Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14

John Aten, ST., has returned from
Skagway.
Meadow larks are filling the air
with their warblings.
Miss Golde Robertson, the teacher,
is i'll at st. Peters hospital.
Mrs. Edmund Sylvester, of Seattle,
is visiting friends in this city.
The welcome "fizz" of the soda
fountain again greets the ear.
1t is estimated that there are 600
owners of bicycles in this city.
A son was born to the wife of Hugo
Bode, on Maple Park yesterday.
To-day is the 34th anniversary of
President Lincoln's assassination.
"To-night and tomorrow fair"
says Old Probs from the signal tower.
May day excursions with their
greensward dances are already on the
tapis.
Mrs. J. w. NOVEL; held Is B and
won the Cleveland tandem rallied last
night.
Arbor Day was observed by the pub.
lie schools by tree-planting and literary
exercises.
The bicycle path association will
hold a meeting in the Owl club-rooms
tomorrow evening.
William Olmsby, of Gate City, lost
his little daughter, aged about a year
and half, last week.
The late cool weather is pronounced
by experienced orchardists favorable
omen for the fruit crop.
Oily says that Rube Hull and d. NJ.
Snyder have made rich strike in the
Zala NJ. mine at Republic.
The Olympia hotel has closed its
dining.room, and is now managed
solely as lodging-house.
The neighboring hills are mottled
with wild flowers and the honey bees
are gathering their pollen.
Evangelist Noble, having closed his
meetings in this city, is now holding
revival services in Seattle.
The fowl ordinance passed by the
city fathers is tending to enliven the
chicken-coop building industry.
Mayor Rinehart has a golden mug
get worth SIS in pure metal taken from
a mine he owns in Kittitas county.
Two quarter-section tracts of land
were sold by the Land Commissioner,
in Cowlitz county, Saturday, for 1926.
Is.
The next annual meeting of the
North Pacific Whist Association will
be held at Seattle, in April of next
year.
Over 500 have been realized for
the bicycle path from the several
raff1es of wheels to augment the road
fund.
Rain fell necessarily Monday night
and Tuesdays steady drizzle without
intermission for about twenty-four
hours.
A son was born to the wife of E. L.
Melton, at Seattle, Monday. The
Melton's were formerly residents OF
this city.
Several Of our citizens left for Seat
tie to-day to attend the funeral of
Amos Rrown, whose burial took
place to-day.
The Puget Sound Machinery Depot
of Seattle has finished lot of new
machinery for Richardson's shingIe
mill of this city.
Capt. Pierce, of the Hotel Olympia,
held the winning number for the Vic.
tor bicycle, ratified by Mr.. O'Connor,
Saturday night. 1t was "a.
1t is said that Messrs. Alling, Jen.
kins and Others in the Secretary oil
States Office, went out to Summit
Lake the other day and returned with
162 trout.
Miss Alice Langridge, who has been
teaching school in Lewis county, has
returned to Thurston, and now has
charge of the James school, near
Grand Mound.
The bowling alleys are to be re-
moved from the Reed block, corner of
Sixth and Washington, and placed in
temporary structure to be erected
west Of Columbia hall.
The Ledger says that the city of Ia
coma is 500 miles nearer Manila than
the city of San Francisco. How
does that piece of quasi-information
strike the geography class
Through the indefatigible industry
OF the heather Chinee, Olympia mar.
kets are supplied with about every
kind Of vegetable recorded in the white
mans garden nomenclature.
Mr.. WinstanIey will resign his
place on the City Council as represent
alive of the Third ward, next meeting,
as his residence has been changed to
another word, rendering him ineligible.
The "obnoxial" storm seems to
have come about three weeks late this
season. At least we have had drizzle
TINS week that very much resembles
that old-time reminder of climatic
conditions.
James Miller, who attacked Geo. f.
Huggins with knife, few weeks ago,
was arraigned in the Superior Court
Yesterday on a charge of assault with
deadly weapon and given until May
LIST to plead.