Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-11-29
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.


Parts Of the State.
Aberdeen is to have another large
sawmill.
Miss Ida Sinclair. aged Is, was
drowned last Friday in a small creek
at Alpha, Lewis county.
Joseph Remley, a resident of Wash.
ington since 1851, died at North Yak.
ina Saturday, aged 50 years.
Walter Hartley, q Great Northern
fireman. fell from an engine at Sky
komish, yesterday, and was run over
and killed.
The postofiice at East Spokane was
broken open early yesterday morning
by burglars, who carried away about
SIS worth OF stamps aud some money.
The bunk.house at Polson's camp
No. 4, near Hoquiam, burned Satur-
day morning, while the crew was eat.
ing breakfast. The men lost all their
bedding.
The King County Horticultural So
ciety will advocate the lowering OF
Lake Washington. 1t is thought that
AZ, 900 acres of land can thus be re-
claimed.
John Henry. who on Saturday night
tried to shoot down John Devine at
Seattle and instead killed Henry p.
Kinney, will probably be tried for
murder in the first degree before
Christmas.
John w. Saunders, 80 years old,
a farmer living near Walla Walla, sat
on creek bank near his home yester-
day, placed the muzzle of q Winches-
ter rifle to his forehead, pulled the
trigger and blew off the top of his
head.
The train on the middle division Of
the Port Blakely Railroad, was badly
wrecked by tree across the track
At the Rock cut hill" Tuesday night.
The tree was just high enough above
the track 70 strip the engine Of stack,
steam and sand-dome and cab. The
train consisted Of twenty empties, but
fortunately engineer Leroy and the
brakemen all escaped without injury.
Shelton Journal.
A couple OF young gamblers came
into town the other night and started
in to "clean out" the local "crap"
dealers, and with the aid of loaded
dice, they nearly succeeded in doing
it. The funny part of it is that one OF
the local gamblers had one OF the fell
lows arrested for gambling" and he
was fined fifty dollars. The matter
was finally adjusted by the young fell
low paying $50 and clearing out
Bremerton Nesos.
A cut-rate war between the several
Seattle San Francisco steamship com.
panies is threatened. The Kruse line
and the Pollard Dodge Company have
already cut. So far the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company has not met the
cut. Its passenger rates are $lS and
$40 between Seattle and San Frapcis.
CO. The Kruse line. which is COM
posed mainly OF Nome steamers, re
duced the rate to Sis and So. Since
Saturday the Pollard-D Dodge people
have been offering first-class tickets
for $l2.
Last Saturday at South Bend the
house OF James Bellamy. of Lebam
burned to the ground, and with it his
babe in the cradle. He and his wife
had gone to the barn near by. and
when they looked back they saw their
house in flames. The frantic father
made = desperate effort to reach the
baby, which had been left in the cradle
in the house, and burned his face
badly in his unsuccessful efforts
Hardly any of the remains Of the
child could be found. The fire il
supposed to have caught from coal
which was drying near the stove.
Mrs. Moses Purea, q young wife, Is
years of age, living with her mother
in law at Whatcom. Mrs. Purea, be-
came violently insane Wednesda,
morning, and, going into the room
where her mother-in-law lay asleep
tried to chloroform her. Her mother
in-law awakened and grsppled with
the insane woman. In the scuff1t
a lighted lamp was overturned, set
ting fire to the house. The women
we're rescued with difficulty and Mrs
Purea is badly burned. Her face il
also considerably lacerated as the re
suit of her struggle with the demented
woman in the burning building.
Frank Stentz, a prominent ranchel
residing near Spangle, was convicted
of granddaughter by jury in the Su
perior Court at Spokane, Wednesday
for the killing last month OF M. w
Orion. an insurance solicitor of Ritz
vile. Orion was riding bicycle or
the highway near Cheney, and was
overtaken aud run down by Stents
and three companions in wagon
Orion was thrown under the wheels
and his head crushed. The evidence
at the trial showed that Stentz anG
his party we're hilarious from liquor
at the time, aud that Stentz, who wal