Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-08-12

their immense loads of fruit, and the
inference is plain that the fruit dry
crS and evaporators did not come any
too soon.
The following officers were installed
rs officers of the local camp of Wood
men OF the World, last evening: 4.
Nandcrveer, c.; :. :. Churchill, A. L. ::
+. W. Aldrich, f.; W. f. Barton, W.,
and Frank X. Swan, S.
Street-car service was interrupted
Tuesday, the only car the company
has been able to obtain being temper
arily disabled Mr.. Faulkner, the
manager, hopes to be able to give a
better service soon.
Robt. Doragh has gone to Omaha to
meet his wife, who left month or
more ago on visit to friends in the
East. Mr.. ID. expects to visit Philadel-
phia before his return and lie may be
absent a month or more.
A reduction of $500 was made,
Wednesday, in the assessment levied
against the Olympia Water Company.
The aggregate was $4,000, and the
Board of Equalization considered that
S3l $50 would be about right.
Oily reports that I. C. Van Epps, an
old-time resident of this city, who has
resided the past two years ut Los
Angeles, Cal, is now manager OF the
Brown sanatarium for the cure of
drunkenness and the tobacco habit.
1t is a fitting rebuke to the little
city of destiny that the authorities
at Washington have rechristened
mount Tacoma" Forest Reserve,
and now the Superintendent makes all
his returns in the name of "Mount
Rainier Forest Reserve"
Still the flag on the court house flies
at night as we'll as by day, to save
the janitor a few steps each twenty
four hours to place it in shelter at
night, and raise it in the morning.
Is this to be taken as a Haunted indi-
cation OF the economy of our present
reform administration?
When your neighbor begins to
smile upon you at two blocks dis
lance and then grasps your hand with
a brotherly kindness he never ex-
hibited before, you can bet all the
gold of Klondike that his name will
appear in the Candidate announce
ment" column of the next paper.
Olympia seems to have been well
represented by the boys at the front in
the present war. Besides those previ-
ously noted, it turns out that c. A.
Carter, whose parents reside in this
city, was in one of the California regi-
ments that saw service at Manila, and
that son of o. George is on the
cruiser Charleston, now in Admiral
Dewey's fleet.
The Multnomah will leave for Se-
attic and Port Blakely Saturday
night, Immediately after her arrival,
to carry the camps of Foresters OF
those cities on an excursion to this
place on Sunday. The special trip
of the Multnomah will enable passen-
gers to leave this city for Seattle on
both Saturday and Sunday evenings.
She will not, however, stop at Tacoma.
The semi-annual meeting of the
Thurston County w. C. 7. U. will be
held at the Little Rock meeting
grounds, at the close of the camp,
next Monday. Among the fixtures of
the day will be a soap-bubble party,
for children, at 1O:3O A. M. A Demon.
est contest will take place in the after
noon. On Tuesday, Prof. Brintnall
will lecture on "Child Study" and
Matte N. Graves will deliver an adj
dress on Equal Suffrage"
Geo. H. Hines, of Portland, an old
time resident and pioneer of Thurston
county, arrived i'll this city Tuesday
evening. EN- route for Gray's harbor,
where several members of his family
now reside. Mr.. Hines worked on
the STANDARD 81 years ago, and hav.
ing been brought up in the way he
should 60 he has not departed from
the good path, and is still devotee of
the art Preservative." Mr.. H. is ac-
companied by a son of the age he was
when he stuck type ON the STANDARD.
Another project for building Klon-
dixie exploring steamer has been adj
vanced by H. r. Hill and others. The
plan is similar to that by which the
City of Olympia was built. but the
new boat will be considerably larger
and the project correspondingly COM
prehensive. 1t is proposed to outfit
a party for year or more and to
equip it with everything which ex-
pericnce has shown to be necessary
for the trip. A considerable portion
of the stock has already been sub
scribed and there seems to be proba-
bility of the project soon assuming
definite shape.
The owners of COWS in some parts of
the town do not seem to take kindly to
the ordinance restraining those animals
from running at large, and Oily openly
declares that cattle are turned out to
seek whose lawns they may devour and
a small boy is set to watch the