Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-21
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered from All
Parts of the State

Mrs. T.. lettering, who WAS burned
to death 10y lamp explosion at Ever
cit, has been buried at Port Angeles.
DR.. Matthew Ellis, y year-old
veteran OF the Civil War, died at his
home, at Port Angeles, the other day.
Moran Bros Co. have their machine
shops running full blast with non
union men protected by eight guards.
Col. James S. Collican and party of
Chicago capitalists will build brewery
at Port Angeles. The machinery has
already been ordered.
Two masked men entered the Post
office at Medical Lake, early Tuesday
morning, and blew open the safe, but
secured nothing of value.
A. f. Harrys, of VIVA tcom, was
drowned at Point Roberts, Sunday,
and his body carried away in the
swift current ut that place.
Police Judge l.. c. Whitney, of
Everett, was removed by the City
Council, Monday night, and Oscar Rea
was elected as his successor.
Frank Rudder, native OF Austria,
60 years old, and resident of this
State since 1871, died at his home nine
miles from Colville, Tuesday, of heart
disease.
Jack Noonberg, wanted at Spokane
for assault and battery upon Pearl
White, with whom he had been con-
sorting, has been arrested at Skagway
and is being brought back.
Chas. Blomberg, a ship-carpenter of
Port Blakely, was robbed OF a valuable
gold watch on the wharf at Pleasant
Beach Sunday, by pickpocket, while
attendinga Painters picnic.
William Barber, an employee in the
Frye-Bruhn Co.'S sheep camp near
North Yakima, accidentally shot and
killed himself, Wednesday, with a re-
volver. The ball entered the abdomen.
John johnson, employed by the
Pennsylvania Mine Company in Sno-
homish county, committed suicide
Sunday, by cutting his throat from
ear to ear. No cause is known for the
deed.
Warrants have been issued for the
arrest Of Leon Woods, Dell Monroe
and James Brassell of Aberdeen, on
the charge of cutting timber in the
government forest reserve in Chehalis
county.
G. ]. Simmons, OF Seattle, is wanted
at Astoria, Or, for forgery. 1t is al
legged that he succeeded in passing
four bogus checks on Astoria mer-
chants Sunday, amounting to $40 in
the aggregate.
Twenty union carpenters employed
on the Chaplin block, in course OF erec-
ton in Seattle, quit work because OF
the delivery to the contractors-of a
load of lumber manufactured by the
Moran Bros. Company.
Charles J. Kampler was found dead
on the tracks OF the Northern Pacific
near North Yakima, Tuesday morn
ing. He is supposed to have been
murdered by couple of thugs and
his body thrown on the tracks.
| F. Kaufman, of Seattle, was Tues
day arrested in Portland on the charge
Of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. 1t is said that he has secured
over 81 100 by drawing checks on
banks where he had no funds on de-
post.
Miss Effie Haworth, the l7-year-old
girl who was shot by her former lover,
William Davis, last week, at Walla
Walla, is in a very critical condition.
Davis is under arrest, but does not
seem to realize the enormity of his
crime.
When arraigned in the u. s. Court
at Seattle, last Saturday, George s.
Patten pleaded guilty to the charge of
sending obscene letters through the
mails and was sentenced to three
years in the federal penitentiary and
to pay fine of 81 600 and costs.
Chas. Kampeter was struck by
train near North Yakima, Sunday
morning and killed instantly. Both
legs were cut off and his body badly
mangled. He was &c years old and
unmarried, and was the son OF Henry
Kampeter well-known citizen.
Claire Strasburg, of Seattle, stepson
of William A. Aimes, an attorney of
San Francisco, attempted to kill him.
self Monday morning at Everett, by
shooting himself in the left breast
with a revolver. A friend said Stras-
burg committed the deed on account
OF the unfaithfulness of woman he
expected to marry.
A sensation was sprung on the
saloonmen OF Vancouver Monday by
the arrest of Henry Luch for violation
of the Sunday closing law. Luch
keeps an establishment on Seventh
street. According to reports his doors
have stood wide open all day Sunday.
while other saloonmen have been con-
tent to allow only rear doors to be un.
bolted.
The Commissioners of Whitman
county have effected a saving to their
county of $1,000 year. The chief
deputy of the Treasurer's Office has
had his salary cut from 800 to SIS
per month, while three other deputies
are dropped from $75 to $40. A saw.
ing in the Sherifi's office alone amounts
to $3.50 q month.
John Wickstrand, who has been a
mail carrier, at Spokane, for the past
nine years, is under arrest at that
place for tampering with registered
mail. He had "swiped" letter con-
tanning . $40 Canadian bill, and when
he heard officers were tracing it, he
delivered the letter. but in place of the
Canadian bill $40 u. S. bill was
therein. He had been suspicioned as
doing this sort of thing for some time.
Mrs. Druzilla Burdick is suing her
husband, at Spokane for a divorce.
He answered the complaint from
Billings, Mont, as follows: az have
never recognized her as my wife. l
think she must be mistaken as to me
buying her only one dress in six years,
as l don't remember of throwing any
money off in that way. As to getting