Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-06-16

would adopt. Notwithstanding this
proof of mental balance, Mr.. Bush
was taken to the State institu
ton for restraint OF people with
kleptomaniac impulses.
I The school election Saturday after
noon resulted i'll >'"op tor ti'r
Iiawc>" faction Hugh Ross L.
ceivtd 40 votes To- l?l for Mann.
Schumber WAS elected Clerk without
opposition.
Bush +. Baker, and Miss Della May
Sawin were united in matrlmony at
/ the residence of Rev. and Mrs. \. Il.
Sawin, parents OF the bride, last even
ing, the brides father, assisted 10y Rev.
DIR. William f. Randall. of Tacoma,
officiating. Both of the high con-
tracing parties" are well and favor
ably known to our people, and if
good wishes are harbinger Of success
their journey through life VII be
marked by calm sea and prupi-
tious breezes until haven OF rest is
reached.
sunday night, Deals barber-shop,
on Fourth street, WAS discovered 10y Of
tcers Mack and Decker to be filled
with smoke, and us it was locked and
tcnantless at the time, an entrance
WAS effected by climbing through the
transom. 1t was found that live
Goals had been placed in an ash-boX
from Il stove used to heat the baths,
and that they had burned through the
box and into the floor, establishing
very fair conditions for an extensive
burn, had their silent work not been
discovered Just as 1t was.
Mrs. Cora o. Wynn, wife OF Mark
Wynn, of Little Rock, was Monday
adjudged to be insane and sent to this
Steilacoom asylum. She had been
acting in strange manner for Il
couple Of months past. A fortnight
ago she was placed in the sisters hos
pital from which she escaped Monday
morning and was found 10y Deputy
Sheriff Mills at a residence on Frank
lin street, where she had wandered.
Medical experts said her malady was
growing worse and that a commit
ment was inevitable, and one was
therefore entered, to guard against
harm to herself or others.
Mr.. Gimblet has rented the large
building on the corner of Third and
Columbia, and will fit it up with sam
pie rooms as an annex to the Carlton
House. And by the way, the Carlton
House will pass under its new man
agement next Monday with "Jack"
for mine host and Mrs. G. superintend-
ing the dining-room, kitchen and
beds-in fact everything which con-
duce to the comforts of home in man.
agement of a hotel. 1t is the belief
that the control of this ever popular
hotel has passed into hands which
will maintain all that has made it ia
nous and add such other features as
will bring it up to q strictly first-class
grade.
James b. Miller was acquitted
Wednesday. in the Superior Court, Of
the charge of assault with n deadly
weapon committed upon Geo. f. Hug
gins few months ago. While the
assault was clearly proven, it was like
wise shown to the satisfaction of the
jury that Miller was for the time in
sane; that the worry and loss of sleep
incident to the sickness OF members of
his family had had such prostrating
effect physically and mentally that
the man was not responsible for his
acts. There is no doubt but that
sympathy went very far towards the
shaping of the testimony as we'll as
fixing the verdict, for the crime of
which Miller was charged-attempted
murder-is the greatest otfen.e of
which our laws take cognizance. The
defense was conducted by Geo. c..
Israel, and the prosecution was, OF
course, made by Prosecuting Attorney
Funk.