Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-21
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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

- .'ir tippfrN HAS taken Il post IOn
".. 'i4'' .',,u pu.ic" force.
Fired K"..y. Of SAITH is visiting
his d'.ut. Miss Addir Wood.
WIZ Mcclure left Yesterday for
FRESNO. Cal, tu visit relatives.
TIL" Chambers Prairie Grange will
give Fox Social tomorrow.
Mrs. Goo. &. Mills is on a visit to
A.ruu'h'r. Mrs Gordon. at Spokane.
Byron Mj..ctt returned Saturday
from an enjoyable visit to hi, mother
in Columbus Nebraska.
The Christian Sunday School went
on a picnic this morning to Point
Defiance. hy the Greyhound.
Miss Faith Chambers returned this
week from Seattle. where she has
hr'n taking Il course in pharmacy.
The County Commissioners have
continued the hearing in regard to
til" y. @. Page road till next Wednes-
day
The fruit growers of this county
will hold an important meeting at =
o clock to-morrow Saturday in the
courthouse.
James lSInay of South Union. and
Miss Silvia Johnson Of Yclm. were
married yesterday at the home of the
bride $ parents.
Strawberries now sell at three
boxes for quarter: green peas at
ten cents pound, and good ranch"
butter at 30 cents roll.
The Harrison mill will begin opera
tlonS next Monday. and the first cut
will be lumber for their own use in
completing their mill and yard.
Mrs. Maggie Lyan. of Tenino. 45
years OF age. died at EllenSburg. this
week. where she went two months
ago in the hope that the change
would improve her health.
Mrs. Carrie Diggs, of Aberdeen,
has bought the Willard lodging
house, in the Bettman brick, on
Fourth street, and will take charge
of 1t in person next week.
y special excursion of Tacoma
business men to the harbOr cities. IS
in number, will pass through our
town to-day, and doubtless stop off
long enough to take ORDERS" if
nothing else.
Fay Lord and Miss Georgia Cham
bers were united in marriage yester-
day at the home of the bride father.
David Chambers, on Chambers Prai-
RE, Rev. Walters. Crockett perform
ing the ceremony.
Announcement has been made that
Miss Elsie Galliher, sister of Mrs.
Geo. y. hoffman, of this city, will
be mlrricd to Charles Buchanan, at
Los Angeles, Cal, tomorrow, which
city will be their home.
Poor Yelm! The reason given for
refusal of the Northern Pacific to af-
ford a passenger depot at that point
is that the company is interested
in booming a rival town instituted
by the Salsich Lumber Co., only "a
mile and half from Yelm.
Commissioner Hubbard has re-
cived $1,000 for factory inspection
fees within the past month. The
annual fee for large plants is ten
dollars, but reduction is made by
the new law for those employing but
five operators or less, to five dollars.
The two old frame buildings that
have stood on Columbia and First
streets, in the red-light" district,
have been moved to sites on Main
street, between First and Second,
where doubtless they will enter upon
new service in the same old bust
ness.
County Game Warden Whitaker
arrested, Tuesday, at Grand Mound,
Tip Mills and Mike MathesOn, for
killing deer out of season. Upon
trial, before the Justice of the Peace
of that district, they were each fined
SO and costs, the latter amounting
to $500.
The Grand Army of the Depart
ment of Washington and Alaska will
hold their annual encampment, this
year, at Ballard, on the 25th, Goth
and 9th insts. A shipment of 225
National Guard tents was made to
Ballard the other day for accommo-
dation of the veterans.
By the Overturning of boat near
the Westside mill, Saturday, one
sailor was drowned and four others
had narrow escapes from death. The
sailors had been ashore drinking, and
were returning to their ship. They
started skylarking and capsized the
boat. Gustave Horjvidt was drowned
but the others were rescued.
And now the State corporations
are fairly running over themselves
to reach the Secretary of State, to
avoid fine or probable erasement of
name of the corporation from the
list. They have seemed all at once to
have awakened to the fact that the
new laws stringent provisions are to
be enforced without fear or favor.
The County Commissioners have
been importuned to improve the old
road leading from BucOda to Hanni-
ford Swamp, as means of diverting
much trade that now goes outside the
county, to our own people, and Com
. missioner Wherritt has been author
lied to confer with Road Supervisor
: Cameron, with power to act" as
our Councilmen say, in similar cases.
Mr.. Hunts well lately driven on
his premises on second street, is one
of the best in that part of town.
Water was struck at the depth of 116
feet. steady flow of a gallon in five
seconds, at an elevation of about a!
foot above the ground and this is
now carried to a height of Is feet to
tank where it projects liberal and
constant flow of about half that
amount
Grass Island, hitherto a military
reservation on Gray's Harbor, was
sold by the Government at public
auction, this week, in the local Unit
ed States land office, and brought
soo.5O per acre, upon minimum
aappralsement of sl5 per acre. Henry
Hewitt, Jr,. OF Tacoma, was the pur-
chaser. The island consists of 26
acres, and therefore sold at an ag-