Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-07-19
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.

oriet summary OF News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.
Albert S. Lum, pioneer of Pacific
county since 1869, died at South
Bend from the effects of a paralytic
stroke.
The third attempt was made to set
fire to buildings at Aberdeen, Monday
evening. Two shots were fired at the
incendiary, but he escaped.
Isaac S. Mansfield, a pioneer of
1888, died at Hoquiam on the lIth
INST. Mr.. NJ. was born in Indiana in
1922. He crossed the plains in 1858.
He leaves wife.
Hon. }. G. Brady, Probate Judge of
kootenal county, Idaho, died at Spo-
kane, Wednesday, as a result of a
shot fired July 5, by Henry Wilmbusse,
who was suffering from insanity.
James G. Peterson, a lovesick youth
OF Il years, shot and killed himself
Monday evening in the hallway of the
lodging house at 1,l31a Tacoma ave-
nve, at Tacoma, all because his affec.
ton for Miss Clara Yenne was not re-
turned.
The body of Bait Guyett, a half
breed, was found Tuesday morning on
the floor of his house at Tacoma. w.
ing face downward. Heart disease is
supposed to have been the cause of
death. He was good violinist and
frequently played for dances.
When arraigned in the United
States 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 peniten-
tiary and to pay fine OF 81 1000 and
costs.
A man by the name OF Gus Myers,
an employe at the Tacoma smelter,
was quite severely injured Saturday
morning at the smelter by falling into
pot Of Stag. He was burned around
the legs in frightful manner. He
was taken at once to the hospital in a
critical condition.
Roy Long, the 11-year. old son of A.
j. Long of Chehalis, was fatally shot
by Harold Ludwig, the 6-year old son
of John Ludwig, Saturday evening.
younger boy fired a 32.caliber rifle at
Long while the two were playing to.
gether, not knowing the gun was
loaded.
The Seattle Civil Service Commits.
sion, in special meeting Friday night,
by unanimous vote, sustained the &C.
ton of the Chief of Police in removing
Officer A. H. Mefford from the force
for neglect of duty in not endeavoring
to prevent the killing of w. L.
Meredith by the Considines.
John Paul Judson, some time ago
appointed corporation council by
Mayor Byrne of Spokane, has at last
been confirmed in the appointment by
the Spokane City Council, which has
held out for some time against the ap-
pointment, majority of the members
being Republican, while the Mayor
and his appointees are Democrats.
Three masked men entered the
house occupied by three Cinnamon of
Walla Walla, the other night and
later decamped with $40 and a silver
watch. The occupants of the house
were badly used and one severely in
jured on the head, while everything
in the building was ransacked and
torn to pieces. One of the victims,
Ynng Sim, it the wealthiest China
man in Walla Walla.
A bottle was found floating on Loon
Lake. near Spokane, July 9th, con-
tanning note which reads: Please
let my folks at Cleveland, Ohio, know
that am dead. / am going to drown
myself in the lake at 10 80 p. NJ"
This was signed Miss K. Beardsley."
If tragedy has occurred, the principal
in it was a stranger, but as nobody is
missed, the matter is thought to be
hoax. perpetrated by some heartless
person.
The largest cannery deal on the Pa
chic Coast since the formation of the
Pacific-American Fisheries Company,
two years ago, was consummated
Tuesday at New Whatcom, when the
Alaska Packers Association purchased
the Anacortes Packing Company's
consisting OF cannery at
Anacortes, Is fish traps. and a num-
Der OF steam vessels, etc. The Pacific
Packing & Navigation Company, Just
in New York had an option
on this property which expired July 1.
The Anacortes Company refused to
renew it, and within two days closed q
deal with the Alaska Packers Associa-
ton at "a figure in the neighborhood
of $4,000.
j. A. Johnson, a compositor on the
Tacoma News, was shot in the neck
last Saturday afternoon while seated
with some companions in a rowboat
fishing on the water front at Tacoma.
The bullet entered the neck at a point
just behind the ear and ranged forward,
lodging on the jaw bone. johnson
Immediately went to police headquar.
tiers and told his experience. Officers
went to the vicinity where the shot
was supposed to have come from, but
could get no information. johnson
was so fond of the sport he was en-
gagged in that after notifying the Of
ficers he hurried back to the boat and
fished all afternoon. Next morning
he went to Fanny Paddock hospital
and had the bullet removed. He
would have been instantly killed had
tho bullet struck the middle of hi q