Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-05-02

which were picked off the surrounding
trees and ilushes. Price lived about
an hour after the accident, but died
without regaining consciousness.
nj. ]. Griffin, alias J. II. Griffiths,
was killed at s 80 o'clock Monday
evening on Pacific avenue, Tacoma, by
Michael Burke. The homicide was
the result of quarrel. No weapons
were used and eye-witnesses of the
struggle between the two men say
Burke struck Griffin only two blows,
both on the right side Of the chin.
The patrol wagon was called and
Griffin was taken to the police station.
He was dead when he reached the
city hall. Burke escaped, but was
placed under arrest Tuesday morning
at kalama. Bo,h parties are railroad
men.
Another suicide by the razor route
was attempted Friday, at Waitsburg,
when Fred Wilkinson cut his throat
with dull razor at the home of his
mother. He was discovered soon after
the attempt. Medical aid was sum.
moned and his wounds sewed up. 1t
is thought he will not recover. Viii
kinsOn was member of Company X,
and served with his company in the
Philippines. 1t is thought the sensa-
tional suicide Of Hooker, the Whiskey
Creek rancher, preyed on his mind to
such an extent that he decided to go
by the same route. He is a popular
young NAH, and his attempt to COM
nit suicide created no little excite
ment among his friends. His mother
is Frustrated.
OF such violence was the portion of
a storm that passed over Seattle Mon
day afternoon that smokestack on
the bottling plant of George T. Nc
Ginnis & Co. was severed by bolt of
lightning. A strange feature of the
stroke is that the upper section of the
stack was but slightly disturbed, and
remains in its normal position. When
it was severed from the lower part of
the stack in the unusual way, the
upper cylinder shook violently for a
moment and then settled down upon
the jagged edges OF the under section.
The gale was one of the most severe
that has swept over Puget Sound dur
ing the present year. A terrific We
locity was attained by the wind.
Doubtless vessels sailing off the west
ern coast Of Vancouver Island were
seriously endangered.
F. P. Hunt, proprietor of barber
shop at Vancouver, against which a
boycott has been declared by the
BARRIERS of the town, has filed a petit
ton in the Superior Court asking for
an order of injunction against the
members OF the Vancouver BARRIERS
Union. The plaintiff alleges dam.
ages in the sum of $50, which he de-
clares he has sustained in loss of bust
ness by reason OF the boycott last Sum
day. The members of the union, he
alleges, collected in front of his place,
used abusive and boisterous language,
and circulated handbills, the purport
OF which were to prevent persons from
patronizing his shop, all of which, it is
alleged. contributed to the damages
claimed. The court is asked to issue
an order restraining the members OF
tie union or others from further cir
culating handbills referring to him or
his business, or from further inter-
ference in any manner with his bust
ness. Each member of the BARRIERS
Union was yesterday served with a
copy OF the proceedings.
Fred Conrad, aged 90, shot Joseph
Black to death at Deming, in What
com county, at 7 o'clock Tuesday
morning. Conrad was cook at q
shinglemill, at which Black was also
employed. Black was drinking the
day before and drove his wife from
home. She went to Ivar Langland's
house, where shortly afterwards Black
saw Conrad engaged in conversation
with her and Mrs. Langland. He told
Conrad then that he would kill him,
and made him leave. Later in the
afternoon Black borrowed a rifle from
a neighbor and at night went to the
house in which Conrad was sleeping.
He fired three shots, one of which
passed through the roof Next morn.
ing as Conrad was getting breakfast
he spied Black some hundred yards
from the house, trying to draw bead
on him with his rifle. He stepped
inside and secured rifle. He fired at
Black, and shot him in the right lung.
Death was instantaneous. Only man.
slaughter is charged in the informa-
ton on which Conrad is held. He
will in all probability be released on
preliminary examination. He gave
$4,000 bonds and was released.