Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-05-02
WHOLE NUMBER 2.186.

was caught in the act OF " rushing the
growler."
Two instances have lately occurred
in Tacoma Of assault of young girls
mere children-in open daylight, by
seme brute in human form. Neither
of the girls were over ten years of age,
and both were returning to their
homes from school, when assaulted.
Hanging will be too swift a punish
ment for the fiend, when discovered.
A gruesome transaction took place
last week when the Sheriff of Skagit
county purchased scaffold from the
Sheriff of King county, paying SIS
and the cost of removal. This is the
machine of death upon which Nord-
strom and Seaton expiated their
crimes, and upon which AL Hamilton,
the murderer of Attorney Woodbury.,
will soon pay the penalty.
The 2-year-old son of Frederick
Lubbin, farmer, near Colfax, was
badly burned, Saturday, by falling
into tub OF boiling water. The child
was taken from the water almost i'm
mediately. but when its clothing was
removed the skin came off with the
clothing. While the suffering of the
little fellow are terrible, the attending
physician thinks he will live.
A man given up for dead at Everett
Friday night, and his body prepared
for burial, revived five hours later, and
sang songs of thanksgiving. The man,
Daniel s. Cain, remained alive until
8 o'clock the next morning, when
death came. Deceased was native
of Alabama, IS years old, and had re-
sided at Everett for five years. Dur
ing the past six months he had suf-
fered with heart disease, which was
the cause of death.
Joseph Reno, on trial in the Federal
Court at Spokane, for sending OBJ
scene letters through the mails to his
sweetheart, Miss Lulu Mercier, was
acquitted, Saturday, the jury deciding
that he was insane. Just before
Christmas, Reno left small coffin on
the doorstep of Miss Mercier's home,
with an insulting note to her older
sister. His arrest for previous letters
written followed, resulting in acquittal
ou the ground of insanity.
The famous field trial winning Eng
lish Setter Doc Hick, than whom
there is no more widely known dog in
America, died in the kennels of its
owner, John w. Considine. at Seattle
this week, from distemper. Doc was
probably the greatest derby dog in
this country. He had won eleven
times, including six firsts, and was
barely three years of age at the time
Of his death. His owner was deluged
with offers of purchase, several OF
which exceeded 81 500.
A small boy with a bean-shooter
trying to amuse himself shooting at q
standing team was the cause Of the
death of Matthew Davis, a young man
of 16 years, at Oakville, last Friday.
There was long rope attached to the
horses, coiled up near by, and when
the horses started to run young Davis.
thinking to stop them, jumped on to
the rope and entanglsd himself in
such manner he could not free him.
self. He was dragged about a hun.
dred yards. The horses ran on a
bunch of oak grubs and the young man
was literally torn torn to pieces.
The farmers all over the State are
availing themselves of the advantages
the telephone affords for sociability
and business. Clubs are generally
formed whereby the extension of wire
from house to house and then con.
Meeting with central" of the bust.
ness mart around which they CEN
ter, reduces the expense to a mini
mum. At other times connection is
made with the barbed-wire fence used
to keep pigs and other domestic
quadrupeds out OF the sown field,
which constitutes the acme of eco
nomic service while Offering generally
very satisfactory results.
Fdirhaven Times: During 1901,
2,7OS Chinese and Japs were employed
in the Puget Sound canneries and
their earnings for the season averaged
5000 in round numbers while the
earnings of the ], las whites employed
in the canneries averaged $500.
There's no good reason why this won
derful valuable food product should
not be prepared exclusively by white
people. untainted by the loathsome
diseases common to the dirty Oriental
slave who lives like maggot. A ma.
tional, as we'll as State pure food
law should be adopted to regulate the
labelling of cans SO that consumers |
may know the food put up by Chinese
and that put up by white men. Pub
lie health is of more importance to
the country than unwholesome fat
dividends for holders of inflated fish
company stock.