Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-05-01
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF,

1t has sprinkleG" nearly all day.
Market prices remain unchanged.
Lawyer Fitch has been quite i'll the
past few days
May-day outings have been necessa-
rily postponed.
Mrs. .. c. White has returned from
a visit to California.
The Estella is fast assuming the
shape of model tug.boat.
Five cows and three calves were
impounded this afternoon.
Cold rains have prevailed during a
larger portion Of the past week.
\ Republican "circus" performs at
Columbia hall Tomorrow at ten.
Mrs. NJ Davis left over the Union
Pacific, Tuesday, for Superior, Neb.
DR.. Newell reports the birth of son
on Saturday last to the wife OF Willis
White, Eastside.
The second annual picnic Of the
Michigan people in this community
will be held at Buffers Cove in June.
The Bar Association have adopted
the usual resolutions of respect to the
memory OF Judge Dennison, deceased.
The residence of w. f. Mitchell, in
the southern part OF the city was con-
siderably damaged by fire Saturday
morning.
The two X. of p. lodges OF this city
have concluded to consolidate, under
new charter, retaining the name OF
Capital Lodge No. Is.
The Aberdeen and Multnomah have
delivered about 60 tons of freight for
the Lumbermen's Mercantile Co., of
Shelton. during the past week.
Capt l.. Wiley and wife will depart
in few days Oh 4 visit to his old
home-Bangor, Me. He will proba-
bly, be absent couple of months.
hoffman is still breaking the record
for low prices in all descriptions of
clothing. Read over his list. Every
thing in stock is reduced in like pro
portion.
The next steamship leaving Seattle
for San Francisco will be the Walla
Walla, tomorrow. The Umatilla will
leave for the same destination on
Thursday of next week.
Mr.. Burnett has removed his bee
keepers supply store and shop from
Columbia street to 217 West Fourth
street, we're full stock OF essentials
in his line will be constantly kept.
A. I. Rabeck is now the owner OF
the popular grocery on Eastside
bridge, he having purchased the same
from Mrs. Catherine Turner, who has
operated it since her sons death.
At last, Wanamaker & Brown have
prevailed upon ]. H. Klinkenberg to
remove their sign from his " den," but
they have not 80 far succeeded in MAX
ing him liquidate obligations incurred
while he was acting as their agent.
Miss Grace Hull, who was several
years ago q resident Of this city, was
married Tuesday in jamestown, Ohio,
to ]. w. Williamson, a resident OF
that city. The bride is sister OF
Rube and Lutte Hull, of this city.
The Republicans of this county
have called county convention TO
meet on May I'd. The apportion.
ment OF one from each precinct and
one for each ten votes cast for w. H.
Doolittle for Congress gives an aggre-
gate of 133 delegates.
Gen. Stevens has returned from
Boston, and his presence gives re-
newed hope for prosperity. Olympia
does not possess more public.spirited
and Jealous co-laborer, and it is just
such men she needs to lift her from
the rut worn by moss-bound indiffer-
ence.
The steamer Aberdeen yesterday
took the household effects of DR.. H.
s. Wymsn, to Seattle, for transfer to
the steamship ior Juneau, Alaska,
where he will hereafter reside. Mrs.
Wyman and daughter and her sister,
Mrs. Coonts, will leave for that desti-
nation on the 18th.
The funeral services attending the
burial of Miss Augusta Moss took
place at the Catholic Church, this
morning. Deceased was an exemplary
young lady, just past her sixteenth
year and resident of Tumwater.
Her mother, Mrs. Dina Moss, and two
brothers aged 10 and 10, residing in
Tumwater, and other relatives, were
present at the obsequies.
Another Hermann, rivaling the
great magician in wonderful perform
ances, has appeared in Portland, but
he confines his operations to healing
of the halt and blind and those who
are afflicted with almost any form of
physical infirmity. 1t is said that r.
Peachey, who lived in this city few
months ago and was afflicted with
paralysis, has been wholly cured by
Hermann's ministrations, which are
OF a magnetic nature.
That oil and water will not mix is
shown by the attempt to run Unity
church as tabernacle on Sunday and
dance hall on week davs The