Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-08-29
STATE NEWS.

Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the State.
Peter Nelson was shot and killed at
Pasco, Sunday night, and robbed Of
SIS by two unknown men.
Charles M. Wyman, one OF the lead
ing attorneys OF Whitman county,
died at Coliax Monday, of typhoid
fever.
Work on the new electric light plant
building at Vancouver is being rapidly
pushed forward. 1t will cost in the
neighborhood of $50, 600.
Mrs. w. L. Church. one of the old
settlers and known all over Clallam
county, died at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Gillespie, at Blaine, Tuesday.
Jones J. Healey, a lineman, fell
from the top of pole at Tacoma,
Monday, and escaped death only by a
miracle. He escaped with broken
wrist and sprained ankle.
Judge Neterer at Whatcom, Mon
day, overruled the motion for a new
trial for H. st. John Dix and SEN
fenced him to ten years in the peni-
Tertiary, the limit under the laws of
this State for bank-wrecking.
VIM. Bowman and Stella Bowman,
his wife, both colored, robbed s. H.
Stuart Of $l37 at Seattle, last Satur-
day. Stella Bowman is held on ST.
600 bail and her husband, who is
charged with being an accomplish, is
held for $500.
Mrs. Henry Blackman, aged 19,
accidentally shot herself while play
ing with loaded rifle at Walla Walla,
Monday evening. She did not know
the weapon was loaded. The bullet
entered just above the heart and
lodged in the body.
All the Gray's Harbor loggers met
at Aberdeen Monday and decided to
advance the price of logs. 1t is under.
stood that the price was fixed at $3.50,
an increase of Is cents per 1000, but
the loggers agreed not TO make known
their action at the present time.
The town of Monroe was terrorized
Monday by q man named Clemens,
who stole 5000 rifle and then began
holding up people. The proprietor of
the Pearsall hotel finally arrived on
the scene and took several shots at the
desperate with revolver, after which
the man escaped to the woods.
At Centralia, Monday, Mrs. Margaret
F. Sprague was instantly killed by the
south bound Northern Pacific train.
She was crossing the track on the way
to visit a friend when the train struck
her. There is a small embankment
at the place where the accident &C.
CURED, and it is supposed that the
woman did not see or hear the train
until it was too late.
James Morris, Corporal Twenty.
sixth company, Coast Artillery, was
picked up in an open boat, 20 miles
from Port Townsend, Sunday morning,
in the Straits by the outward bound
steamer Valencia and taken back to
Port Townsend, where lie died that
afternoon from his terrible experience
in q boat without oars. He was on
his way to Fort Flagler, when he was
caught 10 the tiderip which carried
him out to sea.
A special dispatch to the Oregonian,
dated Albany, Or, the 23d inst, says:
Roy Mitchell, formerly of Olympia,
WASH, was to-day held by Justice
Humphrey under $3.50 bonds to await
the action of the Circuit Court on the
charge of the larceny OF 81 razors and
other BARRIERS utensils, from the Com
bination shop at this city yesterday
morning. He was arrested last night
at Jefferson by Constable Jones with
the outfit in his possession.
The west-bound Northern Pacific
train was held up IS miles east OF Spo-
kane, at IL o'clock Monday night.
The robbers, of whom there were
seven, forced the engineer to stop the
train, while they uncoupled the bag
gage car. Then they compelled the
engineer, at the point of a revolver, to
pull up the track about three miles
further, where they tried to wreck the
baggage car with dynamite. The ex.
plosiye failed to work for some un-
known cause, and, after spending Is
minutes with the car. the robbers de.
camped, allowing the engineer to 60
back to the train with his engine.
Two other thugs had guarded the
train, keeping the passengers inside by
firing revolvers along the sides. No
attempt was made to modest the pas.
sengers, and when the engine went
back the other robbers left, and the
train proceeded to Spokane. The
train v,as hno vilv 1oodod