Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-02-16

from the till. Nothing else was
missed from the store.
A very sad accident occurred at
Lowell, early Wednesday morning,
when little Rachel Walters, the 5-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Walters, was burned to death while
playing with a small fire near the
house. Mrs. Walters left the house
for short time to go to a grocery,
and had been gone but ten minutes
when she was summoned home to at
tend her dying child.
Charles Geiger, Of Eagleton, is in
receipt of letter from friend living
at Port Angeles which leads him to
believe that the Port Townsend South.
ern railway will not only be completed
to Olympia but that it will take up
the old Union Pacific grade and come
on south. Work is being pushed right
along on that line and great deal of
money has already been expended in
construction.
William o. Siler, manager OF the
Columbia Box & Lumber Company's
mill at South Bend, was crushed to
death the other day. He had just
stepped back of the big saw, when a
dog in huge cant they were turning
slipped out and the cant struck him,
throwing him against a log back of
him on the sideways, crushing in his
ribs. The cant was partially pulled
away when the dog slipped again, the
cant crushing his hips as he turned.
He died an hour later.
DIR. ]. G. Stewart, one OF the pro-
prietors of a medical institute in Sc
attic, was arrested Monday on charge
of manslaughter. The warrant for
his arrest was sworn out by w. w.
Folger, Prosecuting Attorney of JET
ferson county, and the complaint
upon which it is based accuses DIR.
Stewart of causing the death Of Mary
A. Huntingford, a Port Townsend
girl, by means Of criminal operation
alleged to have been performed in Sc
attic on January 23d.
Three masked men entered the
residence of o. P. Anderson, at Seattle,
at 2 o'clock Saturday morning, and,
after forcing him to assist them in
their search for his valuables, de-
camped with between $500 and 5000
worth of plumber. Anderson awoke
at 2 o'clock to find two guns pointed
at him by masked men. He called
for help, but was ordered to keep quiet
or take the consequences. After his
bedroom was ransacked, Anderson was
compelled to show the burglars
around the house. His wife was
awakened by the noise, but took the
matter philosophically. The robbers
left Anderson seated on an apple-box
in the middle of the kitchen, with in
structions not to move for half an
hour.
Mr.. Lister, of the State Board oil
Audit and Control urges the farmers
to raise fax for the fiber. He says
that at the price the State now has to
pay for jute to manufacture into grain
bags that flax could be raised at a
good profit. The authorities have ex.
perimented at the penitentiary with
making grain bags of fax and say
] they can make better bag of flax but
at slightly greater cost for the labor
of making. The fax can be raised
here at q profit and sold to the State
at a price that would make the grain
bags cheaper than at present and
there would be the additional advant.
age that all of the money that went
into the bags would be kept in the
State instead OF large part of it going
abroad for material.
After the burning of the Royce
home, near Dixie, the other night. in
which the owner had been killed by
his grandson, Frank Royce, it was
found that three or four rifles, shot.
gun and four or five revolvers were
found in the ruins so disposed that il
was evident they had been concealed
in the bedrooms of the house. Trouble
was constantly on tap about the
place, and it is supposed that the
occupants of the bedrooms had pro.
vided themselves with weapons in ex.
pectation that they might be needed
in case of an outbreak of hostilities
that had long been impending. Young
Royce's particular antipathy was di.
rected to the hired man, Woods, whom
the grandfather refused to discharge
at Franks instance. Frank Royce
was found at his own home, neal
Waitsburg, and arrested. On accoun,
of the feeling against him there, he
was taken to the Walla Walla Jail for
safety.
Mrs. Louise Boyce, a cashier in
Shuh e. Riders bakery, at Tacoma
was shot by her husband three times
just before 6 o'clock last Saturday
night, and died soon after being taken
to the hospital. Entering the res
tourant, Boyce drew a self.cockins
revolver from his coat-pockct and be-
gan firing. The first shot apparent,
struck the woman in the arm. With
a cry OF terror she started to escape
and ran toward small private dining
room few steps from her desk. A.
she darted forward, Boyce fired another
shot, which struck her in the chest
penetrating the lungs. The woman
threw up her hands and fell back
ward to the floor. At that instan,
Boyce fred two other shots, neither o.
which took effect. Then he deliber
ately bent over the PROSTATE body ant
fired a shot directly into her chest. Il