Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-08-10

Gently at Oakesdale, after being ar
rested on charge of attempting to
burn the city in order to make times
little more prosperous for working
men. He leaves a wife and three
children near Olympia.
Howard Olson, an old settler of
Davenport, died recently after an ill.
ness of several months. Mr.. Olson
was Il jeweler by trade, and moved
with his family to Davenport from
Spokane IL years ago. He left a
widow, two grown daughters and son
4 years cd.
The young Yakima bride who
cashed check and was arrested turns
out to be innocent. She had on July
10 married Spokane drummer, Harry
II. Graham, at the home of her father,
A. W. Morrison, and when the groom
gave her 800 check on a Spokane
bank she indorsed it and cashed it at
a Yakima bank, where she was we'll
known. The young husband got the
money and deserted her at Seattle.
She will not be prosecuted.
Mrs. Mary Leroy, a sweet faced wo-
man of 81, gave birth to an eight
pound girl on the train near Tekoa,
August LIST. Its birth was accelerated
by excitement over the accident in
which Conductor Vaile lost his life. A
berth was made up and the mother
was rendered rs comfortable as pos
sible. Mrs. Leroy was on her way
from Burke to Walla Walla to visit
her mother. She has been widow for
four months, her husband having
been killed in a mining accident.
Rev. G. w. Sloan, a pioneer, who
was long active in Christianizing the
Indians Of Washington, died in Penn
sylvania recently. He came to the
Coast in 1858, and helped organize the
first presbytery in the State. From
this one 16 have grown. Mr.. Sloan
endured many hardships during the
pioneer days Of the State, and never
1t was his ambition to
Christianize the Indians and aid them
in every possible way to better their
He achieved considerable
Of success.
One Of the most disastrous harvest
fires OF the year occurred the other day
on Couse Creek, five miles north of
Milton, on Mack Cockburn's farm.
The separator, 40 acres of standing
grain and 250 sacks of wheat were
completely destroyed, and several
horses were badly burned. VIM. Sea-
man, a harvest hand was badly burned
about the face and hands while at
to save the horses from the
fire. The fire was caused by lighted
cigarette which Que of the hands
threw on the ground near
The separator. The loss was $4,000,
with small insurance.
Emma Kidwell, a 15-year-old girl,
was brutally assaulted by an unknown
man at 3 O'Clock Saturday afternoon,
in the suburbs OF Walla Walla. The
man had thrown her upon the ground,
when she screamed. Then he pulled
a pocket-knife and stabbed her several
times in the region of the heart and
ran away. The girl is in a critical
A man giving the name
Of Ed. Sutherland has been arrested
and the police are confident they have
The right man. Blood was found on
his clothes, and he was identified by
Miss Kidwell as the brute who as
'aulted her. Sutherland was found
about 9 o'clock that night with a re-
spectacle woman, Mrs. Durkee, in the
brush, near the spot where he attacked
the girl. She says Sutherland grabbed
her as she was passing along the street
md spirited her away to a secluded
place, where he threatened to kill her
i she made an outcry, when the arrest
was made.
James M. Simmons, q farmland
aged "a years, last Friday night, shot
and instantly killed Will d. Buchanan,
aged % years, guard in the State
Penitentiary at Walla Walla. 1t
seems that for some time Simmons
has suspected his wife and young Bu-
,hanan of intimacy, and resolved to
get to the bottom of the affair. He
told his wife he was going to Milton to
remain over night, and left the house.
About 10 o'clock he went homs and
slipped in the back door, and went
right to his wife's room. As he sus.
pected, he found Mrs. Simmons and
there. He stepped to the
doorway, and Buchanan jumped up,
pulling a blanket about him. "I've
caught you at last" exclaimed the
husband. He raised his revolver and
fired one shot, which took effect in
breast close to his heart.
The young man fell dead. al ought
to kill you, too," cried the husband to
his wife. He then ran out the back
door, revolver in hand, and disappeared
and has not been found yet, and there
are some who believe he suicided. A
verdict Of "justifiable homicide" was
returned at the Coroner's inquest held
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