Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-06-26


tanning a permit from the Commits
siOners.
The Order of Pendo at its last meet
ing elected the following officers: Past
Councillor, Nettie J. Dale; Council
Tor, W. H. Lee; Vice Councillor. J. >.
Trosper; Chaplain, Harriet w. Berg
land; Secretary, f. f. Dale; Treas
urer, Geo r. Belts; Guide, Anna
Bergland; Warden, Villa Dale; Sem
tinel, John R.yl, and Trustee, John
l.. Morgan.
A noHe pros was entered in the case
OF larceny that had been preferred
against Ned FerrIer, who was ac-
cused Of stealing watch from Benny
Johns. John. is an Indian, and it ap-
pears Terrier was boon companion
who appropriated his watch to keep
him from losing it, and had not had
time to return it before the clutches of
the law had fallen upon him.
Capt. ]. G. Parker has named his
new boat still on the ways at Priests
Point, " The Caswell." She is named
for the wife OF Luke G. Caswell, OF
Elkhorn Ranch, Thunder Mountain,
Idaho, Q niece OF Capt. Parker. The
engineer OF the Caswell will be Alex.
C. Riddell, who served in that capacity
under Capt Parker, five years, while
he commanded the Messenger.
George Bemil, employed in Mrs.
| Ixf,
day, by accident, took draft from the
wrong bottle in a medicine chest,
while feeling unwell, which came very
near ending his life. Instead OF sui
phate OF soda he swallowed sulphate of
zinc, poison which began its deadly
work Immediately and continued un-
til DR.. Kincaid had administered an
antido.e.
The Capital Circle No. 269, Wood
men OF Woodcrsft, last Friday night.
elected the following officers: Mrs
Portman, Guardian Neighbor; Mrs
Henry OFT, Advisor; Mrs. A. Wright,
Magician; Mrs. Ida Yeager, Attendant;
Mrs. Nettie Finley, Captain of the
Guards; Mrs. Brownlee, Inner Sen.
tinel; Mrs. Mary Lane, Outer Sentinel !;
Lillian Matson, Musician, and Otto
Braeger, Manager.
The civil suit against DR.. Mitchell
brought by DR.. La Crone, has been on
trial this week in the Superior Court.
Five thousand dollars of damage has
been claimed, in the land deal which
constituted the basis of the criminal
suit which was tried last week and so
completely INDICATED the character of
the defendant. The examination of
witnesses was resumed this morning,
and the case will probably fill out the
week.
The Eighth-grade pupils receiving
certificates from the Olympia schools,
last Saturday, were: Louise Richard
son, Jodie Bendle, Edna Barnard,
Katherine Finnell, Mary Goldenberger,
Barbara Drum, William Knox, Ruth
Lloyd, Frank r. Latson, Pearl Lehn.
herr, Hazel Loomis, Grace Larimer,
Anna Murphy, Rudolph Meyer, Ray
Overhulse, Matthew Rogers, Florence
Schively, May Blackwell, Ida A.
Wiley and Ethel Tallentire.
The Olympia Den of Independent
Lions, has elected the following officers
for its ensuing term: E. 0. Robbins,
President, reelected; Mrs. H. c. Ever
EFT, Vice President; C. NJ. Moore, Sec
rotary; c. H. Guiberson, Treasurer;
o. d. Sutton, Sergeant-at-Arms; Miss
Campbell, Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms /;
Fred. Adams, Doorkeeper; F. E. Har-
ris, Sentinel; w. H. Boston, Chaplain,
and E. o. Robbins, Trustee. Mrs.
Minnie Webster fills the chair of Past
President.
Bessie, the eleven.year.old daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fred. Crombie, was
quite badly injured Tuesday, in q bi.
cycle collision. The child was riding
down Tenth street, going east. when
Fred. Sypher came down the Frank
lin hill, at rapid pace, striking her
wheel and throwing her on the hard
gravel. The victim did not recover
consciousness for some time after the
accident. Her limbs are badly cut
and her face fearfully bruised, and the
result might have been still more ser.
ious from the the heavy fall sustained.
A judicious application of the smart of
outraged law might prove an excellent
restraint upon fast or reckless riding.
A verdict of not guilty was rendered
last Friday, at 8 P. NJ, after five hours
deliberation, by the jury in the DR..
Mitchell case. Nobody thought that
the doctor would be convicted, q d.
vided jury being about the worst that
was anticipated, but it appears the
high reputation of the defendant
served him q turn in removing any
doubt that might, under other condi.
tions, have resulted from the story
) told by the prosecution. The doctor
has received the hearty congratula.
tions Of his friends ever since for his
happy release from very trying posi-
ton. that result from circums tsnces
backed probably by the peverseness Of
human nature.
; The Olympian erred when it stated
that the Pacific House, (now no more,
! having just been RACED to the ground
! and its parts carried away. or burned
to ashes) was built in 1858. and Capt.
Parker recalls the fact that Col Cock
passed over to his store, q oue-story
frame building standing precisely
where little Rec now performs her
lucrubations, and asked him to name
his new hosiery. The Captain, in
fluenced by quaint sense of humor
and knowing that the Colonel pos.
sessed q somewhat irascible temper, at
; once suggested the name Pacific"
in the hope that it might act a. an
emollient on the acts of its host and
owner. 1t was long afterwards that
the Captain explained its suggestive
origin, and Col. Cocks comments at
once exemplifed its appropriateness
and necessity. That date was in the
Fall of 1853, five years before the
Olympian has placed it.
1t is probably best, if there still re-.
mains any disposition to assert the