Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-04-18
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from Al
Parts Of the State.
Col. J. S. Cooligan, former we'll
known citizen of Port Angeles, is dead
in Chicago.
George Brady, one of the crew in
Demands logging camp on the Ho
quiam river, was drowned last Satur
day.
Andrew Anderson, a smelter EN-.
plOye, was run over by train ut North
port, the other day, and instantly
killed.
The one-mile pacing race between
Kittitas Bangor and Maplemout is tc
come off at Everett May 2 for a purse
of $500.
M. Carlson committed suicide yes.
terday morning by hanging himself in
cell in the Jail at Seattle. He was
35 years old.
Mrs. Barney Fitzpatrick has been
arrested at Davenport on 8 charge OF
forging her dead husbands name to
notes aggregating $1,000.
Five Japanese we're bound and
robbed in q section house at Kline on
the Northern Pacific, IS miles west oil
Spokane, by three robbers.
Storey Ware, = farmer living near
Palouse, was dragged to death by his
team. The body was found near the
roadside with the lines tightly wound
around it.
| William Coates, the counterfeiter
of IS and $40 gold pieces, was SEN
fenced by Judge Hanford at Spokone
to seven years in the penitentiary on
McNeil's Island.
McRae's saloon at Sedro. Woolley
was held up by lone man with q
mask the other night He took only
the contents of the cash register
amounting to $40, overlooking the
bank roll of $3.50, and did not rob the
men who happened to be in the saloon
at the time.
William Coates, who pleaded guilty
to the charge of making counterfeit
S. and $40 gold pieces, in the U. s.
Court at Spokane, this week, was sen.
fenced by Judge Harford to seven
years at hard labor at McNeil's island
His partner. William Worlin, was not
sentenced, having moved for a new
trial.
Carl Larraway, man about 81
years OF age, who had been in Tacoms
for two or three years eking out q
precarious existence, committed sui.
eide by hanging himself to tree in a
secluded spot north OF the old exposi
ton grounds. The body was found
Sunday by couple OF boys, who were
out picking flowers.
More than 100 claims have been
filed in the mining district OF Mt
Baker the past few days, and all indi.
cations point to one of the liveliest
mining booms in the history OF the
Pacific coast will be witnessed in
Whatcom county in the very near fu.
ture. The richness of the Mt. Baker
district is just being realized and Bel.
lingham bay cities will reap a rich
harvest.
An attempted assault by a man
named Hart on Miss Addie Mckenzie.
the IA year-old daughter OF John Nc
Kenzie, at Cosmopolis, Friday, waa
frustrated by the timely arrival OF
neighbors. Justice Brown, who re.
fused to listen to his plea OF drunken
ness, bound him over to the Superior
Court in the sum OF $500. Being un-
able to furnish bail, Hart was taken
to the county Jail.
Y puget Sound is the most beautiful
body OF water in the world" said w.
Scott, Of Bellefontaine, O., at the DON
nelly hetel, Tacoma, the other day.
IL have travelled all over Europe and
the Mediterranean, Australia, New
Zealand, the Fiji islands, the Samoan
ISLANDS and North and South Amer.
lea, and have never seen its equal
Not even the far famed Sydney harbor,
in Australia, beautiful as it is, can
compare with it." 4
An important ruling regarding tax.
alton of mines has been made by the
Superior Court Of Ferry county. In q
case involving taxes on the Quilp
Lone Pine, Tom Thumb and other
noted properties the court has decided
that the Assessor cannot fix the valu.
alton of the mine by the selling price
OF the stock, but must try to deter.
mine the real value by the location oil
the property, its condition and its
ability to produce.
A Sites, Idaho, dispatch of the 9Th
inst, states that flour, sugar and salt
are selling at So per pound in Thunder
Mountain. There are now between
800 and 1000 men in the camp and
the scarcity of food has inspired petty
acts Of thieving until vigilance com.
mittee is probable. Men are coming
in every day by different trails. though
the trip is still one Of hardship and
exposure. Deer and beef are plentiful
and retail at Is cents per pound.
C. G. Raby, Auditor of Whitman
county, resigned on the 10th inst. as
the result OF an investigation which re-
suited in disclosing serious discrep.
ancies in his accounts. He is charged
with having appropriated to his own
use $l,758 drawn by him on warrant
| ;ceuoJ n tho m oriCon Rrid0o III nj
Chicago. When called before the
Board OF Commissioners, Raby 40.
knowledged that he had taken the
money, and said his hondsmen were
| uood for the amOunt He was unday