Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-05-10

OF purser on the Capital City, when
she resumes service next week.
Sierra NJ. Ainsworth was Wednesday
granted 4 divorce from her husband
A. F. Ainsworth, by the Superior
Court. They had been married
eleven years, but had neither children
nor community property To quarrel
over. The ground OF divorce was
abandonment by defendant.
Rebekah Degree Lodge |. o. O. F.,
Wednesday evening, presented Mrs.
Eva Myers handsome gold Rebekah
pin, as testimonial OF their regard.
Mrs. Nj. will soon leave for Chicago,
her future home, and it was to per-
petuate a memory of pleasant COM
partnership that the present was
made.
Mrs. Geo. b. Lane wishes it under
stood that she is not a candidate for
the position of School Director, for
which her name has been mentioned
by some of her friends. She gives as
a reason for the declination that her
home duties are such that she cannot
divide her time with the schools and
do justice to either.
Sheriff Mills brought in an insane
man from the Black Hills logging dis
trict yesterday. He is Frenchman,
who arrived from nobody knows where
the night previous. AS he told the
Sheriff that he had been drinking
heavily, day or two in the cooler"
may restore his mental equipoise.
At least that test will be applied.
The County Attorney has advised
the County Commissioners that the
county is not required to issue certiti-
Gates of death within the corporate
limits OF this city for the reason that
an ordinance demands certificate
when no doctor is employed, and this
carries with it the liability incurred
from its issue by the proper officer.
1t is said that of the three charges
at the County Poor farm, that will
soon be abolished, one will be cared
for by relatives and the others proba-
bly, sent to the hospital. Samuel
French, ore of these, is said to be 1O9
years old. Lambert Laquay. another,
is a half breed paralytic, and the
other Mrs. Irene Malay is mentally
unbalanced.
The Northern Pacific trestle bridge
across the bay has been filled with
gravel and rock, leaving only narrow
channel for the passage of the Des-
chutes river and the ebb and flow OF
the tide. Employees of the road are
responsible for the statement that a
similar change will before long be
made in the high bridge spanning the
Moxley creek gulch.
The Tacoma Mill Co. has brought
action in the Superior Court for ST.
1852. 80 against A. P. Perry, of Tenino,
for damages provided by statute for
cutting timber on another mans land
three times the value of the timber
appropriated. Sheriff Mills Tuesday
attached Perry's logging outfit, the
company putting up bond for $1,000
indemnity. The Superior Court the
next day dissolved the attachment.
The County Commissioners after a
refusal to contribute public money
towards fund to compensate w. o.
Bush for use of his grain collection for
exhibit at the Buffalo fair, on the
ground that they had no right to ap-
propriate public funds for that pur-
pose, the next day reconsdered the
matter and subscribed 500, on condi-
ton that 5000 be raised by other
means to make up the sum demanded
$500.
At the meeting OF the City Council
Monday. DR.. NOVEL; presented a bill
of 500 for attendance upon James
Sandary. the first of the smallpox
patients. That body very properly
laid it over for consideration. If 1t 10
intended as an entering wedge" to
establish the gait for future charges,
tits well. As there have been a dozen
or more other patients treated for the
Filipino ITCH" cool hundred apiece,
in the aggregate. will amount to quite
a graft added to the regular salary Of
Health Officer.
The beautiful play of Roanoke, pre-
sented at Olympia Theater, Monday
night, was a treat to all true lovers of
the drama. 1t was we'll presented by
Mr.. French's company. Miss Dom
nette's Aunt Dinah" was the equal
of Miss Mayhem in her best parts, and
Roanoke Peyton" was rendered with
great force and effectiveness. by Miss
Louise Carter. Oswald Roberts, as
"Ezekial Morse" the villain, per.
formed an exacting role in a highly
creditable manner, and the other
parts afforded splendid framework
to the central figures in one of Hal.
Reid's best dramas.
Mr.. Meyers who sells furniture on
Third and Columbia streets, thinks of
going out of the pawn-broker's bust
ness, kind of side issue" that he
has been operating in connection with
his deal in household appliances. A