
row escape from death while attempt.
| ing to reach Seattle in time to eat
Christmas dinner with her husband,
has just leaked out at Everett. Mrs.
Kempshall, who is employed as a
cook, on the day before Christmas, set
out to walk from Monte Cristo to
Robe to catch . train. Against the
advise Of friends, she started in the
midst of . binding storm. Next
morning q telephone message to Sill
verton revealed the fact that she had
not reached that town. Searching
parties set out and found her almost
dead about 4 o'clock that afternoon
in an old warehouse four miles from
Silverton. Expecting to die before
help came, she had written her name
on . board with charcoal. She was
revived and taken to Silverton.