Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-03-18
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF .

tln NEWN IN BklEf
Yesterday WAS II. Patr;ck'> day.
The pipe factory has resumed"
The morning boat will leave sun
day.
Wild flowers are >pringing up in the
forests.
The festive housctly has made its
appearance.
Robin rcdlrca>t is looking for Il nest
building site.
Mr.. Cottcr is reported i'll with a
throat trouble.
{. G. Bates left Monday for visit
to Brooklyn, y. Y.
Mrs. Pix, OF Tumwater. has returned
from visit to Seattle.
Mrs. Judge DcnniSon is recovering
from an attack of measles.
1t is good tine to go lilying in
the ncighboring woodlands.
Mrs. G. ii. Aver is on visit with
her sister, Mrs. Gregory, at Seattle.
Next Monday the sun will reach the
halfway point on his northern tour.
The Multnomah, last night, brought
up the freight of the City of Puebla.
The price of butter in our local
market has advanced to so cents a
roll.
Mr.. Eckert has charge of construc-
ton OF the fish ladder at Tumwater
falls.
Judge Aver left an $1,000 life in
surance policy as a provision for his
family.
Miss Wheeler, the milliner, is i'll
and under treatment at St. Peters
hospital.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
John Schuling, of this city, on the
9th inst.
Geo. S. Allen went to Seattle this
week to see about purchases for his
new mill.
The local temperature has seldom
been lower than the freezing-point
this winter.
The oman who swaggers" is a new
creation in the Capital city colloquial
vocabulary.
Mr.. w. H. Mitchellis improving his
property on the corner Of Third and
Columbia streets.
Prof. Brintnall will deliver an ad-
dress on Child Study" this evening,
ut Westside chapel.
Frank Van Eaton has been suffer-
ing from excruciating rheumatic
pains the past few days.
To-day is the anniversary of the
birth of Grover Cleveland and he put
in the time shooting ducks.
The weather prognostication for the
next twenty-four hours is, d" Tonight
and Saturday probably fair"
Andrew Hume, of Whatcom county,
has moved his family to this city and
engaged in logging on Mud Bay.
John l.. Henderson has opened a
law Office at Hood River, Or, having
recently gone there from Bay St. Louis
Miss.
Flower gardening has begun, and
recently arrived Easterners are puzzled
in trying to realize the time of year by
the calendar.
The State Land Commissioner has
ordered u sale of 400 acres of land in
Mason county, which will take place
about month hence.
Mrs. J. F. Murphy and children
have gone to visit her relatives al
cambridge, Ohio, while Jesse tries his
luck again at Skagway.
Complaints have already been made
that the new bicycle ordinance allows
too many important sidewalks to be
traversed by wheelmen.
The ice factory is now part and par.
Gel of the Capital Brewery plant and
the cooling commodity is shipped IN
der the new management.
The following Olympia passengers
left by the Umatilla, which sailed from
Seattle Thursday, for San Francisco
Il. Griffin and Simon Acumicr.
Geo. A. Mix, who lives near this
city, was adjudged to be insane
yesterday, and taken by Sheriff Bill
lings to the asylum at Fort Steilacoom
The steamship City of Puebla will
leave Sunday for San Francisco, and
the next steamer for Alaska will be
the excursion steamer Queen, Thurs
day.
John Aver, of Seattle, brother oil
the late Judge Aver, has been in the
city the past few days adjusting mat
tiers connected with the Judges de.
cease.
DIR. Newell will be relieved by DR..
J. II. Mcdonald at the Soldiers
Home, at Orting, while the former
pays a visit to his daughter in New
Jersey.
Early fruit trees are putting forth
both leaves and blossoms. Numbers
of plum trees are as white as snow
and hOney.bees are sampling their