Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-06-28
MERE MENTION.
From The daily Of Tuesday.

Capt. Perclval is still confined to his
home through sickness.
4 son was born to the wife OF Mr..
LYMAN Mann, on Sunday, June 23d.
A new boot and shoe shop has been
opened on Fourth street, opposite
Columbia Hall.
Some extensive building improve
ments are going on in the neighbor-
hood OF Ayers hill.
The season OF high tides is approach
ing, and steamers find no difficulty in
arriving or leaving on time.
All over the city may he noticed the
work OF tidying up and putting things
in order for our coming gala day.
The picnic of the Presbyterian Sun
day School, which was to have come
off this week, is unavoidably postponed.
Mr.. L. Schlessinger, editor of the
Carrier Dove, a Spiritual paper pub
hshed in San Francisco, is at Young's
Hotel.
When the Hospital improvements,
now under way, are finished, one hun
dred patients can be conveniently
cared for in that benevolent institu-
ton.
The Misses Carrie and Fannie
ROsenblatt, of Portland, who have been
visiting in the city, the guests of Mrs
Belle Oppenheimer, went down to Ia
coma, this morning.
John Chinaman's stronghold and
sure resort is the deadly knife and for
white man to have an alteration
with the willy heather is to run fear
full risk.
The Signal Service office reports,
minimum thermometer 46 degrees :;
maximum thermometer IS degrees !;
weather cloudy; no rain; barometer
falling from 3O.O6 to 1886 inches.
A farmer in town on Saturday, re-
ports that haying in the upland dis
tricts is we'll along, and with the pros
pect OF an average crop, while grass is
still growing on the bottom lands.
A number of well-known citizens.
from the lower Chehalis valley, have
been transacting business in Olympia
during the past few days. Railroad
extension is presumably the dominant
motive with them.
An experienced bee-keeper states
that white clover is taking the unculti
waited lands of Thurston county by
storm, and that the upper Sound coun-
try will soon rival lower California in
the production of honey.
The call is again made that the
authorities of Olympia see to it that
due restraint is laid upon the promis-
cuous use of fire crackers and other ex-
plosives during the Fourth. "Look out
for fire." should be the watchword.
Asif to avoid the turmoil of the city,
several private parties are arranging
for having a good time all by them
selves in the verdant woods, on the
Fourth. This may all be very well,
but where is the spirit of patriotismg
Incoming reports from the clerks of
Thurston county school districts, clear
ly foreshadow q large increase of pop
ulation, not only of school age, but of
just such an element as should make
up good, solid and patriotic citizen
ship.
Mr.. Alexander Farquhar's man.
moth store building, now nearing
completion on Adams street, covers
over 1,6O0 square yards OF surface, and
~ hardware depot it will equal when
filed, any similar establishment north
OF Portland.
The heaviest grading and largest re-
moval of earth which has so far con-
fronted the contractors was that por-
ton of Eighth street, between Frank
lin and jefferson, but this work is now
practically completed, and the gravel
ing only remains to be done.
Among the notable features of the
work on Olympia thoroughfares are
the improvements now in progress on
Fifth street, between Main and Column
bia. Only short term of years ago,
the whole Of this space was o grassy
plat, the resort of croquet players
Within the past month it has been
brought up to the standard grade,
while the adjacent property has been
materially increased in value.
This may be the age of electricity,
but it does not follow that the myster-
ious current is expeditions when
used as means of communication
nowadays. A telegram left in the
Western Union Office, in Portland at
2 80 Monday was delivered in Olym-
pia- after 6 o'clock that evening. If
this was the first time that such delay
had occasioned serious inconvenience,
It would be passed unnoticed, but
many more can be cited, nor is the
Western Union the only company at
fault.
The shrill whistle of the police
alarm brought suddenly together, at
the corner of Fourth and Columbia, a
large collection of people to witness
the end of an encounter between Geo.
Parker, who lives at Mills Lake, and
. Chinaman. Parker was severely
wounded in the fieshy part of the left
arm above the elbow, in the vicinity of
large blood vessels, by q severe blow
with long sharp-bladed knife, which
penetrated to the bone, causing deep,
bleeding wound. Parker was carried
BY the police to DR.. Newell's operating
apartments, where the wound was
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