Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-10-11

" r"'"t vi -NTS- l'U. Harmon.
Mr.. and Mrs Harrington, of NJ,
l"rk, have bought Il lot ON Fifth an,
raotslde streets. upon which the
VIII build a Sevcn-room house for
home.
VI last that important matter ha
l"rn decided. and the adopted son q
Mr. and Yrs. George II. Funk ha
been named Norman Ernest Funk
We rest.
Miss Mary Conway has been .m
ploycd to teach school in District No
90. smith prairie. and Mary =. Rev
noldS will fill a like position in Dis
trict No. IS.
Mr.. II. II. McCray. after pro
lon%rd struggle with rheumatic af
Fiction in his left shoulder and arm
Is able I" be out upon our streets an,
greet his many friends.
Mrs. Alice Stewart has been sue
cccdcd us operator in the local West
crn Union telegraph office ay Mrs.
II. {. Cobb. Mrs. Stewart has gone
~ ~ ~ -NOt III lS,thold
Mrs. NJ. u. Haycox and Jas. Hay
COX. mother and brother of W. f..
HaycoX of this city, have arrived
from Ohio to make Olympia their
permanent abiding place.
Chris Grinrod'S new launch is now
ready for the installation of the 81
horsepower Clifton engine. When
completed the boat will ply between
this city and Oyster Bay.
J. \. Smith has leased his farm.
northeast of this city. to w. b.
Aldrich. Il late arrival from Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith will make an
extended trip through California in
their automobile.
The high schools of this city and
Aberdeen are making preparations
for Il debate, Nov. 18th, to decide
upon whether it is advisable for our
State to adopt the initiative and
referendum, or not.
A warrant for violation of the
eight hour law for work on Il public
contract. has been served on ID. J.
3igclOw, one of the county road
bosses, on complaint of State Labor
Commissioner Hubbard
The Supreme Court has affirmed
the Judgment of the lower court for
81. 500 damages to Frank Ii. Curtain
from the Clear Lake Lumber Co. for
injuries received from the falling
limb of Il tree while working for that
company.
a decree of divorce was entered
in the Superior Court, Monday. in
favor of Sadie NJ. Thompson against
her husband Samuel NJ. Thompson,
on the ground of desertion. The
couple were married in Portland
August "a, 1892.
Jules StampAer, the well-known
Mt. Rainier guide, who is on q visit
to his parents in this place, says
that about $500 visitors, double the
number of any previous year, as
cended the mountain to different
heights, this season.
The Recorder Oympinn ladies on
the priZe-eXcursiOn to Los Angeles
arrived in San Francisco by the
steamship Buchanan, Tuesday after
noon, and were to have re-embarked
the succeeding afternoon for desti-
nation, Los Angeles.
George A. GOwdy and Miss May
Hanna, both of Tumwater, were unit
ed in marriage at Tacoma, Monday.
The young couple will reside at Tum-
water where they have many friends
who join in wishing them all that
goes to make happy married life.
A HOquiam dispatch says that an
ingot of steel weighing 800 pounds
has been extracted from the black
sands of the harbor beach. 1t has
been shipped, with cargo of the
sand, to Cincinnati, where further
will be made of ex-
traction and quality.
Katherine L. Judge of this city,
who has been hello girl" in the
local telephone Office for some time,
and Leonard VOCAL, Of Seattle, were
married, Wednesday, by Rev. Father
Kusters, at the Catholic Church.
The groom is chief of the long dis
lance service at Seattle.
The steamer T. w. Lake arrived
from Seattle, Monday, with thirty
tons of pig-iron for the Pioneer and
Olympia foundries, and took on a
load of $500 feet of 12-inch wood
pipe for Excursion Inlet, Alaska.
The pipe will be transferred ut Sc
attic to the steamer Farallon.
Senator Piles made an inspection
of our harbor needs yesterday, &C.
companied by ex-Mayor CarlyOn and
others, and promises to use his ut
most endeavor to secure further APP
preparations to continue the improve
ments on the lines established by
government survey several years ago.
On East Fifth street there is a
little cur dog, q miserable looking
specimen of animality. He has the
habit of running out on the highway
barking and swapping at passers-by.
Not long ago this cur tore lady's
dress and frightened her consider
ably. He needs looking after more
than stray cows.
Attorney. General Atkinson's Opin-
ion that Prosecuting Attorneys can
not collect special fee for defending
uncontested divorce cases, will prob
ubly have the effect of opening the
door still wider to captive couples.
No fee, no defense, will probably be
the course of action that will prac-
tically be nole pross in each case.
The Superior Court. Monday, in
the case of James Crowley rs. George
Taylor, action for money lost at
gambling, denied plaintiffs motion
for judgment of 5000 as asked in the
complaint, also denied the motions of
both parties for new trial, ordered
Judgment of 1905 to be entered in
the verdict of the jury against Mr..
Taylor.
The first strike in this city took
place yesterday, of the employees of
the gas company digging trenches,
who demanded eight hOurS mart