Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-02-23

Cottage City for Alaskan ports, to-
morrow. The succeeding boats will
be the Walla Walla for San Francisco
Wednesday, and for the latter desina.
ton the Alki, Thursday.
The City Council have given per.
mission to c. b. Mann to build wood
en- building in the rear of his stores or
Fourth and Washington streets. The
same privilege was accorded to j. G.
Collier for erection OF IL frame building
on the Reed property, corner of Fifth
and Washington.
a mortgage was filed for record
Monday, made by the Sunset Tele.
phone office, of magnitude which re-
qulred fee for recording OF $3.50. 1t
was to the Old Colony Trust Com.
pany, and is to secure the payment OF
T2,oOO,OO0 tive-per cent. bonds. The
revenue stamps on the original docu-
ment amount to 81 ,l2O.
There seems to be some delay in
constructing the switch On the JEFF.
ierson street spur. 1t is said that
Supt. Pearson, OF the y. p. working
crew had promised to lay the track
soon as the City Council gave permits
sion. AS that obstacle has been re-
moved, we acknowledge to some
curiosity as to what will be the next
hitch"
Nathan Sargent, one of the old
est pioneers of Thurston county, died
near BucOda, Saturday. Deceased was
nearly 70 years of age, and came to
the Coast half century ago. Mr.. S.
was an Odd Fellow, and delegation
of the order took charge of his re-
mains ut the Tenino-train depot Sun
day, and superintendent the burial
Monday.
DIR. Newell writes that he will return
to Olympia in the spring to resume
practice. Mrs. Jordon, his daughter,
will probably accompany him, as her
husband, Lieut.. Jordon, is absent on
duty at Manila, being one of the Off
GERS OF the U. S. S. Marietta. He says
that the winters are too cold and the
summers too hot in New jersey to suit
himself and Mrs. Jordon.
The City Council has at last de-
clared the old Pacific House rookery,
which has been untenanted for years,
a nuisance, and instructions were given
that its owner abate it at once.
Whether this is regarded as per func-
tory duty, the same order having been
made twice before, or the Council
really means business, events will in
the course of time determine.
A pack belonging to some hobo was
found on Eastside near Lum JOS gar
den, Monday, while the authorities
were still working to find some clue
to Miss Cullen's tragic fate. 1t con-
tanned a variety of articles, evidently
purloined, among which were four
umbrellas, a small mirror, pair of
overalls, a comb, hat and other arti-
Giles. The pack is at the Sheriff's Of
fee awaiting Identification of the
various articles.
J. w. Pierce, who is in charge of the
Carlton during Mr.. and Mrs. Climb.
let's absence in California, has re-
ceived letter from the wife in San
Francisco who says Mr.. 6. is danger.
ously i'll. having undergone an opera
ton which left him exceedingly pros
-trated. Mrs. G. requests Phil from
bley, OF this city, an experienced
nurse, to come at once to that city,
and aid in bringing Mr.. G. home.
The band boys are making an effort
to secure the services of a professional
band master to instruct as we'll as
conduct their musical practice. 1t is
thought that Prof. N. c. Davis, a
leader of substantially the same
organization in 1891, may be induced
to return and assume the service. 1t
will be necessary, however, for the
band to guarantee salary of SIS per
month, and it is to devise some means
of promoting that income that the
members are now so intently con-
sidering.
City Clerk Proud was allowed an
extra compensation OF $25 per month
to bring the records OF his Office into
shape, and d. H. Hubbard and II. C.
Wellman, who drive the city's teams,
have both demanded ten.dollar in
crease Of salary, under threat OF res
ignation. 1t is quite evident that they
are catching CLINT of the sunburst of
Mckinley prosperity. 1t might be
well for the Council to ascertain If
son,ohCIy Jooon,t u,a,,t Tho ;,b ~ tl,o
present salaries before submitting to q
hold-up."
The City Council Monday night, in
structed the Chief of Police to meet all
trains and ascertain if anybody afflict-
ed with smallpox is endeavoring to
find asylum in our city. It seems to
us that they have prescribed rather an
arduous job for that worthy officer,
when we consider that in Spokane and
Centralia, the sawbones are in doubt,
with pustules we'll developed, whether
it is smallpox or cbicken-pox which is
creating the scare. Halfway measures
may delude the people into fancied
security, but it is no safeguard against
the infection.
Prof. Doane, of the State Agricul-
tural College, is looking for a loca-
ton on the Sound for an experimental
effort to transplant and cultivate East
ern oysters in these waters. Fish
Commissioner Little is associated with
him in making selection, and it is
thought their choice will be either at
Patterson Bay in Pierce county, or
North Bay in this county. Two car
loads Of oysters, one from Chesapeake
and the other from Long Island
Sound will arrive about the 1st of
April for planting at the point which
may be selected.
A correspondent of the Olympian
makes vigorous protest against the
vandal acts of the telephone company
in cutting away branches of our
beautiful shade trees to make way for
their wires to pass through the foliage.
Such acts are unlawful and should be
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