Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-03-04

William Mitchell, of the great
Mitchell X StaVcr wagon depot III
Portland, j. over To look after some oi
his ranch property near this city.
That he lett town the other day iOr
I hI> TumWttcr ranch with Il "ruhbiny-
hoe uvtr his shoulder indicates he
has not yet abandoned his practical
methods of life.
r. r. Holcraft is foreman OF the
State printing office under union
rules, pending the quo udrranto pro-
cccdlng> t. determine whether the
contracts" made by Mr.. Hicks rs Il
reward for political services (dircct or
indlrecO are OF a binding nature, or
superior to the pledges the union
claims were made To- the printing
fraternity us IL whole Tor its support ut
the polls.
Judge Elliott decided the quo war-
ranto case of lIopp and Bowmrr
against the State Printer, by sustain
the contention of plaintiffs. Another
" suhterfugc" was then resorted to and
Mcssrs Bowmcr, Rogers and Hopp
traded back Jackknives, and Mr.. Hicks
is again undisputed owner of all the
stock of the corporation. The office
has been unionizcd," and now let us
hope the matter is settled, for Il time
ut least.
At Little Rock, Saturday, Frederick
b. Huntington and Miss Myrtle Cum
mings were united in marriage by
Rev. A.. q. Sawln of this city. Mr..
Huntington is desccndent of the
family of pioneers by that name who
settled many years ago i'll Cowlitz
county, and Miss Cummings lately
came from Iowa, to reside with Mr..
Parrish, her uncle. The newly welded
couple will make their home at Cos
mopolis, where Mr.. II. is foreman in
one of the mills.
The following have been elected
officers of the Olympia Typographical
Union for the ensuing six months, the
election taking place last Saturday
evening: President, r. E. STEINER;
Vice President, &. C. Winstanley ;
Secretary-Treasurer, H. l.. Ready
Corresponding-Secretary, J. L. Hol.
land; Executive Committee, &. C.
Winstanley, c. r. Carroll, f. E. Mar
tin; Sargeant-at-Arms, Geo. f. Blank
enship. The union removed the ban
from the State printing Office, on a
pledge from State Printer Hicks to
submit to the rules of organized labor.
A joint stock company of about a
dozen of our townsmen was organized
Saturday night for the purpose of
building boat and sending her on a
two years prospecting cruise along
the coast of Alaska and up some of the
rivers of the coast between Wrangle
and Copper river. Construction of
the boat begins at once. She is to be
sixty-five feet in length with 15-foot
beam, and will be fitted with powerful
machinery. She will carry some ten
tons Of provisions and supplies, and
will accommodate about twenty per-
sons. The principal promoters of the
project are J. S. Brewer, c. S. Rine-
hart, and Messrs. Brucker, Bolster,
Hunter, McCarrogher, Kelton, Hopp,
Mcbride and Johns.
Timber land frauds are again COM
ing to the front, and one of the oper-
ators has been woman, who has
been making dupes of others of her
sex by inducing them to file applica-
tions, under the promise that she
represented parties who would pur-
chase the land soon as title was COM
pleted. She charged a fee for her
services in making the locations.
When the time came for making
proofs her dupes found they were de-
barred from perfecting title b. the
terms of the oath, that he or she was
making the application solely for his
or her own use and benefit. The
terms of the agreement we're so palpa.
bly in violation of this condition that
the applications had to be abandoned.
The accommodating agent is, of course,
nowhere to be found to answer for the
fraud, and if here it is probable that
no legal means of redress could be
found to punish the offender.
w. H. Dunlap who had been some
time in the past a temporary resident
of this place, was sent up by the
Pierce county officials, Monday, as a
vagrant whose welfare was properly
q charge upon this county. 1t seems
that Dunlap was one of those I'M
fUrtunates who has neither money
friends, nor a disposition to work, and
has been making strenuous endeavOl
to live by his wits. He was sent tC
the poor farm but skipped out be.
cause he had to labor; he had himself
incarcerated in the insane asylum, but
he was not crazy enough to hold
down the job. and lately he has been
q subject of fits, and whether they are
simulated or not, he had become such
O nuisance that Pierce county magnan
imously concluded to shift the burden
from her own to neighbOr's shout.
ders. 1t is q matter of conjecture
what will, or can, be done with him.
He is now an inmate of st. Peters
hospital.
A rumor came in from beyond
Yelm yesterday that the farm house
of 0. King had been consumed, and
its owner had persisted in the flames
Mr.. Dobbins, the undertaken, was DOM
missioned by Coroner Harmed to make
an investigation, and on proceeding te
the premises he found the body Of
King lying in the debris with both leg'
and one arm gone and the body
charred TO a crisp. The man had evil
IDENTIFY been dead two or three weeks
and the fact became known when g
neighbor sent boy over to King with
a message. Mr.. Dobbins thinks that
King had been lighting his fire with
coal oil, rs a can was found near the
body. and that the fluid on ignition OF
explosion had rendered him helpless
and probably insensible. The remains
were brought to town, pending prepare
tions for fnterment. Mr.. X. is well
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