Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-01
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FRAZER river IS naVlnS q large run
OF salmon.
KEEP green apples away from the
children.
The cool morning term has come
again.
If q man is " honest as the day is
long," can he be trusted at night?
The long absent ducks are be-
ginning to make their appearance
upon the placid surface OF our Bay.
WE regret that our young friend,
j. P. Ferry, composite, in this Of
fee, is prostrated upon bed of sick
ness.
Tom Lawton, one of the Tullis
murderers, has been arrested in the
upper country, and is now in Jail at
Lewiston.
The fern and bramble bushes ON
the Odd Fellows cemetery, have been
cut down and various other improve
ments made.
A GOOD business is carried on by
enterprising wood-choppers, in SELL
ing wood to passing steamers from
scows moored at convenient points.
A RAILROAD is in process of con-
struction from Joppa, to Jerusalem.
The poetry of visiting the Holy
Land is fast assuming a new COM
plexion.
LARGE quantities of live bark are
coming in from the neighboring log
ging-camps, and now is just the
time for consumers to lay in a Win
ter's supply.
The Oregon State Agricultural
Society cuts all the hay it uses from
the Fair grounds. A good thing
for our Industrial Association to take
into considerations.
JOHN Foster, the man who was ar
rested in Seattle for kidnapping
little girl, decamped, on Monday
night, to Victoria, and his bail of
$500, has been declared forfeited.
Ir now turns out that the ship
Washington Libby will prove q total
loss. Our readers will remember
that this vessel recently went asho re,
during dense fog, near Port An
geles.
SOMEBODY suggests that, since the
extreme hot weather, it would be
we'll for excursionists and picnicers
to make their arrangements so as to
utilize the cool hours of the Silly
night.
SOME of the English manufacturers
are talking of shortening the time
without any reduction of wages, as
now the only available means of
reconciling the difficulties which
prevail to such I'm alarming extent
among many classes of laborers.
A CHANGE is soon to be made in
the principal employees on the Olym-
pia- -Tenipo Railroad. Mr.. Mitchell
is to be Conductor, and manage the
business of the road, and his son
Frank is to 60 as fireman, thus re-
ducing the amount of wages paid to
the present incumbents of those
positions. 1t is not probable that
the new employees will serve with
out reward, but as Mr.. Mitchell al
ready owns more stock IN the road
than anybody else, this additional
burden is to be placed upon his
willing shoulders, and they will re-
ceive their pay when we all own bo-
nanzas in the Sweet By-and-Bye.
SEArTLE's new engine has won lau-
rels. By throwing three vigorous
streams of water from the Bay, it was
the direct means of saving thousands
of dollars during the terrible ordeal
of Saturday night. Not content with
saving property in imminent dan
ger, it's iron muscles worked without
stopping, through all of Sunday, te
quench the smoldering embers and
prevent them from insidioasly en-
cloaching upon what the flames hat
left. And now, that one steamer
has proved to be such good thing
in time of need, the people have de
termined t. forthwith order tive
more, of greater capacity than sh'
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