Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-08-16

Mrs Warner.
Seven applicants were present at the
teachers examination, this morning,
two males and five females.
Mr.. p, J. Sullivan had his left hand
badly mashed on the kamilche road
Yesterday, while coupling cars.
The whistling winds and rafting
easements, to-day, seemed to old citi-
zcns considerably out of season.
Laura Alice, youngest child of VIM. |
Billings, died last night, OF membra-
nous Group, aged four years and eight |
months.
This is freight week with most OF the
business houses in the city, fact quite
evident from the piles OF goods on the
sidewalk.
The County Commissioners have had
about two weeks OF as hard work as
usually falls to the lot of our county
custodians
The sample rooms of the various
hotels have been packed with drum
mers goods, during the present week,
a fact which clearly evidences the
lively condition of business.
A driveway has been opened to Mr.
| Tillotson's residence, on the Westside
The opening of other streets is in
contemplation for the accOmmoda-
ton OF prospective builders.
An unusually high wind has been
blowing all tits afternoon from the
north, dissipating the smoke and fog
of the morning and raising immense
clouds OF dust in the streets.
Mr.. Collie Bell, lately arrived from
Minneapolis, made a pleasant call at
the OLYMPIAN Office, yesterday. Mr..
Bell is the Amateur Star Champion OF
the Minneapolis Bicycle Club.
Mr. E. J. Halsted made call on the
OLYMPIAN to-day. 1t will be remem,
bered that Mr.. Halstad was the winner
, i'm the 20-mile bicycle race last May
for the championship of Washington
Territory.
Mr.. Tusten has placed on our table
some California peaches that lay
over" anything we have yet seen
One of them measures liz inches il
circumference, and the others art
nearly as large.
In reading about the fatal shoetin,
afiray between Judge Terry and Dep
uty Marshall Maggie, this morning, oil,
Pacific coasters are reminded vividl.
, OF similar high-lifc tragedies in the oil
days OF California.
The fourth quarterly conference o
the Methodist Episcopal church is il
session in this city and will be the las
quarterly conference the of Puge
Sound District before the annual con
II ference which meets at Vancouver O
the 18th of September. Rev. Presidin
= Elder Brown, is conducting the SCI
& vices.
All members OF Washington Lodg
l. No. 8, A. O.. U. W., are requested
n meet in special session on next Satu
day, at p. NJ, for the purpose OF II
y ceiving the Grand Master of the Juri,
is diction of Oregon and Washington
All members are requested to brin
o. their families, and all sojournin
70 members are also cordially invited
attend with their families.
is Hon. 4. G. Reid, OF Nashville, Tenn
" called at our Office to-day. Mr.. Re
is a lawyer Of note in his State, havir
10 been Judge of the Nashville Distri
II for several years. Four years ago
o. was the Republican nominee f
Governor OF Tennessee, and great
reduced the Democratic majority
% that State. Mr.. Reid's object in Wis
" ing the Sound is to select place
" locate and practice his profession. j
expresses himself rs well pleased wi
IT, Olympia and will propably make til
IT. city his home.