Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-09-08
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Gathered Here, There and
Everywhere.

Centralia will have her day at the
Portland Fair tomorrow.
Seven hundred and sixty nine con-
victs are confined in the penitentiary
at Walla Wslla.
The Puget Sound conference of the
NJ. E. Church will be held in Everett
beginning on the 18th inst.
Judge Hanford of the Federal Cour,
is an inventor as we'll as Judge. He
lately visited Bellingham to witness q
test of his automatic machine for
placing tops on salmon cans.
a systematic search is being made
in Pierce county for Robt. P. Harris
who disappeared from Tacoma June
2Sth, by F. II. Lord, of the United
States Casualty Co., at the request OF
his sister in Princeton, N. J.
James Monroe Kincaid, aged rs
years, one of the first settlers in the
upper Natchez valley, died last Friday
at his home. Mr.. Kincaid went to
that section in the early days when
there was hardly a ranch in the dis
trict. He leaves large family.
With farmers Offering wages ranging
from $175 to $3.50 . day for harves,
hands, it is estimated that more than
10000 men are needed to harvest the
crops now ripening along the lines oil
the Great Northern and Northern Pa.
cific railroads from st. Paul to the
coast.
An epidemic of typhoid fever pre-.
walls at the State Penitentiary, and it
is said that 40 out OF total OF $50 are
now PROSTATE with the disease. The
small hospital is over-taxed to acco IN
modate the victims. The contagion is
said to be due to use OF impure water
from we'll.
A human skeleton, the bones of an
animal presumably q bear, and the
remains of an old.fashioned rifle found
in the woods four miles north OF
Aberdeen by Robert Fordney, a woods.
man, tells the tale OF an evident
tragedy which ended in death to the
participants, in what was undoubtedly
a desperate encounter between man
and beast.
The following bids for dredging the
harbor at Aberdeen were opened the
other day: San Francisco Bridge Co.,
33a cents per cubic yard; North Amer.
ican Dredging Co., 35t cents per cubic
yard, and International Contract Co.
80 cents per cubic yard. The bids
are all excessively high and it is ex.
pected they will be thrown out and
new bids called for.
Creech Brothers will probably get
the contract for moving the schooner
Challenger out of the channel in South
Bend harbor. The schooner was
wrecked the night Of November 8,
1908. She was laden with 5000 bar.
rels OF lime. At the entrance OF the
harbor she took fire and the crew
bored her full Of holes aud tried to
beach her and drown out the fire.
She was driven on a bank, but slid of
into the channel. The Alaska Wreck.
ing Company took the contract to
move her for 81, 900, but failed before
il finished the job. Creech Brothers
bid is $3,4O0.
The body OF Charles Green, aged
about p years, who disappeared Feb
ruary q, was found in the Columbia
near Kalams, Saturday. 1t wal
badly decomposed, the skull waf
discolored and there was q blood-staiu
on the right side of the head, jus,
back OF the ear. Four strands oil
rotted rope were found around the
body. It is surmised that the body
had been tied to weight, and, the
ropes having rotted away, it came
to the surface and floated ashore
An inquest was held, and the jury
found that the man came to bis death
by foul means.
John B. Catron, manager OF the
new opera house at Walla Walla, an.
nounces that the building will be
completed by September 18th, when
the work OF installing furniture will
be commenced. Mr.. Catron has just
returned from q trip to Seattle TO Sc.
lect the furniture, and It is proposed
TO open the opera house at an early
date with one of the best attractions
in the circuit. The contract for the
drop curtain has been let and the
work will be executed by one OF the
best scenic artists on the Coast. The
Village Festival" is the scene select.
ed to adorn the drop.curtain.
Gus Bobbs, who stole $4,000 in
money and checks from the drygoods
firm OF Charles A. Stevens & Bros, in
Chicago, on the afternoon of August
18th, was arrested in Seattle at the
Hotel Washington by Special Officer
Frank w. Clark, one day last week
Bobbs admits that he is the man
wanted, but refused 10 discuss his
crime. Bobbs arrived in Seattle Sun
day night from Portland. He engaged
an expensive suite at the Washington
and then deposited in the hotel safe