Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-04-25

came back hurnmlng the first bars O.
that popular air, Hes a jolly gooc
fellow"
State Treasurer Maynard has called
i'll general fund warrants up to
and including No. S5,l7o, and they will
not draw interest after May 9TH. This
will close the outstanding warrants on
the general fund.
The Home boarding. house, in the
old odd Fellows building, has closed
its business, not on account Of want oI
patronage, but the Onerous and exact
ing duties imposed upon it. projectors
to make it a success.
f. E. Dale sustained severe sprain
OF his ankle, yesterday, while carrying
quarter OF beef from Connolly &
Chambers market to his delivery
wagon. 1t is nothing serious, but is
painful and will lay him up" for a
while.
Joseph Menzies, who will be remem.
bered by his old schoolmates AS a
student of the Olympia Collegiate
Institute in 1898, WAS a visitor to the
Capital City this week. He is acting
in the capacity OF drummer for the
North Coast Garment Company of Ia
coma.
Most OF the residents of Little
Skookum and Oyster Bays are being
connected with an independent tele-
phone system, and the farmers up the
valley are also talking of putting in .
similar system. 1t will be great
convenience to them all, and the cost
tritling.
The Capital City Oyster Company,
with sack" of 100000, and Henry
Drum its chief protector, is late
incorporation. The company have
secured fine oyster lands at South
Bay, and will extend their holdings to
an extent that will enable them to do
a large business.
The excursion season will begin
Sunday with arrival of several hundred
pleasure.seekers from Seattle and Ia
coma, who will come on the Capital
City, arriving about l o'clock P. NJ,
and departing about 5 o'clock in the
evening. The boat will leave Seattle
at and Tacoma at 10 A. M.
the lakelet in Capitol Park has
been drained and will soon be stocked
with goldfish and embellished with
water lilies. Mr.. Simenson, who is q
great lover of the beautiful, has gen.
eTously offered to supply the fish and
bulbs on the single condition that the
lake be prepared for their reception.
P. B. (Pie- Eaten Johnson, who .
score Of years ago published the Walla
Walla Union, was in our city short
time this week. He attained fame,
years ago, by reputation for holding
down more Lucrative offices at the
same time than any other member OF
the party-hence the pseudonym of
Pie-Biter."
State Superintendent Bryan has an
nounced the following as examiners of
manuscripts for the May examination
Mrs. Dora Mckee, Mrs. Margaret
O'Keefe, Mrs. Mary Bryan and C. Will
Shaffer of Olympia; Miss Rose Nor
gon, Enterprise; Miss Emma futile,
Hoquiam; Mrs. Dora Cryderman,
Whatcom; Miss Gyneth knight, Shell.
ton.
John Gibson, an insane man from
Seattle, who has mania for following
people-an exaggerated form of rubber
necking, as it were-and having
frightened several of our people nearly
out of their wits, the police wac
called upon to Danish the inquisitive
individual, which they did Sunday,
placing him on the train for his homo
in the city of progress.
OH is in error when he states that
the old +" Cove building" lately trans.
ferred by purchase to Winstanley &
BIankenship, by Annie McMasters of
Portland, was once occupied by Ell.
wood Evans, the pioneer historian.
Mr.. E. owned and occupied for many
years the Stevens building, on the
corner of Fifth and Main, now the
quarters of the Western Union Tele.
graph Co., and others.
Adjutant General Drain will 60 to
Waitsburg May LIST to inspect q com.
pany that has been organized by T. M.
Mckinney and James Williams oil
that city and offered to the National
Guard. The offer of this company
was made several months ago, but the
decision to muster it in, if it is a
satisfactory organization, has just
been reached. The company will be
mustered in next Thursday if General
Drain deems it an efficient organize
ton.
Governor Mcbride, very sensibly we
think, declines to designate date for
Arbor Day, prefering to leave it to
the people to make such use of the
day as may best serve their purpose.
The main object Of an official declara-
ton, hitherto, has been to release the
salaried portion of the community
from the arduous duties of oHice.life
few hours more than the more
conscientious OF them would feel con.
strained to appropriate to their indi-
vidual enjoyment.
A convention composed of delegates
from ell parts of the State met in the
Superior Court room of the new court
houre, this afternoon, to make ar
rangements for the States representa-.
ton at the st. Louis Exposition. 1,
has been arranged that q suitable en-.
tcrtainment will be given the delegates
this evening at the Olympia hotel, un-
der the management of a Chamber oil
Commerce committee, consisting oil
Allen Weir, Geo. e. Filley, Geo. G..
Mills, H. q. Richardson and T. C.
Van Epps.
The disappointment is very gener.