Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

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DIR. Lillebcllc Patterson has moved
to Seattle.
Miss Marion Patton has returned
from Portland.
A son was born to the wife OF Joseph
Barker, Monday.
Ray Rogers is laid up with mild
attack OF typhoid.
Work has been resumed at the TIE.
niDo stone quarry.
A daughter was born yesterday to
the wife of Hugh Doherty.
a heavy fog prevailed on the upper
Sound Wednesday morning.
c. W. Dorr, prominent lawyer of
Whatcom, is at The Olympia.
Mount Rainier is putting on new
robes OF the beautiful snow"
Venus is now arrayed in all her
historic glory as evening star.
J. A. Haight, the attorney, proposes
to change his residence to Seattle.
Revival services have been conduct
ed in the NJ. church the past week.
Daflodils are making their appear
ancc in many of the Olympia gardens.
Mr.. NJ. O'Connor is quite i'll and is
undergoing care and treatment at the
hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Bigelow have re-
turned from their wedding trip down
the Sound.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crawford have moved
from Boisfort, in Lewis county, to this
city to reside.
Wallace Lott has moved his family
from Hartstein Island into town to
spend the winter.
Berg Olson has begun an action for
divorce in the Superior Court from his
wife Bertha Olsen.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Miller, of Seattle. is
visiting her mother, Mrs. o. B. Nc
Fadden, in this city.
So you feel indisposed at sundry
times? Abandon patent medicines
and read the STANDARD.
Tonight fair; tomorrow fair and
warmer" is the prediction by the Sig
nal Service office to-day.
The Dempsey-Neylon contention is
still on. Dempsey now sues to set
aside former judgment.
Sylvester Camp Native Sons are
making arrangements for Smoker"
y on the evening of Feb. 7th.
The Sisters of Charity school will
give an entertainment in Olympia
Theater on the evening of Feb. 2lst.
The Port Townsend Southern rail-
road is undergoing extensive repairs
between Long bridge and Tumwater.
Allen Weir is announced to address
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce on
the Gray's Harbor Canal, Jan. 31st.
Chas. Johnson is now sole owner of
the Boston Kitchen, John Lynch hav-
ing disposed of his half interest to
him.
The staid bell-cow has left her town
haunts and is now grazing on the
neighboring hills with the grass up to
her eyes.
An observant genius says the mud
piles on Main street look like hay
cocks in meadow. What a pretty
thought
If you want to be convinced that
Washington meadow larks can sing in
midwinter. take short trip into the
country.
The monotonous hum of the dredger
is heard at any hour, day or night
while engaged in her contract of deep
ening the channel.
Our enterpri sing friends at Tum.
water are brewing twice day. to meet
steadily increasing demands for the
peerless beverage.
The steamship Umatilla left the
Sound for San Francisco to-day. The
next boat for the lower coast will be
the Queen, Wednesday.
Leopold F. Schmidt, the ruling
spirit of Capital Brewery, now in Mil
waukee, writes home a doleful &C
count OF the cold weather.
Puget Sound herring are now run
ming in immense schools and fisher
men are reaping rich harvest in con
sequence of the favorable event.
More fuss has been made over the
theft OF one high-toned (chainless) BIZ
cycle than would have resulted from
the loss of a hundred wheels of lower
grade.
Daniel H. Rowley, an insane man
escaped from the Hospital for the In.
sane at Fort Steilacoom, Wednesday.
He is supposed to have come towards
this city.
Thomas Clark was injured by a
falling limb in one of Simpsons log.
ing camps, few days ago, and was
brought to this city for treatment.
His right arm wa. fractured above the
elbow.
The steamship Cottage City sailed
from the Sound for Alaskan ports yes
terday, with the following passengers
from this city: John Anderson, Gus.
Gustafson and Jack johnson, all for