Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03

The home of James DOolittle and
d,urhtcr. on West Fourteenth street.
WAS destroyed by fire Monday about
1l.3OA. NJ. The occupants had been
absent. and when Miss Doolittle re-
turned the house was wholly afane,
and nothing but couple of trunks
could be saved Her fine St. Bernard
doc Queen" chained in a kennel
near the the house. was burned to
death. The house. valued at about
$500, was owned by August Falgrln,
of Texas.
The report of the local United
States land office for the month of
April is as follows: Sixteen cash
sales, 1,4S5,S2 acres, $3,7l4,57; II
timber claims. fees, $40; committed
homestead. 100 acres. $500; l excess
homestead entry. 1.8l acres, 1853;
1 homestead entries, 3l9 acres, fees
$25, commission, So so; 1 final home
stead proofs, commissions, $50; fees
reducing testimony to writing, $31;
contest testimony, $3.50; railroad
selections, fees, 81; assessors alb
stracts, 81 Total cash receipts, So
9S9.57.
State Labor Commissioner Hub
bard has notified the owners and
lessees of boats propelled by ma
chinery, and that are used for pas
senger or towing traffic, that they
will be subject to inspection by the
said Commissioner or his deputies
when the law goes into effect on
June 18th. Application for said in
spection shall be filed twenty days
before that date, to enable the said
officers to perform that duty by that
time. The State law applies to all
craft except those subject to inspec-
ton by the General Government.
John Donald, a laborer in the
Mason County Logging Co. s camp
No. /, in the Black Hills, was in
stantly killed, Tuesday, by a flying
cable. He was sitting on a log,
when the cable, under an immense
strain parted. One end struck him
with force that broke his neck and
hurled him several feet. He was
about 50 years of age, and though he
had been in the company's employ
several years but little was known
of him. He was injured in the same
camp several years ago, from the
effects of which he had never fully
recovered.
David King, former editor Of the
Wympian, and one of the best writ
ers in the State, has been unusually
successful since he abandoned the
herculean task of scaling the imper-
ial heights of fame by editing an
Olympia newspaper. He first made
a fortune by investments at Seattle;
he then went East and returns with
an enviab'e reputation as q writer of |
short stories such as appear in Ap-
pleton, Munsey and EreryJody. 1t is |
said he will spend the summer in |
this city while engaged in that line |
of literary work. There is no more
sincere congratulations than those |
accorded by the STANDARD, which |
has always been an admirpr of Mr.. |
Kings ability.
The employees OF the Olympia |
Brewing Co., enjoyed a. Day off"
Wednesday-May-day. Aside from |
this. there was no general obser-
vance. Many years ago, in Aud |
lang syne." that day was never al |
lowed to pass without picnic at |
Five Oaks" or some other subur-
ban resort, but that was when our
people were not distracted by society
fads, and were all one people. The
past few years, however, until the
present, weather conditions have not |
admitted of outdoor festivities and
even on this the temperature, ex-i
cept at midday, was rather lower
than conduces to comfort, "Old Set
tiers" account for it by the advent
of the tender-foot," or as they call |
him, the chee-chacko. But that is, OF |
course, superstition, no matter how
firmly believed.