Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-08-06
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


to-day.
Frank Dickinson has added a pool
table To- his saloon.
sunday the Multnomah Will make
her regular morning trip.
"Col." Heustis and family have
moved TO Port Townsend
Phil Vincent * making two large
lic-boats for the Wiley Co.
The County Commissioners are sit
ting a. a Board oi Equalization.
The printer, ii the State Printing
Office went out on Il strike "Wednesday.
The hot weat her has made thu
PrrriYal bAthing-rink a popular resort
Just the whisper oi a thunder storm
passed over Olympia Wednesday even
lng.
The Capital Brewing Go. have ma,!c
several large shipments OF beer the
past week.
Forest fires are beginning to get in
their deadly work on our stately tim
Der growth.
Frof. Roberts is recovering from an
illness that has kept him within doors
the past week.
Sheriff Billings will hereafter per-
form the duties OF his office without Il
regular deputy.
The Riley Party" for Klondyke
will wave on adicu from the steamer S
deck tomorrow.
Frank Williamson has now become
q proficient wheelman and can ride
without webbing
Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Barton have
lost their infant which was born less
than month ago.
About dozen drummcrs represent
ing various departments of business,
made Shelton their objective point,
yesterday.
The steamship Walla Walla sailing
for San Francisco from Seattle, On the
18th, will carry Miss Lima Fraser as a
passenger.
A beautiful display of the aurora
borealis, or northern lights, was OBJ
served in the Klondyke direction,
Monday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sewell, of Centralia,
are enjoying camp-life at Priests
Point, on the bay, a couple of miles
below this city.
Commodore McElroy gave an ex-
cursion party to some OF his friends
Wednesday, by cruise on his trim
little naptha launch.
Col. Blethen, of the Seattle Times,
has been appointed a Regent of the
State University, to succeed John
Wiley, lately deceased.
S. G. Simpson, the boss logger
passed through this city in company
with delegation of the Eastern lum-
bermen, one day this week.
The following passengers left over
the o. R. & N. Co.'s lines Tuesday: S
ID. Winn, for Masquette, KS, and F.
NJ. Sparks for St. Louis, Mo.
DIR. NOVEL;, Miss Ada Sprague and
B. L. Hill, OF the Kreider Mt. Rainier
party, succeeded in reaching the sum.
nit of that noted landmark.
If multiplicity of signs and hand.
boards are an effective guide to the
public, there will be no trouble in find
ing the habitat of the State Printer.
]. R. Pattison and wife, of Eastside
think that nobody's baby is as pretty
as their own little daughter, which
took up her abode with the family
Monday evening.
The steamer Doctor has had he1
engines compounded" and is there
fore a much better boat than she has
been, inasmuch as her power has been
materially increased.
Prof. L. P. Yemen, of this city, has
received advices from his relatives ir
Cleveland, Ohio, that 81 babies died ir
that city during the lapse OF seven day.
on account of the intense heat.
Eggs now retail at 20 cents per dozer
or two dozen for 80 cents; butter at q
cents per roll, and potatoes at 70 cent?
per hundred pounds. Hay, best East
ern Washington, sells for $l4 per ton.
The new mining company WHIT
lately sent Cal. McClelland to Klon
dyke from this city, is called the Il o
K" May Prosperity atfix that tails
matte trademark to the result of thei
endeavors.
Mrs. Lizzie Lanham, of Columbia
Mo-, is visiting her brother, Thoma
Prather, of this city. She came II
the coast to attend the Endeavo
convention lately held in San Fran
cisco and is on her way home.
Walter White and Miss Ellel
Henry, both we'll known here, wer
married at Ellensburg on the I'd inst
The groom is a son of ex-State Printe
o. C. White, and the bride daughte
of d. S. B. Henry, U. s. Deputy Sur
veyOr.
The travel between the Sound an
San Francisco and between Portland
and that city, continues undated, sc,
eral Olympia passengers being unabl
to obtain accommodations on thos
boats a week in advance of sailin
dates.
Secretary of State jenkins, Sup
Brown and Commissioner Bridge
were speakers at the single-tax picni
at Plum's station, Sunday. A larg
= delegation was in attendance fror
this city. Many went by train an
others biked it.
G. w. Osborne, one of our Count
Commissioners, was taken suddenl
ill, Tuesday, while engaged in officia
duty as a member of the Board q
Equalization, and was taken to hi
home in the country with the symr
toms Of typhoid fever.