Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-18

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Peter Mcguire, the first settler in
Asotin county where he has resided
continuously the past - years, died
last week.
st. Pat.ick's Church, in Tacoma,
was entirely destroyed by fire Tues
day evening. \ new building will
soon be built.
And now Rockefeller is planning to
end"w Chicago University With a gift
OF J0,0On,O0O and make it the leading
educational institution of the world.
Mrs. Albert johnson, of Fremont,
dropped dead from heart disease on
the steamer Flyer, Monday, while on
her way to Tacoma to spend the day
with friends.
The tomato crop east OF the noun
tains will be quite small this year.
Many fields have been blighted, the
vines plowed up and the ground plant
ed in potatoes.
The unanimity of the vote of Nor
way to separate from Sweden, is only
about one in a thousand in favor Of
the proposition. This indicates that it
! is a true case Of lost love.
The Capitol Box Factory, on St.
Paul flats at the head of Commence
ment Bay. Tacoma, WAS wholly de-
stroyed by fire Sunday morning. The
loss will probably aggregate $4,000.
The first bale of hops of the 1905
crop was shipped from Sacramento
for Chicago on the 9Th inst. This
was the first shipment OF the new
crop in that State and probably in the
world.
A Port Arthur dispatch states that
the Japanese have raised over seventy
vessels, including six battleships. They
are now turning their attention to
the merchant steamers sunk for
blockading purposes.
Another railroad horror comes this
time from Cleveland, Ohio, in which
twelve persons we're killed and twenty
five injured, Sunday morning. 1t was
a Nickel Plate passenger train which
collided with freight train, near
VermilliOn.
Gladys and Eugenia Roosevelt, cous-
ins of the President, were injured in a
runaway at Sayville, L. l., Monday,
the former seriously. They are daugh-
tiers of John E. Roosevelt, an uncle of
Theodore, and aged respectively 1G
and Is years.
Bellingham has an industry that
sounds somewhat like q porch. column
factory, but there is reality about it,
and there is where the similitude ends.
1t is broom-handle factory. It EN-.
ploys fourteen men, turns out 5000
per day and is overrun with orders.
Miss T. E. Carter was arrested at
Fairfield, this State, for debt OF SIS
to her landlady which she could not
pay. A good Catholic Priest collected
tue money, paid the bill and costs and
found her a position in St. Ignatus
hospital, where she can make an hon.
est livelihood.
Robertus Love, the funny man of
the Oregonian since "Wex j." left,
says that W. o. W., the initials of the
WOodmeh's order, stands for the ejacu-
lation when the town member tries
to use an AK and cuts off q finger.
He shouts Wow" amid a multitude
OF affixes and sufiixes.
Figures compiled by the Bureau of
Statistics OF the Department of Com
MERGE and Labor, at Washington, show
that the exports of manufactures in
the fiscal year just ended amounted to
$543, 62O, 297, as against 1852, Ais. 921 in
the preceding year, $433,S5l, 756 in
1900 and $l83, 595, 743 in 1895.
Threats to dynamite every church
in Bellingham and tar and feather
and kill State Superintendent Cher
rington of the Washington Antisa.
loon League are made in letter writ
ten under Bellingham date, signed
Anti-church Club" and addressed to
Secretary Thomas H. Balm OF the
league, at Bellingham.
The term "Simon Pure" which
means superlative worth, originated
in Mrs. Centlivre's novel Bold Stroke
for Wife," in which Col. Feignwell
passes himself off for Simon and wins
the heart of Miss Lovely. After he
has gained her guardians consent, the
real man appears and proves beyond
doubt that he is Simon Pure.
The new Y. NJ. c. A. building at
Hoquiam. dedicated some time ago, lie
now complete. the dormitories having
been finished this week. The rooms
are we'll furnished, lighted and heated,
and are planned to furnish young mon
Of the city desirable rooming place.
The building is the only one of the
kind on the harbor, and cost $12, 1000.
Sedro- Woolley is to have . brick or
cement block hotel, modern in all its
appointments, to be built by Hugo
Bauman, one OF her enterprising citi-
zens. The Frye-Bruh Company are
planning to build a large Wholesale
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plant in that city, to be connected by
switches with the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific railroads.
U. S. Surgeon General Rixey has
recommended that hospital ship be
provided for the Pacific Coast, which
would be OF immense service in such
emergencies as the Bennington dis
aster and frequent advantage in
transporting the sick from the Philip.
pines and taking convslescents from
hospitals for sea trips. Congress will
be asked to act in the matter.
After his sermon in the Oyster Bay
pulpit, fortnight ago, Mr.. Roosevelt
hied to Wilkesbarre, Pa, the same
week and addressed the Catholic Alb.
stinence Union, and then to Chautau-
qua, N. Y, and spoke before the As
sembly of that name, and then back
to Pennsylvania, where he spoke to
the United Mine Workers. His versa.
tility would be beyond belief but for