Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-08-02
MERE MENTION.
From the daily of Tuesday


first time last evening.
Several company parties left, this
week for the "verdant, woods"
Delegates at the Convention are be-
ginning to draw their per diem pay.
The Methodist Sunday school will 90
down to Buffers cove tomorrow on a
picnic.
The number Of legal instruments
filed in the Auditors Office is daily in
creasing.
The Mcthodists arc discussing the
propricty Of improving their church
facilities.
Miss Addie Burntrager has gone
down to Oakland, Mason county, to
visit friends.
Miss Margie Ross, of Eastside, has
been engaged to teach a second term of
school at Yelm
Mrs. Ella Irving left, this morning,
for Portland, where she goes to spend
afew weeks visiting friends.
The Mount Vernon Spring Company
filed their articles of incorporation, yes
terday, with Secretary White.
Mr.. Henry Handle, one of the pi-
oneers OF our Territory, now a resident
of Pierce county, is on visit to the
Capital city.
Twenty-four hours more, and the
chang" will go the double-barreled
shotgun and the hunter can legally
come home with back-load of game
Since the new fiat on Fourth street
has been painted, it presents quite a
novel feature in Olympia architecture.
and is in marked contrast with the pre-
vailing style of such buildings.
We would be willing to vote for any
man for Mayor who would enforce a
law Furnishing small boys for meddling
in any manner with birds nests found
upon the shade trees or other places.
An expert figures up that Olympians
pay in hard cash, $4,000 year for
tobacco in all its forms, and yet they
are too poor to build WOODEN mill at
Tumwater, or a sawmill at the water
'front.'
Mr.. Williams, whose jewelry was
stolen, last night was burned out at
Seattle, and the stock he has just lost
was the small remnant saved from the
late conflagration. He deserves the
sympathy of the community.
Mr.. NJ. T. Hitchcock, of Washing
ton, d. c., law partner of Judge Ed
ward Lander, at one time Chief JUS
tice of this Territory, is visiting Puget
Sound, on a tour of recreation COM
-bined with business. He has spent
several days last past in Olympia
The ring marked in white, on the
grass inside the Capitol grounds, was
long supposed to be a tennis court,
but in view of recent occurrences in
the Convention, it is now proposed to
make it a ring wherein questions arts
ing on the floor may be ultimately de-
termined according to the rules of the
London prize-ring.
Mr.. E. T. Wilson, better known as
Scene" Wilson, the lobbyist and
scribe, has come over the mountains
with commission from the Board of
Trade of Ellensburg, to run the Con-
vention in the interest of that city. 1t
is said a sack" has likewise been pro-
vided by that enterprising little burgh,
to be operated on the addition, divis.
ion and silence" principle.
1t was expected that tie Committee
ct the Constitutional Convention on
State Institutions and Public Build
ings, of which Mr.. T. NJ. Reed is
Chairman, would make the report yes
terday as we published it in our col
umns last Saturday, in which the
Capitol of the State of Washington is
fixed at Olympia. Why it is Withheld
by the Chairman, after being approved
by at least six out OF seven of the
Committee, is q profound mystery, and
many of our citizens think it strange
procedure. There must be other
reasons than possible opposition to
1t in the Convention to cause the
Chairman to Withhold it under the
circumstances.
The Women Suffrage meeting at
Tacoma Hall, last evening, was a
brilliant success. The speakers pre-
sented some telling arguments and a
good crowd turned out to hear them.
Miss Matilda Hindman, the noted
champion of equal suffrage from
Rttsburg, made the leading speech of
the evening, followed by Mrs. E. L.
Saxon. General Milroy was also
pressed into service and made few
characteristic remarks Miss Hind
man made a friendly call at the
OLYMPIAN Office, to-day, and frankly
admitted that the outlook is anything
but encouraging, so far as constitu-
tional action is concerned. The lady
asserts that the great body of
delegates were elected for specific
purposes upon which their election
hinged, and they are going to carry
out those purposes. Mrs. N. 5. Porter,
Of this city, presided at the meeting,
and Miss Bessie lsaacs acted as Secre-
tary. The women are evidently de-
termined to fight to the bitter end.
A sensational special appears in
to-day's Ledger to the effect that some
nameless individual was stopped, yes
terday morning, on Long wharf, in
this city, by footpads and robbed of
shout 800, counting his gold watch,
gold chain and what cash he he had.
The Especial" has it that said nameless
individual was one of Olympia's % prom
ncnt citizens" but refused to have his