, 1872-02-22
Ur-SOund Items

From the Daily Irt0hne.
OLYMPIC HoTEL.-Ihe Olympic Hotel
will shortly be open for the reception of
guests. 1t will partly supply want
that has long been felt. In the coming
building season it is now anticipated
that large and first class hotel will be
erected and put to an immediate and
profitable use. A house of such char
acter would be an excellent investment,
and pay good large percentage.
FALL Or House AT oMA.--Last
week, in Tacoma, the house occupied by
Mr.. Carson fell and was destroyed. It
was built upon piles and the accident
was caused by the giving way of the
ground. boy in the house at the time
of the accident was slightly injured.
wASrED-Forty dwelling houses of
from five to ten rooms each, for families
now preparing to come to Olympia. On
the first of May forty more will be re-
quired. Who will build them ? fthese
dwellings are not built, portion or all
of these people will pitch their tents in
some more enterprising town.
WHo's DoING II "A wharf is now
building at Dofflmeyer's Point. We
have so far bcen unable to learn for
whom or for what purpose the work is
being done.
The Courier says that the barkentine
Free Trade, that was chartered and load
ed with potatoes, apples and other veg
etables, by P. Keach of fSteilacoom, about
two months ago for the Sandwich Islands
arrived at her destination with her car
go utterly ruined, except about one hun
dred sacks of apples, the remainder hav-
ing rotted during the voyase. She was
sixty days out. She was, at last accounts
loading for Port Townsend.
TEMPERANCE CoNvENIIoN.-Them mass
meeting of the friends of Temperance,
last Wednesday afternoon and evening
was well attended, considering the in
clemency of the weather and the difficult
ties attending travel. Resolutions were
adopted affirming it to be the duty of
temperance men to support consistent
temperance men for office. A resolu-
ton contemplating the forming of tenn
perance political organization was tabled
by the Garfelde Good Templars, and
from present appearances it seems they
have the temperance organization sad
died and bridled ready for Selucius to
mount it as he has in the last two cam
paigns. We shall see.-.Standard.
Several weeks since trunk was brok-
en- open and robbed on board of the
steamer North Pacific. After search
for the missing articles, which resulted
in failure to recover any of the stolen
property, Capt. Starr, with hberality
unheard of by even the "Oldest Settler"
promptly, and without even an intima-
ton of law suit, paid for the same
This being one of those incidents that
probably has never occurred anywhere
else, we attribute it to one of two things
the climate or the beautiful scenery
that Capt. Starr has SO often seen in his
trips on Puget Sound. Captain STAIRS
course would be singular did not his
passengers know that he was liberal
gentleman and model Captain.-Cour-
ter
This is so contrary to the usual custom
of public carriers that the statement
would hardly be credited by strangers !;
but the incident admits of no doubt or
surprise to those who know Capt. Starr.
1t is his way.
TOWNSHIP PLATs FnED.-The township
80 north, range 5 east, being north of
Snohomish river, in Snohomish county,
has been filed in the registers Office in
Olympia. The plat of township 6 north,
range l east, in Cowlitz county, north
east of Ralama, has been placed in the
Vancouver ofice.-Transcript
An OLD PIONEER GoNE.-Mr Andrew
]. Simmons, Sheriff of Lewis county,
died Mt his residence, on Drew's Prairie,
on the 18th instant, quite suddenly, of