Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-03-22

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ceived this week carload, 30 tons
of Nebraska corn.
Pietso Grazzina and Zaira La
mardini, both of this city, were mar
ried in the Catholic parsonage by
Father busters. Tuesday. There i.
couple who will doubtless approx,
of Teddys support of-revised spell
ing.
A dumping place" for city garb
age is to be established on the water
front at the foot of Main street, with
retaining walls to prevent refuse from
floating away and littering the beach
a stipulation required by the gov
eminent engineers.
The Agnew place, corner of Sew
enth and Franklin streets, was sold
this week by Gordon Mackay to j.
d. HarbSt, for a consideration of 81
500. 1t embraces two lots, covering
an area of 100 feet square with three
good renting houses.
Mrs. C. J. Messegee has the finest
display of seasonable millinery ever
exhibited in Olympia. Ladies will
do well to call at her store on East
Fourth street, near Lansdale's grOc-
Gerry, and see for themselves. Her
low prices are what count.
John Beggs, of Puyallup, has
bought the Green place, near South
Union, containing 206 acres, 40 of
which are under cultivation. Mr. B.
proposes to convert it into a berry
farm, business in which he has
been extensively engaged at Puyal-
lup.
Miss Phosie Vandervort will leave
tomorrow for Oakville, Chehalis
county, to enjoy a rest at home for
a season. She is one of the indus
trious maidens, who grace any posi-
ton they may fill, and her absence
will leave void in the hearts of many
friends.
Nicholas Buker, a former Olympia
boy, recently visited his old stamp
ing ground in this city. He is now
located at Kelso, and is in the en-
plOy of the Sunset Telephone Co.
He said his brother Amos and fam
lily had moved to Oregon, to take up
a timber claim.
Gov. Mead last week refused a
requisitiOn of the Governor of Idaho
for James Brown and B. w. Masters,
charged with grand larceny, it ap-
pearing that civil suits are pending
and the criminal charge has been
preferred to get them within juris-
dictiOn of that State.
T. H. Randall, one of the earliest
pioneers of Alaska, who returned
from the boreal regions a couple
of years ago to settle down" on
Hawks Prairie, has concluded to 90
back to that alluring district. He is
81 years of age; some will think "old
enough to know better"
1t is said that Mr.. Lemon con-
templates erection of a two-story
brick building on the lot lately ac-
quired by him from a nonresident.
corner of Fourth and Franklin. It
is now occupied by an old frame
building as home by f. o. Free,
which will be sold or removed to an
other site.
The next secret order is to be The
Owls, fifty-one names having been
secured for charter members. f. J.
Crandall, of Seattle, chief organizer,
is here to set the lodge to hooting
tonight, in Eagles hall. The first
meeting will be of a public nature
and installation Of officers will be
made later.
After July LIST, no mail will be de-
livered at residences where the house
is not numbered, or are situate on
ungraded streets where there are no
sidewalks. This announcement has
been officially made to the Council by
Postmaster Cavanaugh, in compli-
ance with instructions from the
Postal Department.
The delay in raising the freight
embargo" is said to be due to excess
of carrying business on the Western
lines. The local business has grown
to such proportions that with the
temporary delay it is difficult to re-
store normal conditions. An effort
is being made to properly handle
freight in few days.
Gov. Mead has committed the SEN
tence of VIM. Fultz, who was SEN
fenced to q seven years term from
Pierce county to four years and
eight months; and that of Emella
Allesana, who was convicted in King
county of grand larceny and SEN
fenced to two. years and six months,
to one year and eleven months.
The will of the late w. o. Bush
was filed for probate in the Superior
Court, this week. The estate, the
major part Of which is the fine 40
acre farm situated on Bush Prairie,
was left to his son, John Bush, one
third; his daughter, Mrs. Geo. Cas-
ton, one-third, and Mrs. Kimsey, his
stepdaughter, the remaining third.
Gov. Mead has vetoed one bill OF
the late Legislature, which CON-
PEELED the setting aside of ten per
cent. of the area of all plated prop
erty for park purposes, on the
ground that the constitution guar
antees the right to hold and enjoy
property, and forbids the taking Of
property without due process Of law.
A "clam-famine" is probable when
the beds of claimants mot owners)
are permitted to be staked off in vast
areas ostensibly for seeding" as
the new law provides, thus closing
them to the consumer. No more will
we be able to boast that famine is
impossible with the table" ever set
when the tide is out, If this bill be-
comes q law.
Yesterday was what savants call
the Vernal Equinox" when the
Sun is supposed to enter the con-
stellation OF Aries, or the Ram, the
first of the twelve signs of the zodiac,
when the length Of the days and
nights are of equal length. The
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