, 1892-11-01
FUN FOR THE BOYS.
How They Made Rome How.
Last Night.
AssIstedby Invisible Powers, They
Cause Gates TO Disappear and
Many Strange Things TO Happen.

The HiIaritY Was Unrestratned.
The Mystic Order of Calthumpians held
undisputed sway in Olympia last night
Many provoking pranks were played
by the invisible powers that were were per
mitted to visit the earth in honor of Hal
lowe'en. Innumerable gates were endowed
with life and wandered from their fasten-
ings. The component parts of divers We
hicles suddenly became divorced and spread
themselves over extensive territory. Bells
were rung and all manner of howls were
emitted by the material forms of the hob
goblins.
The spirits took possession of a large
number of the young folks of the commu-
nifty and caused them to do many strange
things.
They formed a procession in central
Olympia, procured some COW bells, fog
horns and other soul-harrowing instru-
ments of torture, and started out to disturb
the tranquil slumbers of householders re-
siding in the aristocratic portion of the
city. One man became angered and fired
pistol. It's presumed that he merely shot
into the air for the purpose of frightening
off the spOOks. Nearly every gate that
could be moved was lifted from its hinges
and hidden. Some of the gates that were
not loose were wrenched from their hinges,
thereby causing the indignant owner to an
athemiZe the uneasy spirits of Halloween.
Charms and divinatiOns peculiar to the
night were tried, and more than one blush
ing maiden today carries the blissful as
suranCe in the secret chamber of her heart
that she has efectually tested the sincerity
Of her lover by some supernatural method.
The Westside and Eastside were well re-
membered, parades and a general hurrah
being carried on in both localities. In
East Olympia the Collegiate Institute
boys, and some of the girls as we'll, partic-
| ipated in the universal hilarity Of the oc-
casion. They were very qniet about it,
however, and had to wait until after mid
night before accomplishing any of their
deadly designs.
The glittering effulgence of the moon
and night of remarkable clearness made
the boys circumspect in their operations.
The moon seemed to be determined to as
sist in revealing their identity.
DR.. Ostrander's gate was summarily pur-
lOined. 81 told the boys not to carry it
too far away because I might have a hard
time finding it., he said with laugh.
The sign Of the Acme drug store was
found in the court house yard.
Robert Frost said the boys didn't bother
him much this year.
The grocery wagon of Britt & Co., was
taken apart and piled in heap on the
front porch of the Collegiate Institute
building.
2. ]. Hatch's front gate was among the
missing.
The arch fiend himself carried THE
TRTBUNE's bulletin board and placed it on
the sidewalk in front of the Olympian
Office. 1t was necessary to send the devil
after it.
Prof NJ. G. Royals gate was placed on
top of float house on the mud flats.
The bulletin board of the M. e. church
was discovered this morning in front of
the Carlton house.
A chair with rawhide bottom suspend
ed on an electric light Dracing wire in front
of State Superintendent Bryan's house on
Eastside street caused considerable merri-
ment.
DR.. Armstrong took his gate in the house
and thus fooled the boys.
F. g. Lamb, Of the Western Union, was
abducted from his room at midnight while
he was asleep, by couple of young ladies,
who transported him to a restaurant for a
midnight feast. He was awakened from
his somnolence by the smell of fried
oysters.
L. G. Abbott's house was decorated with
a saloon sign.
Judge Henry sresidence was embellished
with barber pole that had been carried
| away from in front Of the theater barber
shop.
A disintegrated wagon was piled on the
sidewalk in front of Mrs. Horton's resi-
dence on the Eastside.
A full grown wagon blocked the front en-
trance to r. l.. RobertsOn's grocery store
on upper Main street.
Plum street, near Fourth, was blockaded
with a stray fence.
Chief SaYidge had no end of sport trying
to capture some of the spirits. They were
too nimble for him. He got the laugh in
every instance.
At Tenino last night, while the repubh-
can meeting was in progress, somebody"
took a liveryman's buggy apart, rolled the
wheels off in four different directions and
hid the top. No clew to the perpetrators
of the deed