Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-12-15


dav with 175 sets submitted for ap-
prOval. The corner store OF the
stuart building has been secured for
their Il splay.
Three cases OF diptheria. all OF
children and resulting fatally. oc-
CURED in a family last week which
lately came to this city, and doubtless
brought the germs OF the disease with
them. Precautions have been taken
against spread of the infection and
there is no cause for alarm.
The Sisters gives an entertainment
at the academy, next Tuesday even
iug, at which an interesting pro-
gramme VIII be rendered. The price
of admission for adults has been placed
at 30 cents, and for children not con-
nectcd with the school, % cents.
Mr.. Geo. Solomon, one Of the Fourth
street tonsorial artists, will leave in a
few days for Eastern Washington,
where he will remain several weeks
and then proceed to Oakland, Cal,
where he has accepted position OF
managing one of the leading barber
shops OF that thriving metropolis.
Patrick and Mary J. Dolan have won
their case in the Supreme Court, al
firming judgmentof Superior Court, on
title to property on Main street. Suit
was brought by Anna DeCovet and
! Carl Resin, disturbing title, and as
this is a second defeat it will probably
be the last. Hobart q. Hagen was at
torney for respondents.
The programme of the Chautauqua
Circle, which meets in the Office of
Allen & Moore, tomorrow evening is
as follows: Rome and Making of
Modern Europe" "Outlines OF Eco
nomics," Italian Finance" Talk on
Caesar; His Boyhood," "Characteris-
tics" Warrior" Winter" Roll
Call and quotations from Caesar.
E. C. Bickford & Co. now occupy
the Porcival building, corner of Column
bia and Fourth, Immediately opposite
their former stand. 1t has been re-
fitted and converted into an exceed
ingly neat store, with a much better
opportunity for display in than they
have formerly possessed. If you want
to make your money 60 as far as pos
sible these hard times, do not fail to
get their prices. They have almost
everything you need in house furnish,
ing wares.
Olympia Council, No. 1888, Royal
Arcanum, has chosen the following
officers for the ensuing term: Regent,
A. S. Oliver; Vice Regent, V. A.
Milroy; Orator, w. L. Bilger; Secre-
tary, A. C. Going; Solicitor, Geo. S.
Hopkins; Treasurer, f. C. Robinson
Chaplain, A. L. Campbell; Curtis
Harold Guide; Warden Geo. j.
Wolfe; Sentry, w. S. Maris, and c.
M. Moore, B. w. Brintnall and Joshua
Banner, Trustees.
The local editor OF our morning lu.
minary has singular propensity for
getting things "wrong end to-" as ii
were. His last mistake is made in
applying goose-grease to child with
Group. The story goes that the
mother by accident got hold of the
backing box, instead of the jar Of
healing remedy, and that it worked
quite as well as healer. The scribe's
point is that it left lasting color, but
the place on the body that he applies
it to, shows that he don't know shucks
about such things.
The highest tide for many years
will occur on Saturday, the 23d inst
1t will be from six inches to a foot
higher than the usual December tides,
the largest of the year. These ex'
cessive tides occur at intervals oil
nineteen years, and are attributed to
an unusual position Of the planets
which exert more than the ordinary
attraction at that season of the year
A greater conjun ction takes place al
still longer periods, but as they are
separated by centuries, and the nexI
one is afar off, it possesses little inter
est to the present generation.
The Olympian- Tribume's sensation
editor gives pathetic account of two
tramp girls who rode on brake-beams
from the wilderness of Illinois &c
civilization. 1t is a well-told story, in
the main, but the writer evidently for
got that the seasons have progressed
since he passed over the same road 9
few months ago. He has the girls
stealing watermelons from the same
patch he visited during the melon
season, while he was pursuing his
his dreary course westward. Probably
no writer is better able to write MP
such trip but he should guard
against anachronisms like that noted
which gives away" the whole story.
A SENsATIoN.-The Olympiam-7 ri.
bune is out with another sensational
story, and this time it is one liable to
create considerable alarm among those
who have purchased their vegetables
from Cinnamon. The story is that a
celestial, named All Fun, has been
peddling vegetables, the past two
years, while afflicted with that terrible
scourge, leprosy. The basis of the re-
port is a letter received by Prof. Rob.
erts, from "Geo. Smith," who is
doubtless, from his vernacular, a
Chinaman, Or some one trying to imi'
tate a ChiEaman. The letter was
turned over to Chief Snyder, and he
found All Fun, on his garden-plat
near town, and sure enough he had
some OF the symptoms described by
the redoubtable "Geo. Smith," who
processes to hail from San Francisco
The Chief reported the matter to the
Health Officer, but when DR.. Newell