Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-07-22
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

att.' sunday Tor Alaska.
i've p.>chutoS river is now at at its
los s, -tagr ior the year.
/ schmidt lett this week for Pendlc
tau. Oregon, un "a business trip.
Tuu~. H. phirp> ha> opened COM
ul--.rn luu~" At Vancouver, b. c.
laughter was born 70 Mr.. and Mrs
J.U'B. ecohcy. Wednesday morning.
Th. bark Vidcttc, Capt. Dodd, is
load "a. lumber at the Wtstside mill.
The members OF the Emergency
Corp, meet ut the Olympia hotel this
evening
J. \. Sil>hv. III Tacoma. j. visiting
hi- daughter IN this city, Mrs. May
Weston.
The Christian church people went
on an excursion to Point Defiance Ga
COMA to day.
Miss Fannie I.angridge, of South
BAY, left Yesterday, for visit to
friends in Wisconsin.
The next steamship leaving the
Sound for san Francisco will be the
Walla Walla tomorrow.
Jennie Robertson has been granted
a divorce from J. w. Robertson by
the Superior Court of this county.
Bert Tucker, Ted Burntrager, Casper
Wcllman and F. d. Myers are the
special fircmen of our new department.
l.. 7. Ouilette has been elected to
act as Councilman-at.Large to fill the
vacancy caused by Allen Whites resig-
nation.
Licenses to retail liquors were
granted Chas. NietZen and Frank
Dickinson, by the City Council, Mon.
day night.
Moses Stoddard, OF South Bay, died
yesterday OF palsy, at the age of SO.
Interment was made in Forest Gene
terry to-day.
John B. Leeds, late of Philadelphia,
has bought the Palladium outfit, but
what he intends to do with it is a
China-puzzle.
A base ball game is on the tapis to
be played by teams from the clerks of
the Surveyor Generals Office and in
the State building"
The Workingmen of Olympia will
90 on an excursion Sunday by the
steamer Multnomah. Point Defiance
Wild blackberries are coming into
market. The supply this season near
the Sound is not rs large as usual, but
good crop is reported in the back
hills.
Professor Crandall, principal of the
Westside school, left this week with
his family for the lower Chehalis
county, where he goes on summer va
cation.
Mrs. ID. s. Paisley will leave to-mor-
row for a visit to relatives in Cleve-
land, Ohio. She will be accompanied
by Mrs. Shannon and be gone about
six weeks.
II is reported that Chas. Lincoln, of
this city, now in the northern gold
fields, has disposed of his half inter-
est in claim for $4,000. He is now
on his way down.
Councilman Work introduced an
ordinance Monday night to prevent
lettering of animals on streets to
Craze off the verdant growth that
lines the sidewalk.
The extension OF the franchise of
the Eastside Railway Co. for ten
years, passed the City Council, Mon
day night, all the Councilmen voting
for it except Wilson.
1t is to be regretted that Mr.. Fowler
did not find his business venture in
this city satisfactory and he has
packed up his stock preparatory to
removing it to Idaho.
Some wiseacre says death and taxes
are sure to come, and he might have
added the irrepressible watermelon,
for that luscious article is already to
be seen in Olympia fruit stores.
Frank Grimes has been held by
Justice Dial to answer for stabbing
Philip Holesworth, several weeks
ago, at dance at Meadow, in this
county. His bond has teen fixed at
800.
An uptown grocery displays a
shlngle on which appears the an
nouncement, demons Is cents per
DOZEN" Well; the little sign attracts
attention, il it does take a zig-zag way
for doing it.
Judge Millette left Tuesday for Ia
coma, where he will attend the Grand
Lodge of Good Fellows and then pro.
coed on to Columbus, Nebraska, to
visit his mother, who is II years of
age. He will be absent about three
weeks.
The excavation has been prepared
for large three-story addition to the
main building of the Capital Brewery
at Tumwater. The excavation is to be
filled with gravel, upon which a stone
foundation will he laid for the super
structure.
Late olympia passengers over the
Union Pacific and o. r. & n, have
been Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Crawford
and Alexander Blackwood for Omaha,
Ncb.; Miss l.. Conant for Denver, Col,
and Miss Marion Patton for Washing
ton, ID. {.
The Saratoga makes speciality of
Yakima peaches, and some beautiful
specimens of that king of fruits are
now on sale. If you prefer, you can
be served with California water-mel-
on. There is nothing "small" about
the Saratoga.
The residents of Eastside have pc
ttioned for the privilege of allowing
their cows to wear bells while roam.
ing outside the city limits during day
time. The request is very reasonable,