Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-03-15
MERE MENTION.
From the daily of March S.

From the daily of March S.
Lum Jo had his hand badly cut this
evening in an argumenr with Mr..
Miurman.
Peer Cochran closed his school in
the North Olympia district last
Wednesday.
The Schneider boys have COM
menced prel minary work at their
brick yard on, West,ide.
Two booms oflogs sggre eating Ii lie
short of a million feet are waiting
shipment on the esWestside.
Christopher Gill and J. Marchant,
natives of England, day declared
their intention of becoming citizens.
A cop full Of s,,ananGhhced Wyan-
dotte hens arrived here last night con-
signed to local breeder for his stock
pens.
Mr.. Young has leased tie Bettman
building, corner OF Second and Main
streets, and is fitting it up for a
lodging house.
Comm ssions as Notslies Public,
have been issued to j. &. Boyd, ard
John f. Aver, of Olympia, and Thos.
f. Drew, OF Seattl'
Mr. Louis Corm;er oi the Gold Bar
restaurant has leased the Barker build
ing on Third street and will convert it
into a lodging house.
Miss Minnie Catlin f Tacoma, Miss
Agnes Catl.n of Portland a d Charles
Roe Of +, rest Grove are in the city,
guests of DR.. O>trander
The weather il the city yes erday,
showed maximum temperature of
81 80 degrees, with Il cloudlc ky and
no rainfall The barometer averaged
29SS. Indicating a fal! of % inches.
Divorce papers were filed to-day in
the case OF Eliza Dilley VS.. Cyrus NJ.
Dillsy. Eliza alleges Cyrus has LETT
her and she wants his departure made
perpetual, so far as she is concerned
Yesterday new Mascot brick ma.
chino and a twelve horse power engine
arrived in this city for Mcclellan &
Grimm. 1t will be put up in d'y or
so and will have 4 capacity Of $4,000
brick per y.
The alarm OF fire last night was
caus d by ihs burning of lace cur
tain in one If the windows in Youne's
hotel. a lady in Lighting a lamp in
her 70 m carelessly thr-w the match
on III floor, hence the blaze. Damage
nothing.
1t is a wonder among visiting tour
lists th't Olympia is IS thriving a city
as it is, and whea they look around
and see the advantages its geographi-
cal position and resources offer to
capital and immigrant, they inva-
r.ab'y lre.iict wonderful future
f,r this city.
Gait. West Cove Of tie bark r. III.
Harm, arrived il Olympis, last night
and he wAs agrceablv surprised at our
progress during the past year, and
imm, diat'y set about to hunt up his
property. That which short while ago
he only valued at pennies he has re-
fused dollars for the past few days.
To day tn Su rene Cour, adjourned
for the term This was the last time
that this body will ever meet in con-
vention as Territorial Supreme Court
BY the time the next term rol S Ground
Washington Will have elected her own
Supreme Court, who will hereafter
look after the destinics of this great
State.
Sam williams OF Chehalis county,
one OF our Territorial pioneers pad
our office visit yesterday. Sam is
one of the old-time printers, as well,
and set type on the Columbian, the
pioneer journal of the Terrific V, in
1852. which by strange coincidence
was printed ON about the identical
spot where the OLYMPIAN first w the
light of day. The Columbian was
printed on Ramage press mostly
made of wood, at the rate of abou' 100
copies per hour, while the OLYMPIAN
is printed and folded by cam at the
rate of about 1000.
Flowers of all kinds in March, every
tree in the county loaded with buds
ready 20 burst forth in blossom and fill
the air with their sweet perfume is the
ord of the day and the result Of the
mild balmy weather of Thur,toa coun-
ty. Contrast this with that OF the
blizz rd-riddeu aud storm-persecutcd
East, aud while in this moo think of
the many broad aud fertile acres atou,
hit awaits but the coming Cf the
/" chock chock" OF the woods-man's axe
and merry song of the farmers pow to
render them the m st prolific on The
face Of the Garth.