Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-03-13
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The weather l. delightful.
Early gardening has begun.
Next Tuesday is -. Patrick day.
Last Wednesday wa> the first day
81 spring.
The County C"mn:s>iuncr5 will
meet April Gtn.
The weather forecast Tor tomorrow
i, Fair and warmer"
The scholastic year of the public
schools CLOSED Monday.
y son was born last Friday to Mr..
and Mrs. }. +. Connolly.
Miss Eta Yemen will soon return
from her visit to California.
Mrs. DIR. Armstrong is on visit to
her mother in san Francisco.
\ daughter was born last Friday to
the vile OF JOS. Taylor, OF Bucoda.
Mr. and Mrs. J. NJ. Patton have re-
turned from i visit to their daughter
at Astoria.
j. c. Horr has the contract for sup
plying the Poor Farm with wood at
- per cord.
The Multnomah will be the only
boat "out" Sunday, leaving at her
usual hour 6 30 A. NJ
J. ?. Tweed, former Auditor of this
county, is in st. Peters hospital, I'M
dergoing treatment for rheumatism.
Mahlon +. Jones, of Hartstein Is
land, has been granted pension by
the Pension Department at Washing
ton.
George p. Carr, Gen. Passenger
and Freight Agent Of the Great North
ern Railway, was in this city yester-
day.
Thurston county receives 81 ,lOl.33,
under the State school-tax law, and
District No. l receives $3939O of that
amount.
Mrs. Brautigam, OF Eastside, sus-
taued severe bruises from a fall, last
Sunday, while engaged in her house
hold duties.
Mark Mack has been placed on a
beat as night policeman by some of
our merchants, who have "chiped in"
for his pay.
AS memoir Of the times it is noted
that Sheriff CASTOR sold five pieces
of property under the hammer in one
day this week.
DR.. Newell reports the birth of a
son, Wednesday morning, to Mrs.
Thomas Holman, corner of Tenth and
Jefferson streets.
Charles Layton and Miss Edna Di.
bert were united in marriage on the
Westside, by Rev. Rufus Chase,
Wednesday night.
Prof. Yemen, of Vashon College,
has been so i'll ever since the holi-
DAYS as to incapacitate him for dis
charge Of his duties IS tutor.
IN. Yantis has leased the farm OF
Ignatus Colvin, near Bucoda, ard will
operate it in connection with the
Brown farm he now occupies.
Ralph johnson left by the Union
Pacific, for Council Bluffs, Tuesday.
Mr.. j. has been night Waterman on
Percival's dock the past two years.
The Elks' minstrel and opera COM
pany have selected Thursday, the 10Th
inst, as the date for their perform
ance of" Trial by Jury" with minstrel
forepart.
1t is quite evident that the kids
who givea "grand entertainment" i'll
Williamson's barn, Saturday night,
have "chalked" the Olympian's hat
for the season.
The Thurston County Immigration
Society meets in Columbia Hall to-
morrow afternoon, Immediately after
the adjournment of the horticultural
Society, in the same building.
Rev. Peter NJ. Rowe, who is en-
route for Alaska, preached in St
Johns church Sunday. He is on his
way to the Northwest to assume the
office OF Bishop of that diocese.
Walter Quick had two fingers of his
left hand badly lacerated Wednes-
day evening while running the emery
wheel at the Puget Sound Pipe Fac
tory. DR.. Newell dressed the wound.
Attorney General Jones will address
the people of Thurston county 10
Olympia Theater, on the afternoon OF
Saturday, the 2Sth inst at 2 o'clock
on the prevailing issue Remonitiza-
ton of Silver"
Rev. c. L. Divan, former pastor oil
the Congregational church in this
city, now with his wife in Chicago,
writes the congregation resigning his
passionate. and intimating that he will
accept a charge in that city.
The State Treasurer has issued a
call for State warrants on the general
fund from No 10,5l5 to No. 1928,
inclusive; amount $22 ,4SO; tide land
fund, No. l ,4l6 to No. 1888, amount
$3.50. The call natures March III.
John Kane, who was sentenced to
ten years at Walla Walla for breaking
in Carlyon's show-window and alb
stracting therefrom several articles OF
silverware, has been pardoned by Gov.
McGraw, after four years OF servitude.
A new way of shipping smelt to
Eastern markets, has been adopted in
this city. One hundred and twenty
five pounds of this edible little fish
were frozen in block of ice At Tum.
water this week for shipment to Mon
tana.
The steamship City OF Topeka sail.
ing on Wednesday will connect at
Sitka with the steamer Bertha, for
Portage Bay and Prince Williams
Sound, on the Oath. The Bertha has
accommodations for 80 cabin and $50
steerage passengers.
Wednesday night the steamer
Multnomah brought up % tons OF
freight for the Lumbermen's Mercan-
tile Company's store at Shelton, and
the steamer after touching at her
wharf here went on special trip to