Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-06-27


at here bedside during her last mo-
ments. The funeral was held to-day
at the family residence and interment
was made in Odd Fellows cemetery.
Mrs. st. John, of Beloit, Kansas,
will lecture next Tuesday and Wednes-
day evenings. at SP. NJ, in the NJ. E.
Church, under the auspices of the
Women's Christian Temperance I'm
ion. She comes with such recon-
mendations as this, from the Graphic,
of Kingsley, Kansas: Sunday morn
ing, Mrs. c. III. st. John preached an
eloquent and forcible sermon in the
Congregational church, changing the
opinions of many as to whether wo-
man could preach"
The STANDARD has made arrange
ments whereby it can furnish Web
ster's unabridged Dictionary and a
years subscription for the sum of
$3.50. This is the opportunity OF
life time to obtain two standard pro-
auctions at nominal sum. Webster
is standard authority in spelling and
defining and the STANDARD is accept
ed as authority on the eternal prin-
ciples of freedom and justice. We
will be able to furnish the dictionaries
in few days, soon as the first con-
signmelr is received from Chicago.
1t has been impossible to obtain a
Fquorum of the City Council this week
from absence and illness OF some OF its
members. Wednesday evening the
regular meeting should have been held,
but Mayor Convey and r. G. O'Brien
were absent from the city, and Mr..
Mason i'll. Thursday evening, to
which the meeting had been adjourned,
still another member (Mr. William
SOM had left the city. 1t is hoped
that by Saturday evening quorum
will report for the pressing duties of
a season of the city's greatest activ-
ity.
The annual meeting of the Thurs
ton County Medical Society was held at
DR.. Flannigan's Office, Tuesday even
ing. Drs. Watt, Adams and Wyman
were admitted to membership. The
officers elected for the coming year
were as follows: N. Ostran1er, Presi-
dent; NJ. L. Adams, icc-President; G.
S. Armstrong, Secretary; c. L. Flanni-
gan, Treasurer. The first Tuesday in
August was the date fixed upon for the
regular meeting. The President ap-
pointed DR.. Flanagan to prepare a
paper on diseases of the ovaries and
tubes, and DIR. Adams one on hypno-
tism. The society embraces the coun-
ties of Mason and Chehalis, where no
organized societies exist.
Two bids were opened by the special
committee of the City Council,
Wednesday, under the advertisement
calling for propositions for the
sale of the $45, 600 Of 2O-3O year bonds.
Harris & Co., of Seattle, offered a
premium of $1O3.25; Farson, Leach
& Co., OF New York, A per cent.
premium; Blair & Co., of the same
city, $47 80 premium; The Rollins
Investment Co., OF Denver, $685.
premium; and s. A. Kean & Co., of
Portland, a premium of $2,475. All
the bids were for six per cent. bonds.
interest payable semi-annually, ex-
cept the last which called for I per
cent. Farson, Leach & Co.'s bid was
not accompanied by the certified check
for 81 600 required as guarantee Of
acceptance and was therefore not con-
sidered. The bid Of the Rollins Invest
ment Co., was accepted, and the
money will be available about the
middle of July.
1t is strange how persistently some
people oppose enterprises which should
be fostered and encouraged, on the
slightest of pretexts. An instance in
point is the Reriew's censure of the
street railway company for allowing
their cars to stand on the track during
the progress of street improvements
which suspends the car service tempo
rarily. Nobody Will aflirms that the
street is not OF ample width for the bust
ness now done, or that the cara are the
slightest impediment to travel, still
the disposition to find fault and
grumble, the desire to boss" what is
going on, seems to predominant, and
we find kicks when kind words should
prevail. The Olympia Railway Co.,
have been martyrs from the beginning.
When their cars were landed on the
wharf, they were greeted with the
derisive shout of bob-tail," although
Portland then as now was running the
same kind of bob-tails on the principal
business street of that tolerably large
village. When the service began, it
was boycotted by these same GROWERS,
who never lost an opportunity for
putting obstacles in its way. This
disposition is, by no means, confined
to the railroads. Any man who steps
to the front to make some improve
ment of public utility becomes imme-
diately the target for the envious and
narrow-minded cToaker who fills the
place of the dog in the mangcr.
The Veterans' Celebration.
OLYMPIA, WASH, June 10Th, 1880.
EDITOR STANDARD: s.
Will you please announce in your
valuable naDer. that the Geo. HI.