Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-12

fact that he was the leader of the Capt.
tai City Military Band, an organiza-
ton he has brought to a surprising de-
gree OF proficiency in a very short
time.
Two eases in which the city is de-
PENDANT are before the Superior Court
-Hahrlton vs.. Blake and Strathan
vs.. Blake, the defendant i'll both casts
being the City Treasurer. The suit Is
for an order to restrain the Treasurer
from transferring money from the
bond interest fund to other funds to
replace money borrowed from said
funds to pay the interest on bonds
after that fund had been exhausted.
The position taken by the Shylock's
attorneys Is that money can he trans
ferred to the bond interest fund but
cannot be re-transferred from it to re-
place the loan.
DR.. Broednicht, OF Tacoma, spent
several days in Olympia, and seems to
have been an easy bird to pluck while
under the influence of the "ardent."
Somebody captured his watch and
while negotiating for its return with a
crook his pocket was picked OF $40, by
probably the same man who took the
watch. The doctor complained to the
police and the light-fngered gentle
man was interviewed but he of course
denied all knowledge OF the theft. He
was, however, deemed vagrant and
notified to leave town, and the doctor
WAS advised to return to Tacoma
where matters do not usually come SO
"swift."
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. n Talcott, who
reside on Eastside, on Christmas day,
gathered in their garden, in the open
air, bouquet Of gladiOlas. They con-
cluded to send the flowers to cousin
mt st. Louis, as reminder of the re-
markable mildness of our climate.
The stems were first dipped in hot
sealing wax to prevent the evapora-
ton of moisture, and the whole en-.
closed in damp tissue paper and sent
by mail. A letter from that city, re-
ceived on the 4th inst, announces the
receipt of the flowers in perfect condi
ton and it excited no little comment
among our eastern friends, inasmuch
as the temperature was near zero and
the Mississippi river was frozen from
shore to shore.
Robt. McFadden returned from
Skagway, the other day, where he has
been employed the last few months, in
a clerical capacity, in the Office OF the
Skagway, White Pass and Lake Ben
nett Railway Company. He reports
that he located several claims, and
purchased several more, in the Atlin
country, but on account OF the odious
Canadian Alien Mining Law, which
prohibits Americans, for the present,
from working their claims, he was
compelled to abandon them. He says
that hundreds of destitute miners
from that region who fiocked into |
Skagway were enabled to find work on
the railroad in building snow sheds. |
This fortunately made it possible for all
who wished to earn money enough to
pay passage home to do so. Robert
says he will return to Alaska in the |
spring, but his destination will be the |
Nome country.
Frank Oades, lad OF thirteen,
whose parents reside on Sixth and |
Boundary streets, met with fearful |
accident Tuesday morning, while hunt
ing in the suburbs about q mile from
home. 1t seems that he had just re.
ceived from the East new gun and it
was while trying this well-known in
fernal apparatus in the hands of child |
rem, that the accident took place. |
The accident did not vary from the |
usual details. Frank fell from log,
and in doing so the hammer of the
gun caught some projection discharg- |
ing the piece, and as usual the gun
was aimed at it's unfortunate owner.
The charge of shot entered the boys
abdomen, inflicting frightful wound,
but strange to say the victim, mainly |
by crawling made his way to the house
of resident on the outskirts of town,
nearly mile from the place of ACCT
dent, where he was cared for, his con-
dition being too serious for removal to
his home. The doctors think it hard
ly possible that he will survive. This
is the third time, it is said, that he
has been seriously injured by the use
of firearms. The victim was accom-.
panied by a companion of about his
own age, Harry Newmarket, but he
was so frightened by the catastrophe
that he did not report the matter to |
anybody, or the sufferer might have
had better chance for recovery. The
sufferer died ut IL 80 last night.