Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-11-28
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.


Puyallup is to have electric lights.
The streams tributary to the Yak
ina river are being stocked with brook
trout.
Thomas May was knocked insensi
bic by thugs in Seattle, Tuesday even
ing, and robbed of $92.
A. Christianseu was killed at South
Bend, Tuesday evening. by a sling-load
of lumber striking him on the head.
w. d. Mulkey, a north Yakima ma.
chinist, was held up in that city
Wednesday night, and robbed of $40.
Miss Elsie Temple, aged Is, COM
mitted suicide at Centralia, Monday,
by taking rough on rats. 1t is report
ed that the immediate cause Of the
suicide was disappointment in love
affair.
Sam Brown, an Indian, murdered
his squaw, Ada Brown, Monday night,
while she lay asleep, at her home q
few miles from Lakeview. He shot
her in the head with small gun, and
she died instantly.
A masked robber entered the GAM
bling rooms over Mullen's saloon in
Seattle. at l o'clock, Wednesday morn.
ing, and held up the two gamblers he
found there. He secured $3.50 and
escaped. No clue.
James w. Stewart, man of IS, was
found dead in his bed, Sunday, at the
Kenyon House. Seattle. Stewart had
complained of feeling unwell the pre-
ceding night, but had not appeared to
be seriously i'll. His relatives live at
Sumner, Neb.
Dennis Dubuque, former machinist
apprentice at Everett, about a year
ago went to Seattle and paid 81 900 for
. cigsr stand. He afterwards en-
ployed one of the Italians from whom
he purchased the stand. He has been
missing for ten days, and his Everett
friends think he has met with foul
play.
Walter Bailey, a boy Is years old.
made An attempt to hold up and rob
Ebert Pluss at Vancouver, Monday
afternoon, and in the effort he shot
Pluss in the head with load Of fine
shot, seriously wounding him. Bailey,
when he found he had not killed his
victim, made an attempt to escape,
but was captured at LaCamas.
Early Monday morning an aged
woman was on her way down town in
Seattle, and in passing the notorious
Midway, in the tenderloin district, was
held up by thug, who demanded her
money. She replied that she had
none, whereupon the thug searched
her clothing, and. not finding any
coin, brntally knocked the old woman
down. She was severely injured. The
thug coolly walked off and escaped.
Mrs. Nancy Russell Thomas died
Wednesday at her home in Tacoma.
She was born in Ashland county, Ohio,
Sept. Is, 1882, and removed to Wash.
ington Territory with her parents in
1882. On the 5th of February, 1854,
she was married to John M. Thomas,
at Alki Point, King county, now
known as West Seattle, being the first
white woman married at that place
She is survived by her husband and
ten children.
Mrs. George Patterson At Seattle,
Monday, caused the arrest OF 0. B.
Knapp under the provisions OF the
| Ctoto focxoIo lahnp la wh;ch prC
vides that no employer shall keep wo
men at work more than ten hours q
day. Mrs. Patterson mentions date
on which she worked more than ten
hours in the laundry. The regular
hours are not more than ten, but she
was kept longer. Knapp declares his
arrest was caused by personal malice
because of q fancied slight.
The question of the consolidation o
the twin cities of Whatcom and Fair
haven is again being agitated and to
many the probability OF a consumma-
ton OF the plan is nearer to-day than
at any time in years. Those who have
been mos bitterly opposed to the mat
ter have assumed different attitude
an d though the time for consolidation
of the two cities is fully year in the
di stance affairs are already beginning
to be shaped toward that end. What.
CO m is now credited with having It,.
40O population and Fairhaven is cred
il ed with $500.
Rev. c. D. Nicholson, pastor OF the
Methodist Church at Colfax, has dis.
appeared and it is feared that he may
have committed suicide. Nicholson
left his wife Monday, saying he was 60
ing to Spokane to attend the wedding
OF friend. Word was received at
Colfax, Wednesday morning by wire
from North Yakima, that the missing
man had writton letter to friend in
Goldendale, in which the writer says
he Was leaving for Spokane, where he