Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-01-13
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The snow mas ABOUT dIl uiH'iI'c'Nt'''
The city schools Resumed work on
Monday,
The official forecast ior tomorrow
is" RAIN
Judge Gordon i now Chief Justice
OF the supreme Court.
Everybody is rejoicing over the ar
rival of the new street cars.
DR.. Van Eaton is recovering from q
severe attack of rheumatism.
RIce-Deremeaux concert, Olympia
Theater, tomorrow Saturday night.
Prof. A. c. Jones, of Vashon Col
legc, paid Olympia business visit
this week
Jesse Murphy has again departed
for the Alaskan wilds. This time he
goes to Atlin.
The Carlton House is now furnished
with electric lights from the first
floor to the attic.
Robt Swan, late City Marshal, has
been selected by the Senate as their
janitor for the term.
Judge \. l.. Miller, of Vancouver,
has been holding term of court for
Judge Linn this week.
Late rains and the melting of the
snow have brought Deschutes river up
to its maximum point.
An excursion party came from Sc
attic to-day to give Humes' alleged
Senatorial boom u boost.
Seneca G. ketchum, editor of the
SedroWooley Herald, spent couple
of days in Olympia this week.
The city has been visited by an I'M
usually large number of women seek
Ing clerical positions in the Legisla-
ture.
Madam Morande and her little
daughter June are on the sick list, af-
flicted with that prevailing scourge la
grippe.
Several minor civil cases have been
determined in the Superior Court,
this week, but no business of general
Importance was transacted.
A. b. Sheldon, at one time con-
nected with the pipe works in this
city, now of Centralia, is making ar
engagements to resume his residence
here.
The Speakers name though it is
spelled Cute is pronounced Guy, but
it is SAID that it must not be taken
as any indication OF that gentleman's
personality.
Quite number of our people are
afflicted with la grippe, but it does not
seem to be of the malignant type
which has prevailed in some of tue
Eastern cities.
Thomas J. Webster and Miss Jen.
ME +. Meacham of Tenino, were
united in marriage, Tuesday afternoon,
by Rev. Henry L. Badger, at St.
Johns rectory.
Mrs. Wanlass and her grand-daugh-
ter, Pearl Quinn, arrived from Port
land, yesterday, to be present at the
funeral OF Henry Quinn. Mrs. w.
is the mother of Mrs. Quinn.
Miss Lena Shields is confined to
her home with severe attack OF
pneumonia. For this reason Miss
Shields was unable to return to her
duties as teacher in the Kamilchie
school.
Visitors from abroad complain that
they have difficulty in finding the
names and numbers of the streets in
Olympia. The complaint is Justly
made and this matter should be at
tended to at once.
Four hunters at Nisqually the other
day killed 235 ducks. As the game
market has not exhibited any evi.
dences OF congestion, it is feared that
many of the feathered tried were
killed just to satiate mans passion fol-
taking life.
The new street cars arrived Mon.
day, and the tracks were Immediately
cleared of snow for service as far az
the capitol. The new equipments are
better than those destroyed by fire
which were first-class in all respects
when constructed.
"The Genesis and Evolution OF
Music" was Prof. Venen's text at the
meeting of the Euterpe Club, Monday
evening. APPLY sprinkled with myth.
ology, romance, poetry and science
the rendition was a song of delieh,
from beginning to end.
George T. Thompson, of Walla
Walla, is in the city looking after
business in the Supreme Court and
hobnobbing our lawmakers. Mr.. #.
carries geniality OF disposition which
makes him welcome visitor wherever
ne goes and a host of friends always
greet him at the State capital.
One hundred and twenty thousand
doilars-no more, no less-is the size
OF one OF the stakes now pending on the
senatorial election. But, then, Wash.
ington's legislators are honest, incor.
ruptible men and not one of them
would be mean enough to take bribe,
say $1,000 or $4,000, or so; Oh no,