Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-12-24
STATE NEWS.
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22-calibcr target rifle by one of his
friends last week. The wound is not
4 bad one.
superintendent George Simpson, Of
the logging camp at MatlOcl, Mason
county, says lis road will have hauled
this year, cndin" January, l.io,01O,OI0
lcct OF logs.
The home OF Dr. II. l.. Henderson,
1T Whatcom, was entered by burglars
Tuesday night, and pair OF opera
glasses and Mrs. Henderson's gold
watch were taken.
Nels Esperdall, an employee of Will
son Bros. d Co., at Aberdeen, was so
badly injured Wednesday night while
working in the mill, heavy hook
striking him in the pit of the stomach,
that he died the next morning.
The State Board of Education has
decided to take no steps toward the
revocation of the certificate of Prof. A.
a. Barrow, charged with seduction
and adultery, until after the hearing
of the case III the Superior Court, in
Tacoma.
Squaw island, in Cowltz river, is
rapidly disappearing The floods haze
washed the bank away until the old
Nelson house will soon be floating
down the Cowlitz. The east end of
the building is now without support,
and it is expected to fall into the
river at any time.
a servant girl at the home of Theo.
dorc Hosmer, at Tacoma, clcverly
frustrated daring attempt at high
way robbery Friday morning by beat
ing the would-be robber about the
head with broom, knocking off his
disguise and causing him to leave the
premises in hurry.
The safe in the I. X. l.. Saloon, in
North Seattle, was blown open early
Sunday morning and $73.45 in cash
stolen. One of the outside burglars
showed pistol in the face of X. II.
Morrison, who came to see what the
explosion meant. Not word was
spoken, but Mr.. Morrison lost no time
in getting out of sight.
Of the POT single mills in the
State of Washington, no fewer than
lS5 are shut down, and will make no
output until after February l. The
daily product of the POI mills when in
operation is I2,560,0OO shingles. The
mills now in operation have only an
output of 100000. BY reduction
of the output it is expected to raise
the price of A shingles from 80 cents
to $1.25.
Coyotes lately have been annoying
the sheep of VIM. Cook, of Smooth
Iron prairie, so that he decided to put
out poison, says the Asotin Sentinsl.
Small bits of the bait were distributed
about the feeding ground of the flocks,
and, from all accounts, it had de-
cided effect. The next morning Mr..
Cook counted 10 dead coyotes and
three of his best dogs, that were VIC
tins of the poison.
NJ. J. Clark, of Whatcom county, is
discouraged. The jam at the mouth
of the Nooksack river has flooded his
farm till the dry land is lake. Years
ago, he says, he had 800 acres of land
to rent, to-day it wouldn't bring a
handful in rental except as a duck
pasture. He is tired OF wearing high
water pants in going to feed his horses
and milk the cows in the front yard,
and going to the barn in a boat.
According to the Shelton Tribune,
Solomon Marie, who has a small but
well-tilled farm in the Chapman Cove,
in Mason county, raised this year
upon a piece of ground little less
than one acre in area $50 bushels po-
tatoes, six tons carrots, two tons
rutabages, two tons white turnips,
seven sacks squashes, two bushels on
ions, two bushels beets, besides small
bed OF parsley. Two of the carrots
weighed Is pounds.
At the home of Charles Wright,
near Bassburk, last week, John Moliere
who was suffering from broken leg,
was robbed OF 1925. After the Wright
family had retired q man knocked at
the door and was admitted by Charley
Webb, who was acting as nurse for
Moliere. The intruder pointed a
double-barreled shotgun ut Webb and
ordered him to search Moliere. Webb
complied, and found Moliere's sack
OF coin down in the bed by his side,
took it out and delivered it to the
strange man. The robber then ordered
Webb to disgorge, but the young man
had nothing to deliver. The deadly
shotgun was held in position until the
highwayman had backed out of the
door. Moliere called Wright from his
sleep, and told him what had happened
but before any action could be taken
by way of pursuit of the robber, he had
sped away down the road on horse
back and out of sight. Webb and
William Callahan, who had been at
tending to Moliere's stock on his farm
near that of Wright, were arrested for
the crime. A preliminary examina-
ton resulted i'll the release of Callahan,
but Webb was held to answer under
bonds of $1,000.
The horribly mutilated remains of |
John Munson, employed as a track
walker by the Northern Pacific, just |
east of Lester, in the Cascades, were
taken to Seattle Tuesday. Munson
was run over and ground to pieces by
an engine that is used to help pull
passenger trains up the hill above
Lester. The engine was backing down
from Stampede tunnel Sunday night.
When it was stopped in the round.
house at Lester it was discovered that
a portion of mans neck was sticking
to the running gear. The fireman
walked up the track in search of fur
Their evidence of a tragedy that he
knew had been enacted. He found a
small piece of the trunk about $50
feet from the roundhouse. He called
to the engineer and with the aid of
lanterns the two men followed a trail
of blood up the track for mile, where
they picked up hand and mart of n