Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14

next Friday. and on their way will
stop on to prospect little in
this city. 1t is expected the party
Will number at least hundred
Mrs. Mary Fraser, of Portland,
Oregon, who has been on pro-
longed visit to her daughter. Mrs.
L. }. Mcssegee. of this city. will re-
turn home next Tuesday. to be there
IN time to meet with the Oregon
Pioneer Society. on Wednesday the
10Th.
Providence Academy will close its
school Year next Thursday, with APP
propriate exercises. Misses Edrie
Willett and Bessie Mote will gradu-
ate from the Commercial department
and Misses Florence Tcirney and
Margaret o Neil from the grammar
| grade.
1t seems that the Elswicks have
scored the first round in their in
junction case against the city for re-
moval of the walk to plaintiff S place
of business on Tilton street. A con-
tinuance was granted Monday for a
hearing of the claim for damages on
! merits.
The steamer Yosemite brought
over from Seattle, last Sunday, about
500 cxcursiOnistS. AS the Grey
hound took away several hundred of
our people in the morning, on an ex-
cursiOn to Tacoma, our town was
not crowded, Notwithstanding the
Street-car service was suspended to
make repairs to the pOwer-hOuse.
Miss Jessie Hill, aged Is years,
daughter of Mrs. II. c. Hill, of Turn
water, died Monday, of spinal men,
nights. The funeral was held yes
terday, at the family residence, Rev.
Mr.. Swlck, of the Baptist Church,
preaching the sermon, and under
taker Whiteside having charge of the
intermcnt in Odd Fellows cemetery.
O. NJ. Durham, of Long Beach,
Cal, has arrived to spend the sum-
mer in this city, and will be followed
by his family soon as arrangements
are made for their reception. He is
already an owner of Olympia prop
erty, and has a building-sitc corner
of Sixth and Adams streets, in the
rear of the Presbyteri church
property.
Saturday morning, Mrs. S. f.
Stautfer, who resides near Tum-
water, was thrown from q buggy, at
the corner of Fifth and Main streets,
and suffered several severe bruises
and a cash was cut in her head. 1t
seemed that the bride had been
taken from her horse to allow him
to drink at a watering-trOugh when
he took fright and ran down the
street to the scene of the accident.
She was Immediately cared for by
DR.. Redpath.
1t is announced that Mr.. Jesse L.
Jones, member of the State Rail-
road Commission, and Miss Corinne
Billiard, of Tacoma, are to be mar
ried in that city on the 9th inst.
They will make their home here,
in residence on Union and Wash
ingtOn streets, now occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Tremper, soon
as their bridal trip is over. Mr..
Jones was member of the Senate
from Pierce at the last session of the
Legislature.
1t is reported at Tacoma that rep
resentatives of the North Coast, a
company understood to be allied with
one of the transcontinental railroads,
has taken an option on LOngmire's
Springs, in this county, at a price
considerably over 100000 The
tract, covers 40 acres, and is the
only piece of private property in
Mount Rainier reserve. 1t is an
ideal site for tourists hotel, and it
is probably the use designated for it
by the prospective owners.
Mrs. w. L. Harrison, of Seattle,
formerly Miss Emma Mears of this
city, committed suicide at her home,
Wednesday night, by hanging her.
self with a rope made from a torn
sheet which she had attached to the
hOt-water tank. Her mother and
other relatives live on Dayton street,
and left for Seattle on receiving the
sad news yesterday. She was mar
ried to DR.. Harrison, a dentist of
Seattle, about six years ago. De-
spondency from ill health is said to
have been the cause of the rash act.
The Port Townsend Southern Rail-
road Co. Monday filed with the
Pierce county Superior Court petit
ton for the condemnation of a
tract of land on its right-of- for
a road it contemplates building con-
tiguOus to Tenino. The land is in
section 4, township Is north, range
l east, and commences at the inter-
section of the south line of the Joel
Myers donation claim. The COM
pany asks that jury be empaneled
to fix the value of the property I'M
less Elof Larson, the owner, will
agree to sell at a suitable figure.
James Brazzle, logger, was fright
fully beaten ON the head by William
Sanderson, in a room at the New
England Hotel, Sunday night. Both
men had been drinking. The in
jured man was removed to the hos
pital, when it was found that he had
sustained severe bruises on the face,
one eye being nearly closed and his
cheek cut on the inside from q blow
against the teeth. His injuries are
not supposed to be dangerous. San
derson plead guilty of assault in the
Police Court, yesterday, and was
fined 500 and costs, and also s. for
being drunk and disorderly.
Charles Koppler, the vetern house
mover, who has followed that calling
in this city the past thirty years,
has sold his complete outfit of house
moving machinery to John Hadsel
and Frank Forbes, who have already
entered upon a line of work that
will probably keep them employed
during the dry season. Mr.. KOppler
has sold out simply from the fact
that he has been for some time past
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