Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-01-02
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered from All
Parts Of the Compass.

Parts Of the Compass.
Fire at Ilwaco Monday destroyed
jeff Nye's saloon and hotel. Loss.
$1,000.
F. M. Brazel, a heavy land owner
near Kelso, dropped dead of heart
failure Christmas morning. He was
bachelor, aged Is.
The official vote of the special cleo.
ton for Representative, in Lewis
county gives Zenker 933, and Ingra.
ham 865-a majority of 6S for the
Democratic candidate.
Mrs. f. Hatch left her home in Sc
attic Christmas day and has not been
seen since. She is 80 years old, 5 feet
6 inches in height and when seen last
wore dark blue dress.
An unknown man was found dead
Monday night in his room over the
Riverside saloon, at Everett. From
morphine in his pockets the police
entertain the theory OF suicide.
John Hanson, OF Touchet, was
found dead in his bed Sunday morn.
ing. Apoplexy is the cause assigned.
Deceased was 65 years old and had
been resident Of Walla Walla county
since 1870.
Herbert Leek, while duck hunting
with friend near Monroe, was acct.
dentally shot by his companion. The
entire charge of shot entered Leek's
mouth, tearing off the left side of his
face. He was alive at last reports.
A piece of gas-pipe, with q partly
burned fuse, was found under the
steps OF the Lincoln school at Walla
Walla by the janitor, Tuesday morn
ing. Investigation by Chief Kauff.
man showed it to be filled with bone.
dust.
Mrs. Nellie Underwood, who is
charged jointly with her husband.
Paul Underwood, with having muir
dered their babe, has been confined to
her cot in the King county Jail for
several days with severe attack of
tonsilitis. The attending physician
believes that it may be necessary to
perform an operation BY removing the
tOnsils.
While Harry Thoreson, aged "a,
WAS adjusting . belt in the mill 1T
Cosmopolis Tuesday, his clothes were
caught in ehaft, and he was whirled
around until the machinery could be
stopped. His leg was broken, an arm
almost torn from the shoulder, and he
also received internal injuries. Not a
bit Of clothing was left on his body.
He will die.
Forty or fifty citizens secured the
country around Sprague Tuesday.
seeking Peter Ssrrino, an italian, who
had shot Fred Brown, waiter, in a
saloon row. Sarrino was caught at
last near Kline, few miles away, and
taken back to Sprague, where he is
now in Jail. Brown is still alive, but,
with buliet-hole in his lungs, his
recovery is doubtful.
Specifications calling for bids to fur.
nish 6l8, 421 feet OF lumber were re.
ceived from Washington lately. The
material is required in the construc-
ton of thirteen officers quarters at
Fort Mckinley near Manila. The bids
will be opened at II o'clock noon
Thursday, January 8, 1903. The lum.
Der is to be delivered ON . wharf ac-
cessible to ocean going stea mships,
either ct Portland, Seattle or Tacoma.
The residence of Mr.. George Wich
seems to have q special attraction for
the lightning. On last Saturday Miss
Daisy Wick was sitting near the stove
in the kitchen, combing her hair when
all of . sudden the comb exploded,
tearing out handful OF hair from the
head. There was nothing left OF the
comb but small piece about an inch
long. It seems that the young lady
was sitting in the same place six years
ago when lightning struck the house
and tipped the stove over and burned
her severely on the hands.-Columbia
Chronicle.
The Seattle & Canadian Railroad
Co. incorporated at Seattle, Tuesday.
with a capital OF 81, 100000. It will
run from Tacoma to Sumas, on the
British Columbia border line. Big
capital is back OF it. The incorpora-
tors are Jacob Furth, and ex Governor
McGraw, Of Seattle; Senator George
Turner, OF Spokane, and Charles
Bihlcr, Of Tacoma. Surveys will begin
at once. Headquarters are to be at
Seattle. The stock OF the company is
500 per share aud is all provided for.
Tho road will carry freight and pas
sengers, and takes in . country that
needs . railroad. 1t will develop