Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-08-25
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

LIT. DdIldluc Has Uccll iiOluOtSu W u
captaincy in Co. l..
The band cleared 800 by their con-
cert Wednesday night.
Mrs. OConnor is slowly recovering
from her present illness.
The school levy in this district has
been placed at five mills.
Several Olympia boys have enlisted
for service in the Philippines.
Last Monday Hugh LETTERS left by
the O. K. & n. for Pcndleton, Or.
Rev. II. w. Gibson, of Aberdeen, oc-
cupied the Baptist pulpit Sunday.
The State Land Commission held
session this week in Eastern Washing
ton.
Miss Alice Deming has gone East to
reside with her grandmother in Michi-
gan.
The steamer Aberdeen has been laid
up for repairs ut Ballard the past
week.
A daughter has been born to the
wife of Wallace Lott, on Hartstein
island.
Councilman O'COnnor is acting
Mayor during the temporary absence
OF Mr.. Rinehart.
Oscar Allen and Miss Ellen Ander-
son were united in marriage at St.
Johns rectory yesterday.
H. G. Richardson has bought of Ed.
Hardness a lot near the shingle mill
for consideration of 5000.
The Catholic congregation will give
an excursion by the Multnomah to
Point Defiance on Labor Day.
The schooner Salvador arrived at
Westside mill Wednesday, from St.
Michaels, to load with lumber.
"To-night and Saturday probably
occasional rain," is the report for
weather probabilities in this section.
Tom Holman and George Vincent
caught $40 tomcod, just below the old
brewery, on Eastside,. last Monday.
The State Land Commissioner has
announced that tide land contracts
that are not paid by Sept. 18th will be
forfeited.
Mrs. J. E. Clark, OF Seattle, is max
ing the annual visit to her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Darling, on
Westside.
Frank C. Cook and Miss Annie
Shattuck were united in marriage BY
Rev. E. Hopkins, at Tumwater,
Wednesday. ,
The bicycle record between Olympia
and Tacoma has been reduced to l
h. 80 m. by E. B. Raymond. The dis
lance is 33 miles.
Mr.. /. w. Anderson, of Tacoma, is
visiting her father, Capt. J. G. Parker
and family, who live at Priests Point,
Just to the north of town.
The steamship Queen sails from the
Sound for San Francisco Sunday. An
Olympia passenger by her will be Ell.
more Rice, on his way East.
The steamer to be built by parties
in this city will be about the size of
the City of Olympia, launched from
the same yard about year ago.
E. H. Drew, of Boston, representa-
tive of the owners Of the Olympia no.
tel property, is on his annual visit to
look after the interests of his clients.
Chas. II. Goehring, who has been
at the hospital several weeks suffering
from paralysis, has so far recovered as
to be removed to his home at Mud
Bay.
Daniel Hedican is down from
Alaska. He has been engaged in rail-
road building and announces his in
tention of returning to resume that
work.
The steamship Cottage City sails
from the Sound for Alaska, Monday.
Mrs. Jesse Murphy and two daughters
sail by her for Skagway, where Mrs.
Ms husband is engaged in business.
Mr.. McConville, lately deceased,
left the bulk of his property to his
wife, after providing that each of his
children, should there be any, were to
receive $40 on his or her 21st birthday.
The Mason County Logging Co.
have five donkey engines in operation
at their camp near Gate City. They
bring in to their Westside dump two
trains OF logs daily, aggregating 1OO,-
600 feet.
The city has decided upon building
a hve-foot sidewalk from Long bridge
TO the mill, at an estimated cost OF
$3o0. OF this amount the Westsiders
contribute 500 and the bicycle trus-
tees $50.
II. A. Mcbride and Albert Brucker,
who returned a few days ago from the
Attn mining district, express them
selves as entirely satisfied with their
experience, in one respect, at least
they want no more Of it.
W. +. Ostrander and DR.. H. S.
strickland have laid the keel of
steamer of $50 tons burthen. She
VIII be double screw propeller. The
shipyard for this undertaking is on