Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-09-19
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.

PdrtS OF inc Stdte.
George Sullivan committed suicide
at Wellington, Monday, by jabbing a
sharp knife deep into his throat.
Henry Hawley, who has been un-
conscious since Sunday from the ef-
fects of taking cold bath after eating
a hearty meal, died Saturday at Sc
attic.
Banker Dix, under sentence to the
penitentiary from Whatcom county,
will appeal his case to the Supreme
Court. The transcript of 800 pages
has been filed.
J.. A. Booth, assistant engineer OF
the steamship Garonne, dropped dead
in front of Dave Blake's saloon, in Sc
attle, Monday morning. 1t is proba.
bic that death resulted from heart dis.
ease.
While working with threshing
outfit near Dayton, on the 18th inst,
James Keller's left leg became en-
tangled in cylinder and was torn
into shreds to the knee, necessitating
amputation.
Nicholas Post tried to commit sui
eide at Seattle twice the other day,
first with razor and then with a re-
volver. He succeeded in cutting
cash in the neck, but was restrained
from doing himself further injury.
Two dice experts made a haul Of
$500 at the State and C. & L. saloons
and the st. Elmo bar, at Palouse, re.
Gently, by shooting craps and then
drove out of town. When it became
known that the dice experts were
working the town all of the crap games
were closed.
Fire starting from a spark from a
locomotive destroyed about 1000
bushels of wheat, at Colfax, Saturday,
belonging to E. E. Shefey and z. NJ.
Beebe. The fire swept 100 acres of
stubble. Two headers and threshing
outfit which was at work were saved.
The Northern Pacific has purchased
from the Fairhaven Land Co., at Fair
haven, a strip of land adjoining the
land purchased by the Great Northern,
paying $4,000 therefor. This gives
the two roads strip 210 feet by $50
feet, which it is undoubtedly their in
tention to use for union depot.
Word came to Snohomish by phone
Sunday from Monroe of the death OF
an unknown man at that place under
suspicious circumstances, and Coroner
Bakeman left the former place to inves.
tigate. The man, who was from east
OF the mountains, had been seen on
the previous day and during the night
with a couple of tough parties around
the town. This morning he was found
dead in the brush near the hotel.
During the night John Johnson, the
hotel-keeper, saw a man floundering
around in an excavation and lighting
matches to discover his bearings. 1t
was one of the parties last seen with
the deceased. The two men have
been arrested and held subject to the
Coroner's inquest.
Joseph, Albert and Markus Mayer,
of the firm of Mayer Bros, manufac.
turing jewellers, and William s. Tar
rant. a travelling salesman, were ar
rested at Seattle, Saturday, by United
States Secret Service Agent Bell, ac-
cused of counterfeiting, and held in
$1,000 bail each to appear for prelimi.
uary examination. The arrests are
the sequel to the apprehension last
week Of Charles Wood and Charles
Weiser, two cafe walters, who were at.
tempting to pass gilded nickels. The
prisoners implicated the jewellers and
their arrest followed Saturday. Mayer
Bros. claimed that they are innocent
OF any criminal intent, simply gliding
the coins in the belief that they were
to be used as jewelry. Tarrant, to
whom the walters gave the coins to
be gilded, maintains that they repre-
sented to him that the money was to
be used as charms or watch fobs.