Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-06-12

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Arrangements have been made for
the steamer Seaside to carry picnic
parties to Halls Resort, Buffers Cove
Engagements may be made and
tickets procured at Halls Hardware
Store.
Yesterday the Chinese firm of Hong
Iek received 200 mats of rice and ~
packages of Chinese merchandise,
amounting to nine tons, direct from
China by the steamer Transit, Just in
at Tacoma from the orient.
School District, No. has followed
the example of the city and laid claim
against the county for penalty and
interest on delinquent school taxes
collected by the County Treasurer.
The claim amounts TO $913.G6.
The track OF the street-car switch
to the capitol is being taken up to
be used in spur to the brewery at
Tumwater. The car company doubt
less regard the latter institution as
much the best business certainty.
Joiners" will be in their glory the
latter part of this month, when a
lodge of Red Men will be instituted,
delegation from the Puyallup reser-
walton are coming over to confer the
hyas sohily degree of close tomanawus.
Miss Rose Nida, of the Carlton
House, had her wrist badly cut by
broken glass, while raising a window,
last Sunday. 1t seems that the sash,
" stuck" and in the effort made her
hand slipped and passed through one
Of the panes.
The Second Annual Michigan Pic
mic will be held at Halls Resort, But
ler's Cove, on Wednesday, July LIST.
All Michigan people are cordially in.
vited. Arrangements have been
made for transportation with the
steamer Seaside.
Chas. Libby has received the second
award of $40 for an essay on The
Principles and Lessons OF the Ameri-
can Revolution" and Miss Alberta
White, of Puyallup, the first prize,
$25, for the same, in \ late contest in
stituted by the Washington Society
OF Sons OF the American Revolution.
Catherine Lent Stevenson, Ma
tional Corresponding Secretary of the
w. e. T. u, will speak in Columbia
Hall Saturday evening at 8 o'clock,
and Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock,
under the auspices OF that organiza-
ton. She is said to stand next to
Frances E. Willard as a platform ora
tor.
The track-iron on the Capitol spur
being insufficient to extend the
street-car line to the brewery at Tum-
water, Gen. Stevens has secured enough
to piece out from DR.. Mitchell, who
lately bought the Westside track at
SherifTs sale, for taxes. The track to
the brewery will be completed by
Wednesday.
DR.. A. S. Oliver, the dentist, who a
few months ago was in business here,
had q close rub to the cyclone which
devastated st. Louis, few days ago.
The front Of the building, in which
he had taken refuge, was blown in.
On his place, a few miles out from the
city, all the trees were blown down,
but the house withstood the shock.
There was racket on Westside
when A. S. Hall went to the egg
basket to get 13 of those thorough
bred Buff Leghorn eggs he had been
saving for special purpose-they
were gone. When told that his daugh-
ter had received the first prize for best
cake at the "Pet Show" he knew
where the eggs went and all was quiet.
Mrs. A. Y. Trask, OF San Francisco,
wife of one OF the early shippers on
the Sound and California route, has
been on visit to her old-time friends,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Barnes, the past
few days. She went this week to Ia
coma and Seattle to pass q few days
with acquaintances. when she will re-
turn and remain several weeks longer
here.
VIM. T. Ford died suddenly on East
side, Monday evening, from heart
trouble, aged II years. He was a ma
tive OF East Tennessee and had been
resident of this city the past two
years. He leaves q wife and six
children. R. A. Ford of this city and
Rev. T. B. Ford OF Seattle, are sons of
the deceased. The funeral services
were held in the M. E. Church last
Wednesday afternoon.
Under the new train schedule,
which goes into effect Sunday, the
train from Tacoma will arrive at IL AS
A. NJ. and leave for Tacoma at 2 80 P.
M. On Sundays, the Port Townsend
Southern leaves at l P. M. and arrives
at SHOP. NJ. Other days will leave
at 6 20 A. NJ. and arrive at 8 40 A. M.
Northern Pacific trains will leave
Portland for the Sound at 9:15 A.. NJ.
and p. NJ, the former coming by
the way of this city Except Sundays).
The tin-sign man with his little
hammer and bundle of battle AK"
or Magic Yeast" tags. is transform
ing the electric light and telegraph
poles, as we'll as fences and out-houses,