Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-06-16
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts of the State.

| s. =. Stratton has begun extracting
gold from the beach sands near Monte
sano.
| The schools in Lincoln county have
been closed on account of smallpox
scare.
Frank Dillon was fined $50 ut North
Yakima for throwing stones ut the
memorial day parade.
State Dairy Commissioner Melon
aid seized "a tubs of oleomargarine in
Seattle the other day.
W. II. Wesley, Yakima county
sheepman, sold 10000 pounds of wool
the other day at ST cents.
Selby Koontz, aged 7, son of r. A.
Koontz. fell into the river at Spokane,
Sunday, and was drowned.
Rev. l.. A. Smith, aged 70, died at
Cnlville Saturday. For so years he
never missed Sunday in the pulpit.
S. NJ. KEGS, a farmer living near
Walla Walla, found a nest of skunks
in his barn the other day. He killed
% and many escaped. Mr.. KEGS has
moved his family to Walla Walla I'M
til the incident blows over.
Work on the construction of the
new dormitories and amusement hall
at the State Soldiers Home at Orting
has been commenced by the cont.ac-
tor Anton Berens. Secretary Lister, of
the State Board of Audit and Control
was at Orting this week looking after
the work.
Thomas Owens was killed at Star
buck, Friday, on the Snake River Val
ley railroads line of construction.
While drilling hole for blast, q
large rock which was loosened from
the embankment above by the wind
fell and crushed his skull. Death was
instantaneous.
John Davis, the brakeman on the
Portland, Vancouver & Yakima rail.
road, who was injured in a wreck
last week, died at Vancouver, Sunday.
The muscles of one thigh were badly
crushed and mangled. Davis was
also injured internally. He was 35
years old and leaves a wife and four
children.
Winter still fingers in the mount
aims, says the EllensLurg Capital. The
other morning the foothills were COW
cred with snow, and on the summit of
the Cascades seven inches fell. L. F.
McConihie visited Fish lake last week
and found u feet around the mines at
an altitude of 5000 feet, and several
flurries had been recorded lately.
P. Foster was shot and killed at
Marcus about IL 80 o'clock Monday
night by" Doc" Campbell. The crime
occurred on the sidewalk in front of
the Owl saloon, resort run by Will
liam Hall. Foster was the proprietor
OF the Eureka saloon. He has large
family. His assailant is a half-breed.
No one can give any cause for the
fatal affair.
The body of Bert Whitney, who
was drowned in Snake river, near
Goldendale, several weeks ago, was
found in the Columbia, near Column
bus. Wednesday. Identification was
made possible by o. r. & N. time
checks, which were found in the cloth
ing. Gold, silver and checks in the
pockets represented a value of $302.9O.
John A. Niemeld, who found the body,
received $50 reward from Whitney's
relatives.
Addie and Hazel Shawl, two pretty
little girls, the daughters OF Aaron
Shawl, formerly well-kpown man in
North Seattle, who were kidnapped
from the California Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, in
San Francisco, eight months ago,
were located in Seattle Friday. The
children were with their mother, who
is now known as Mrs. John B. Downie.
They cried bitterly and said that they
would rather be killed than taken
away.
Nicholas Gregorius, of Stevenson,
discovered the body of an unknown
woman floating in the Columbia river,
near Sprague landing. Sunday. The
body bears evidence OF foul play. The
face had been beaten fearfully, and the
arms were bruised. There was little
clothing on the body. In one stocking
was q half-pint flask of whisky. On
the middle finger Of the right hand
was gold ring, with blue setting.
The woman had dark hair, about eight
inches long. She was about 26 years
old. The body had been in the water
several days.
A report reached Port Tow nsend
Monday that the revenue cutter Cor
win is having trouble with the large
barge she is towing to the mouth of
the Yukon river, to be used as q coal
ing station for the Yukon river cutter
Nunivak. Sunday, June 4, the Cor
win and her tow encountered a severe
storm in the Gulf of Georgia, which
nearly resulted in the loss of the
barge. The Corwin succeeded i'm
reaching shelter with the barge, which
had her hog chains broken and was
otherwise damaged. After repairs are
completed the Corwin will proceed
northwsrd.
At Spokane, on the 9th inst, in the
hallway on the second floor of the
Minnesota house, at 242 Main avenue,
Corporal William Wilson (colored) OF
company NJ. Twenty-fourth infantry,
stationed at the new army post, shot
Charles A. Dix through the right
lung, inflicting a wound that the doc
tors believe will prove fatal, and shot
a brother soldier, Corporal Beverly
Williams, twice in the right hip near
the groin. Wilson surrendered to the
Chief of Police. Before nightfall
Captain Bachelor, commandment of
the post, visited Wilson in his cell,
and with penknife cut from the
prisoners uniform his corporal's straps,
saying: "a pretty scamp you are.
You've disgraced your regiment and
the army"
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