Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-01-28
STATE NEWS

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attempt to commit suicide by cutting
his throat with razor Saturday night.
Fourteen tramps were driven out of
Montesano by the Marshal one day
last week. \ woodward or rockpile is
suggested as the only means of keeping
the town free from the pests.
The Olympic mountains will come
IN Tor big share of prospecting the
coming season. Indication of good
quartz have already been discovered,
and these finds will no doubt be fol-
lowed up.
preliminary steps are being taken
in Seattle for settlement of the Yesler
estate. The liabilities amount to
$5OO,OOO. Several years ago the estate
was appraised at a million, but owing
to shortage in values it is now said to
be worth about 100000.
The Yakima County Democratic,
Frce-Silver Republican and Peoples
Party Central Committee, Friday
night, i'll joint meeting, adopted a
resolution favoring the continuance
OF the alliance at present existing be-
tween the three parties.
Mitchell Bros large freight barn at
Marcus burned Monday. One horse
was burned to death. Four other
horses were burned so badly that they
had to be killed. The origin of the
fire is unknown. The barn was full
OF horses at the time of the fire.
John w. Workman, Il young man of
Racine, Wis, who recently strayed
from friends in camp at Lake Cush-
man, and was lost in the Olympic
mountains, was found by two mem
bers of asearching party early Sunday
afternoon. His hands and feet were
terribly frozen and swollen.
One of the passengers on the City of
Seattle from Dawson City was held up
in the back room of a saloon and
robbed of a couple Of hundred dollars
in gold dust, Saturday night, at Ia
coma. He had been drinking heavily
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couple of suspicious characters.
During the services in the Baptist
church Sunday night, at North Yak
ina. a lamp suspended in the center
of the building fell to the floor, the
oil igniting. In the confusion, some
one grabbed the lamp and carried it
to door where he threw it into the
hallway. The lamp struck P. H.
McDermid, scattering the burning oil
all over him, badly burning his right
hand. The flames caught on the wall
at the rear of the building, but were
extinguished after doing perhaps $500
damage.
A horrible murder was discovered
at the farm of Dan Galland, an aged
bachelor, on the 21st inst. Galland
had been murdered in his house and
the body thrown into the hog-p pen.
The inside of the house presented a
horrible sight, and there were evidences
of terrible struggle. Galland was
wealthy. He had three years crops
of wheat, $1,000 in the bank, and had
81 900 in the house, which was undis-
turbed and goes to show that robbery
was not the motive. The man was
not known to have any enemies, and
the cause of the murder and the
identity of the murderers are shronded
in mystery.
Early Saturday evening the body of
man was found about 10 miles from
Seattle, on the Great Northern Rail-
road, by Thomas Leighton, a track
walker. The body was terribly man.
gled. There was not a piece more
than Is inches long. The head had
ceen torn of, the body cut in two, the
legs broken and cut. The body was
dragged $40 feet, but there was not a
trace of blood or flesh on the rails.
From this and considerable brown
glass it is supposed that the man went
to sleep in the middle of the track.
The body was, Sunday, identified as
that of "Jim" Hicks, of Saltwater,
MINI. 1t is supposed he was a hobo
who was driven out of Ballard, Satur-
doy.
The Coroner of Walla Walla county,
last Saturday, held an inquest over
the remains of John Stewart, who was
found dead in his cabin. The body
was found in bed, an old fashioned cap
and-ball pistol lying alongside, plainly
indicating suicide. The ball from the
pistol entered the side of the head and
crashed through the brain. The floor
and wall near the bed were covered
with blood. A small amount of money
was found in Stewards pocket, but no
letter or anything giving a reason for
the deed could be found. Stewart had
been i'll for some time, and it is be-
lieved his illness caused him to COM
NIT suicide. The cononer's jury re-
turned verdict that he came to his
death by gunshot wound inflicted
by him. Stewart was native OF
Scotland. He came to Walla Walla
in early days from Nova Scotia. He
was aged 70, and unmarried. He
left no relatives in America. He
moved into the cabin on Copper