Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-11-08

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~.-' 'd~ II touthn.d in SEATTLE.
IT," Capital City Map and Blue
PriuI Co., bat Inadequate. y y" think
dr>rrlhr> the hU>inr>> iuduguratrd 10y
u =. Is. and ChaS. =. Il. Henry and
WIN II Nragrr. for their object. is
tu furnish abstracts Of title Is well
AZ maps tn confirm their work
Dick Brown. Il well known news
pup''r man. formerly city editor OF
the H,r"nf.r. is down on Il visit from
Seward y a>ka. where he has had
the management of the .Nr~nrH Grt ?
trlt. He viii return in the Spring
and a>>Liuc editorial control OF that
PAPER
Mrs Fannie Paddock Miller de
liyrrcd an interesting address on
Missions before the Ladies' Guild
OF st John : Church in the crypt of
that building. "Wednesday afternoon
tnlor"a full and delighted audience
Of its members. After tn" meeting
la was served.
Lyric Th,atrr. 80 Main street.
Olympia. opens Monday. Nov. llth,
1901. with Il high class cntrrtain-
m,nt for ladies. gentlemen and chill
dr'n. Nightly at 7:lJ. : and SID
o'clock. Admission 10 cents. Matt
nee Saturday at } F. VI. Children 3
cents: adults 10 cents.
Charles Earl. "a iivr-yrar-Old son of
William f. Bailey. who lives near
Delphi. died from the shock of 4
fright occasioncd by the family home
being on fire. This resulted in the
carly evening. DR.. Wyman was
called about . o'clock by telephone.
but the lad had been dead some
time before he reached the place of
disaster.
\ Seattle dealer in house supplies
has sent out 4 letter of warming to
/ furniture dealers that the rags
used in mattresses are the most
probable means of spreading the
bubonic plague and people should not
! purchase the cheaper grades of that
article, for the materials are gath
cred from almost every source.
Youthful thieves ransacked the
home of c. J. Van Eaton. during Il
prolonged absence of the family. and
removed quite Il number of articles
of value from the home. 1t is be-
licvrd that certain ll-year-Old boy
was one of the principles and that
two other boys II few years older are
implicated with him. 1t is not known
how much has been purloined until
an inventory can he made from meIa-
Dry.
In 1898 there was shortage of
crops in Russia and famine in In
dia which raised the price of farm
ers products. Republican orators
claimed good times here were caused
by the Dingley tariff bill and car
ried the elections. Is it the Dingley
bill which caused the late money
shortage? If such be the fact, it is
time this country had another Bill
How would it do to try William ].
BRYAN?
The local club of the State Suffrage
Association, Monday night, filled
several vacancies on it's list of officers.
which now stands: President, Mrs.
Maria H. McHenry; Vice Presidents,
Mrs. Emily Scott and Mrs. Bernice
Sapp; Secretary, Mrs. Olive Nc
Donald, and Treasurer. Mrs. Lena
Myers. The membership was in
creased from q to 36. The next
meeting will be held in Epworth
Hall on Monday evening, Nov. 18th.
The Governor has just received an
excellent portrait of Judge O. b.
McFadden. who was one of the first
Associate Justices of the Territory of
Washington and afterwards Chief
Justice of the same court He served
a term in the Council of the Legisla-
ture, the upper branch, correspond
ing with present Senate. In 1872
he was elected Delegate to Congress,
defeating Selucius Garfielde. the Re-
publican candidate. He died in 1875.
The Supreme Court has declared
the act creating Gray's HarbOr coun-
ty from part of Chehalis is not valid.
1t is held to be unconstitutional from
conflict with Art. XII, Sec. 3, which
provides that no county shall be
divided unless after division there
will remain over ZOO in the Origi-
nal county and the new shall have at
least 1000 inhabitants. 1t also
holds that this power of determining
population should not have been dele,
gated to Superior Court, as was
attempted by the act.
The old one-story building near the
spit extending to Percival's wharf
on First street, on the property OF
the gas company, was torn down
this week. 1t was built in 1851 by
George A. Barnes who occupied il
as a store and dwelling from that
date several years, until he built 9
larger building adjoining it. The
studding and rafters of the old land.
mark were poles from the forest
the siding and roof were of shacks
and the flooring of hewn slabs, spot
ted to the flo0r=beams, which were
also hewed logs.
The five reasseSsment foreclosure
cases have been set for trial in the
Superior court on Nov. 25th. 1t is
said the question of laches, urged by
the defendants, will largely pivot
upon the point whether the objection
was urged before the City Council o.
the time of the reassessment. Prop
erty owners who have paid stree
, grade assessments are watching thu
outcome with more than ordinary
interest. If the defense shall sue
coed, the claims may have to be me
by general taxation of city property
Messrs. Bigelow and Manner repre-
sent the city of Olympia and Messrs
Troy Il FalknOr appear for the de
PENDANTS in these several cases.
The County Clerks held a meeting
at Tacoma. Saturday, at which w
N. Num- of this city, represented
the county. 1t was their first meet
? ing and q permanent organization
was affected. Its object is to sug
gest improvements in the service o
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