Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-12-18
The body of L. c.. Edmunds. q fruit

POuuASiJ was lOuhu ~ iuS ioSO NO"h
ward on the floor of his own home, al
Spokane, Friday, where his drunken
companions say they left him the
night before. When found the man
had been dead for hours.
VIM. Nevins, OF Van Horn, Skagit
county, was drowned by the capsizing
of his boat in the upper Sauk river
while hunting, Saturday. His dog
which was in the boat at the time
swan after him and stood guard over
his body after it caught on a sandbar
attracting a searching party's atten'
tion by his baying.
A warrant was asked, in Seattle, Sat
urday, for the arrest of H. Nelson, once
a prosperous contractor, now = curb
stone evangelist, charged with adultery
with Pauline, vile of Barney Schmidt.
In the divorce court the same day
Nelson's wife said he told her an angel
had directed him to love Pauline.
Judge Neterer granted the divorce and
ordered Nelson's arrest. Pauline il
Nelson's assistant in missionary work.
Her husband is in Alaska.
A removal Of large three-story
hotel from Ocosta to Hoquiam is un
der way. The main part of the build.
ing, 70x3O feet in dimensions, has
been separated from the wing and re.
moved to the harbor beach in front ol
Ocosta, where it has been left for sew.
eral weeks exposed to the storms and
surrounded by water at high tide. A
good deal of interest is felt in the at
tempt that will be made to float the
house across the bay, ss the expert
ment is . very hazardous one at this
season of the year, and may result in
establishing the once handsome hotel
building on some mud flat in Gray's
Harbor.
w. st. John Downey, a well-known
physician OF Seattle, is under arrest on
a charge of performing criminal oper.
alton on Miss Alice E. Cady, an 49,
year-old girl, of Elma. The operation
was performed on Wednesday of last
week and the child was born Thurs
day morning, while the girl was alone
in her room, according to Miss Cady's
fnll confession Sunday afternoon. She
says that she wrapped the body in a
cloth and concealed it in q grip. She
says she hurled it through a window
into an adjoining yard. The finding
of the infants body, with its skull
crushed from the fall, led to the arrest
of DR.. Downey and Miss Cady. She
is the daughter of w. F. Cady, a logger
of Elma. She accuses John Combs,
OF Aberdeen. of being the child's
father.
Robert Beardsley forged his moth.
er's name to checks aggregating $500
aud drew the money from q bank in
Seattle. Wine and smiles from wo.
men were purchased with the pro-
ceeds. His money gone, Beardsley,
who is but 81 years of age, sent a let.
ter to the bank, telling them of the
forgeries. He added that it would do
no good to look for him, as be had
"gone to meet his Maker" A few
days ago q boat was found on Lake
Washington. in which was fastened q
note stating that the writer, "R.
Beardsley," had committed suicide.
Officers Of the bank became convinced
that Beardsley had faxed the suicide
and the police worked up the case
Friday night Beardsley was discovered
on the streets of Seattle, and arrested
for forgery.
Adam Luft, living on Alkali flats
twenty miles west of Colfax, has
threshed his crop of 400 acres of wheat
which averaged 81 bushels per acre
The crop is worth to Mr.. Luft $3.50,
at present prices. Seven years ago
Mr.. Luft, then an emigrant from Rus.
sia, was saving wood and doing odd
jobs around Colfax. Later he secured
employment on a farm at 81 per day
and eaved sufficient to buy q team.
He then rented land and engaged in
farming. Later he bought a tract OF
land on easy payment and is to-day
ranked as rich man, having made a
snug fortune in seven years, beginning
with nothing but his labor as capi-
tai. His crop was grown on summer
fallowed land and was sowed in Sep
tember last year. The grain is OF
excellent quality.
Early last Friday morning, burg.
lar entered Murray's general mer.
chandise store at Roy and got away
with $3.50 worth of goods. The night
telegraph operator discovered the burg
lar and handing boy present large
revolver told him to watch the prem
ises and if the burglar attempted to
leave to shoot him, and left to arouse
the town constable. The burglar saw
the boy and gun but calmly pursued
his occupation and finally took a
hatchet and smashed the inner door
of the safe. He then packed up his
booty and walked out of the front
door and within few feet of the boy
and his gun. The question now up
permost in the minds of the Roy peo.
pie is, who was the greatest coward,
the boy who was afraid to pull the
trigger or the man who went for tho