Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-08-02

ties are already being organized.
Miss Maggie Swan still lies in a very
critical condition at the Hospital.
Capt. Hambright has just recovered
from a somewhat prolonged and severe
illness.
Gas filters are at work upon the
new hotel, and they have undertaken
tig job.
Hon J H. Morgan, Territorial SUI
perintendcnt OF Public instruction, is
in the city.
A train OF wagons are conveying the
sewer dirt to the eastern extension OF
Third street
The OLYMPIAN is complimented for
its publication OF the Convention d.
rectory. Every member should secure
a copy.
Street improvement is being prose
cuted as fast as twenty men and a cor
responding number of teams can do
the work.
Twenty men are now constantly EN-
ployed on the new hotel under the
efficient management Of Mr.. J. w.
Roberts.
If your friend. fresh from the East,
says it is Indian summer" do not
break the sweet delusion by mention
ing the smoke.
Attorney General Metcalfe has sug-
gested that an extra session of the
Board OF Education convene in this
city, Thursday, the 1st inst.
The magnitude of the Olympia
plum crop is just beginning to be
| made manifest by the big heaps of this
fruit in the markets and fruit stores.
The weather, so far this week, has
been simply delightful and strangers
from abroad are impoverishing the
English language in their outbursts of
praise.
The Methodist church bell rang out
sharp and clear at an early hour this
morning, indicating to the children
that the time had come for a picnic to
Buffers Cove.
One delegate says it would be tax
ing Gods name in vain to put it in
the Constitution. That delegate was
doubtless good Sunday School schol-
ar when he was boy.
DIR. w. NJ Lamb, of Sterling, Kansas,
has just returned from a visit to Che
halls county, where he contemplates To-
eating for practice. He brings his
family and means to stay.
Ex-Governor Squire and Hon. T. H.
Brentz were in the city today, doubt
less looking after their political fences.
En- PEASANT, it may be remarked that
one cannot fling a stone anywhere
about the Capital without hitting
somebody who has designs upon either
Congress or State.
An uneasy delegate from the ultra
mountain regions was heard. last
night, giving his views concerning the
publication in the OLYMpIAN of the
Convention directory. The burden OF
his complaint was that his wife would
now know with just what Olympia
widow he was boarding. How true il
is that guilty conscience needs nc
accuser.
Col. Owings, one OF the incorporators
OF the Tacoma, Olympia and Pacific
Railroad Co., says that he and his as
sociates mean business, and that before
ninty days elapse work will begin on q
road from some convenient point on the
Nothern Pacific Railroad TO Olympia
and thence to some eligible point on
Gray's Harbor. His associates, F. d
Eustis, w. III. Calkins, A. B. Cannon and
Henry A. Clark, are all men of energy
and business ability.
We copy the following from the
Idaho Journal, published at Pacatello
Idaho: "The Cakes Comedy Sketch
Club gave an entertainment before the
largest audience ever gathered in Pac-
atello, last Wednesday evening. The
entertainment was first-class in every
respect. The musical part of the pro-
gramme was far above the average ia
cial entertainment. Henry Fades is
phenomenal, and they can always be
assured of crowded house in Pacatel-
To-" This company will appear in
Columbia Hall next Monday evening,
August 9Th.
From the daily Of Thursday.