Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-03-17

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set sail on the sea OF matrimonv
Wednesday afternoon amid the glad
acclaim OF a host OF friends.
\ banquet was given in honor of
Mrs. Geo. b. Lane in Seattle, last Sat
urday, by the Federation of Women's
Clubs, as Il recognition of her zeal and
good work for the objects of the or
ganization.
Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Wood, OF Sacra-
mento, Cal, are guests of ex-Mayor
Lane, OF this city. Mr.. Wood, who is
a brother of Mrs. Lane, will go to
Alaska, while Mrs. Wood will remain
with her relatives till his return.
The STANDARD has few packages
OF rare seeds, from the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, to distrib-
ute to subscribers only who will agree
to report to the Commissioner the re-
suits of their growth in this climate.
G. Noschka, after fourteen years res
idence in this city, has decided upon
change. He has sold out his saloon
business to w. Gresl and Paul Carsten-
sen, and left with his family to-day for
San Francisco, where he will hereafter
reside.
1t does the eyes good and at the
same time is easy on the purse for those
who are contemplating the purchase
of handsome range or stove to visit
Mark Jones' store, in Bettman block,
and see the elegant line he has just
received.
The attention of the public is about
evenly divided between the battle-hags
in Gen. McKenny's show-window and
the elegant display OF seasonable goods
in the Fair window on the opposite
corner. 1t is fair contest between
historic interest and artistic display.
with the odds about even.
James Miller was bound over Tues
day, by Justice Schomber, to answer
for assault with dangerous weapon
at the next term of the Superior Court,
his bonds being fixed at $500. A hear
ing for reduction of this amount, on
a writ of habeas corpus, Wednesday,
was refused by Judge Linn.
Notwithstanding Cronin's declara-
tons that he would never be taken
alive to the Penitentiary, Charley Bill
lings landed him safely in that haven
Of rest where he will doubtless remain
the full twenty years of his sentence,
if he lives that long. He is not the
sort who receives credit marks.
Senator Miller now has an electric
clock presented to him by the Senate
in its last hours when it felt liberal
and risky, and already street-corner
politicians are asking whether he in
tends to use that porcelain bath-tub
for battery to regulate its move
ments. 1t is difficult to keep an en-
vious Pop from talking, you see.
Walter Miller, a lad of ten years,
died at the hospital, of spinal menin.
gifts Monday morning. He was the
son of James Miller, the head OF the
bereaved and destitute family lately
domiciled in a rear room of the Hug
gins hotel. They have two other sick
children, one being an infant, which
Mrs. Mark Mack is now caring for.
John Mulqueen who lives near Raj
nier, was brought in one day this
week, on complaint of Mrs. Anna
Seavers, a neighbor, that he was act
ing queerly and she believed him to
be insane. His examination, by DR..
Redpath, assisted by DR.. NOVEL;,
failed, however, to establish the belief
that he was insane and he was dis.
charged.
As result of the February teachers
examination, certificates have been
granted by examination to Anna Nc
Cleay, Margaret Scully, Laura Whit.
combe and Adelaide E. Williams OF
Olympia and Elizabeth Elder OF Gate
City; by renewal to Linnie M. Barnes,
Mrs. Carrie G. Pattison, and T. N.
Henry, of Olympia, and on other pa.
pers, to R. A. Ford, also of this city.
| 1t was little Oly's blunder that led
the STANDARD to comment upon the
m'al-apropos selection of the Chinook
word ELITE" (meaning servant OF
slave) for the name of the new
woman's club. The word should have
been "En-e-ti," which means on the
other side, or in the distance, and can
by no fair Interpretation be made to
indicate advancement" or progress, )"
as was claimed by our contemporary.
The Thurston County Bicycle Asso.
citation held its annual meeting Mon
day night. DR.. Carlyon was reelected
its President for the ensuing year, and
R. L. Blankenship was elected to
act as Secretary Treasurer. The
association report the receipts the
past year to have been $551.S5, all
of which has been expended except
balance of IS cents. Of this amount
1924 went towards the Nesqually
path and $332.2O was expended on
that to Tumwater.
Mr.. George C. Israel has leased the
commodious building belonging to
the Wiley estate, corner of Sixth and