Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-09-01
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The U. s. Assayer at Seattle, Fred
Wing, estimates the output OF gold o!
Nome for the season of 1905 at $40,
100000, against $7,O0O,0OO last year.
The frequent defalcations of bank
officials has given rise to new crime
which will doubtless in the course oil
time find its way to the calendar, and
be known as Bankers Larceny"
Medical scientists throughout the
country have had their attention di.
rected to a remarkable case of cate
lepsy in Yonkers, where Charles Can.
cpl, s years old, has been in an IN.
broken trance-like sleep for more than
four months.
Three years ago Rufus Denton, a
non.commissioned officer in the United
States army in the Philippines, bought
q box OF chocolates, and therein found
a paper bearing the name of Hattie
Wilke, Omaha. Neb. Saturday Den
ton and Miss Wilke were married.
DR.. Green, OF Farmhamville, Iowa,
has started a war on race suicide by
announcing formally that he will
usher into the world, free of charge,
the first child born to every bride in
the county, the only stipulation being
that IL shall appear within one year
after the mothers marriage.
Heart.rending reports come from
Spain that the situation grows worse
In the famine-stricken districts. Re-
sources are exhausted; authorities are
helpless, and the aged and infants are
dying from starvation. Two hundred
thousand people are out of employ
ment in Seville, Jerez, Cadiz, Malaga
and Cordova.
Attempting . feat which heretofore
only q few men have tried, Mrs. Ella
Brown swan from Seventy-sixth street
pier, distance of two miles, to the
Hyde Park crib, Chicago. The long
swim in tho chilly water was done in
less than two hours, one of the most
extraordinary feats accomplished by q
woman in the lake near Chicago.
The present English House of Com
mons consists of go MEMBERSHIPS
for England, 80 for Wales, y for Scot
land and 103 for ireland. The divi.
sion of parties is as follows: Conser-
vatives, 1884; Liberal .Unionists, 6S;
Liberals, 1856; Nationalists, 80; the
ministerial majority being ia. The
Speaker Of the House is the Right
Honorable William Court Gully, X. c.,
M. P. for Carlisle.
A singular coincidence were the
deaths of Mrs. Jane johnson and her
husband Allen johnson, which hap.
pened almost simultaneously, the
former at Coney Island, N. u, and the
other At Little Rock, Ark, Monday.
The wife was magazine contributor,
who wrote under the nom de plume of
Helen Dixie Johnson. and the husband
was President of the National Elk.
change Bank of Little Rock.
The cost of the Chicago strike has
been estimated as follows: To the
unions, for the fifteen weeks, $500, 600;
wage loss. $780, 900; cost to employers,
100000 in wages, and $l2, 900, 900
loss OF business; cost to the city, $l75,-
600; to the county, 100000. There
were 81 persons killed, $50 injured !;
10 preserve the peace there were 1900
policemen sworn in. l 400 specials and
3,4OO deputy sheriffs. The strike was
called April 9th and lasted till July
Goth.
Well may Madam Hen cackle over
her achievements when they are CON-
pared with other leading industries.
Success gives q diagram illustrating
the comparative value to Uncle Sam OF
this and half dozen other resources.
They stand as follows: Value Of poul-
try and eggs. per annum, $3.50, OOO, 900;
gold, silver, sheep and wool. together,
$272, 434. 315; cotton, $259, l6l $40;
wheat, 1928. OOO. 900; hogs, $ls6, 529,.
O35; oats. $685., 900, and tobacco,
$35, 579,22
Middletown, N. Y. has the smart.
est hen on record. She has brought
fame to herself and her owner, . Mrs.
Earle, by building her nest in the
branches OF high tree. laying thir.
teen eggs in it, and Matching thirteen
chickens, which she brought safely to
the ground without assistance. The
hen is cross between Leghorn and
Dominick. and she built her nest of
grass and small sticks, which she car.
ried to the tree in her bill, like a
Robin or crow.
| While examining the contents of
the record box on the summit of
Mount Hood, Sunday. Prof. M. w.
Lyon, Mrs. Lyon and Mark Weigant,
aguide. were struck by lightning and
all three were Frustrated. Mrs. Lyon
is still in q dangerous condition,
though it is not believed that her in.
Jurles will prove fatal. Prof. Lyon
and Weigant are both recovering.
Prof. Lyon is connected with the his
torical departments of the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington, D. C.
A Washington dispatch of the Goth
ult. announces the death in that city
OF Mrs. Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox,
grand niece of President Andrew Jack.
son and the frat white child born in
the White House, At Washington, at
the age offs years. She was daugh.
ter of John Donelson, . pioneer OF
Tennessee. Her husband, John A.
Wilcox, was once representative from
Tennesses in the Federal Congress and
served in tho same capacity from
Texas in the Confederate Congress.
whats in . name" may be res-
lied by the fact that the night oper.
ator in Colorado City. Col, named
Jesse James, one night last week
stood off q robber who attempted to
hold him up with . pair of pistols at
his head. Tho command to open the
safe was met with the statement of
James that there was nothing in it
worth stealing. and his sans froid, so
universal to the profession, carried the
day Tor rather mighty and the would.