Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-08-07

\ crowd of II men. mill emp,oye
and friends Of NJ. :. Cole, Who>'
home was burned Il few weeks ago
donated their labor. last Sunday. II
helping him rebuild Whether the
charitable nature OF the work JH>ti
iled breaking one Of the Lord com
niandment> on not. will probably
never br known Ill the Judgment
. az: and ,hcn it viii very likely b,
.uuuI thai the recording angel haC
h.oltrd Out the record with tear
TuG local acre of Eagles have
chartered the steamer Sol Simpson
to take an excursion party of the or
der and its friends To Seattle. next
Thursday. toattend annual session ot
the Grand Aerie. and in the evening
return to Tacoma where the Crane
officers will dedicate a new hall. The
party will leave at i \. NJ. and re-
turn late in the evening Of the same
day. Tickets for sale by Hugh Ross
and Judge GuiberSon, at 81 each.
Willard A. Libby has petitioncd
the Superior Court for letters of ad-
of the estate of his de-
ceased mother, Eliza A. Libby, who
died at her home at South Bay, July
22d. She left as heirs at law. Viii
lard. Lyman and Willard Libby. and
Il daughter, Mrs. Laura y. Parker,
who resides in Mason county. The
deceased was Il lovely character and
besides her near relatives she left
many warm friends to mourn her
loss. Her estate consists of personal
notes and mortgages, val
ued at 81, 400. Her husband died
about two years ago
The city has decided that Fourth
street from Jefferson to Main, shall
be paved with creosoted wooden
blocks. and west of Columbia, and
Columbia from Third to Fifth, with
vitrified brick. The cost is not to
exceed for the latter So. &c per square
yard and the block pavement $3.50
per yard. Both contracts have been
awarded the Lister Construction
Company, of Tacoma. The Light
and Power Company have agreed to
pay their proportion of the cost of
paving the middle of the streets.
thus settling that vexed question for
the nonce.
Matthew VII, 1914 was never bet
ter eXemplified than on the corners
of Fourth and Main streets, Monday
night, when Mr.. and Mrs. Bonner,
the evangelists, eXhorted and sang
gospel hymns on one corner, and u
p Sam" the periodical affection, held
forth just opposite. Mrs. B. pos
sesses voice of rare power, clear and
sweet and of the richest melody, drew
an audience of a dozen or two, while
Sam, with a cracked voice, his songs
improvised doggerel, and his fiddling
of the "high-diddle- diddle" order,
had an auditory numbered by hun
dreds. Verify, the ways of the hui
man heart are past comprehension.
Jesse Murphy, the well-known
realty man, it is scarcely necessary
to state, is still a strong Democrat
and firm supporter of William Jen-
nings Bryan. The other day, while
at Aberdeen, he encountered a quar-
tette of Israelites at the hotel who
seemed disposed to question the
soundness of his judgment in making
a wager on the success of Mr..
Bryan in November. Well," ex-
claimed one "who is Bryan, any
howl" Who!" exclaimed Murphy
in Indignation, "Who is Bryan? I'll
tell you. He's the greatest and best
man who ever lived, with a single
exception, and that man your in
fernal race crucified eighteen hundred
years ago."
The costs in the city suit against
Mrs. ]. d. Knox to foreclose the
street assessment case amount tC
about sl3O, which the city must
pay. The precedent established is
to the taxpayers of Olym-
pia, for it may form a basis of fixing
a general liability upon this city for
many thousands of dollars. The Su-
preme Court seems to have receded
from its former position on the
ground of collateral attack against
the proceedings of the City Council
in making the re-assessment. What
will be done regarding other similar
cases remains to be seen. 1t may
not be amiss for the Council to look
into the matter at an early date in
order to give the taxpayers all the
protection possible. A stitch in
time saves nine.
The Hollowpeter- CT enn embroglio
has reached the " shotgun stage" of
development. The girl, notwith.
standing promise to remain with
her parents pending the courts de-
cision regarding the legality of the
marriage secured by fraud. broke her
word and stole away to the Holy Roll
err camp, paying as little atten ton to
the courts order as to her parent s
wishes. The shotgun Is supposed to
have been the persuader to be used
if occasion should require, but it only
resulted in arrest of the Glenns and
the Hollowpeter infants and bring
ing them to police headquarters.
Here the irate father performed a
long-delayed act of justice by reach
ing for the would-be martyr, al
though he selected an improper time
to make it as effective as the circum-
stances warranted. The Holy Roller
methods have been obtruded too often
to be much longer borne in patience.
The bill of costs in this and other pee
cadillos in which they invariably at
tempt to pose as martyrs is already
large and should not be allowed to
Commissioners Minutes
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