Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-06-22

ton and ratification on the evening
OF July 18th. y full attendance is
requested. BY order of the Chair.
man.
Samuel Coulter was yesterday greet
ing old friends in Olympia, after an
almost continued absence of twenty
years from the city. He was ac.
companied by his wife, and they
were on their way to Seattle, where
they now reside.
George and Charles McAlpin Sc
cured t:e contract for supplying the
city schools with wood for the ensuing
year. Two bids were submitted, the
} above, which was accepted. and of the
Thacker Wood Co. The McAlpins
! furnish wood to the Washington and
/ Lincoln schools at S2.35 per cord and
! the Westside school at So The other
! bid was for ~ 90 and S3.
En- route for Tumwater, over the
L. F., are the following passengers
/ Mrs. Lizzie Randall, Mrs. Mary Tuu-
nell and Freda Keller, from Frank
fort, Mich. Miss Beulah Sare, from
Fort Smith, Ark, whose destination is
this city. Over the 7. G. 5. S. Co. s
steamer from Los Angeles, Mrs. Josie
NJ. Hubbard, o. NJ. Denny and Miss
Lulu Denny have sailed for Olympia.
Street Commissioner johnson re.
ported to the City Council Monday
night that the section of the Long
Bridge that spans the channel, is
again in need of repairs, and the COM
mittee on streets was authorized to
make them. This part of the bridge,
in consequence of the rapid current,
that flows against the underpinning, is
an exceedingly difficult section to
keep in secure condition.
If you want anything in the line
of castings or iron-work, or repairs to
machinery, do not fail to go to the
Pioneer Iron Works, on Third street
between Franklin and Adams streets.
Mr.. Lister, its owner and manager, is
an expert at his business and never
fails to secure satisfactory results.
His shops are equipped with the latest
machinery for expeditiously handling
difficult and large jobs of work.
Eltney Van Epps writes to his
brother, w. A. Van Epps, of this city,
under date OF Cape Nome, May oath,
that the prospect there is not very en-
couraging. All the good claims
within 100 miles are taken up, and
from 500 to GOO men are engaged in
rocking" the beach sands, making
about S. per day, which is poor pay
for the labor in that region. He
thinks that thousands who have gone
north with high expectations will re-
turn empty-handed.
A pair of humming. birds built a
nest and reared their young in the
upper part OF town, last summer, and
now the same pair have returned to
their old home. For several days
they have been diligently engaged in
repairing their last years nest, pre-
paratory to settling down to real
housekeeping once more. Where
they went and how they thrived dur
ing the past twelve months can be
told only by those naturalisis who
understand hummirg bird lingo.
The Supreme Court has sustained
the action of the State Treasurer in
computing interest on State warrants
at five per cent. 1t seems that while
the warrant involved in the test case
had been issued prior to the passage
of the act authorizing the State Audi
tor to fix the rate which warrants
should bear, that it was not presented
to the Treasurer and endorsed by him
till after the act had become operative.
Other banks united with the Capital
National in testing the extent to
which the act applied under the
circumstances.
A discussion has been going on for
some time between Officer Lebarre and
d. p. Hubbard regarding the relative
merits of steel and horseilesh as to
speed and endurance. The knight OF
the star is a wheelman OF considerable
renown and Mr.. H. knows ga horse
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risk $50 on his judgment, and the
time is almost ripe for dropping the
contest of words and substituting the
more convincing argument of action.
1t is thought that details will be ar.
ranged and judges and bottle holders
appointed within few days.
Joseph Cogsdill was arrested in this
city, Sunday night, on q charge OF
larceny of team and buggy from a
livery stable man at Chehalis. 1t
seems he hired the team for a limited
time, but failed to returnthe property,
this. when placed beside the fact that
Joe afterwards sold the team to d. r.
Helser, of this place, for $35 in cash
and two bicycles, shows a deliberate
attempt to appropriate the property to
his own use, and led to his incarcer-
alton for crime which will probably
land him in the penitentiary for a
term OF years. Sheriff Deggeller, of
Lewis county, came in few hours
after the arrest, to take the culprit
back to the scene OF his misdeed.