Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-17

tree, which has stood for a score or
more OF years on the corner of Wash
ington and Fourth streets, fronting
his property. This vandalism finds
justification, however, in the fact that
the tree was defective at heart; in truth
it was in an advanced stage of dry-rot,
although to the Impractical eye sound
and fair to look upon. 1t was weighed
in Toms" mental balance and found
wanting, and had to go the way of all
timber
Mrs. Sarah c.. wife OF Edward
Lange, died at her home on Eastside,
at an early hour Sunday morning.
She had been afflicted for the last two
years with consumption, and the past
nine months she had been unable to
leave her room. A native OF Brooklyn,
n. v, she came to this city seven
years ago with her husband, who en-
gagged in the work of an artist. Be-
sides her husband she leaves five
children to mourn her loss. Four of
the orphaned children were with their
mother when the sad event occurred,
but the husband was at Spokane,
whittier he had gone in the hope of
improving his health, being afflicted
with asthma. He was too i'll to come
home to attend his wife in her last
hours or be present at her funeral,
which took place Monday under the
rites of the Catholic church.
The performance of the Somers
Family Concert Co., at Olympia Thea
ter, Friday night, came fully up to
the expectations of those who made
allowances for the fact that it was
composed mainly of young people, who,
notwithstanding precocity, can never
equal, the finished effects of genius
polished by the drill of experienced
teachers. Miss Nellie has a voice
which may be developed into a COM
pass and volume that will insure for
her an enviable place amid profession
al song-birds, and Carl and Perrin,
her brothers, and Lottie, her sister,
possess quite a number of the charac-
teristics which develop into the true
comedian. Their entertainment, for
the time, seemed to utterly Danish dull
care, and almost every number was
encored.
At an early hour yesterday morning,
a small safe in Mr.. Weston's store,
Main and Seventh streets, was blown
open, evidently by professional safe
crackers. Their work was interrupted,
however, before the inner door could
be forced by DR.. Strickland, whose Of
fee and sleeping-room is above the
store. He was awakened by a crash,
doubtless caused by the first blast
to force the outer door of the safe, and
when the second report came he was
awake enough for him to institute an
investigation. He hastily dressed
and hurried down stairs. Notwith-
landing he saw what appeared to be
smoke issuing from an open transom,
after trial of the store door and find
ing it locked, and a glance into the
store and seeing no flames, he calmly
went back to bed. When Mr.. Weston
came down town in the morning, he
found the safe in the condition it
doubtless was when the doctors in.
vestigation frightened the burglars
away. Holes had been drilled and
powder used to blow open the first
door and then the same process had
been only partially successful on the
inner door when the work had been
suspended. Mr.. Weston says that the
safe contained bnt little money or
other articles of value to anybody but
their owner. There were valuable pa
pers, however, which the thieves might
or might not have taken, and he feels
quite satisfied that the loss ended with
damage to the safe.