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

l'ducu, NutH IL went Oh, tue DuItt
striking the old lady above the ey
aud coming out near the ear, intllctlni
severe but not necessarily fata
wound. In fact the chances all seen
favorable for recovery at the presen
time.
The following passengers have lei
the past week over the l. p. and q. /,
y. lines were Andrew Johnson an,
Emil Coulson, for Salt Lake, Utah; f
K. Rhyme and George Pollard, Elgin
Oregon; James McAli-ter, Haverhill
ohio; J. l.. Jackson. Nineta, Indian
Territory; \. +. Graham, Anselm0
Neb.; Hardy Fitch, Lewiston, III
Miss Dora Jeilers, Boise City, Idaho
Dick Ramsey, Hutchinson, Ks; Mrs
John Dwyer, Chicago, and Leslie
Urquhart, Boston, Mass.
|. Blumauer, of Bucods, has started
his lumber mill at that place employ
ing % men, which had been shut
down for some time owing to low
prices. An offer was made to the
operators that if reduction in the
wage rates OF from 10 to ID per cent
tee accepted the mill would resume
operations, otherwise wait for better
prices. The men, very wisely We
think, accepted the compromise, with
the understanding that when prices
warrant, the old rates will be restored
Jack and n. b. Grummitt were
arrested at St. Clair Lake, Monday
charged with assault and battery 10y
James w. Kennedy. 1t seems that
the assailants had fallen a tree on to
the fence and into the field of Ken
nedy and when the latter went down
to where they were at work to remon-
strate, they fell on to him with re.
proaches and clubs, the effects Of the
latter being in evidence by sundry
bruises uron different parts of the
head, to which Exhibit No. | amply
attested.
Eugene Whiteside, Charles Allen
and John and James Crowley, all
Olympia "boys," are down from Nome
and have anything but a good &C
count to give OF the land of golden
promises. Reports accredit only one
OF the party with having been actively
at work, Mr.. Whiteside, and
he had his rubber boots stolen, prime
necessity in working in the frozen
slush, aud when he wen. to Nome to
replace them he found his compan.
ions about ready to come home, and
he joined them.
The County Commissioners, at Mon
days meeting, granted petition for
attaching a portion of Woodland pre-
cinct to Chambers prairie, for the con-
of voters included in the por-
ton transferred. 1t embraces sections
80 and 36, township Is, range l west,
and sections 90 to 30 in township Is
range l east. including the following
voters: L. S. Barnard, Walter Barn.
ard, H. G. Parsons, H. Cruikshank, c.
F. Rehklaw, Andrew Malberg, Erick
Mallery. Charles Anderson, r. E.
Cooper and ]. M. Cooper.
It seems we are to have a Carnival
after all. 1t was thought that our
people did not care to make the con-
cessions asked by these companies
this year, but it appears there is one
on the road the Great South
ern Carnival Co., which Mr.. C. H.
Smith, its agent. has convinced our
people, have a splendid show and do
not ask for the Earth as a show
ground. 1t is now at Sacramento,
Cal, and will be in Portland next
week, and thence may come here, if
arrangements can be made, then go to
where it will be an attraction
at the coming Industrial Fair.
James K L. Mitchell, son of DR..
David Mitchell, met with rather an
mishap, in burning out .
yellow jackets nest, while out camp
ing. He had yelled his head with
netting to protect himself
from stings. The netting caught fire
from the torch he was using to ex.
the hornets and in flash
his head was enveloped in flames, and
the netting being wound closely it
took some time to remove it, during
which time he was badly burned
about the face. Fortunately his eyes
were not seriously injured, but his hair
was nearly all burned off and his face
and hands are badly scared.
Mrs. Carrier, a woman with q mari.
tai record that extends into contin.
ued chapters, is again an applicant for
divorce, this time from Joseph r.
Giddings, who it seems decamped be.
fore the nuptial knot was three days
old. II is the Same ne her experience
with Littlewood, of which the daily
papers gave q sensational account
about q year ago. The groom in
either instance had not much more
than half the brides experience in the
subtleties OF life, having little more
than entered upon the second score OF
years from the cradle, while she was
that much beyond the prime of life, at
a period when the bloom of the peach
is scarcely expected to linger on the
brow of departed youth. Still they
were victims to the seductive wiles OF
the marrying women, only to awaken
suddenly from a dream that marriage
was not, at times, all the fancy painted
it.
What came very near being q trag.
edy happened at Percival's dock, Mon
day afternoon, about five o'clock. ]. M.
Bray, a young man engaged in repair
work on that structure tainted, proba.
bly, through the effect of excessive
heat which prevailed at the time, and
fell into the bay. John Kendall, q fel-
low workman, Immediately Jumped
into the water, after he had sank twice,
managed to swim with him to a pile,
where he held on till Claude Yves.
ton climbed down on the pile and
helped to pass line around Bray's
body. After he had been hauled
to the planking, be was rolled over
a barrel, his lungs freed of water,
and after the usual methods had been