Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15
No Excuse.


another stranger, yesterday, after
having completed the tour OF West
ern Washington, and this is but the
keynote that is being sounded on all
sides by nine-tenths of the visitors
who come among us from abroad.
| he moral of all this is, an instruct
i've and healthful one and appeals
with most significant force to those
of our own people upon whom rests
the incubus of dissatisfaction. 1t
seems that there Is class of persons
who are constitutionally affected by
Il sort of deadly enn"i which radical
ly disqualfies them for enjoying life
il any land however paradisiacal 1t
may be. And we have often thought
that had they been placed with our
mo!her Eve in the garden of delights,
they would have pinned away their
miserable lives in the everlasting and
sinful desire for something Il little
better. In the Atlantic cities, crowd
cd to REPETITION as they are, Temporal
~ want Of employment to the profes-
sedly laboring classes implies power
~ and poverty, there, most emrhah-
cally implies death, and nothing less.
On this part Of the coast, as has
been truthfully remarked, no man
can starve. While our neighborlnG
woods are full Of the finest game, 1t
is but pastime to repair 10 the leafy
Businesses any morning and bring
in Il deer or back load of birds.
Or should Il citizen desire the reput-
ed brain-nouriehing element, that Is
if he he II clergyman, physician
or lawyer, he has only to let down
his line from one of the whaives to
pull up Il day supply of the finest
/ lis IL lIluG tNtl lIAi III ''Nt va '''~A'
1t is II significant fact that, as a
rule, croakers aud complainera are
found onl, among our old settlers;
those, indeed, who know our country
and its unhouuded resources thor
oughly and who ought to be its cham
uions through evil as well as good re-
port. The s'rauGest part OF the
whole matter is that business N II
will continue to stay i'll our midst Tor
wears, driving lucrative trade and
amassipg respectable fortunes. while
ut the same time, they do all in Their
power TO underrate the fair name OF
our thriving city. If we were ever
commissioned TO write the " CrOak-
ers Dirse" we would couch it in dol
erous minor strains and set to the
music poem which might be cross
between Byron's "Dream of Dark
ness aud Edgar Poe's Raven"
| A TRAGEDY AT GRAY's HARBoR.-ln-
formation was received at this place
this afternoon of horrible Attain
which occurred at Gray's Harbor
last Sunday. 1t appears that on
the morning of that day, Matthew
Magee, an old resident of that dis
trict, went to the ranch OF A. u
damon and after brief interview
the particulars of which are un.
known. followed Damon behind the
barn and fired shot at him from
a double barreled shotgun, the
charge taking effect in the head
inficting painful scalp-wound
Sixteen shot were extracted from the
wound, which was dressed by DIR
Lansdale, the ply stefan at the reser'
walton, and although painful inju
ry, it is by no means dangerous
Soon as Magee fired the shot, ht
took to the woods and soon after
wards another discharge of gul
was heard. Soon as the wounded
man was cared for, a. search for Ma
gee disclosed his dead body, a shor
, distance from the barn. The bacl
, part of his head was gone, and brains
, and portions Ct the skull were scat
. tered near the scene of the tragedy
, His gun was found dashed to a sap
> ling in such position as to leave Mt
doubt that Magee hod seated him
) self, placed the muzzle to his hea'
t and fired the piece by means OF
, string leading to the trigger of tn
0 left-hanl barrel. An informal in
. quest was held by Col. Woods, In
E dian Agent at Quinault, there be