Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-08
STATE NEWS.
Brief Reference t. Matters of Fact
Gathered Here, There and Every
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The trial Of Rev. W. r. Ford was
begun in the Superior Court in Sc
attic Monday, before Judge Jacobs. 1t
will take about week to wind it up.
H. S. Ballou, a well known real
estate dealer, dropped dead at Port
Angeles, Sunday morning, on the eve
of his departure for California, the
cause being hemorrhage of the lungs.
The three men who burglarzed the
Frink jewelry store in Seattle some
time ago were sentenced Monday.
Harry Munroe was sentenced for six
years; J. C. Webster five years, and
Fred Buchan for six months.
Burglars Monday morning broke
into the office of the steamer Flyer,
OH the water front at Seattle, and,
after Overhauling the contents of sew
eral trunks, carried away the safe
weighing 400 pounds. The safe con-
tanned only about $50. No trace of it
has been found.
Charles Grimes, young man, re-
ceived severe injury early Sunday
morning on Charles Browns farm,
about seven miles from Centralia.
Grimes was riding horse which be-
came frightened and threw him off,
badly tearing his right cheek. He
was taken to Centralia for treat
ment.
Friday, at Fairfield, F. S. Bates, an
employe of E. H. Morrison, while
leading blooded bull into the barn,
happened to fall. The bull, seeing his
advantage, became angry and gored
Mr.. Bates, tearing out his collar bone
and injuring him internally. The in
ljured man was sent to Spokane for
medical attention.
James A. Roberts, a logger and
woodsman, about so years of age.
dropped dead in the Grand View
saloon, in Whatcom, Saturday night,
probably of heart disease, as he had
been complaining of pain about the
heart for some time. He went to
Whatcom several years ago from West
ern Ontario, and his family still resides
there.
People living near Gig Harbor re-
port the presence in that vicinity of
an unusually large number of bears.
A man named Powers was in Tacoma
the other day, having brought over a
big black bear, weighing over 22O
pounds. He stated that he ran across
seven on Monday about seven miles
from the harbor, and got one out of
the lot.
Figures prepared by Fish Commits
sioner Little show that the spring
pack of salmon on Puget Sound
amounted to 375,4O0 cases of SOCK
eyes and 81 200 cases of humpbacks,
while the spring catch for the coast
ran up to 1907 $50 cases. The fall
pack will swell this number to over
100000 cases, which will be by far
the largest pack on record.
Mrs. d. C. Govern, wife of Gen.
Govern, government agent of the
Tulalip reservation, met with almost
instant death from being thrown from
a Front street cable car, in Seattle,
Wednesday evening, while it was
rounding a corner at Queen Ann
Avenue. She was q daughter of
Bishop Otey, who was for years leader
of the Episcopal church in Tennessee.
Fire early Sunday morning de-
stroyed the barn on the place of David
Loney, two miles west of Walla Walla,
burning 1000 sacks of wheat, 600
sacks OF barley, two horses, one calf,
IA sets OF harness, two plows and one
tanning mill. The total loss is So, 900 /;
no insurance. Loney and wife are
visiting relatives in Canada. The fire
is supposed to have been caused by
spontaneous combustion.
Thomas Calvert, of Cheney, reports
that a neighbor, Oliver Lindfors, dis
appeared about 10 days ago, and his
whereabouts cannot be ascertained.
When he left he did not even take a
coat. The threshers finished their
work, and moved away from his place,
and neighbUrs put his wheat into the
house and locked it up. The premises
and the lake were searched, but no
sign of him was seen. Lindfors is a
bachelor, owns two ranches, and is
not known to have any trouble suf-
ficient to cause his disappearance.
Early Sunday morning at North
Yakima, Antoine Miller, an Indian,
was stabbed twice in the back, the
knife penetrating both the liver and
kidneys. He will probably die. Louis
Mann, an Indian, was arrested for the
crime, although he strenuously denies
his guilt. Sunday afternoon the
victim stated that Mann was the
guilty party, and that the cause of the
trouble was that he (Miller) had inter-
fered between Mann and his wife.
Local officers think Niller's story is
true, as Mann has been in several like
scrapes and the squaw's reputation is
bad.
At Centralia, a few days ago, Alex
ander Hamilton brutality beat his wife
because she refused to sign a deed to
some Centralia town lots, which he
wished to sell. As soon as she could
free herself from him, Mrs. Hamilton
started for the Marshal, with the in
tention of having her husband ar
rested. When she returned home she
learned that Hamilton had loaded
considerable of the household goods
and their little child into wagon and
and left for Chehalis. He was inter.
cepted by officers and arrested at Che
halls, and brought back to Centralia
for trial. He had hearing Monday
and was fined $50, in default of which
he was placed in Jail.
Aspokane dispatch states that the
Pacific Coast Elevator Company's
warehouse at Guy collapsed Wednes-
day afternoon, under the weight of
10000 bushels of wheat. The ware
house, 50x10O feet is q total wreck.
The foundation gave way aud the
wheat burst through the sides, letting
the roof fall in. Only two men are
injured. neither seriously The loss