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

ire IN the roof OF Chinese wash
house on Third street. 1t was extin-
guished without difficulty. but had i:
got a start. the whole upper part of
town would have been endangered As
Il strong wind from the north was
blowing.
The olympia Light and Power Co.
have put in their own telephones to
connect their Office on Main street, car
stables on East>ide and the Tumwater
terminus. Perfect telephones are
now 80 cheap, through expiration Of
the patents, that their general intro
ductlon where IA frequent means OF
communication is desirable, is only o
question Of time.
The following olympia people were
passengers for Alaska 10y the Puebla,
which sailed from Seattle to-day, \. :.
b. Lawson and Mrs. NJ. +. CORN, r.
Will lsave by the Mexico for Juneau,
Monday, +. G. Deming and wife; by
the Topeka, for Alaska, sailing on
Wednesday, DIR. II. :. Wyman, and by
the Walla Walla for san Francisco,
same date, III. 5. ellis.
Mrs X. S. Eastman, of Tumwater,
died in that place on Tuesday, after
several years of suffering from dropsy.
She was 81 years of age, and had re.
sided in this county since 1868. She
leaves son, C. +. Eastman, of Tum-
water, and a step-daughter, Mrs.
Jacob Bolander, OF the same place
The funeral services were held Thurs
day and interment was made in Ma
sonic cemetery.
Jo McCarrosher writes that the
mining project at Jacksonville, Ore
gOn., in which be was interested, has
not turned out as well as was an,ici-
pated. The mine is not as rich in
free gold rs was expected, and the
company will have to put in a con
centrator and save the sulphites,
which carry much of the gold. In
the meantime 10 has gone over to
Siskiyou, Cal, to superintend the
erection of a stamp-mill on developed
lode.
The Jefferson street mill is engaged
in cutting an unlimited order OF
heavy wharf timbers for Chicago.
They are 30 feet in length, eight
inches thick and twenty inches wide
there bring 425 feet in each "stick."
Each car carries % of these pieces, or
within a trifle of $1,000 feet. The
price paid is about the same as for
ordinary run of lumber, and being a
cash contract will result in steady
employment for the mill for some
time.
The Supreme Court has decided the
case of the Olympia Water Company
vs.. Thurston County, in favor of the
county, reversing the lower court.
The County Board OF Equalization
raised the assessment of the water
company's personal property from
$4,000 to $32,650. The company ap.
pealed to the Superior Court, where
Judge Reed reduced the assessment to
$21 ,5O4. County Attorney Root ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court, which
holds that the action of the Board OF
I$4udtIZbtiOu 10 HudI 8uu tUat til0
Superintendent had no jurisdiction.
F. B. Graham died, of typhoid fever,
at his residence on Westside, Satur-
day morning. about 9 o'clock, after an
illness of six weeks. Mr.. Graham
came to this city from Omaha, Ne
braska, about six years ago. and his
family, consisting of son and daugh-
ter, joined him about year ago. He
was native OF Philadelphia, 4S years
of age. The funeral services were
held at the family residence. 202
West Bay avenue, at 2 o'clock Mon
day afternoon. Mrs. r. A. Carpenter,
married daughter, of Omaha, was
present during his last hours on earth.
Mrs. NJ. A. Wheeler. late of Apple.
ton, Wis, has succeeded Mrs. Sullivan,
in her millinary business, which has
been we'll established by several years
of painstaking effort to please custo-
mers. Mrs. s. will remain with the
new proprietor for several months,
when she proposes to remove from
the city. This announcement will be
received with regret by the many per-
sonal as we'll as business friends she
has secured during her sojourn in our
midst. 1t is enough to hope that
Mrs. Wheeler will be equally as fortu-
nate in building upa splendid reputa.
ton.
The Steamer Mexico. which sails
from Seattle ON the 10th inst. for
Juneau and Douglas Island. after dis
charging her freight at the former
place will proceed to Dyea. or as near
as navigation will permit. This is the
point where miners take the trail for
the headwaters of the Yukon. First
class passage from Seattle to Juneau
is 50 from this city and steerage $3.50,
and the company guarantees that the
first-class passenger fare from Juneau
to Dyea will not exceed 81 first-class
and 81 steerage. The rate to Juneau
only applies, however, to the trips of
the Mexico. The rates on the other
steamships are S12 and Sc.