Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16
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One faxmer in Oregon has had the
pleasureoi marking fifteen hundred
lambs this Spring. .
Our thaater-goers are getting inn
patient for another season, but the
Berger family will soon be here.
The way to make your hopes turn
into realltiesis to pull off your coat,
roll up your sleeves and go to work.
The new house erected by Mr..
Johnsonfin the southeastern part
of the city. is a very commodious
dwelling: @a =
The Sunday law petition went be-
fore the Town Board on Friday and
was laid 0n the table for further con-
sideration. .f
The stAa1er Old Settler is doing a
good bnSiness between Olympia and
the various points along the upper
Sound.
The recent marriage of M. Eugene
Hammer to Miss Elizabeth Tongs
augers lively times in one household
at least.
DURINa the past dix years, the
average yearly rainfall in Walla-
walla comfy has been fifteen and a
half inchss.
The new terminus, a short dis
tance above the mouth of the Snake
river is To be called Ainsworth, so
says report.
Rev. III. ingram, the Oldest min
lister in the world, recently died at
INST Shalborne, aged l02 years and
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ANOTHER failure occurred in Port
land on Saturday evening. The
store of r. w. Richardson was at
tached by creditors for about Sc, 500.
A NEW treaty with Mexico is en-
crossing the attention of Congress,
and committee has been appointed
to take the matter into considera-
ton. ls~
PORTLAND papers report fewer idle
men in that city than usual at this
time of year. The fisheries and
mines have called them to other
parts.
MISS Rose Browden who went
from this place to teach school in
New Tacoma, has resigned her posi-
tion. Her place will be filed by
Miss Waller.
The King county Industrial AS
sociation will! hold its annual fair, at
Seattle from the 22d to the 9th day
of September, inclusive. Aspacious
pavilion will be erected on the
grounds, and ample provision made
for the exhibition Of stock Of all
kinds. There will be dancing in the
pavilion every evening. @'
The Transcript afirms. in alluding
to the increased ratio of taxation
that ga two-mill tax is nothing"
Well, it may be nothing to rich peo-
pie who have their thousands salt
ed down" to meet such demands,
but we submit that two mills added
to 20 mills, resembles somewhat the
mythical feather that broke the cam
els back. as
The Oregoniam has received assu-
RANGES from one Of the Trustees that
a survey will soon be made for the
extension of the Olympia-Tenino
Railroad to the /, Chehalis river.
When this improvement is fully
entered upon and Mr.. Tiliey's brick
store is fairly tnder way, things will
brighten up wonderfully, or we're
no prophet.
We are informed by Capt. Bal
lard, of the steamer Zephyr, that,
during two or three days, last week,
the tide gauges along the lower
Sound, have indicated stage of wa
ter twenty-one inches below what
has been known for many years.
The cause of this unusual phenom-
enon, the oldest observers "give up"
as problem to deep to be solved.