Washington Recorder
J. A. McKenzie and family were guests at a Christmas dinner given by J. C. Conine and family.
Lars Christian Christiansen, a young man about 20, the son of Hans Christiansen, a recentl yarrived Dane was drowned Friday morning in the Deschutes river about six miles above Yelm. He was trying to cross the swollen stream on a foot log formed by recently felled tree., when he suddnly lost hi balance, fell into the rive and was swept by the swift current under the log nd drowned.