Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

characters he is able to represent is as
wonderful as his skill in depicting
them to life. He is assisted by Will
lard Gorton, an artist of equal ability.
Thomas Maloney, Secretary of the
State Democratic Committee, has
received dispatch from Representa-
tive Lewis advising him that Chas. A.
Townc, Chairman of the National
Silver Republican organization, will
visit Washington and Oregon in
March. and deliver addresses at several
of the larger cities.
Uncle Sam is not noted for ver-
bosity, and he has a way Of saying
Just what he means, so he has reduced
the name of the postOtfice at Gate
City to simply "Gate." 1t is quite
evident that the postal department
cannot always he used to boom town
sites by officially promulgating city"
where there is no city.
A proposition is on foot to set up
an evaporation in this city for prepar-
ing vegetables for transport on long
expeditions, provided an assurance
can be given chat sufficient amount
of the raw products may be secured.
EvapOrated potatoes sell to the Klon-
dixie trade for 20 cents per pound, and
evaporated onions for Is cents.
A model of the battleships Kersarge
and Kentucky is on exhibition in the
show-window of Mills e. Cowles' store.
1t gives so graphic view of those
monster crafts as to almost make the
pensive observer think he is on board
one of the ships itself. The work is
the outcome of Peter Schmidt's me-
chanical skill. The young artist is
the oldest son OF our townsman Leo.
pold Schmidt, of the Capital Brewery.
Edmund Rice is now Superinten-
tendent, conductor, brakeman and
ticket-seller on the Port Townsend
Southern, in place of J. b. Copeland,
who has been assigned to other duties.
Mr.. Copeland is man of extended
information, positive nature, and ac-
commodating spirit, and his marked
individuality will be missed by those
with whom he has associated. Mr..
Rice needs no introduction; he is one
OF us.
Mrs. Ann StOkoe, mother of Mrs.
A. A. Adams, died Wednesday morn.
ing, at the residence of her daughter
in this city. She was native of
England, born in 1914, and was the
mother of twelve children, of whom
her daughter here is the youngest.
The family came to this country 46
years ago, settling in Illinois. About six
years ago the husband of deceased died
and soon afterwards she came here to
dwell with her daughter. The funeral
rites were conducted at the family
residence on Boundary street, by Rev.
o. w. MintZer this afternoon.
Mrs. Savage & schofeld, the Olym-
pia contracting firm, sustained quite q
severe loss in the washout of the
bridge they were building at Grand
Mound, for the county, Sunday morn
ing, from the freshet and drift-wood
that came down the Chehalis river.
Their loss is about 5000, and would
have been larger had they not been
enabled to save considerable of the
iron-wOlk after it had become evident
that the structure, far as completed,
would have to go. They will not re-
sumo work on the bridge till March, as
they have to transfer operations to the
Buckley bridge, on White river, be-
tween Pierce and King counties, on
which they will begin work week
from next Monday.
Commissioner Osborne reports to the
Olympian that in the southeastern
part of the county the courses of the
Nesqually and the Deschutes river
parallel each other at distance of
about half mile, and that the bed OF
tho former river is lower than of that
which supplies the stream of our
splendid water-power ut Tumwater.
This condition causes n grave appre-
hension that if wash of the bank,
latelynoted, continues, that the waters
of the Deschutes will in time find an
outlet by the Nisqually. This would
be productive of disastrous results to
both waterways. 1t would deprive
Tumwater of its admirable water
power and so swell the waters of the
Nesqually as to inundate some of the
finest farms in the county. Steps
should at once be taken for adopting
some plan to check the cutting away
of the bank of the Deschutes.