Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-06-08
NEWS OF TIE STATE.

Commission men fear there will be
shortage in cherries, apricots and
early plums on account of the rain.
1t is probable also that early pota toes
are greatly damaged.
Mrs. Alice Meyers died at Vancouver,
Wednesday night, from the effects of
burns caused by throwing a lighted
lamp at her sister, during a family
quarrel. Both women were burned,
but the sister will recover. The home
of deceased was Washington, d. G.
The wharf at Des Moines, a little
settlement between Three Tree Point
and Tacoma, collapsed Friday after
noon. No cause for the accident has
been ascertained. During the morn
ing crowd of people was landed on
the wharf, but none was present when
the structure collapsed.
Rev. F. o. Lamoyeux, for the past
year pastor of the Baptist church at
Spokane, will leave the ministry for
the life insurance business, having
taken position with a Sound insur-
ance company. He will resign from
the pastorate at once, although the
congregation is in prosperous con-
dition and about to build $4,000
church.
Alex. c. Campbell, bookkeeper for
the George E. Brand wholesale com.
pany, at Bellingham, committed sui
eide Monday morning at his home in
that city, by swallowing carbolic acid
in the presence of his 14-year.old
daughter and dying an hour later. He
leaves a widow and four children.
The cause for his act is not known,
but ne is understood to have been an.
noyed by creditors OF late.
A branch OF the Lumbermen's Ma
tional Credit Bureau is to be estab-
lished 10 the office of the Secretary OF
the Pacific Coast Lumber Manufac-
turers' Association in Seattle, July LIST.
Duplicate reports on the financial
condition Of lumber buyers in the
East will be sent there and will be
handled by Secretary Beckman OF the
/ association, who will, on request OF
any manufacturer, send out q copy Of
the report relating to any particular
buyer.
A smoker given by five young wo-
men of Whitman College, at Walla
Walla, was unique feature no.
ON the regular commencement pro
gramme, and created intense excite
ment when reported at that institu
ton. The report came from the dean
that three girls had been caught red
handed in the pernicious habit o
smoking corncob pipe in their rooms
at Reynolds hall. Investigation, how
ever, disclosed that five girls had re-
paired to q room to make batch o
fudge. In spirit Of fun one Of thu
number took down a souvenir corncot
pipe, lighted it and took a puff. She
passed it to another, and had reached
q third when the dean OF the institu
ton happened along, and, installing
the act for one of real diversion, made
q report.
Mrs. A. Erickson reported to thu
police at Seattle, Tuesday, that she
had given 5000 to a woman calling
herself Malone Hill, to invest in stock
speculation for her. The clairvoyant
in an advertisement described hersel
as the seventh daughter of a seventh
son and asserted that she was gifted
with the power to define the location
OF hidden wealth, could advise any ONT
regarding stock speculations and coult
tell the past, present and future. Be
lieving in the claims OF the woman
Mrs. Erickson placed her savings il
her hands in the belief that the sun
would be largely increased. AS soor
as the Chief of Policies edict against
the fortune tellers went into effect th'
woman skipped from the city and The
police have no trace of her. Mrs
Erickson has several children and is
destitute from her loss.