Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From
all Parts Of the State.

n DrleI SUMMARY VI NeWS Cdthereu iTohh
all Parts Of the State.
Walla Walla people ate 10000
pounds OF peanuts year.
The cannery at Fairhaven, burned
several weeks ago, will be rebuilt.
John Nolan, Tacoma contractor,
has contributed $50 to aid the cause of
the Beers.
Counterfeit silver dollars and half
dollars are being circulated freely at
Port Townsend.
A New Whatcom man has invented
a thawing machine for use in the
frozen gold fields of the north.
Tacoma is taking steps to provide
accommodations for smallpox patients
in case the disease shall appear in that
city.
VIM. Lizenby, one of the early set
tiers in the Walla Walla valley, died
at Walla Walla Friday night, aged so
years.
A hobo was arrested in Everett with
a peculiar "hold-up" weapon. 1t was
a woman's stocking, with a bar of
laundry soap in the toe.
J. III. Cline, from Nebraska, has
bought Eagan's farm on White Bluff
prairie for $1,000. This is a fine farm
between Medical Lake and Spokane.
James McGary, who was recently
convicted of stealing IL head of cattle
near Sprague, was sentenced by Judge
Neal to serve Is months in the peni-
Tertiary.
Twenty Chinese at Spokane Monday
night gave Sis to help the Crittenton
Rescue Home there. They had pre-
viously given $25, and promised to
furnish room at the home.
In the last quarter of 1899 nine
birth. were recorded in Jefferson
county, eight of which were girls, and
six deaths, all boys, were reposted.
Eight marriages occurred in the same
period.
Bert Hopkins, young man % years
of age, who has been working in the
lumber camps for some years, was
found dead in his bed at the Grand
Central hotel at Sedro-Wooley. 1t is
supposed he committed suicide by
taking morphine. He has been out Of
work and respondent of late. Rela-
tives of the young man are said to
live in Virginia.
J. A. Black, the prizefghter, who
has been awaiting trial on charge Of
defrauding a hotelkeeper, was released
from custody Tuesday, at Colfax, by
Judge Mcdonald on writ Of habeas
corpus. Black was arrested under the
law of 1899, which makes it a misde-
meanor to jump board bill, and the
court decided that the law was UNI
constitutional in that it permitted i'm
prisonment for debt. The decision is
regarded as an important one.
The Office of Tjossem & Son. mill
ers, three miles from Ellensburg, was
burglarized one night last week. The
safe was blown to atoms, evidently
with nitro-glycerine, and all its con-
tents taken. The burglars secured
$500 in cash, and about the same
amount in checks. In addition they
took or destroyed all the papers in the
safe, many of whom were valuable.
Pieces of the safe were picked up 40
feet away. A typewriter was wrecked
and Office furniture badly damaged.
William +. De Shaw, white man,
but nominally, at least, chief of the
Puget sound Indians, died Sunday at
his home at Point Agate. De Shaw
was married to daughter OF Princess
Angelina, herself the daughter OF the
famous Chief Seattle, or Sealth. Chief
Seattle left no sons. and De Shaw was
generally recognized as the one upon
whom his mantle fell. De Shaw was
Texan by birth. He came to Cali
fornia during the gold excitement OF
lS49, and later to Puget sound. Chief
Seattle was powerful Indian ruler at
that time, and De Shaw early made his
acquaintance. The acquaintance
deepened into friendship, and finally
De Shaw fell in love with the old
chiefs granddaughter. They were
married and had two children. De
Shaw caused his two children to be
educated in the public schools.
Several years ago his wife died, and
since that time he has been living at
Point Agate.
The Sheriff's investigation of the as
sault made early Sunday morning on
Mrs. M. Saxon, at her home south
west of Colfax, disclosed the fact that
it was not burglary, but an assina-
ton, that was attempted. When Mrs.
Saxon fully recovered her senses,
which was not until late Sunday
afternoon, she told the following story
of the assault: Shortly after mid
night Sunday morning she heard
some one enter the room in which she
was sleeping, with her little son. The
man, reaching the bedside, seized her
| by the throat, ut the same time say
ing: "You won't escape me this time.
you -" choking her and ap-
parently feeling at his side for knife
or other weapon. Mrs. Saxon says she
struggled desperately, striking at tie
mans face, and endeavoring to tear
his hands away from her throat, but
does not think she marked him in any
Way, Finally, for a moment, she tore