Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-03-03
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

La grippe seems to he losing ITS
grip.
John NJ. Patton has been quite ill
the past week.
J. II. Wilson, OF shelton, was in the
city tins week.
State warrants now command four
per cent premium.
The Multnomah will make her
usual trip Sunday.
\ mild form OF measles is prevailing
among the young folks.
Mr.. Malleur, of the State land Of
fee, is laid up with rheumatism.
The Marguerite will resume her
Mason county service next week.
The revenue launch Scout came in
last evening on an official inspection
tour.
Tonight and tomorrow occa-
sional rain," says the weather oracle
to-day.
Ensign Hawkes., Of Portland, con-
Quoted the Salvation Army meeting
last night.
Mr.. Richardson, the single man,
is driving piles at his mill on Jefier-
son street for a foundation for q" drag
saw"
Fred. f. Swift, OF Bucoda, was unit
ed in marriage to Lucy NJ. Robinson,
OF this city, by Rev. J. S. McCallum,
yesterday.
The barkentine Northwest, Capt.
Lund, from San Diego, Cal, com.
menced loading lumber at the West
side mill to-day.
The next steamship leaving the
Sound for San Francisco will be the
Walla Walla Sunday, and for Alaska
the Alki Monday.
George w. Manvillc arrived home
from Walla Walla Sunday, in an en-
feebled condition. He is suffering
from asthma in its most acute form.
A marriage license was issued
Wednesday, by the County Auditor, to
William Dimes of Seattle, and Miss
Lille NJ. Neuenschwander, OF this
city.
Edward Esterly sustained a fall by
the slipping of his bicycle on the
frozen ground, yesterday morning,
which will incapacitate him for a
time from labor.
Samuel Hadlock, L. D. Smith and
Quincy A. Brooks have been reap
pointed as Board of Health of the
collection district of Puget Sound and
Joseph S. Allen and J. ]. Brown,
Trustees OF the Cheney Normal School.
Kearney & Co.'s store now presents
the appearance of a thriving metro
politan establishment, with the inn
mense stock that the Deming goods,
added to their own, affords. A reduc-
ton of prices in certain staple articles
with which they are overstocked is
announced.
The funeral services of the late Mrs.
Ostrander were held in the Presby-
terrain church Sunday, by Rev. J. l..
Thompson, the pastor. A large
audience was present to testify its
respect to the memory of the pioneer
woman, although the weather was
quite forbidding.
March" came in like roaring lion"
along towards dawn OF the first day,
but at midnight fair Luna had full
sway and the weather was mild and
pleasing. So the prognosticators will
be at some loss for an assurance that
it will end with lamb-like docility.
The general average of rain having
fallen, in the preceding months, this
March is not liable to differ materially
from its predecessors, and will be too
cold and wet for the beginning of
successful outdoor garden work.
The Alaskan steamer City of Olym-
pia, built in this city last summer by a
party of Olympians, and manned by
them under command of Capt Kelton,
has returned from its trip north with
its stockholders and crew. The BOYS
have done fairly we'll in the land oil
gold, but no strikes are reported, and
they return at least wiser from ex-
perience. The steamer needs only q
coat OF new paint to restore her to
that neat appearance she presented
when starting out on the dangerous
trip.
The fight of the Auditor and the
Treasurer of Thurston county for cler.
ical help, has resulted in a comprom-
Use. 1t will be remembered that the
fusion party pledged its nominees to
perform the duties of their respective
positions for the salaries provided by
law, and it is wholesome respect fol-
this pledge which has impelled the
County Commissioners to insist upon
compliance Herewith. A strike re-
suited, which put the business of both
Offices SO far in arrears that the Com
missioners were virtually compelled
to yield. The Treasurer's clerks
Blakeslee and Churchill receive, re-
spectively, $65 and $55 per month.
DIR. w. A. Newell has given up his
intention of returning to this State
for the present at least. He has re-
sumed practice of medicine at Allen.
town, Monmouth county, New Jersey
which he began nearly 60 years ago
after graduating from the medical de.
partment of the University of Penn.
sylvania. The doctor was on his way
home from a business visit to New
Haven, Conn, when he visited the
home of his youth and was induced tC
renew his residence with old-time
friends. 1t is safe to say that he has
lived too long in the far west, to be
content with the easy-going, Flooding
customs of the East, and he will even.
tually return TO the State that has al.
ways been the subject Of his most en-.
thusiastic eulogy-Washington.
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