Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-12-06
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The college of forestry Of the Uni
versity of Washington is negotiating
with the United States forest service
TO obtain about $500 acres of land in
The Snoqualmie national forest for the
establishment of forestry experiment
tai station to be used in conjunction
with the regular courses taught at the
university, as laboratory training.
by the secretary of the interior during
October in California, Idaho, Montana,
Oregon and Washington, covering an
area of 36,902 acres. The land was
withdrawn from entry and the reserves
made on the recommendation of the
United States geological survey.
p. c. Brewer of Rochester was in
Olympia on business recently.
Miss Marian Blankenship entertain
ed the Young Ladies' Circle of the
First Presbyterian church Tuesday ev-
eninS.
J. N. Knocht, his wife and two chill
dren, IL and 10 years old, narrowly es-
capped being burned alive early Mon
day morning when their home at
Rochester was totally destroyed by fire.
The cracking Of the flames awoke
them and they managed to escape in
their night clothes. A defective flue
Is believed to have caused the fire, the
damage being estimated at $4,000. The
place was in ruins when neighbors ar
rived to give assistance.
Charged with having broken into the
Trolier and Blackwell saloons at Te-
nino Saturday morning and robbing
the tills Of SO in small change, Will
liam McPhee was brought to Olympia
Monday by Deputy Sheriff Bruley OF
Tenino, who had caught him near Cody.
The man was still In an intoxicated
condition when arrested.
A charge Of murder In the first de-
,ree was filed against Nellie g. Kinds
his week by Prosecuting Attorney
John L. Wilson, the Information alleg-
re she premeditated the killing Of her
husband, Herman Kinds. November Is.
Ter trial will be held during the jan
larry term and she is now being held
without bail. Deputy Sheriff Thomas
Bruley, Charles Norman, Hubert Horst,
!. H. Mawson. o. D. Benedict and G.
9. Babson are the witnesses for the
state.
With the average wage Of men teach.
ers In Washington estimated at $S7. rs
and Of women at $3.50. the report OF
State School Superintendent Henry B.
Dewey shows that the average salary
paid Thurston county teachers is
slightly less, the men receiving an av.
|erage of 1851 per month and the
women $65.46.
Mrs. Fred Wilson of Spokane and
daughters, Misses Mary and Maude,
are visitors this week at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Crecy of Puget street.
Victor Erickson of Aberdeen spent
the weekend with friends and rela.
lives in this city.
Attorneys Mulvihill and Daley OF
Everett were in Olympia the first OF
the week on legal business.
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| A letter dated 4:3O p. m. January 2
1872, at the Seattle postoffice, was re-
ceived at the local postofficee at 10: 80
a. m. December 3, 1912, eleven months
later Then the Seattle employees tried
to excuse it by saying they had made
a mistake in their dating machines.
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The Y. M. c. A. week of entertain
ment next month will start Sunday
January IL, instead of Monday, the
new feature on Sunday being an ad
dress by George Gilbert Bancroft, rat
ed as clever platform entertainer
His subject will be, Mans HE'LL so
cial purity talk for men only The
thine of the lecture will be announced
later. He will talk again Monday ev
ening, January 10, on 'Hoodooes."
Sixteen people besides the jury vii
take part in the mock trial Decembel