Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-10-05
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON TERRITORY SATURDAY OCTOBER 1878


1Er trans now eume dnnhing q
across the long bridge
Coon timothy hay 10 coming IN
beautifully, and sells readily for sll
to SIS per ton
Orr Office is still open for ssrs.
Competition invited for either large
or small specimens.
DoUGL.s YorSe, from Chilberg's
store is acting in the capacity Of en-.
try clerk at the Fair.
We acknowledge the receipt of q
complimentary ticket to the King
county and Lewis county Fairs.
AUoTHER series Of those moonlight
nights has been inaugurated by the
breaking up of the equinoctial.
EVERY hotel in town is full while O
number Of private boarding houses
are running at their tall capacity.
IT is a hulniliatins fact that the
Capital of our Republic should be
suffered to justly earn the title of a
mob city.
We had our "equinoctial" in good
earnest, and are now looking forward
to- few weeks of good weather.
Mark our words.
The scow load of gravel which has
been used in mendine our streets
begins to be appreciated, this week,
by express and dray horses.
TIE Committee appointed to set
tie the textbook question have cov-
cred themselves all over with glory
by their candid and judicieus ac-
ton.
COLUMBIA County, created from a
slice of Walla-walla county three
years ago, now contains a greater
population than Walla-walla county
itself.
The vote on special tax for school
purposes was carried recently by a
majority of nearly three to one.
The result stood II for and "a
against.
SOMEBODY suggests that if good
round tax were levied on the dogs
in Olympia, funds enough could be
raised to pay for preliminary sur.
vey of the Chehalis railroad route.
The opening of the Fair, the Con
vention of the Educational Board
and this beautiful weather, withal
impart quite a lively and metropol'
itan appearance to our city this week.
OYSTERS, venison, grouse and sal
mon trout can be had for the asking
in Olympia hotels and restaurants.
Epicures from abroad will make a
note of this when they write to the
dear ones at home"
The DAILY EXPERIMENT is working
wonders fer those of our Olympia
dealers whose wisdom has led them
to advertise their wares in its col.
umns. Fortunes are made by ad-
vertising. just try it once.
AIRs. Thos. B. Merry, after briei
but pleasant visit with her friends
here, takes the train tomorrow to
meet her husband in Portland. Dur
ing her stay in Olympia, she has
been the guest of the Carlton House
MEssEs. Glore d Wunder, of Sc
attle, are expected 10 be on hand a
the Fair with n fine display of tlei'
magnificent furniture. Let then
do 50 and visitors will doubtless b.
led to glory and wonder in good
earnest.
The reports concerning the Sno'
homish county gold diggings find
more delivers far away than near ai
home. We find in our exchanges.
glowing accounts Of the discovery,
and how the miners are washing out
the yellow metal at the rate Of ~
per day TO the man.
SsxcE the commencement Of the
fishing season, up TO September sth,
nearly two hundred thonsasd easss
Of salmon we're sbipped from ~
Colunbia river; eleven thoaaad
snd eight hundred c.sss fro@ BziaiaA
Columbia, thirteen husdrsd cases
frcm Rogue river and over tveesy
two shoasand cases frvu Saesansste
river.