Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10

ers, which began yesterday, is being
held i'll the high school building, in
stead Of the court house, the usual
place OF meeting
Those who have seen the sights
estimate that there are districts in the
surrounding country where hall a ton
Of blackberries can be gathered from
an acre OF woodland.
Either Peter and Paul West are the
best mediums who have yet visited
this city. or the most arrant humbugs
ever posing in righteous cause.
Opinions are divided.
Mr.. J.. 7. Yemen has been interview
ing the people OF Thur.ton county,
during the past week, in the interest
OF Nashon College. He went down to
Mason county this week.
Wood and bark are still selling at
remarkably low prices per cord and it
is the part OF wisdom for consumers
to fill their sheds before the price
goes up to the winter notch.
Note the change in Bickford's ad-
vertisement this week. 1t oftentimes
happens that bargains may be secured
in secondhand goods, which although
deprecated in price, are good AS new.
The Olympidn suggests the estab-
lishment of market place in our city,
where vegetables and other country
products may be placed on sale, on
market days, and sold direct to the
consumer.
And now the big boy in knicker-
bockera is ranging the streets and
shooting unoffending swallows with
that internal machine, the toy air-gun.
Where is the Society for the Preven-
ton of Cruelty to Animals?
Remember the subject OF discussion
at the meeting of the Horticultural
Society, is one in which many pos
sess lively interest, the considera-
ton OF diseases and pests of fruit
trees. There should be a full meeting
and united action on the best means
for eradicating these evils, at their
meeting to-morrow.
The Presbyterian and United
Presbyterian Sunday schools went
Wednesday on an excursion to Hart
stein Island, where the Boys Brigade
have been encamped the past week.
They were received with a royal vel
come and the young soldiers won en-
thusiastic plaudits for their taste and
zeal as entertainers.
The State Treasurer will pay on
demand warrants on the general fund
between the numbers 5,25l and $3.50
inclusive, and on the tide land fund
from ISL to $40, inclusive. This pay
ment involves $25,32lS3 from the
general, and $2.755.l3 from the tide
land funds. Interest on these war
rants ceases after the 18th inst.
The travelling public will find the
Jefferson hotel to afford all the com.
forts of home, in first.class style. The
rooms are commodious, well.furnished
and clean, the table supplied with the
best the market affords, and the ser
vice thorough and pains-taking. Be-
sides this, the charges are moderate,
a consideration of some importance
these hard times.
The much talked of planet Mars is
at the present time slowly coming into
good position for observation. 1t now
rises little after 10 o'clock and is
steadily approaching its nearest point
to the earth. About October Goth, the
three bodies, Mars, the Earth and the
Sun will be nearly in the same line. A
good strong field-glass will suffice to
reveal the disc OF Mars.
Now if Mr.. Rathbun will set up the
image of the stern goddess, say upon
the public square, and assure Olym-
pians that no evil will come to their
fair city, he will embalm his name for
ever while his children and his chill
dren's children will rise up and call
him blessed. If time-honored pres.
tige is of any avail, the Palladium
should win the favor of its readers.
DR.. Manner, who owns farm . few
miles from town. has brought to our
Office some heads OF rye which meas
ure six inches in length and are we'll
filled with grain. These were clipped
from stalks higher than mans head.
This phenomenal crop was raised Oh
the dry prairie land, and the samples
left with us are . fine indication of
the whole crop comprising about seven
acres.
Charley Hopkins. the manager Of
the Inland Telephone and Telegraph
system, dropped in on his many
friends Monday evening, on his way
to Portland, from Seattle, where he
has been on . visit to relatives. He
is the same genial, whole-souled chap
he was when he set type on the STAND
ARD, fifteen years ago, and before he
went east and "grew up with the
country"
Half-a-dozen families are enjoying
camp-life at Buffers cove. Some of
them have been there two weeks liv-
ing in tents and enduring innumera-
BILE privations under the delusive idea
that it is pleasure. Some will remain
still longer, but the majority have an.
nounced their determination to follow
the example OF the Arabs at an early
day, and probably the majority will
leave to morrow.
Many oli.timers will remember DR..