Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-12-11

STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered From
All Parts Of the State.
Two cases of smallpox have ap
peared at Walla Walla.
The silk-loom of Butterworth Smet.
hurst of Whatcom is now in opera.
ton.
Joseph Gillis, a logger, committed
suicide in Seattle, Sunday, by taking
laudanum.
Mrs. Geo. Delaney who died recent
ly at Walla Walla, left an estate val
ued at $73.SOO.
Surveys will be made next week on
telephone line to connect Belling'
ham Bay with the San Juan Islands.
Chas. r. Whittemore was killed by
Northern Pacific train, near Van
ASSET, King county, Tuesday. He
was 26 years OF age.
Mary f. Smith has begun a sui,
against the city OF Puyallup for &c..
600 for injuries sustained by falling
through defective sidewalk.
Theodore Peterson. a young man
was found dead in his room, at the
home of his parents, in Seattle, Tues
day, he being asphyxiated by gas.
A 2-year.old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Guy Hurd, OF Northport, died
Monday from poisoning produced by
drinking from bottle OF eye-water.
Frank F. Hart, real estate man oil
Seattle, has been arrested on q charge
OF appropriating 81 900, belonging &c
Mrs. NJ. Z. Snodgrass, to his own use.
Paddy Brennan shot and killed
Eddie Dunn in cold blood in the Mus
saloon, Seattle, at o'clock Tuesday
morning. The men were partners in
a fishing schooner. Dunn was shot in
the back.
j. McCarty, OF Kalispel, Mont, said
to be wealthy, killed himself in a Sc
attic hotel, Wednesday, by shooting
Accompanied by his wife, McCarty wa!
vi uio way W SdiilOEuio, WuCKC ITO wal
going owing to i'll health.
Caesar Pcrrenoud committed sui
eide Yesterday, At Spokane, by blowing
out his brains with rife. He placed
the muzzle against his forehead anG
pulled the trigger with his toe. He
was 80 years old and blacksmith BY
trade.
r. L. Davis and F. NJ. Dickson, aget
81 and % years respectively. are under
arrest at Colfax, charged with stealing
overcoats, gloves, overshoes and UNI
brellss during services, from the Con
gregational church of that city, Sun
day night.
The Centrslis Shingle Co. has &C
quired title to the remainder of tn,
Tower timber lands, extending abou
eighteen miles along the Newaukun
from five miles east of Chehalis to ant
including Cinnebar Falls. The trac
includes $500 acres, but the consid
GRAFTON is not given.
At Geneva, Whatcom county, Sun
day night, two boys, aged Is and Il
years, held up G. w. Blake, q 75.year
old restaurant keeper. When tn,
elder of the boys thrust q pistol in tn
old mans face he grappled with him
Then the younger one mixed in tn
fray and together the two boys over
powered the old man and took all hi
money, $l4.
The Hoquiam police made . sue
cessiul raid on Chinese opium join
there, and captured two Celestials hit
ting the pipe and confiscated tw'
pipes and large quantity OF opium
This place has been suspected for SOM
time as hop joint" as men ant
women, some of whom compose Ho
quiam's elite society, have been seel
going in and out of there at late hours
James A. Dougherty, a blacksmith
committed suicide in saloon at Nortl
Yakima, Sunday night, by drinking
an ounce OF aconite. He left q lette
to his wife instructing her to bring VI
the boy in way that would make
better man Of him than he was. HI
also said he was "going" because b.
could not quit drinking. He said hi
father had gone the same way and h
could not resistit.
Paul Folger, a 14.year-old boy, afte
being MORALLY wounded, crawled acros
a field near Cheney, Sunday, to tn
Northern Pacific track, tagged trail
and was taken to Cheney, where III
soon died. The boy lived near tina
place. He left home at IL O'Clock Il
go hunting. An hour and half late
the crew of apassing train saw th'
boy lying beside the track, MAXIM
desperate efforts to signal the train
In crawling through q fence his shot
gun had been discharged and the con
tents lodged in his stomach, making
terrible wound.
John Johnson, of Arlington, is con
fined at the Snohomish county poo
farm with both feet burned, the result
of the work of would-be practical jok
ers in an Arlington saloon. johnson
was asleep in chair when it was pro
posed to pour alcohol on his feet AM
set fire to il as "joke." The result
was that the mans feet were burne'
and two OF his toes had to be ampu
tated. johnson says he will sue tn
guilty parties, while the County Com
missioners intend to bring suit agains
the same people to recover the cost
caring for him