Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-03-11
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
BAYS length II hours and IL min
utc-.
1t is good time t" spray fruit
trees.
Miss Carrie Frost is recovering from
an attack OF typhoid.
1t is the proper time to scrapc the
moss from the roofs.
The Multnomah makes her regular
morning tri p Sunday.
Miss Jennie Young has returned
from Il visit to Seattle.
The reported death OF Elmer Dodge,
at Skagway, is disputed.
The steamship Victoria sailed from
Seattle to-day for Alaska.
Mrs. Richardson started Tuesday for
visit to relatives in Iowa.
The forecast for to-day and to-
morrow is, Fair and warmer"
The period for payment of personal
property tax expired yesterday.
a daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Ebert Williams last Saturday.
r. Crowdcr, a prominent farmer OF
Bucoda, was in the city Wednesday.
Miss Cleora Billings has gone to Sc
attic to reside for an indefinite time.
Edmund Rice is now the local
Poobah of the Port Townsend South
ern.
The late bic ycle ordinance virtually
throws the city wide open" to wheel
men.
Mrs. o. w. Mintzer and little daugh.
ter left this week for visit to Phila-
delphia.
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Ogle, of Southend.
are the happy parents OF stalwart
boy baby.
The Cottage City leaves Seattle
Monday for Alaska. Fred Carlyon
goes on her.
Mrs. d. Seifert and two children
left to-day for Baker City, Ogn., over
the North Pacific.
Mrs. John Hawthorne left few
days ago to visit the old homestead
"Way Down in Maine"
The bark Vidette left this morning
for San Francisco, with a cargo of lum-
Der from West Side Mill.
John McClelland has launched his
boat at the foot of Main street and
will soon start for Alaska.
Mr.. Patton secured splendid flow
ing we'll, on his Jefferson street prop
erty by driving only 81 feet.
The "Japs" who have domiciled for
several years past at the foot of Main
street, have gone to Skagway.
The county offices were closed this
afternoon out of Difference to the
memory of the late Judge Aver.
Miss Judson, of Tacoma, who had
been vHiting the family of A. HI.
Chambers, returned home Monday.
The ladies of the relief corps are
making preparations for a cake walk
tomorrow evening, in G. A. r. hall.
Mountain Eagle" returned to this
city last evening with his family, and
expects to reopen his curiosity shop"
Miss Goldie Robertson, the teacher,
has returned to Olympia from the
~f
Many OF our people are taking adj
vantage of the cut in railroad rates to
skip the continent and visit old-time
friends.
&c. McFadden, an old-time men,
Der of the Olympia bar, is on n brief
visit to relatives and acquaintances OF
this city.
The steamer Estella lowed the big
scow out of our harbor Tuesday morn
ing that is to be taken to Alaska for
use as lighter.
Pr. Kramer and Miss E. NJ. Stacy
both of Tacoma, were united in mar.
riage in this city, Monday, Rev. Nc.
Callum officiating.
Mrs. J. T. Anderson leaves to-day
for Monterey, CAL, over the o. R. & N.
Co., to join her husband who left
several months ago.
J. z. Moore, of Walla Walla, has
been appointed a regent of the State
University, in place of David Kellogg,
whose term has expired.
The steamer Juniata left last even
ing with a scowload OF supplies for the
Simpson Logging Co. and the Blakely
r. X. Co., at Kamilchie Rollway.
After many days of clear weather,
last night we had an outpour of rain,
not deluge, but just sufficient to
lay the dust" and revive vegetation.
Bear in mind that the silver tongued
orator, ex-Representative Towne, will
appear at Olympia Theater, Saturday
night. Everybody is invited to attend.
Judge Hodgdon will be in this city
Tuesday. on his return from Mason
county, to attend 10 such judicial
matters as are of pressing Importance.
"Shoots" Stampfer, a son of the
redoubtable Jacob Stampf1er, is going
to Klondike with Victor Lord, who
has already made "stake" in the
land OF gold.
Mrs. John Rea was suddenly taken
i'll on the street, Wednesday, and it
was with much effort that she reached
her husbands Office, where medical aid
was summoned.
w. s. Caruthers, for four years
Chief Clerk of the Surveyor General
has accepted" position in the en-
gineering department OF the Northern
Pacific Railroad Co.
On Wednesday next the big steam
ship Australia leaves Seattle for
Alaska. On her VIM. J. Rankin, d.