Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-07-29
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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Harry Burntrager is back from tn
wars.
Judson Hines, OF Elma, visite,
friends here this week.
The cement sidewalks about The
capitol are now completed.
Mrs. J. G. Parker has returned from
visit to friends in Spokane.
The Olympia Brewery team las
Sunday defeated the Tenino team by {
score OF - to 4.
A second crop OF strawberries has
teen produced this year in garden il
the southern part OF town.
The ground floor of Tacoma Hal
building is being fitted for the music
stock now in Stuart's Corner.
Justice Giles found the Grummett
boys not guilty OF assault upon James
Kennedy, in trial yesterday.
The city is repairing the bridge neal
the Peoples University, connecting
East Bay avenue and Plum street.
Miss Alice Wynne, of Lawrence
Ks, left Monday for home. She has
been visiting the family Of Brad Hill.
The Civic improvement Society gave
an excursion this morning by the
Greyhound to the Bremerton Navy
Yard.
The schooner Homer, Capt. Nc
Donald. arrived yesterday morning tC
take in a cargo OF lumber for Califor
mia ports.
A.. S. Cation left Monday for a hur.
ried trip of the East, going to Cleve.
land, Pittsburg and thence to cities
farther East.
John Lott, son of George Lott, one
OF our ancotty pioneers, OF Ielm, has
been visiting friends in this city the
past few days.
Mrs. Mort Howe. of Walla Walla,
arrived Sunday to spend the remain.
der of the Summer with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Cotter.
Mrs. Geo. E. Filley visited her sister,
Mrs. Hayes, at Seattle, who was on
her way from Nome to San Francisco,
by steamer. Wednesday.
The next steamer leaving the Sound
for San Francisco will be the Queen
Monday, and for Alaskan ports will be
the Humboldt to- morrow.
The U. S. revenue cutter Scout,
Capt. Won Boskirk, came up from Sc
attic, Wednesday, on a general in
epection OF maritime matters.
A valuable present has been made
the State Library of over fifty volumes
of the Session Laws Of Wisconsin, by
Arthur Remington. Some date back
half a century.
Mrs. H. G. Chamberlain and Miss
Cecil Chamberlain, of Oregon, are
visiting Mrs. w. l.. Bridgford, of this
city. The former is the mother OF
Mrs. Bridgford.
J. r. Lamb and Miss Viretta Butler
were united in marriage yesterday
morning, at the home OF Mrs. Walter
Wiley, her mother, in this city.
They will reside in Seattle.
James Cushman, a well-known log.
ger, met with a serious accident, at
Hanna Bros camp, last Friday, re.
sulting in broken leg from a rolling
log. He is now at the hospital.
The first peaches from Eastern
Washington made their appearance in
the local market about week ago.
They were small in size and cling.
stones, and sold for 65 cents box.
Miss Hattie Watson while riding to
her fathers home, near Tumwater, the
other night, collided with another
cyclist. Miss Watson was thrown to
the ground. and sustained q severe
cut over the right eye, which it re.
quired several stitches to close.
An annex is to be built to ST. Mar.
tins College, at Woodland, which will
be on the east side and about half the
size Of the main building. This en-.
largement is deemed necessary from
the anticipated increase of attendance
at the Winter term which begins in
September.
In Sawyer & Filley's window are q
dozen or more ponderous "tomes'
containing the prescriptions of the
firm since beginning business here
The volume of trade done, thus in
dicated, is a tribute to the confidence
the community has felt in the firm as
dispensers.
Judgment has been affirmed by the
Supreme Court in the cases of Seattle
and Lake Washington Water Co. and
Morris & Whitehead, bankers, re-
spondents vs.. Seattle Dock Co., an
pellants, an action brought by re-
spondents to foreclose certain liens on
tide lands at Seattle.
The MultnOmah received some dam.
age from collision at Seattle, Wednes
day, and did not arrive at her dock
here till midnight. While taking in
coal at the bunkers, she was ran into
by the steamship Oregon, crushing hel
house somewhat and breaking steam
pipe. Notwithstanding this, Old Re
liable bobbed up serenely" the next
morning for regular duty.
Governor Mcbride has q second
time refused to recognize the requisi.
ton of the Governor of California fol
the person of Mrs. Gun Sen, alias All
Oy, on a charge of embezzlement
The refusal seems to be based upon
the question of identity OF the woman
with the person charged; Gun Sen, it
being proven, having been a contin
uous resident of this State many
years.
Leonard and Bert Query, Monday
afternoon, rescued two Japs from 8
watery grave, who had embarked in a
small sloop, which capsized in the
swift current near the span on Fourth
street bridge. They held on to thu
piling for dear life and shouted louc
enough to arouse the Russians, wher
the young men got boats and went t.
their rescue just in time to save then
for better and more glorious ext