Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-09-08

Vice President, Mr. /. IL. hNa'
Recording SECRETARY Mrs. {. T.. liew
it. Treasurer, and Mrs. X. .. Dunbar
and Mrs. ii. u. Cowles Trustees.
/ The CITY Council has Ordered the
destruction of number o! dl!apldatct
structures on the waterfront, thai
have long been Al eyc--orr to resi-
dents ~ we'll as visitors arriving hy
boat. II their owners do not remove
them on order. the city Will do the
work at their expense.
The committee of the Council hay
ins consideration Ol Gov. Neads re-
quest for vacation OF Washington
street through Capitol square, report
ed that negotiations were in progrcs:
with the State officers for settlement
OF all differences. and asked for fur
Their time, which was granted.
The Supreme Court ordered new
trial in Thurston county OF the case
OF John O'Toole against the PhoeniA
Insurance company Of Hartford, on
condition the Insurance company pay
the 500. 50 costs in the Superior Court
trial. Justice Fullerton dissents from
the ma )rity opinion OF the court.
Gov. Mead has pardoned Nathan
Turner, sentenced in Stevens county
to pay fine OF 500 and $500 costs
for assault and battery. He Wa.
unable to pay and had been confined
in Jail for eleven months. Good be-
havio., inability to pay and a large
family deprived of support, were the
reasons for release.
NJ. r. Layport and II. J. Baker, with
their families, met with breakdown
of their heavy wagon on Fourth street
near Franklin, Tuesday, just as they
had started on a trip to Douglas coun
ty, to take up homesteads. They were
from Aberdeen. The accident was
attended with no more serious result
than brief delay.
The collector of one OF our promi.
nent mercantile establishments went
his rounds on the LIST with severa
hundred dollars in bills and collected
less than twenty dollars. He sale
that the universal excuse was. Have
been to the Fair; you'll have to wait.
Considered all in all, there is extreme
doubt as to whether worlds fairs evei
pay, from the temptation they presen,
for people to spend money they could
not afford to squander.
The city OF Olympia has brought
suit against the local school distric
for collection of assessment for i'm
provement Of Union street, in front o
the Lincoln school. This is probably
the first time the matter has beer
brought into court, but the City At
torney thinks he has good cause TO-
action, while admitting that schoo
property is exempt from State, county
and city taxes, but contends that i
does not apply to street grade, sewe
and other public improvements.
The Christian Alliance people Ar
holding nightly services in large ten
on Westside, under the management
of exhorters Eddy and York. The!
generally have an attendance of three
or four dozen people, drawn probably
more from curiosity than a call to ths
perishing. The creed of this denomi
nation is said to be taken mostly from
the New Testament, which is surely .
word in its favor. They predict .
second coming of Christ very soon
when the reign Of the devil on Eartl
will end. Let Us hope it is true for q
the present gait we are sure to ent
very soon somewhere else but in tn
Land OF the Leal.
As showing how easily title to realty
may slip from its owner, under oul
complicated and wonderfully mad,
statutes for confiscation, as the,
are frequently called, it may be notet
that Thurston county even hauled il
q church at Tenino with its officia
grab-net. 1t was found on shaking
the sack, that the Presbyterian church
in that highly moral little community
had been caught along with NOR
worldly possessions, and that it would
require the official lance to sever th'
litigature. Judge Linn signed q de
cree, on showing of the County Attor
ney, releasing the property from tn
decree of foreclosure.
The Supreme Court, in sustaining
judgment for 81 $50 against the cit,
of Seattle recovered by B. H. Peterson
for damages resulting from runsws,
team over . thoroughfare that wa
under repairs, suggests that if cite
would temporarily close the street b.
barricade, while broken up, or adop
some other reasonable precaution T.
guard the public from injury, sucl
actions would not lie. The city's con
tention that the injury was the result
of the runaway, and would have hap
pened had the street been in perfec
condition, which is highly probable
did not overcome the doubt that posi-
sibly existed of it being the cause O
damage.
The STANDARD acknowledges pleas
ant call from Judge w. H. White o
Seattle, formerly. of the Supreme
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land Fair, accompanied by his family
He is the same genial whole.souls'
comrade, whose presence always leave
his friends with the consciousness tina
life is worth the living. Mr.. Whit
met the other day Henry G. Strive
who is just home from China, and b.
notes the fact that he had met Georg
Williams, son of the old pioneer mer
cuant, Samuel Williams, in Shanghai
This will be news to many friends VIII
have long been in total ignorance O
his place Of living, if indeed he nigh
be still on Earth. It seems he ha
been q resident of China the past scor
or more of years.
Mrs. Ida B. Smith has just returned
from tho Tonopah and Goldfields min
ing district, where water command
about double the price of beer or tel
cents pint, and is scarce at that, hav
ing to be hauled sixteen miles in bar
rels. She says that mines are worket
"a hours out OF "a, and that one loca
ton pays 81 900 per day and takes on