Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-12-14

large wooden affair and was in the
center of the business part OF the
town, and it was only by the most per.
severing work that the town was
saved. The loss is heavy and no in
surance. The people will rebuild i'm
mediately. There is no fire protec-
dued by hastily organized bucket
brigade.
Isaac Lancaster, trapper, residing
in Selah Valley, lately had a narrow
escape from accidental death by shoot
ing. He was in the woods near the
banks of the Yakima River, setting
beaver traps. The place is known as
a beaver resort and men passing by are
always on the lookout for the animals.
A cattle herder passed the traps as
Lancaster was engaged in placing
them. He saw what he thought was a
beaver and fired a shot from his rifle.
The bullet missed Lancaster only a
few inches. He sprang to his feet
and the excited herder ran away.
Mrs. F. T. Clark, OF Machias, was
struck by locomotive on the Everett
e. Monte Cristo railway tracks Mon
day night about o'clock, and in
stantly killed. She was walking on
the track to her home and when
about one mile south of Machias, was
overtaken by the train. She attempt
ed to step to one side, but the engine
struck her, causing her instant death.
The body was taken to Snohomish and
an inquest held, it being found that
death was purely accidental. De-
ceased was 70 years of age and was an
old resident OF Snohomish county.
She leaves a number of children in
that vicinity.
Burglars have a cool way of operat-
ing in Seattle. Tuesday morning, at an
early hour, w. ID. Bangs, who resides
in the suburbs had an exciting time
with nocturnal prowler, who while
riffling drawers and learning that his
presence was detected, rushed to the
bed in which Bangs was sitting up
right, and pushing him down, drew a
revolver and commanded him to keep
quiet. With a threat to blow his
head off if further protest was offered,
the burglar calmly resumed his inter-
rupted examination of the contents Of
the bureau drawers, obtaining 1913
from Bangs room and IS from an ad,
joining apartment occupied by his
daughter.
A diver named Brenderman, said to
be from Seattle, recovered 500 in
vpl1 10 sc
Bay, Monday afternoon. The money
was in small satchel, and was lost
off the Sehome wharf by a Mrs.
Mathews, of Samish, about two weeks
ago. Mrs. Mathews is all elderly wo-
man, and slipped on wet plank and
fell, dropping the money, which rolled
off the dock into twenty feet of water. |
Fruitless efforts were made to recover
the money by dragging. and the diver
was finally employed. He went down
Monday afternoon and found the
money, after five minutes search,
about 80 feet from the dock. The |
diver was paid 1925 for his services.
The mystery surrounding the
strange disappearance of John Harder,
at Seattle, who was last seen on the |
night of Nov. IS, was solved Tues
day by the finding of the body in
the bay near that place. Every |
appearance points to Harder having
been murdered. On his head were
several wounds, which were prob.
ably made by blunt instrument from
behind. The trousers pockets were
turned inside out, showing that he
had been robbed. What lends fur
Their color to the murder theory is the |
fact that Harder was seen early in the
morning, after leaving his work, at a
beer hall on Second avenue, in com.
pany with strange man who said he
came from Montana.
Colville is awakening to the fact
that the disease which has been for a
year past designated by the local
physicians as Manila itch is in fact
smallpox. In the past two months
two deaths have resulted from this
malady, and Que victim has lost his
sight. 1t is said that the State quar-
antine law is imperative except in sea-
board and border towns, where in
fictitious diseases from foreign coun.
tries is possible. The coming Legis-
lature will be asked to enact q law
covering the case and provide severe
penalties for violation. There have
been over so cases of smallpox in /
Colville within the past six months.
The attacks have been light, but this
is due to the general practice of vac
cination and the warmth of the sea-
son. As the Geld weather approaches
the disease becomes more severe.
Dwight Franks, a carpenter, who
refused to give up his money, about
$500, to footpads was twice shot at
Spokane. Wednesday evening. His
assailants ran away without the money,
however. Franks was going home
from work about 8 o'clock on that
night, when two men stepped out and
demanded that he throw up his hands,
at the same time showing pistols un-
der Franks nose. Franks swung at
him with his open umbrella, and an
instant later was shot in the groin by
one ruffian, and in the inslep by the
other, both taking to their heels.
Previous to Franks hold-up, Jimmie
Morrison, messenger boy, was
stopped by apparently the same men
and his loose change taken from him.
Franks says his assailants were
masked and disguised their voices, but
he believes they are old hands OF the
business. He is not dangerously
wounded.
Isadore Schopps, who has been in
the Medical Lake asylu m for the past
two years, was Wednesday adjudged
free by Assistant Attorney General
Vance. Schopps murdered man
named Gustave Hager, in Seattle, Dec.
%, 1898, but the jury found him not
guilty by reason of insanity. He has
now regained his reason. The crime
was most brutal and cold-blooded.
Schopps and the man he killed were
teammates jonathan Thoy hod a