Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


Mr.. Jacob G,sscr died at her home
on Wc>t>idc Tuesday.
The Bucoda lumber mill is now
running at its fall capacity.
Best quality American Russia iron
air tight heaters, 1921 at L. NJ. Halls.
The Multnomah will leave Sunday
at her usual hour for Tacoma and Sc
attic.
1t has taken nearly week to rain
off, the snow that fell in twcnty-four
hours
a son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Victor Burncll, OF Squaxon Island,
this week.
Mrs. r. Simpson and daughter, of
kamilchie, paid visit to Olympia
this week.
Skating was excellent on Barnes
and Chambers lakes in the early part
OF the week.
1t is expected that the dredger Oak
land will resume throwing dirt" by
the 10th inst.
The contract OF the State for offices
in the Mckinney building expires the
LIST of June, 1897. The State pays an
annual rental of $4,000.
The Owl Club has elected G. H.
Funk Chief Owl; w. N. Wetmore,
Vicious Owl, and R. L. Blankenship
Scribbling Owl and Gobbler.
The County Commissioners have
declined to consider the proposition of
Morris & Co., of Portland, for bonds
covering the warrant Indebtedness.
Wednesday Mrs. o. A. Bowen and
daughter left by the Union Pacific for
Kansas City, Mo-, where they will
spend the remainder of the winter.
Owing to the steamer Aberdeen I'M
dergoing repairs she has not been on
duty the past week. Due notice will
be given of her resumption of service.
VIM. Henry former resident of
this city and Harriet Cheney of North
Yakima, were lately married, and
have taken up their residence in Sc
attic.
The flume carrying water to the
ice works, at Tumwater, was pros
trated by an accumulation of ice dur
ing the late "cold snap" 1t is being
replaced with new conduit.
Leopold Schmidt, of the Capital
Brewing Co., Tumwater, is over from
Portland on visit. The product of
his brewery is rapidly extending its
fame all over the northern coast.
The next steamship sailing from
Seattle for San Francisco, will be the
City of Puebla, next Tuesday. The
next boat for Alaska will be the City
of Topeka ON Sunday, the 18th inst.
This is the season for cracking
fires and often red hot stove-pipes and
no householder should 60 to bed with
out thorough survey of his premises
in the interest of safety against mid
night confagration.
Judge Reed united in the bonds of
matrimony, last Monday, B. R. Glib
son of Bucoda and Grace E. Knight of
Minneapolis, MINI. They left inn
mediately after the nuptials for their
home on Mr.. G.'s farm near Bucoda.
The Secretary of the Interior, on
the 18th inst, approved of list of
1888 acres of land upder sec. II of the
act of Feb. %, 1889, located in the
Seattle land district. This is part of
the grant for erection of a State
capitol.
Joseph Shelly's daughter Jane,
aged IA, was so seriously injured 10y
her clothes taking fire from an open
fireplace, Sunday, at Independence,
settlement nine miles south of this
city, that she died soon afterwards in
intense pain.
The price of Eastern Washington hay
has advanced to $12,. and other feed
products in proportion. Flour now
commands 81 10, $1.2O and $1.4O per
sack; potatoes from 60 to IS cents per
\ hundred; butter 40 cents per roll and
eggs 80 cents per dozen.
Billy" Esling, late business mama
ger of the OlympiaT, is now employed
ina similar position on a paper at
Rossland. He writes that he now
I sees dollars where he saw dimes in
his former position, and his friends
may consider his "tra.la" final
adieu.
Two bids were submitted for keep
ing the county poor, one by Mark
Wynn for % cents per day, and
another by Chas. Seed for 80 cents
per day, but both were rejected by the
Commissioners and the matter was laid
over for consideration of the new
board.
The Peoples Political Club, at its
meeting Saturday night, adopted a
constitution, which sets forth the OBJ
]ects to be education upon matters of
public policy. Meetings will be held
every Saturday night, and tomorrow
night officers for the ensuing year will
be elected.
). II. Mort, who resided on farm
near Iumwater, dropped dead from
Atart trouble Saturday NIGHT at the