Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-04-05
MERE MENTION.

lays over anything IN the city.
An immense blast was exploded on
the Percival place last evening, and
the stumps suffered iii consequence.
Pie plint, or rhubarb, is beginning
to arrive. The city market to-day dis
played some that looked very tempt
ing.
J. d. Hackett, of Adams county, w.
T., has been appointed Artesian Well
Commissioner, vica Clay Walker re-
signed.
The steamer Potter last night made
the run from Steilscoom- to this city,
twenty Mills, in one hour and fifteen
minutes.
The steamer Potter took away 524
pieces of wooden pipe yesterday. 1t
was consigned to ID. james, of Salt
Lake Ciy.
Charley Granger is diving riling
for a structure l50x150 feet in the
is comp'et d it will b. occupied by
coal and wood firm.
John Frv, of this city, has made ap-
plicatjon for pension, in consequence
of almost entire d stability, resulting
rom a gun-shot wound of the hip and
leg of extensive and p rmanent char
acter.
The Signal Service office to-day re-
ports .23 inches of rain during the past
"a hours. During the same period
| tho la ranafa- ;pdic.tod 90 90 =, foil of
IL. The thermometer ranging from
SO to 4S.
Odd Fellows Hall has been provi +
ed with furniture, and will be ready
| next week for occupancy. The car
pets We're placed on the floor to-day
and twenty lozen Of substantial chairs
were placed therein.
The carriage road on the Westside
through the Billings addition is about
completed. All that is necessary now
is the construction of a small bridge
when beautiful drive of five miles will
be added to what we already have.
Will Vischer the humorist editor of
the Tacoma Globe, and one of the best
lecturers in the country, will shortly
lecture in this city. His topic "6O
minutes in the War of the Rebellion"
is spoken highly of wherever it has
been delivered.
As room ss lumber can be procured
]. C. Percival will finish the new office
building and waiting rooms Of the o.
K. & n. company on the Second street
| lxu,1,. h1
fence to The public and no doubt will
be duly appreciated. Fn
John L. Nye, of Grand Mound
prairie, war veteran, reported on
Wednesday to DR.. Newell, U. s. Exam
ing Surgeon for Pension, by order of
Pension Bureau, for examination for
original pension. Nye has been an
invalid for many years. but has only
now made application for pension.
E. T. Young, OF Youngs' Hotel, is
taking time by the forelock, and pre-
pairing for the large summer travel that
is sure to visit Olympia. He has had
the hotel placed in nice repair, and in
addition, has made twenty-six addi-
tiOnal rooms in the Bettman block.
Yesterday Mr.. Ellis, the furniture man,
furnished the building in very good
style and taste.
From the daily of Saturday.
The assessor will begin his rounds
| next week.
F. J. Severance left for visit to Ia
coma, yesterday.
Shelton's new lodge of Odd Fellows
is in fiou,ishing condition.
Ground for the Mud Bay railr oad
was broken to-day on Buffers Bay.
General employment agencies now
in the city and all report business brisk.
The wife of Chris Nommenson, the
butcher, presented him with son yes
terday.
The steamer Clara Brown is doing a
thriving business between here and
Shelton. Ff gF
The rain to-day has interfered
somewhat with excavation for the new
hotel.
The price of eggs has gone up to
% cents per dozen. Butter has fallen
to so cents per roll.
Mother Joseph, Superioress OF the
Sis ers of Providence on this coast,
arrived from Vancouver TO day.
Oily, inquiries are made fIom
abrosd to persons in this city asking
for locations for all kinds of business.
A drunken Indian and an equally
drunken tquaw, was one of the attrac-
lions Oh the Swantown bridge, to-day.
A number of our people 60 to Seat
tie tomorrow 10 witness the aquatic
exhibition Of Paul Boyton, announced
for that day.
Pat Kelliher, an ex-convict came in
last night and filled up with bad gin.
He was warned to leave and he left
without saying as much as good bye.
The Signal Service office, to-day, re-
ports the range of the thermometer
as 63-49; barometer, 1923, = raise of
of "a inches, and the rainfall as 1-1Oth
of an inch.
The Coast survey steamer Fuca ar
rived in the harbor to-day. She ex-
perienced a thorough overhauling ana
was supplied with u new set of boilers
at Tacoma. i
Judge Isham has taken the contract
to clear the timber from the Horton
addition, paying his woodsmen Ito
cord. When done this will be the
handsomest addition in town.
Harvey Mcclellan. night watchman
in this city, received the sad inteili-
gence last night that his brother was
lying at the point of death, at his home
in Dakota. He Immediately left for
his bedside.
Charley Holton has a superbly
bound and handsomely illustrated vol
ume OF Dante's Purgatory, He'll and
Heaven-three volumes in one. 1t is
for sale and can be seen at the store of
N. O'Conner.
Chief Savidge, to-day, notified At
torney Robinson to cease erecting a
barn on the block back of the old Odd
Fellows building. The reason assigned
is that he is unlawfully erecting a
wooden building in the fire limits.
Secretary Owings has received a let.
ter from his successor o. c. White, of
Dayton, who states that lie will come