Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-01
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Hugh Ross is again "on deck"

Hugh Ross is again "on deck
Thanksgiving turkeys sold for 90
cents per pound. dressed.
Louis Rechel, Of Rainier, has been
granted a pension of SO month.
Union Thanksgiving services were
conducted in the NJ. f. Church yester-
day.
"To-night and Saturday occasional
rain" says the signal on the watch
tower.
Mrs. Hardin, Of Seattle, is visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs J. NJ. LAM
mon.
Mrs. Geo. Carr, OF North Yakima, is
over on visit to her sister, Mrs. I. NJ.
Vance.
Philander L. Wiley has purchased
and assumed charge of the Royal Res
taurant.
1t is expected that the dredger will
arrive about the 18th to deepen the
harbor channel.
The Alki left the Sound for Alaskan
ports to-day. She will be followed by
the City OF Topeka Wednesday.
David Baker and wife have returned
from Whatcom, where he has been
employed the past year in one of the
canneries.
The annual charity ball of the
Ladies Relief Society, at the Olympia
hotel, Wednesday night, was a de-
cided success.
Herbert Ready is now one of Uncle
Sans mail deliverers in this city, TAX
ing the place of VIM. Hagemeyer, who
has resigned.
Nellie A. and "Tug" Wilson have
filed petition for new trial in their
suit against the city, lately decided
against them.
The district schools at Liucoln,
Puget City. Waddel and Cedar Flats
have closed for the winter, owing to
stormy weather.
Oily takes a rest to-day. Like
the Siwash when given q job to split
wood, he is always hyas till until the
job is completed
Charles Devine had a finger badly
mashed while piling lumber in the
Olympia Lumber and Mercantile Co. s
yard, few days ago.
The steamship Umatilla sails from
the Sound for San Francisco, Tuesday.
G. H. Brown and wife are passengers
by her from this city.
The Multnomah broke her pitman
strap Wednesday, and as a conse-
quence came in an hour late, pro-
PEELED by one engine.
Rev. J. r. Chaplin, our immigration
missionary, has returned from trip
to Ohio, where he has made quite a
number of converts"
w. E. Zeigler and Miss Nellie V.
Turner, both of Seattle, were yester-
day granted license to wed by our
accommodating County Auditor.
The public schools were dismissed
for the week Wednesday, to enable the
pupils to enjoy Thanksgiving and get
over the attending stomach-ache.
o. E. Stickler lost another horse by
runaway at Mud Bay, Tuesday. This
is the third animal he has lost by that
means within the past few months.
C. Holthusen. of the Tony Faust
restaurant, slaughtered his pet bear
for Thanksgiving offering, it taking
the place of the conventional turkey.
A workman in the shops of the
Olympia Door and Lumber Co., named
Boardman, had two fingers of his left
hand badly lacerated by a saw Wednes
day.
Wednesday evening, in the Carlton
house parlors, Edgar B. Roderick and
Miss Laura E. Infield were united in
marriage. They are from Porter, Che
halls county.
The Meanwhile (Ogn.) Telephone
of the 10th ult. notes that "Danie
Gaby, late of Olympia. Washington
has opened a law Office in Unior
block" that city.
The registry shows that there ar,
1873 qualified voters in the First ward
60 in the Second, 81 in the Third, 81
the Fourth, 12l in the Fifth and So il
the Sixth-a total of SCI.
Simenson, the jeweler, has som,
very appropriate wares for holida,
presents, articles of intrinsic value
which may be cherished fora life time
Call and see if he cannot find for yor
just the token needed to expires!
friendship or affection.
During the prolonged rainfall which
closed this morning, there was Ais
inches of precipitation. The down
pour was incessant for 60 hours. A
portion of this record is not included
in Mr.. O'Connor's report, as it fell
after midnight this morning.
As all the shingle mills on Puget
Sound will shut down for q period oil
sixty days. the Richardson mill of this
city will also be closed, except to fill
California orders, which are not in
cluded in the trade which the
closure is intended to regulate.
John Randall, of Gate City, was ar.
rested Tuesday on a charge of assault
made by Daniel Finch, in a dispute
over land owned by the latter and
leased by Randall. In the contest,
complaining witness was struck on
the head and had his scalp cut.
Fruit Inspector Brown, of Seattle,
says that the fruit shipped from