Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-11-28

Mr.. Percival has placed over six
hundred new piles under his wharf,
TO accommodate the heavy business
done over it and render it perfectly
safe, when thronged by people, as it
frequently is in the summer season
when excursion parties come and 60
almost daily. twill soon be in "apple
pie" order, and the driver will be
transferred to Westside mill to place
some piles for wharf extension.
The following Thurston county
teachers received certificates at the
recent examination held in this city
Maude Scofield, Katherine Price, Della
NJ. Borst, Olympia; Z. L. Bennett,
Sherlock; w. F. Gould, Rainier; Aug
nst Newman, Mrs. Hattie Piper, Nc
Lane; Seymour |. Stone, Independ-
ence, and w. f. Thomas, Meadow.
The whole number writing at this ex-
animation was fifteen, nine female and
six male. There were six who failed,
only one OF whom is now teaching.
1t is said that the upper floor OF
Stuart's Corner has been secured for
the headquarters OF the King county
delegation during the legislative SEES
sion, and that sumptuous quarters
have been secured for railroad quar-
tiers in the Owings building, under the
management OF Dave Blake, on Fourth
street. Rooms are being held in the
Hotel Olympia for the three promi-
nent candidates for U. S. Senator.
The hotel will undoubtedly be crowd
ed and it is proposed to turn the ball
room into dormitory should the de-
mand require it.
A man supposed to be Jacob Erb, OF
Yelm, this county, committed suicide
in Tacoma, Wednesday evening, by
swallowing q dose OF strychnine, in a
new, unoccupied building, on Com.
merce street. A laborer who happened
to be passing, beard groans, and on in
vestigation found Erb lying on the
floor and life almost extinct. De-
ceased is about so years of age, and
two letters in his pocket addressed to
Jacob Erb, Yelm, WASH" one from
the Oregon Nuraery at Salem, and the
other from John A. Rea, of this city,
are the evidence upon which identity
was based. and strychnine bottle by
his side indicates that his death was
self.inflicted.
The installment OF the famous ex.
hibit of wheat grown by Mr.. Bush in
this county, which took the gold
medal against the world at the Gen.
tennial exhibit in Philadelphia, and
every Worlds fair in this country
since then. has been placed on perma-
nent exhibition in glass case in the
vestibule of the new courthouse. 1t
is a matter of profound regret, how.
ever that box containing the very
longest stalks and fullest heads of the
prize wheat, had been entered by rats
during it's prolonged storage, and the
grain, as An exhibit, is wholly ruined.
The suggestion to Mr.. Bush that he
replace it with another crop, only
elected . shake OF the head and the
mournful utterance, am past my
wheat-growing days"
On December 11th Olympia Lodge
No. l, A. F. and A. NJ, will celebrate
their semi censennial anniversary, ar
rangements for which were made last
June, and announced in these COL
umns. The lodge was instituted on
Dec. II, 1852, by T. F. McElroy, J. w.
Wiley. NJ. T. Simmons. N. Delin and
Smith Hayes, petitioners Qra Ward
and A. X. Skidmore being absent.)
+. A. Clark and c. H. Hale, Master
Mssons, we're likewise present. The
charter was granted by Most Worship.
full Berryma Jennings, Grand Master
OF Oregon. The Lodge was known as
No. 5 until Washington Territory WAS
set off from Oregon, when it became
No. l, of new jurisdiction. Ira
Ward is the only survivor of the
charter members. A Committee of
Arrangements has been appointed,
consisting of DR.. Redpath. Charles
Wilcox, T. N. Reed and H. r. Hill.