Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-07-07
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

~ hLfI " III OlItEI
Go>. Mead returned yesterday from
Ai- tr!p"a-t a.: the mountains.
There i balance Of over 1864.
II in ca-h ROW held by the city.
JnI-r Linn is holding court for
Jud1c IRWIN, OF Chchalis county, this
We. K.
Congressman Humphrey and wife
wee among Olympia'e visitors on the
FOURTH
NJ villa Scobey was painfully but
not seriously burned hy explosion of a
rocket on the 18th.
The license fees paid by corporations
70 the secretary OF State during June,
amounted to SIS 600.
Mrs. Mort Howe, OF Tacoma, visited
III" home OF her parents, Mr. and Mrs
j.. -. cotter, this week.
+. II. Seed. formerly OF this city, but
now OF Port Discovery. is up on visit
to relatives and friends.
Elizabeth Herman and daughter, OF
Fort Steilacoom, spent the Fourth
with Mrs. Jesse Mills.
\ marriage license has been issued
to J. J. Tabor, OF Tumwater, and Miss
Allie Norman, OF Oakville.
The steamer Santa Barbara, to sail
tomorrow, is taking in a cargo of lath
at the Olympia Lumber Co.'S dock.
The State militia assemble at Camp
Murray. American Lake, Monday, for
camp instruction and rifle practice.
Olympia postoflice shows an aggregate
over last year of $2,629. 10, amounting
to a total of $lf,SS34S.
Miss Ethel Royal has been placed
on the list of Olympia teachers, and
has been temporarily assigned to the
Seventh grade in the Lincoln school.
The Board OF Directors of the y. NJ.
c. \. have decided to close the gym.
nasium during July, August and Sep
TENDER. The reading-room and baths
Will remain open.
a daughter was born to the wife of
George Billings, Tuesday morning,
which gives the young lady the rare
distinction of having the ever-glorious
Fourth for birthday.
The Olympia Oyster Co. are about
to erect a large warehouse on their
wharf opposite Percivsl dock, and ex.
tend their landing considerable dis
lance along the channel by piling and
addition of wharf.
The water company is extending a
four-inch main down Washington
to Second street, where it will be con-
tinued eastward on that street. 1t
replaces smaller piping, and the object
is to give greater force to the flow.
If any old timers remember any.
thing about Stephen Pearl Andrews,
said to have resided in Olympia in
1875, they will confer favor by COM
municating with f. B. Andrews, Sta.
ton A, Lincoln, Neb, or Mrs. R. G.
O'Brien, Olympia.
Olympia is representa- ted at the State
Bar Association, now in session at
Spokane, by Judges Crow and Root
Arthur Remington, court reporter
and c. Will Shafler, State Law Librar.
ian. The association will hold meet
ings to day and tomorrow.
The only accidents We have to report
amid all the exciting scenes of the
Fourth, was an injured thumb to Emil
Matson from an explosion of powder
and slight burn sustained by Miss
Villa Scobey from a rocket. The
former was taken to the hospital for
surgical aid.
Our streets now present the appear
ance of "the banquet hall deserted,
with the evidence of royal feast ap
parent everywhere. Workmen have
been busy removing the many booths
and stands from the streets and prob.
ably by the end of the week, our city
will have resumed her appearance o.
dignity and staid decorum.
The public are waiting patiently fol
the merry go-round on Main and
Third streets to play for the last time
that soul entrancing melody "Fare
well, darling, will leave YOU" which
has been so perpetually ringing in un.
willing ears the past week. Darling
has been willing for some time to un.
dergo the pangs OF parting.
Two remittiturs from the Supreme
Court were flied IN the County Clerk e
office yesterday. One reversing the
decision OF the Superior Court in the
case of J. H. Norris and Edmund
Rice against John Byrne and H. G.
Richardson. The other affirming the
decision OF the lower court in the case
OF John Byrne vs.. George H. Funk.
There seems to be rush in forming
combines in the shape of corporations
Just now. Oily is authority for the
statement that this month, up to
the 9th, articles for forming or changes
IN existing articles of forty companies,
have been filed with the Secretary of
state, embracing everything from man.
agement OF dog shows to protection OF
the interests OF church organizations.
The train from Seattle, Wednesday,
while near Lacey, met with an acct
dent that caused delay of couple
OF hours, and until an engine could be
sent from this station for relief. A
side'rod on the engine broke, and for
time created great havoc with the
CAP and track, and engineer Riley had
a narrow escape from the rapidly
moving rod
Sunday morning Mrs. Viola Can.
ning' widow OF the late Il. b. Can.
n,ng' left her home in this CITY
one one Is a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
;SlcCormick, with whom she left her
d'-months'-old baby on her sudden
anu unexplained departure, giving no
INDICATION of the course she has taken
"A n search has been made at Tacoma
n aenino and other probable stopping
races' without finding her. She WAS
married several years ago to her hus.
oauu, who was t;ll.J . 49,,