Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-08-30

AT last return game OF baseball
has been arranged between the Che
halls and Olympia Business Mems
clubs. 1t will be played here, on
Wednesday, Sept. Sd. A game be-
tween the King County club, and the
State officials will be played here on
the 18th prox.
The bids on the capitol proposals
for 2lO cords of wood, were opened a
few days ago. John Mills offered to
furnish wood at $2S5 per cord; Chas.
Arnold, " 40, and the Thacker Wood
Co., 1915 for dry and $3.50 for green
wood, per cord. The wood in each
proposal is to be delivered.
Next Sunday J. S. McCallum be-
gins his eleventh year as pastor OF the
Christian church. The anniversary
sermon will be preached IN the morn
ing. The ordinance of Christian bap-
tism will be administered at the close
OF the evenings services. A cordial
invitation is extended to all.
Mr.. F. c. Written, who came over
from Oregon to teach Westside school,
has resigned his position to return to
his wife who is seriously i'll. His
place has been filled by Mrs. Elizabeth
Mathews, formerly of Des Moines,
Iowa, who is noted educator, and a
graduate of the New York School of
Pedagogy.
The Supreme Court has decided
that the former County Treasurer,
Robt. Frost, did right in paying bond
interest out of the general fund in.
stead of the wallet specially provided
for bond interest, which happened to
be empty. The decision is an afiirma-
nation OF the action of the lower
court.
Harry Phipps is suffering from a
fragment of steel which flew from a
bar he was cutting and entered his
left arm ut the wrist. A surgeons
efforts to extract the particle, which
sank very deeply in the Joint between
the bones. were futile, and the opera
ton had to be postponed until nature
assists in expelling the foreign sub.
stance.
Agent Stanford, of the N. P. r. R.,
reports the business of his station as
better this season than ever before.
Besides the 800 logging cars per
month, hauled from the Chehalis and
Black Hills camps, there has been an
average of LOCO passengers per month
arriving and departing from his depot,
and the aggregate of business has ay-
eraged $4,000 per month.
The stone-cutters on the new
capitol annex, suspended work Mon
day, because the showers which
prevailed ran through the fiat roofs
of sheds built more for protection
from the sun than to turn rain. The
roof was covered with taxpayer, how
ever, and now the merry "chink,
chink, chink" OF the chisel is heard as
an accompaniment of the patter upon
tho roof.
Fathers Oswald and Ulrick, emf
nent professors from st. Johu's Uni.
versity, have been added to the faculty
of St. Martins College, at Lacey, and
various improvements made to the
college buildings and grounds. The
Fall term opens on the 5th prox.,
with splendid registration in all de-
partments. Inquiries addressed to the
Rev. Director, Lacey. Wash, will meet
with prompt attention.
Driving piles on Long bridge by
horse power, is an apt reminder OF old
times when all work of that kind was
done by a pair of horses travelling in
q circle on board OF the scow carrying
the pile driver. The original piles for
Long bridge. the Olympia and Tenino
railroad trestling and all the wharves
existing twenty years ago. were built
by that slow primitive method, but the
work faithfully served its day.
There has been another addition to
the corps OF teachers for the High
school. Miss Elizabeth Middleton.
who was elected TO fill the position of
third assistant in the High school, has
resigned, and Rev. ID. r. Loomis, pas
tor OF the Congregational church OF
this city will take her place. Roy
McReynolds has been engaged to teach
stenography and Prof. M. Parsons will
have charge OF the musical trainings
Of the pupils in all the schools OF the
city.
Isn't it about time the controversy
between "The Fair" and the Clerks
Union had terminatedf While the
employee has an undoubted right to
prescribe the rules on which he is to
labor, the employer has as much right
to accept or reject them. The placing
lof boy in front Of the store OF an EN-.
ployer under ban, decorated with pla-
cards calculated to disparage his bQsi-
ness. is in poor taste, to say the least,
and not calculated to enlist or retain
sympathy for those who resort to it.
The steamer Northern Light sus.
tanned some impairment OF her ma
chinery at Tacoma, and Saturday
night, while starting on her return to
this place with q party of excursion
lists aboard. broke down and was com .
PEELED to return and tie up for the
night. The passengers were, of
course, without beds, and had to sit
up all night. or sleep on the cabin
floor. both of which alternatives were
adopted. It was a" Nid.nid- noddine"
set which came ashore At Percival's
dock, Sunday about noon, when the
steamer returned.
| Superintendent Of Public Instruc.
ton Bryan yesterday gave out the fol-
lowing statement: "At the recent
teachers examination $50 applicants
sent papers to the State Superintend.
ent's Office. OF these, 299 were at.
tempting to raise the grade of their
certificates and 80 took reading circle
work only. OF the applicants 2l3 had
never taught, and few of them were
successful in the examination. In all
there have been 568 certificates issued,
and this number will probably he in
creased to nearly 600 as soon as the
many applications on diplomas and