Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30

for $1,000 damages. y wear ago Mr..
Browne revoked Mrs. Gears ccrtiIi-
cate to teach, accusing her of
conduct during the cX-
animation. The case WAS appealed To-
the courts and is now in the Supreme
court At the last examination Mr..
Gear applied for first grade certificate
and she claims that Browne has with
held her papers and refuses to action
drive her from the school room.
Tony Fortman, laborcr, was shot
in the hand while resisting arrest at
the Manhattan dance hall, at Tacoma
Sunday morning. Officer Day had
been summoned to investigate an
alleged robbing OF a young man in the
place and heard of some warlike dem
onstrations on the part of FOrtman.
He placed the man under arrest after
some difficulty. During the struggle
Fortman's gun was discharged, tearing
a big hole in his right hand. Annie
Armstrong, the young woman alleged
to have robbed the young man, was
placed under arrest, but the missing
watch was not recovered.
News that n big strike has been
made at the Lcola copper mine has
just reached Tacoma. Several days
ago Il solid five-foot vein of ore was
opened just few feet below the sur
face, which runs 20 per cent. pure cop
por, and also carries 20 ounces of sill
yer and paying quantity of gold to
the ton. Several veins ramify on the
property, which is owned by Tacoma
capitalists. Indications point to the
ore becoming richer in portions than
in the place discovered. The mine is
located i'll the eastern part of Pierce
Canada creek. The formation in the
district is practically identical with
that in the Cornwall copper fields, and
the ore can be mined very cheaply.
With babe in her arms and tears
streaming down her cheeks, Bertha
Bruges was brought into the police
station at Spokane, Saturday, charged
with systematic shop-lifting. The
police believe that she is a shop-liftcr
of national reputation. They have
letters from the East, and on the
strength OF these have been shadowing
the woman for some time, Chief
Jansen, OF Milwaukee, wrote that the
woman is undoubtedly Bertha Wier,
one of the Wier sisters, of Chicago,
notorious shop-lifters, all of them.
She was driven out of Milwaukee.
Chief Jansen adds that she has sis
ter in Joliet prison, another under ar
rest i'll Chicago, and sister and
brother serving an eight-year term in
the Colorado penitentiary. The wo-
man confessed to the police here, but
denies relationship with the Wier
family.
Chas. Besserer, Jr., is in receipt of
a letter from his father, Chas., ST.,
who was at the writing at Hilo, II. l.
He states that the country is the most
beautiful he ever beheld being VERT
able garden of Eden with luxuriant
growth of tropical plants of every de-
scription. One thing Mr.. Besserer
states that he noticed particularly was
the wonderful prolificness of bananas
and children. The latter he states are
seen everywhere, bareheaded, bare
footed and in fact nearly naked. Mr..
Besserer writes that he is already
homesick and after q visit to Honolulu
may return on the same steamer that
he went to the islands in. The trip to
the islands, while no storm was en-
countered, was rough and nearly every
body on the vessel was sick, the sea
most OF the voyage being heavy. On
a visit out from Hilo to coffee plan
tation about fifteen miles distant, Mr..
Besserer met man from North Yak
ina who has charge OF the plantation.
Thirty-eight persons have met vio-
lent deaths at Spokane during this
year, according to the records of the
health department. The greatest ia
tally of the year was the Great East
ern block fire, which caused eight
known deaths. There have been
three murders, not counting the two
murders of Saturday last. Five per-
sons committed suicide, three by use
of morphine, one blew out his brains
with pistol and another hanged him
self in Jail. One woman was run over
by street-car and q man was killed
by n railway train. Three bodies
were found i'll the river, the cause of
death in these cases being unknown.
Three other persons were drowned in
the river. Two persons died from cold
and exposure. A young woman died
from the effects of a criminal opera
ton. A man was electrocuted acct
One man was killed by a
blast, another by building falling on
him, and boy received fatal injuries
by the cave-in of brick kiln.
Policeman Brown was wounded and
a highwayman shot in a desperate
light between three masked robbers, II
policeman and soloonkeeper at Ia
coma, at midnight Saturday. The
three highwaymen burst open Peter
Pepc's saloon door ut South Twelfth
and X streets, calling him to throw
up his hands. Without further warn
ng the men began firing at him. Pepe
seized his revolver from a shelf and re-
piled. Patrolman Brown heard the
and rushed to the scene.
About dozen shots were exchanged
before one of the robbers was
dropped with bullet through his
chest. Patrolman Brown was wound
ed in the chin. The other two
men ran out and disappeared. Pope
declares as one of them left the door
he fired at him and the man cried out
as though he had been shot. The po-
lice hesitate between the belief that
the men intended to rob Pope and
that they intended simply to kill him
to satisfy some personal grievance. 1t
is more generally believed the men
are part of gang of highwaymen
who have been participating in the
frequent hold-ups which have occurred
recently.
The charred bodies OF two men