Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-07-12
VOLUME XXVIII.--NUMBER 3:
MERE MENTION.
From the daily Of Saturday

! lSltlLel VI Wy ihpld.
A large detachment of loggers lef
for their various camps, this morning
Large quantities of unbaled ha.
fresh from the scented fields, are com
ing into town.
The Olympia water company ar
about extending their mains to tn
Capitol grounds
The hospital addition is well alonI
and the masons will soon begin tn
work of plastering.
Mr.. w. d. Knight, Il representative
of the Spokane Falls Chronicle, visite'
our sanctum to-day.
Major Breckenridge has been quit
ill since the morning Of the Fourth
but it now recovering.
Miss Margie Ross, of Eastside. wh'
took school in Yelm, is spending
short vacation in this city.
A stranger who spent the Fourth
here says that the City of the Gods
is not misnomer for Olympia.
Now that the national festivities ART
closed, everybody that has the sem
blance of business has gone to work.
Mr.. George Gelbach, the only Tum
water subscriber to the railroad, ha!
pledged $500 towards the consumatior
of that enterprise.
Jack Shaughnessy, Sam Freedman
10 Waterman and J. N. McClellant
went fishing yesterday, to the Nesqual
ly grounds and caught $50 trout.
Mr.. John Lawrence, general man
ager of the Sunset Telephone Com
pany, made Olympia his lay-ove
station during Fourth Of July holida.
week.
The district schools of Thurstol
county generally will enjoy respit'
from duty next week, while the teach
ers are in attendance at the annua
Institute.
The members OF. the Constitutions
Convention to-day took up subscrip
ton for the Ellensburg sufferers, ant
in few moments contributed severa
hundred dollars.
Contractor Roberts says that by tn
18th or 10Th of October, the new hote
building will be inclosed and work Oh
the inside WIN then be prosecuted a
rapidly as possible.
Captain s. w. Percival, though still
quite feeble, go husbanded his strength
as to be able to ride over to town OF
the Fourth and mingle in the festivi
ties of the occasion.
Mr.. H. c. Paige, coal inspector. 10
the first judicial district of this Terri
tory, made his annual report to tn
Governor to-day. He places the tota
output at about 10000 tons.
The increase in the school children
OF Olympia, this year over that OF las
year is between 40 and SO per cent
There is good reason for believing th'
increase will be 100 per cent. mex
year.
The adoption of text books for tn
public schools of the Territory will con
stitute an important order Of business
before the Educational Board, which
will be in session at Olympia mex
week.
Mr.. NJ. G. Royal, principal OF th'
Pendleton public schools, is spending
his vacation here with his family, ant
in order to properly exercise his arm'
he has gone to work clearing hi
ranch on the Eastside.
The Territorial Board of Education
held preliminary meeting, yesterda,
at Tacoma Hall, and met again to-day
They will thoroughly organize or
Monday and be ready for the business
that comes before them.
Although the floating population
| of Olympia has been decimated b,
hundreds, during the last twenty-foul
hours, the hotels and lodging houses
remain full and the tide of incoming
strangers remain unchecked.
Mr. George SCANNED, a member Oh
the Railroad Soliciting Committee, re
ports that nearly $4,000 have beer
thvs far subscribed in money and rea
estate. All the Committee seem te
be hopeful Of the final outcome.
Mr.. Wheelwright, in his Grafton, last
Thursday, paid high compliment te
the educational facilities of Olympia
and went 80 far as to say that our city
was destined to become the intellect.
ual center of the incoming State.
The man Esmond, who was arrested
in Seattle last Monday, charged with
attempting to break open the safe in
the Office OF The Pipe Factory here
has since been discharged, there being
not sufficient evidence to hold him in
custody.
Like the inevitable calm after the
storm. quiet again pervades the city
and social affairs have again relapsed
into their normal condition. Every
body appears to be actuated by tht
conviction the festive season is ove'
and once more business is business.
DR.. B. r. Freeland, late of Seattle
proposes to open an office for the prsc
tice OF dentistry in this city in a lev
days. He comes well recommended
and many of our citizens have per
-onal knowledge of his proficiency, M
ha. :,g been engaged in his profession
in this city twelve years ago.
Very little was done by the Consti
tutional Convention this morning ex