Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-07-15
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

HARVESTING i now engaging the at
t,t'..u ut oar farmers.
Nv apples AZ" making their ap-
pI;Iurr IN til" markets.
IL, Saratoga leads i'll all varieties of
-ta>uu.ti'l" fruits and berries.
Mr. ! NJ Patton has returned from
avl>lt o. friends down the Sound.
Festive loggcr- all agree that Olym-
pa j. the boss place to spend the
Fourth Of July.
Miss Martha Thompson left Tues
dav for visit to friends in New York
and Pittsburgh.
And now Tommy, the Tinker"
comes in for pension, and several
years back pay.
Don't look for the annular eclipse
81 the sun, next Monday, and you will
NOT hr disappointed.
An infant daughter OF W. A. Patter-
son died on Bush prairie, from spinal
mcnlgitis, last Friday.
The Capital City band will give a
concert in the band stand on the
plaza, Saturday evening.
Pat Mallory has been brought up
from King county to be tried here on
charge of horse-stealing.
Tons of good timothy hay have
been reclaimed from the borders of
residence streets in Olympia.
The new NJ. f. Church is again I'M
der way and the superstructure is in a
fair way for speedy enclosure.
Mr.. ]. II. Scott will occupy the
Tilley home, corner of Washington and
Fifth streets, as family residence.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. N. Tunin, formerly
of this place, are engaged in the res
taurant business at Wrangle, Alaska.
The flag that floats over the Lincoln
school building is whipped into shreds,
and it should be hauled down at once.
Ed. McClarty, an Olympia boy, who
is private in Company G 10th Infan-
try. is fighting his country's battles in
Cuba.
Miss Annie Murphy, second daugh-
ter of the editor of this paper, is suf-
ferlng from a serious attack of pneu-
monia.
To-day fair and tomorrow fair
and warmer" is the weather prognosti-
cation shouted from the watch-tower
to-day.
The next steamship for Alaska will
be the Cottage City next Tuesday.
The Topeka sailed for that destination
to-day.
Commodore McElroy entertained a
number of friends, Tuesday, by trip
around the bay in his neat little nap
tina lannch.
The local lodge X. OF P. have
adopted resolutions of respect and
sympathy for their departed brother,
Prof Roberts.
Mrs. Geo. Gelbach, of Tumwater, is
preparing to move to Stewart, Idaho,
where her husband is engaged in the
milling business.
The Emergency Corps have called q
meeting at the Olympia Hotel, next
Monday evening. All patriotic ladies
are invited to attend.
Mr.. l.. p. Yemen went to Tacoma on
Thursday, to meet his daughter, Mrs.
Charles Hartman, en- route from Oak
land, Cal, to Mssoula, Montana.
, The steamer City of Shelton has
been performing the service of the
Juanita in addition to her own, this
week, while the latter has been under
repairs.
A Mrs. Hunt, who was visiting the
family OF Wash. Hartman, at Mis-.
qually, sustained fall last Friday,
which broke both bones of her left
wrist.
John Campbell, President of the
Port Blakely Mill Co., visited this city
Tuesday night and attended the per-
Torrance of the Berkeley boys at the
theater
The new steamer City OF Olympia
has made several trips about the bay
the past week, and her performance
has come up fully to the expectations
Of her owners.
The Klondike gold fields, the Skag.
way railroad, the war and the logging
camps are all conspiring to make a
pressing demand for good, able-bodied
laboring men.
Joseph Price, of Tumwater, is suffer
ing from diphtheria, doubtless con-
tracted from attendance upon his
daughter, who lately died in Seattle
from that disease
Hon. Jacob Hoover, who died in
Spokane, this week, will be remem.
bered by old residents in this city as
teacher, at one time, in "the school
house on the hill"
Blooms mill, south of this city,
shipped a scowload of lumber to Shell.
Ton this week, for Levi Shelton and
James Swan, both of whom are pre-
PAIRING To build good homes.
The steamship Umatilla sailed for
'ah francisco irOmSeattle. to-day. with