Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-07


MAKE arrangements for a Thurstor
county exhibit at the Interstate Fair.
Mrs. Fidelia Turner and her daugb
ter, Mrs. Horton, have returned from
the East. Mrs. T. has been absen,
about year, visiting relatives in Ken
lucky. and Mrs. II. Joined her about g
month ago.
Representative John l.. Wilson
came up on the Multnomah last even
ing, and is the guest OF his friend
John F. Convey. He is busily en-
gagged in setting up the pins for the
Us. Senatorship.
The Indians at Mud Bay have set 6
good example for their Boston
friends. They have prepared a very
creditable exhibit for the Interstate
Fair, consisting of basket-work and g
model Chinook lodge.
Miss Jennings will assume the
principalship of the Westside schoo,
made vacant by the acceptance of a
position in the Tacoma public school
service by Miss Westcott, who has
rendered her resignation.
Rev. DR.. Reaper will hereafter hold
his meetings at private residences
Tonight people in the neighborhood
OF Jefferson and Eleventh streets will
think that there is an asylum for the
insane in that district.
Several new sets of furniture from
the Dorenbecker Furniture Co., OF
Chehalis. were received this week by
Bickford, manufactured from native
hard wood. They will be sold al
surprisingly low prices. Go and see
them.
A house belonging to . Mr.. Clark
now resident of Oregon. on the cor.
ner OF Franklin and Twenty-second
streets. was entirely destroyed by fire
yesterday morning, about 6 O'Clock. 1,
is thought that the fire was set by
some incendiary.
The funeral of VIM. Brown, OF
Westside, took place Wednesday, and
interment was made in Masonic GENE.
terry. Deceased was 80 years of age
and born in Scotland. He had re-
sided in this city the part four years
with his daughter, Mrs. Melville.
The bicycle races at the fair grounds
tomorrow will be an important Local
event. Wheelmen will be present
from Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and
the two Vancouvers. Several hand
some prizes will be awarded. The
races will begin at three O'Clock sharp
Owing to political excitement
doubtless, the attendance at the mas.
meeting, in Columbia hall, las,
Saturday, to devise some means fol
securing an exhibit at the Interstat,
Fair, was not we'll attended. It il
hoped that the project will not b
abandoned.
A rainfall Saturday night cleared
the atmosphere. for q time, of the
prevailing smoke. Afterwards, how
ever, the widespread unextinguished
fires in the forest again obscured tn
horizon till Wednesday, when copiou
showers left the atmosphere clear as il
springtime.
H. S. Bradford was brought up from
Kamilchie with q broken leg, thi
week, and is now undergoing treat
ment at st. Peters hospital. He wa
at work on the railroad track, when /,
bar slipped with which he was prying
and falling on his leg, broke it
The September term OF the Superio
Court opened Tuesday, and severa
motions were argued. A judgmen
was rendered for plaintiff in the cas-
of Jones vs.. Bennett, and the petition
of Ann NJ. Doble for guardianship o
John Mulqueen, insane, was granted
with bonds fixed at $500.
Ten acres of the tract purchased
for the Catholic College, At Woodland
have been cleared, but work has beer
retarded by heavy loss to the order
by disaster to their buildings near st
Cloud, MINI. A temporary structure
will be erected at once, for the &C
commodation of pupils. until perms
nent buildings are built.
A numerously signed petition has
been circulated by Herman Ramm, +
C. Van Epps, and others. for the re
moval of the postofice from its pres
emit location, to the Hale block, on
Fourth street. the reason urged being
that the new location is on business
thoroughfare and more accessible TO 9
larger portion of its patrons.
&c. Horr wants to be paid about
81 200 for rent Of the building in
which the Armstrong stock remains
just as it was when attached by credi-
tors. There 10 something wrong in
the law which enables anybody to
sequester property until costs absorb
its whole value. It is q dog-in-the.
msnger policy sustained by the strong
arm of the law.
Republicans are never at loss for
expedients. They are always equal To
the emergency presented. When the
delegation at Gull Harbor had been
reduced to one member, at the tail end
OF the meeting. George Marvin Savage
promptly reported his own name
when the roll was called for naming
the County Central Committee. Hi
had his gall with him.
Geo. Tallman, q pioneer who settled
in Portland in 1850. and was one o.
the founders OF Milwaukee, Oregon, 81
that time . pretentious rival of Port
land, is on q visit to his old.time &C