Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-04

| lor many years, lett wednesday tor
Portland, accompanied by her daugh
ter Mary, where they will for time,
reside. Her son, Herbert, is already
Il resident of that city.
The timbcrs of the old draw on
Long Bridge have been taken apart
and hauled to the city'S bonc-yard at
the foot Of Franklin street, where they
Will await such time as they may be
utilized for Il new draw ut the new
channel.
j. ID. Hannegan has just finished a
comprehensive index of instruments
filed in the Secretary of States office
since its establishment in Territorial
days. That the work was done by
Mr.. II. is guaranty of its thorough
ness and system.
Councilman Millette, as chairman
! of the police committee, has directed
enforcement of the ordinance closing
saloons at midnight, which has been
on the ordinance book the past three
years. The Council which passed it
never attempted to enforce it.
Mr.. Simpson has placed on what
, was formerly known as the Kamilchie
route, the little propeller Juniata,
which will make daily trips, leaving
Kamilchie Rollway at 8 a. m. and this
port at p. m. connecting with the
steamer Aberdeen from Seattle and
Tacoma, and also at the rollway with
the Port Blakley Railroad for the
camps. She is under the command of
Capt. c. l.. w. Brown.
DIR. Waughop, who sucked official
pap so assidiously for eight years at
Fort Steilacoom, says the Shelton
Tribune, is now resident of Kaloa
Island, Sandwich Islands, where he
has attached himself to the govern
ment rs physician for that district.
There probably never was a more per-
fectly developed specimen of the
barnacle than is afforded by the man
with the war-whOop name.
Mrs. S. C. Murphy, who died of
paralysis in this city, last Saturday,
was native of Olympia, her fathers
farm home having been ut a point
on Westside which was afterwards in
cluded within the incorporate limits.
She was A years OF age and a widow.
She had been i'll several years previous
to her last attack which ended her
life. A post m0rtem examination dis
closed the fact that she had suffered
from an abcess Of the brain. The re-
naming relatives of Mrs. M. are Theo.
| l.. Brown, of Shelton; Oscar Brown, OF
Alaska, and Mrs. E. NJ. Axtell of Ta-
coma.
As was predicted by the STANDARD
fortnight ago, Capt. VIM. McMicken
has been nominated for Surveyor
General Of this district, in compliance
with programme by which King
county has been sold to Wilson in
the next legislature, the terms of the
contract involving likewise recognition
of John B. Allen when the time comes
for making an appointment of new
Federal Judge. McMicken's name
, was cent to the Senate Wednesday.
Aliens will be sent in later on. Then
we will wait and see if Republican
members of the legislature will bob at
the touch of the button by the "Vest-
Pocket Statesmen"
The State Journal, after three
weeks of preparation, made its ap.
pearAnce, in this city, Saturday. Its
pages are small but it has quite a
number of them, and it breaths the
genuine, simon-pure populistic exhal-
alton which makes its presence known
clear across a ten-acre lot. Consider
able industry is shown in preparation
OF the first number, but this will, we
understand, be obviated by use OF
boiler-plates" (the technical term
for syndicate stereotype plates. fur
nished at 20 cents a column) in future
issues. The Journal will fill long
felt want, however, for with a Pop
State Administration, there surely
should be a pepper newspaper at the
State Capital, and Messrs. Cline,
Burns, Bige Eddy 4 Co. seem to be
just the men to publish it.
ain Gay Paris" Wednesday night,
at Olympia Theater, would have
passed muster without comment had
not "the Hanna interest" at Seattle
attempted to "hOodo" it. 1t made
no claim to being an aesthetic per-
Torrance of eminent stars; it simply
played out of its proper class of shows,
and attempted to place a vaudeville
production in houses devoted to
dramas of a higher order. Some OF
the work of the late company was so
we'll performed, however, that had not
a kick" went up at Seattle and Ia
coma, the scales would probably not
have fallen from the critics eyes in
classic old Olympia. The disposition
to "kick" when others are violently
agitating their pedal extremities,
seems to be universal, and it is we'll at
times to ascertain if there may not be
a legitimate duty to criticise the
critic.
The Pierce and King County Com
missiOners, which bodies met in joint
session at Seattle, Monday, have
awarded the contract for building the
bridge across White River, near
Buckley, to Savage & Schofield of this
city, whose bid is $4,S7S, of which &c.
400 is for the main bridge and ap-
proach. The bid of R. b. Mulleen of
Tacoma was for $4,G93 for the main
bridge and approach, 80 per foot for
extra excavating, 1898 per foot for
2OO feet Of protecting cribhing, and
$685. per yard for rock, the whole
amounting to $5,847. The San