Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-08-17
NEWS OF THE STATE,
A Brisf Summary of News Gathered From
All Parts Of the State.

A Brief Summary of News Gathered From
All Parts Of the State.
Ninety automobiles have been pur.
chased by Spokane people so far this
year.
An explosion OF 2J-horse- power
threshing engine while at work in the
fields near Pullman, on the 9th inst,
seriously injured the engineer and
firemen. No cause for the explosion
is known.
A suit for 100000 has been begun
in the Clarke county Superior Court
by Henry E. McGinn, of Portland,
against the Portland and Seattle Rail.
way Co., for loss of both eyes from q
blast which was ignited without proper
warning.
Jens Jensen committed suicide re.
Gently, in Spokane, by shooting him.
self through the mouth with a revol.
yer. Jenson was teamster, 81 years
OF age, and has had some family
troubles. The act was committed in
the presence of his wife.
Ed. Bloom. convicted of burglary
at Spokane three years ago and sen.
fenced to eight years in the Walla
Walla penitentiary, the other day gave
up the struggle and leaped from the
highest cell in the pen to the corridor
30 feet below, and was killed.
A man calling himself B. w. Gorst,
but who was identified by his vile who
was in search OF him at Seattle, as Eli
A. Gage, son OF Lyman J. Gage, ex.
Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, com.
mitted suicide by shooting, the other
day. Mrs. Gage says she knew of no
reason for the rash act.
1t has developed at Aberdeen that .
man named Church, who has the con.
tract for burning garbage, has been
disposing of stale eggs and other stuff
OF that kind to poor people, the result
being that dangerous sickness has de-
veloped in several families so supplied.
The Council has removed the obnox.
ious official.
John Walters, saloon man OF Ferry,
WASH, was killed on the 10th inst, by
Mrs. Getty ON a ranch near that place.
Walters was drunk and repeatedly
tried to get in tho house, but was
warned to 60 away. He was trying
to crawl in a window and was shot
with rifle. Mrs. Getty, her daughter
aud q lady friend were alone in the
house.
1t is reported by the large hop.
growers in the Yakima valley that 3.
600 persons from the outside will be
needed to assist in picking the hop.
crop of the valley this fall. On sc-
count of the general scarcity of labor
it is feared that there may be some
difficulty in obtaining sufficient help
this year. To devise means for in
ducing persons to 60 there to labor in
the yards during the picking season a
meeting was lately held by the grow.
ers.
Rev. Herbert d. Stanley, the Meth.
odist preacher who WAS in Jail all
winter at North Yakima, awaiting
trial upon the charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses, was not
taken to Wenatchee to answer the
charge of beating q board bill. The
Sheriff of Chelan went to North Yak.
ina after him, but Stanley met some
friends who furnished him the sum he
owed, which was paid to the Sheriff
and he was released. Stanley has
again returned to the pulpit.
A. f. Rothwell, of Seattle, sent his
wife to Michigan on visit to her rela.
tives with just enough money to make
the trip, and then brought suit for di-
vorce during her absence. Tucked
under the paper that lined q lunch.
basket he had literally supplied to
satisfy her appetite during the entire
journey, was a copy of the complaint
Rothwell was compelled by Judge
Griffin, in an order issued after the
affidavit was read to him, to send his
wife $40 week. The court did not
think the crafty husband had money
enough to defray expenses for return
trip in a lump sum, but if Mrs. Roth
we'll gets $40 a week, Judge Griffin
thinks she may be able to save enough
to come home and fight the case.
Rothwell claims that his vile is toe
extravagant, and that she is too font
of dances.