Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01
WILD birds are singing.

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TIE steamer Messenger brought ur
the Dakota's freight.
ITEMS of interest constitute the
life-blood of daily paper.
| SEATTLE papers report that herring
are plentiful in those waters.
JOE CH1LBERG, in the line of novel
ties, has some excellent popcorn.
IT is said that the american
Laundress" will be the coming girl.
A oRowN1Ne discovery is the lat
est preparation for starting hair on
bald heads.
MANY of the wild shrubs on the
neighboring hillsides are briskly
leafng out.
A NEW brass band has been organ
lied in San Juan, with Rev. T. j.
Weeks, as leader.
Mrs. f. A. Hoffman takes her
departure for San Francisco by, the
Dakota, this week.
The trucks and drays have been
busy to-day, hauling goods of all
kinds from the whaff.
A CONSTANT cloud of steam, and
smoke from the sawmill would seem
to indicate that its business is brisk.
Work on the new post-office build
ing has SO far progressed that the
painting of the front has been COM
menced. The work of building and
repairing is steadily going on in. 9TH
er parts of town.
The Admiral of Victoria, has Of
fered, on his own responsibility, to
send gunboat to Sitka. to, protect
American citizens there, now in i'm
minent danger from the Indians.
This noble offer is a just rebuke to
the chronic, red-tape delay of our
own Government.
WHEN unwise things .muss be DONE,
it is best to do them in such way
that the smallest possible amount of
evil effects will flow thereform. IT.
hot ashes must be. taken up and
cast into wooden. boxas at night. let
the box be Immediately showed un-
der q bed sure to- be occupied. If
the fire gets antic and puts on airs in
the Silly night, the occupant of the,
devoted bed will be pretty certain,
to give the first alarm. Try it.
AN ALARM of FIRE was sounded at
about three o'clock on Sunday morn
ing, and the FIRE brigade lost NO
time in rallying their forces at the
scene of action. 1t appears. that
some hot ashes had been taken from
the fireplace, few hours before,
and dropped into wooden box in
q back room, adjoining the on5ce of
DR.. Ostrander. The fire in the ashes
was seized with the ambition OF max
ing its importance and vehsmence
duly appreciated, and hence the
alarm. No damage was done, al
though the facts in the case point to
q narrow escape.
Mr.. NJ. q. Goodell, who is just up
from Elma reports that the tribu-
taries of the Chehalis river are all
much swollen by the late rainfall
and melting of the SHOW. Large
tracts of bottom land are overfown,
and some damage will doubtless re-
suit from the destruction of fences
and washing away the banks. The
freshet will, probably be of short
duration, however, and the prospects
for this years crops are good.
THERE has been quite an increase
of population of Chehalis county the
past year and the tide of immigration
still continues. The fame of that
district of country is extending and
the result is that it is fast becoming
the garden-spot of Western Wash
ington. One signal advantage this
valley possesses over many others is
that it has no Summer overflow. The
cause of this is that the Chehaiis
flows from the Coast Range of
Mountains, which are covered with
comparatively a small amount OF
snow. The rivers flowing from the
Cascades are subject 10 midsummer
freshets which sometimes destroy
cops.