Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-05-12
At Spokane Judge Hanford sent

At Spokane Judge Hanford sent
Robert Mason to the u. :. Peniten-
tary for year for sending obscene
matter through the mails.
Mrs. Charles II. Rogers, of Spokane,
committed suicide by drowning her
self in the Spokane river, recently, rs
a result of a family quarrel.
a movement has been started ut
Tacoma to erect q monument in
Wright Park to the memory OF the
soldiers of the First Washington regi-
ment who have fallen in the Philip.
pines.
Peter Habersetzer, an employe of
Clusters shingle mill, near Chehalis,
was killed Monday while working in
the woods, flying tree-limb striking
him. He was 26 years old and left a
widow and child.
Jim Song, a Chinese cook, commit
ted suicide by taking large dose of
opium, at Walla Walla, the other day.
The news of the affair greatly excited
the Chinese, and q doctor was sum.
moned. The man was still breathing,
but such an overdose had been taken
it was impossible to counteract the
deadly work.
Henry Carr, who has resided on old
Dominion mountain, near Colville, for
n number of years, was striker with
paralysis Monday. Mr.. Carr is an
interesting figure by reason of his
having travelled extensively in darkest
Africa, under II. NJ. Stanley. Carr
was in Stanley's expedition when
Stanley discovered Livingstone.
An Ellensburg boy named Milligan
has developed talent for invention and
construction, and his home is a verit-
able museum OF his handiwork. Re.
Gently he has been collecting parts of
bicycles, such as spokes, bearings; in
fact, any and all portions of wheels,
and the result is very good wheel,
which he is now riding at cost to
him of IS cents.
Superintendent Crawford, of the
Kalama fish hatchery, marked 5000
young chinooks at the hatchery last
week and turned them out in the
river. The marking consisted of cut
ting a V-shaped notch in the tail of
the fish, also round hole through the
tail. In four years these marked fish
are billed to again make their appear
ance in the Columbia river.
State Dairy Commissioner McDon-
aid said to Tacoma reporter last week
al intend to enforce the new pure food
law with the utmost vigor. The dealers
have been given plenty of time to get
rid of the stock they purchased inno-
Gently. and anything bought after
May LIST which is not absolutely pure
will be condemned. The same course
OF action will be pursued rs in the
case OF Oleomargarine, the colored
variety of which l think is now prac-
tically driven out of the State"
John Albertson, man about so
years of age, walked into a saloon ut
Seattle, Saturday morning, and called
for glass of beer. He was given it,
and when he had drunk it, he startled
the bartender by remarking in the
most matter-of-fact tone imaginable /:
al took dose of strychnine, and it
wouldn't work, SO got that beer to
help it along" The bartender i'm
mediately notified police headquarters,
but before medical assistance arrived
the poison began to work, and Albert
son died in few minutes.
Leslie Springsteen accidentally shot
and killed himself while out hunting
near Chehalis last Friday afternoon.
The body was found by E. p. Hewitt,
a rancher. 1t was across q log. A
charge of shot from a single-barrel
shotgun, which lay by his side, had
entered the head under the chin,
causing instant death. The clothing
caught fire from the discharge OF the
gun and was burned entirely from the
body, and the shoulders and breast
partly burned. The theory of the
cause OF the accident was that he
stood on the log, the gun resting be.
tween his feet, and that it slipped
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log.
w. E. Goodin, q well-known rail
road man and for several years editor
of the Minneapolis Times, committed
suicide at Walla Walla Monday by
shooting himself in the head. The
body was found lying in an clubhouse
back of his lodging house. He left a
letter to the coroner, and one to his
friend, General Manager McCabe, of
the w. & c. Il. r. The letter to the
coroner stated that an inquest was
unnecessary and it was simply a case
of Too much politics and bad luck"
The letter to McCabe was a lengthy
one and among other things said: Il
don't know why am going to do it; I
must he crazy, but it is the only way
out of it," He enclosed a roll of
greenbacks which he requested be sent
to his wife. Gooding was a man of
temperate habits, we'll educated and of
refined tastes, He leaves wife and
three children in Minneapolis; also a
brother in business in Minneapolis or
St, Paul. The body was shipped to
the family for interment.