Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-10-04

uIotiitI JpSepu y. yale.
! The donation of ten per cent. Of
last one days sales to the High
School library fund, by the Olympus
Hardware Co., last Saturday, netted
about $40 for that object.
The steamship Umatilla sailed for
San Francisco, Tuesday, with Prof
Stanton Rowell as a passenger by her
from this city. The City of Puebla
leaves for the same destination Satur.
day.
r. r. Thompson was struck over his
right eye by flying piece of timber
Tuesday, while at work in the lum-
ber-yard of the Westside mill, in.
fiicting painful though not dan.
gerous wound.
/. y. Ford has sold to J. r. Patter-
son lot =, block 70, for consideration
OF 81 600. The property is that now
occupied by w. II. Algier and James
Brewer on Columbia between Third
and Fourth streets.
The Olympia Door Co. have the
frame up OF the main building of their
new factory, block north and west of
their present location. 1t is a two
story structure covering an area OF
6Ox13O feet of piling.
The Thurston County Path Associ.
alton have appointed G. X. Talcott,
w. w. Binheimer and Sylvester lie.
barre to represent that organization in
the contest proceedings before the
county board next Tuesday.
1t is hardly probable that return
date of the Tivoli Opera Co., can be
secured, as after a week in Portland,
their route as laid out contemplates
one performance at Salem, and then a
jump to Marysyille, California.
James, son of DIR. David Mitchell,
has returned from Dawson, after an
absence of four years. 1t is said
that the young man has done exceed
ingly we'll during his stay there. He
will probably return in the spring.
Mr.. O'Connor has presented the
High School library with set of " En-
cyclopedia Britannica" American edi.
ton, consisting of 30 octave volumes.
1t is library in itself, and no better
aid could have been devised by the
generous donor.
]. B. Jones, an old resident of this
county, met with a severe accident,
while engaged in logging, near Te-
nino, Saturday. His hand was caught
in a wheel, and his thumb and fore.
finger were severed and the second
finger badly lacerated.
Shelton has a rooster which cares
for a brood of chickens, with the "old
hem" At night, or in severe weather,
he hovers over his share of the chicks
and clucks to them to follow him
about the yard with equal solicitude
of their maternal protector.
The return game OF base ball be-
tween the State officials and the King
County Club will be played near this
city tomorrow afternoon. In the
evening ball will be given ut the
Olympia, for entertainment of the via.
itors, to which tickets will be sold ut
81.
Mrs. A. NJ. Doble has applied to the
Superior Court for letters Of guardian.
ship for the estate of John Mulqueen,
an insane man who was sent to the
asylum from Rainier, u few months
ago. Mulqueen owns 16O acres OF
land and personal property valued at
about $50.
The outgoing passengers this week
over the o. r. & N. and U. p. were !:
wv. G. Case and wife, Mrs. Orr, for
Chicago, ILL.,; Mrs. w. w. Little,
Stanwood, Iowa; B. F. Denton, w. L.
Dickinson, Miss Christina Heck, Buff
falo. N. Y, and Dave Pinegar, Chip
pewa Falls, Wis.
Peter Jones, an employee at Jami.
sons camp at Mud Bay, sustained
severe injuries while ut work in the
woods, last Friday. He was caught be-
tween two logs and his right leg be-
tween the knee and ankle was crushed.
He was brought to the hospital in this
city for treatment.
Carl Hartman, our towny, and Fer
ris Hartman, the actor, resemble each
other in name, but there the likeness
ends. Carl does his thinking in
dutch, and speaks in broken English,
and Ferris thinks in English and
speaks in broken Dutch. A distinctio
with a difference, you will observe.
Capt. Gilbert has been ordered to
Manila. to pursue his work as hydro.
graphic engineer. He is now at the
Aleutian Islands, in command of an
expedition sent north a few months
ago on the government steamer Path
finder. Mrs. G. will remain in this
city during her husbands absence.
An infant child of Frank Ellswick
was fearfully burned, Monday evening
by falling on the hot stove. 1t seems
that the child had been tied in rock
ing. chair, which stood near the stove,
and while the mother was temporarily
absent, the child set the chair in mo.
ton and it tipped against the stove.
Relief was almost instant, however, as
is shown by the wounds, which are but
skin.deep and will leave no disfgurc-
ment.
The versatility, or rather adaptable
ity, of Ferris Hartman, the actor to
circumstances is remarkable. The
other night when the electric lights
failed to shine for few minutes, Old
Gugenheimer, the toy-maker (Mr.
Hartman) went on with something
like this: "Dot Edison vas . rival
mid me, he sthop der lighdt SOON.
dimes ven exhibition dose master.
pieces" Some people thought the
lights had been purposely extinguished
to admit of this sally.
The Puget Sound Petroleum Co.,
who had such variagated" expert
ence-alternations of hope and de-
spondency-in boring the we'll for oil
on the Sarver place, near Tenino. have
concluded to fish" for their drill, re-
cover it if possible. and resume their
search for the elusive current that