Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-12-09

The many friends of Allen Weir
will regret to learn that he is the
victim of some form of heart trouble,
by which he is said to be in pre-
carious condition. He was attacked
by fainting spell in the Olympia
National Bank. Wednesday. and
would have fallen to the floor had he
not received aid from bystanders.
He was taken to the home of bis
daughter, Mrs. VIII White, in a car
riage which he had used to visit the
bank, after several days prostration.
The STANDARD is pleased to an
nOunce that Mrs. Aaron Newell, ma
Pearl Smith. ON Thursday evening,
Dec. LIST, at Fourteenth avenue west,
Seattle, gave birth to her first born.
baby boy, weighing eight and Il
half pounds. Mr.. Newell, at latest
accounts, was the happieSt mln in
the Queen City. 1t will be rrmcm-
bered that Mr.. and Mrs. Newell, Sc
eral years ago, were teachers at the
Lincoln school. Mrs. Newell S we'll
merited celebrity as Il vocalist still
abldes in this community.
The wife of NJ. Sheehau, a ranch
er living near Plum Station. fell into
Il shallow well near the home Tues
day afternoon, by caving earth, and
after several hours of strenuous
effort of neighbors, succeeded in very
nearly relieving her from the loose
soil that enveloped her to the Shout
derS, when a second cave completely
covered her body. 1t took three
and "A half hours to remove this, when
she was taken lifcless from the well.
DR.. Riley. who had been summoned,
vainly adopted every means for re-
suscitation. Mrs. Sheehan leaves
besides her husband, three sons, two
of whom were away from home,
while the youngest was at home with
his father.
Two large lumber deals have been
recorded with the County Auditor
here. One of these, the Far West
Lumber Company "a WeyerhauSer
contingent-sels all the timber in a
township in the upper part of this
county and part of which is in Lewis,
to the Reliance company in Seattle
for $95, 900, or $4,000 in cash and
$S5, 900 to be paid in $1,000 in
stalments. The other is from the
Weyerhauser to the Reliance COM
pany for three pieces of land Of
40, $40 and 475 acres, lying on
the corEar of this, Lewis and
Pierce, where the three counties
meet. No consideration is given
in the deal Charles f.. Patten, the
millionaire lumberman Of Seattle,
is at the head of the Reliance CON-
pany. A mill will probably be estab-
lished at Nesqually to market this
timber.
The State Board of Control recon-
mends that they be empowered to
appoint State architect in the in
terest of economy. That profession
have hitherto had a fat job" in be-
ing able to charge their own prices
for such jobs as required their servi-
ces on public works. 1t is stated that
in the past five years it has cost the
State upwards of $162 900 for plans
and architectural supervision. or
this amount, $24, 2S2 was paid for the
State buildings of tho A. Y. p. Fair.
The average has been over SIS, 900
year for architects, and the Board
believes it would be saving if the
State would employ permanent ar
chitect. 1t may be possible. how
ever, that if this abnormal expense
continue. it might be possible in the
course of time that that the State
would have enough buildings for any
possible emergency. AS it is, doubt
less the idea of permanent enlarge
ment of the official family had some
thing to do with the suggestion.
DR.. Beach, representative elect
from Mason county, will advocate in
the next assembly abandonment of
the normal schools at Bellingham
and Ellensburg, and creation of a
normal department for the Westside
at the State University and retain
the Cheney institution as the East
side school. He proposes also to
transfer the Blind school at Van
couver, to Bellingham, to occupy the
Normal building, and division of
the training school, the boys remain
ing at Chehalis and the girls trans
ferred to the Ellensburg building.
The reason given for this movement
is designed to eliminate the number
of normal schools, each OF which has
demanded large appropriations from
every succeeding Legislature in rival
ry with other institutions, and to
save many thousands of dollars that
would be necessary to carry out the
recommendation of the State Board
of Control for separation of the sexes
at the training school, by the loca-
ton of the female branch elsewhere
and for removal of the blind from
the old brick building that now shell
tiers those helpless defective children
at Vancouver.