Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-05-28
sunday i Decoration Day.

hives.
John Lynch. tie tailor, spent
couple oi days in Seattle this week.
The >hinglr mill hrings in an aver
az" vi ~, 100 per month upon East
ern orders
Mrs Robert Simpson and her son
Roy, OF kamilchle, are registered at
the Carlton House.
Olympia l. alive with drummerS,
representing almost every conceivable
variety oi business.
{. W. Young. OF Seattle, and Victor
Smith, OF HoIuiam, are stopping at
the Carlton House.
Wild Strawberries are ripe and re-
ported to be quite plentiful on the
ncighboring prairles.
There is II prospect for a general
passenger and freight war, on the
Coast steamship lines.
Strawberries sold this morning for
ten cents a box, the lowest price they
have reached this season.
The weather prognostication for the
next twenty-four hours is Fair and
warmer. Cooler Sunday"
T. J. Boyd and Miss Elsie LeBarron,
both of Seattle, were united in mar
rage, in this city, last Saturday.
+. W. FoulkeS, representing the
California Wine House, of Tacoma,
came over on business visit Monday.
The new Board of Control meets
next Monday, when the curtain will
rise on the second act of the Comedy
of Errors"
No city on the sound affords as
good streets for bicyclc-riding rs
Olympia, and this faci is becoming
known to wheclmen.
Currant pies have made their ap-
pearance at the restaurants, and this
should be regarded as one OF the cur
rent events of the season.
The Countess Watchmeister and
Miss A. J. Wilson are registered ut the
Olympia, as companions of Mrs. Annie
Besant, the eminent lecturer.
What is believed to be true vein
of mineral quartz has been discovered
in a hill on the farm of Ralph Pierce,
about nine miles south of this city.
Joseph Sanford is now sole owner of
the Fashion saloon, Pete" Stewart
having sold his interest to his former
partner. Stewart will probably locate
in Seattle.
Mitchell Harris, of this city, was
elected Grand Master of the EX-
chequer for the ninth annual term by
the Grand Lodge X. of p. lately held
at Vancouver.
The name of the new town lately
instituted by Boss Logger Simpson,
is Matlock. 1t takes the place of
Kamilche, which has been relegated
to inOcuOus desuetude.
If the unsightly framework of the
old Fourth street draw no longer SUBJ
serves its original purpose, nor to
bridge what was once the channel,
why should it not be removed?
The pipe factory has been running
the past three weeks on an order of
$500 feet of six-inch banded and
coated pipe for Idaho, and 1900 feet
to fill several orders on the Sound.
Al. Muirhead, P. H. Chapman, Ed.
-Adair and G. H. Thompson left for
North Yakima, Wednesday, where
they have government contract for
surveying two townships in that vicin-
ity.
About sixty citizens of Tacoma
came up on their bicycles Saturday
evening, and INDUCED in hop at the
Olympia, at night. Mrs. johnson
"set up" a magnificent supper for
them.
Fruit dealers promise to have home
grown Strawberries to sell Mt fair
prices next week. The WASHINGTON
STANDARD strawberry-supply man is
also expected to make an early ap-
pearance.
Henry Eckert visited Seattle and
Tacoma this week in the interest of
the Fruit Growers Association. He
succeeded in making arrangements for
fair start in harvesting our county
crop of berries.
Mrs. L. o. Reischling is a passenger
from Olympia by the Walla Walla
tomorrow. E. A. Searg and wife left
yesterday for Hendersonville. N. c.,
and N. Vincent, for Bossburg, WASH,
on the Union Pacific.
Sunday, the 9th day of June, will be
observed by the Sunday School of the
Christian church of this city as
Children's Day." An entertain
ment will be given in the evening for
the benefit of foreign missions.
Tomorrow the Walla Walla sails
from Seattle for San Francisco, and
the City of Topeka for Alaska. An
other steamer will leave for San Fran
cisco-the Umatilla-on June Sd, and
the Alki same date for Alaska.
A couple of rolls of steel wire cable
ON Percivals dock for s. G. Simpson,
measure 5000 feet in length; 10000
pounds in weight and cost $1,000 in
coin. The freight on it from St. Louis
where it was manufactured was $16O.
G. A. Ellis, a brother of our popular
townsman like" Ellis, of Nevada,
California, is on visit to his relatives
in this city. He pursues the same
business in the Golden State as his
brother does here-that OF lumberman.
The list Of alterations from the
State Penitentiary for last month was
full score, which was largely aug
mented over former discharges for a
like period by the late law increasing
the credit of time allowance for good
behavior.
Frank Ainsworth, who has returned
from prolonged jaunt over the State,
and visited MANY mining camps. gives