Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-03-10
NEWS OF THE STATE.

Near Ballard, Friday, Wesley Isham,
a student in the Seattle seminary, was
drowned. He was Is years OF age.
Three-year-old Edna Turner, nibbled
the ends of some sulphur matches, at
Vancouver, last Saturday, and died in
great agony.
Herman o. Nero, assistant electric.
ian in the Spokane fire department,
fell 45 feet from q water.tank Monday
and was killed.
Robert Barnett, aged GO years, and
who lived about ten miles from Ellens.
burg. dropped dead from heart disease
in the railroad depot, Saturday.
William Roberts and Eddie Garron,
who pleaded guilty to robbing the
store OF Kincaid & Dobler at Roy,
were each sentenced by Judge Smell at
Tacoma TO % months in the peniten.
tiary.
William Erickson, a bartender, was
seriously injured, and Gus Andersen
badly cut during dual with knives in
q SALOON, at Seattle, Tuesday morning.
The interference Of bystsnders, the
police say, prevented murder.
Horace D. Gates has been sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary by
Judge Smell, of Tacoma, the prisoner
having pleaded guilty to criminal as.
sault on q young girl whom he lured
away and took to Vancouver, B. C.
He was arrested there by detectives
and brought back to Tacoma after a
pretty sharp contest over extradition.
Mrs. Mary Cox, who manages a
boarding house at Walla Walla, dis.
covered q burglar in the cellar of her
house, Monday evening. Instead Of
screaming the woman secured a re.
volver and held him Q prisoner while
one of the maids summoned the police
The intruder gives his name as Ed
ward Butler aud is locked up on q
charge Of burglary.
After several unsuccessful attempts
to secure q marriage license, at Spo-
kane, because of the objections of her
two cons, Mrs. Martha Leach, aged SO
years, was married to James Boon,
aged IS, on Sunday. The sons ap-
piled for guardianship for their moth.
or. They claim that Boon only wants
her property. The woman says Boon
married her for love. The parties live
at Sprague.
The 4.year-old son of VIM. Austin.
a farmer who resides a few miles east
OF Oakville, met with a peculiar and
serious accident Tuesday. While his
mother was dressing him he held
safety-pin in his mouth, and in some
way it clipped into his throat and he
swallowed it. It made him very sick.
Medical aid was called and the doctor
failed to locate the pin. He was taken
to the Aberdeen hospital where they
expect to locate the pin by aid OF the
X.ray.
Jennie Marshall, . female burglar
released from the Walla Walla peni-
Tertiary less than year ago after
serving Q sentence of two years, is
under arrest at Seattle again, charged
with ransacking . wealthy woman's
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81. 900 worth of valuables. The Mar.
shall woman 10 the only female bur,
glar ever serving q sentence in the
Washington penitentiary. The evi
dence against the woman is said to be
conclusive and it is expected that she
will occupy her old quarters at the
penitentiary within a short time.
The Peoples COOPERATIVE Tele.
phone company has the poles set
between Oakville aud Centralis, and
are now stretching the wire. They
intend to continue the line to Elma
and will connect with the Sunset line
/ at Centralia and Elma. It will be Q
local line, and farmers all along the
line have taken stock and will have
instruments in their houses. There
are several other lines up the different
valleys which are under way Of con-
struction, and in . few months this
whole section will be under a telephone
system which will be as complete as
any city affords.
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