Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-02-10
NEWS OF THE STATE.

Frank Garrett, Bellinghams' fat
man, who weighed Alp pounds, died
this week. He was about SO years OF
age and pile-driver engineer by
occupation.
The body Of an unidentified man
was found Wednesday in the log boom
Of the GrsX,'s Harbor Lumber Co. at
Hoquiam. 1t was dressed in black
coat and striped trousers and wore low
shoes, and was about SO years of age.
Bodies of the two men killed in q
train wreck near Silverton, Sunday
afternoon, were brought to Seattle
Monday on special train. On the
same train were the four injured men
who were scalded by steam at the time
of the wreck.
A late train over the Northern Pa
citic had two fat.ears attached loaded
with totem poles and Alaskan In
dian curios for the Lewis and Clark
Exposition in Portland. An Indian
canoe and other things necessary to
the outfit OF Northern Indian, we're
loaded on the cars. The whole of it
will be placed on exhibition as soon As
they arrive in Portland.
Tuesday evening about 3 o'clock Mrs.
Thos. Ehrhart, living four miles west
OF Chehalis, saturated her clothing
with oil and went to an clubhouse and
set her clothing on fire. The woman
was burned to death before aid could
reach her. She leaves husband, q
4.year-old son and 7-months' old baby.
1t is believed that the woman adopted
the method of suicide that she did
from reading suicide which occurred
at COvington last week. The means
of death and mode Of carrying out the
plan were the same in both instances.
VIM. Cooke, yesterday, brought in a
derelict message, found in a bottle
which beached on his ranch at the ex.
treme head of the bay. The message
gave the names of Guy Barry, Will
Skinner, Ross Forester and Roy
Phipps, was dated June IL, 1904, and
stated it was put in q bottle off the
old. cannery. The names are those Of
a party Of Olympia lads who were
camping down the bay last summer
and the matter is OF interest as noting
the fact that tloaters gain more dis
lance in the floating tide than is lost
i'll the ebb-Mason County Journal.
The annual meeting of the State
Historical Society was held in Tacoma
last week, and the following officers
elected: President, r. l.. Mccormick
OF Tacoma; Vice President, S. Pen
rose, Walla Walla; Treasurer, Frank
B. Cole, Tacoma; Secretary, Edwin
Eells. Tacoma; Curators, John AR.
thur, Seattle, J. NJ. Ashton, Tacoma
]. N. Bowman, Puyallup; J. H. Dege,
Tacoma; w. N. Granger, Zellah; G.
H. Hanford, Seattle; Wallace Mount,
Olympia; L. w. Pfatt. Tacoma; w.
F. Prosser, Seattle; Marshal X. Smell,
Tacoma; George Turner, Spokane.
Besides these the law provides that
the Governor, Secretary of State and
State Treasurer are er.oficio members
of the Board OF Curators. Resolutions
expressive OF the great loss incurred by
the society from the death Of its late
Secretary, +. N. Fuller, were adopted.
John c. Evans, of Kennewick, this
State, accompanied by two friends
from the East, broke all Northwest
records for sprinting, on the 9th inst,
in an effort 10 get away from dog
which was carrying stick Of dyna-
mite with a lighted fuse astached.
Evans. wishing to entertain his friends,
took them to deep hole in the Co.
lumbia to fish with dynamite. He
was accompanied by fine bird-dog,
and when Evans lighted the fuse and
threw the stick into the water the dog
Immediately jumped in after it. Evans
and his friends yelled for the dog to
come back. This the dog did, but
with the explosive in his mouth. The
men ran about one hundred feet. The
dog ran after them. Then the en-
plosion came. The conclusion threw
the three men to the ground, Jared
them considerably AMI burned the
clothing on their backs. There was
nothing to mark the place where the
dog had been but one hind leg and a
hole in the ground.