Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-29

resided at Port Townsend till lately,
and is sister of Mrs. George Craig,
with whom she is visiting.
Joseph KING, an Austrian by birth,
about 60 years OF age, has been missed
from his accustomed haunts the past
ten days, and it feared that some cas-
ualty has happened to him, or that he
has made way with himself, as he had,
in moments Of dependency, threat
ened to do So. KING has occupied a
woodshed on the West premises, in the
southern part OF town, an examination
of which shows that things had been
placed as for temporary leave. His
friends can only account for his con-
tinued absence under the theory that
something serious has happened to
him.
The next number OF the STANDARD
will be a special edition, of which
5000 copies will be printed, contain
ing brief sketches of our principal
business men and some reference to
our resources and their development.
As the determination to issue such q
number was hastily formed, it will be
without the establishment of cuts
usual to holiday editions. In fact it
will not be a holiday number, but
simply business mans paper, in
which all will be given an opportunity
for showing just how much faith they
may have in our community and its
progress.
n. L. Howard died at the Hotel
Higgins, Tuesday night, from some
drug self-administered, doubtless with
suicidal intent. Deceased is the
man who, some years ago, attained
considerable notoriety from the dis
coverv that he had been drawing q
pension from the government by I'M
persona,ing his dead brother. He
served a two years sentence for the
crime on McNeil's Island. Thence he
went to the Poor Farm of this county,
where he has since lived a respondent
life, till he came to town a week or
more ago and thus ended a miserable
existence.
A little girl aged about IL years,
named Myrtle Leimeister, created
considerable of a commotion by the
belief that she was lost, last Saturday,
on the passage from Tacoma to this
city. The mother was transferred to
the Shelton boat, few miles down
the Sound, but it seems the girl came
on to Olympia with lady friend, I'M
beknown to the parent until she az.
rived at destination, when a frantic
endeavor was made to ascertain where
the lost child might be. This was not
successful for time, but she was
finally found and returned to her
anxious mother.
Fred. Horner who posed as re-
turned veteran from the Philippines
some time ago and was exposed as a
base pretende7, and afterwards OBJ
tanned situation in one of Bordeaux's
camps rs . lumberman to enable him
to steal number of articles from the
bunk-house, was arraigned before JUS
tice Schomber yesterday afternoon, on
q charge Of grand larceny. The evil.
dence against him was overwhelming
and he was identified by r. H. Hill, a
former employe of the "pen," as a
convict for horse-stealing, discharged
at the expiration of two years term.
Horner was held for trial at the April
term of the Superior Court.
Matt Monroe and family while re-
turning from visit to their neigh
bors, Monday night, we're held up by
man with gun at their own door,
while he gave warning to somebody
inside the dwelling to get out of the
way of capture. Somebody came out
and ran off in the darkness, where
upon the man with the pistol,
after searching Monroe's pock-
cts, likewise made his escape. Mon
roe had o watch and chain which the
robber overlooked and some money In
a vest pocket which he failed to search.
Nothing of value was taken from the
dwelling, and the event may, there
fore, be regarded, from financial
standpoint, as bo0tless venture.
A stop is to be put to the easy man.
ner of extraditing persons charged
with crime, pursued to some extent by
Sheriffs OF the border line OF counties
to the north of US. The plan is SIM
ply to persuade, or force, the person
into territory where jurisdiction is un-
disputed, where the meshes of the law
can be easily and firmly adjusted.
Sometimes they strike the wrong man.
however, as Sheriffs Waisman and
Griffith did, last April, in kidnapping
Martin s. Everett, and arresting him
on Canadian soil. Everett succeed.
ing in reaching the ear of the State
Department at Washington, and the
Canadian authorities are likewise d.
recting efforts towards obtaining full
understanding OF these unlawful pro.
cedures, with the object of their sup
preston.
nishwayman Shot and Killed.