Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-02-03

i'tl4S IS ~! III, to swear t. age
'u1 o.''r qualifications. were united
. n"rI!'Gc Saturday, ny Nv. \. t.
@a"in, the marrying par~on."
Gnr,! II Mackay loses his suit in
.:Ic >>Ip'rmc Court against tee Treas
i?"t at ihIr>ton county, based upon
'''u>ai RI the Superior Court to issue
! VIII Of mandate to compel the
Ir' a-'iror II acccp. N,."kav's bid for
'crt;.la realty, ~ sale 81. Delinquent
.aXc', at l"sS than ..io minimum rr!,e
liked hy that officer at the time it vas
).ierod ior sale.
\ vcry small audience greeted Miss
Margaret Longacre az the thca:"r.
Tuesday night. Her singing was cred
Itahl" a. was that Of the metropolitan
tuirtctte; but her disappointment
Is simply the result Of trying to cram
the contents OF peck measure into a
pint cup. Olympia is too small q
place to nave "do.lar shows in such
rapid succession, and OF such variable
merit.
Mrs. Ida Rutledge, wife Of George
who live on Fourteenth
street, died last night at five o'clock
from hemorrhage caused by lung
trouble. Besides her husband, par
ants and sister, she leaves two boys,
aged respectively , and years. Mrs.
was al active member of the
baptist Church, under whose services
the burial rites will be observed Sun
day afternoon.
William McGowan, George Taylor
and Edward Rogers, on complaint Of
John Crowley, have been arrested for
gambling houses, and on
motion of Israel & Mackay in the
Justice Court the hearing was con.
tinued until 2 p. NJ, next Tuesday, in
order to obtain witnesses from abroad
who were in their employ at the time
the otienses are alleged to have been
last November.
The Governor and his Commission.
in our last number, will
leave for Portland to day to select
ground for the State building at the
Fair. Elmer f. Johnson, of Everett,
has been selected for Executive Com
at salary of 5000 per
month and Z. l.. Reber of Seattle, for
Secretary. 1t is the opinion of the
Governor and his Commission that the
cost Of the Washington building may
be about $4,000.
The word "plebian" has been chiseled
out of the Rogers pedestal on Sylvester
Square, as ELECTROMAGNETIC with the
claims of Rogers being author of the
barefoot schoolboy bill. Such friend
of popular education should not be
the victim Of such bad "spell." But
then there are others who say that he
was not the framer of the aforesaid
school law and to make the inscrip-
ton true, further chiseling will have
to he done. Verify, the Fates are
spiteful!
Olympia Aerie No. 81 intend to be
be out in full force Sunday evening
to celebrate the Sixth Anniversary oil
the Fraternal Order of Eagles, which
order is having phenomenal growth
all over the country. The aerie here
has recently added large number tc
its membership. At this coming cele'
bration the Eagles are extending invi
tations to their friends who are not yet
Eagles. We learn that it is contem.
plated by the Aerie to have a ladies
evening.
F. II. Jones, a young work men in
the Mutual Lumber Co.'S mill, at Blu.
coda, was instantly killed, Wednesday
afternoon, while feeding" planning
machine. A glove he wore caught in
the machinery, and his arm was in
stantly drawn into moving wheels in
such manner that his head came in
contact with large fly-wheel with
great force and was horribly crushed,
causing instant death. The victim
was man about 25 years OF age, I'M.
married, and came here from Michigan
about a month ago.
George H. Sturdevant, a veteran oil
the Civil war, died at Tumwater
about noon, last Saturday. He was a
member of George H. Thomas Post
G. A. R. Deceased was born in
Franklin county, Ohio, in August
1910; moved to Illinois in 1858
where, At the age of 81, he was mar
ried. He leaves q widow and eight
children, all but one of whom are
grown. The funeral rites took place
Monday, under direction of the Post
assisted by the Women's Relief Corps
Rev. A. G. Sawin officiating.
During this year there will be fou,
eclipsee, two of the sun and two OF the
moon. A partial eclipse of the moon,
August 14-15, and a total eclipse oil
the sun August 30 will be visible here
and the other two invisible. Lent
will begin on March s, which is uu.
usually late. and Easter Sunday will
fall on April %, which is also late
Washington's birthday, February %
will come on Wednesday. Memoria
day and July 4 fall on Tuesday, ant
Labor Day September 4. Thanksgiv
ing will come on November 80, anC
Christmas on Monday.
1t is announced that the bond hold
ers of the Olympia Water Co. will soor
make application in the Federal Court
for a receiver, for failure to meet it!
obligations and the demand of the
city to provide better service, which
is about equivalent to asking a mar
to lift himself by his boot-straps, with
over a hundred artesian wells flow
ing free water for their owners an(
generally all the neighbors on thu
same block. 1t may be that the Coun
Gil will be killing the goose which lay
the golden egg-fire protection-by
forcing the company to the wall.
A sun spot believed to be one of thu
largest ever observed has been dis
covered by Prof. A. H. Cole, Chicago
astronomer. Projected through small
opera glass on q sheet of white paper {
disk measuring six inches in diameter
was discovered. The mathematics
calculations proved that the spot or
the surface of the sun was one tenth
of its total diameter. or over SO,OW