Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-04-10

IN tdd Fellows cemetery.
The baseball season is about TO
open. y game is arranged between
the Puyallup and Olympia high
schools for next Sunday. on the Ath
lctlc grounds near this city.
The residence of W. J. Coomb,. at
South Bay. was destroyed 10y fire
Wednesday, together with its con-
tents. The mother saved her five
children with some difficulty.
Further consideration of the pay
ing of Main and Fourth streets was
defeated by motion TO indefinitely
postpone the whole question, by the
City Council. Monday night.
T. J. Noble. held in Jail on a charge
of passing a forged check, was ar
raigned before Judge Linn. Tuesday,
and plead not guilty. He viii he
tried at the jury term in May.
Harry Hampson. Il lad of . years,
passed through Olympia the other
day, on the way to his home in North
Dakota. The young traveller has
been on visit to the Sound cities.
Mike Faber, of Madison, Wis,
has arrived to make Olympia his
home He is carpenter by trade
and is Il nephew of George Faber, the
well known contractor and builder.
Mr.. and Mrs Van Arsdale, par
ents of Harry Van Arsdale, teacher
in the Tumwater schools, have ar
rived from Indiana to make Olympia
their future home. They lately pur-
chased the s. f. Barr residence on
upper Main street.
The Recordcr devotes a stick-full of
its valuable space, with full head
ing, to the names of a baseball club
who had been treated to glass of
Sodawatcr by local dealer. Say,
neighbor, isn't that running in some
what shallow water?
Russell & Rabcock. of Tacoma.
have been selected by the State
Building Commission as the archi-
tects for preparing the preliminary
drawings of the proposed Governor s
mansion. After the adoption of the
plans, the specifications and detailed
drawings will be ordered.
Pleasant Glade Grange was Or
ganized last Saturday evening Fol-
lowing are the officers: Master,
John Rogers; Overseer, John SleatOr,
Lecturer, Randall Avery; Treasurer,
Mrs. Harry MOultOn. and Secretary,
Miss Stella Cramp. The new Grange
starts out with membership of 43.
The Reoonler suggests that the
City Council purchase a supply of
chairs to accommodate their rapidly
increasing attendance of auditors.
1t is said that there is nothing like
careful watching to keep public Of
ficers in the straight path, and
we therefore second the proposition.
4 petition has been circulated ask
ing aid from the city in building
new farmers sheds on Second and
Franklin streets. A good movement
and let them be so constructed as to
enable farmers to sell from their
wagons, or in other words establish
a produce market on stated days in
the week.
Frank Van Eaton, the well-known
salesman in Bolster & Barnes store,
was the victim of painful accident
Tuesday. While piling up sacks OF
-four he fell from an elevation of sew
eral feet. striking his leg on a truck
which cut deep cash in his left limt
just below the knee and intlictine
other bruises.
Subscribers to the STANDARD who
owe us have been paying up pretty
generally the past few days. Those
who have not done SO are requested
to attend to the matter without de
lay. Owing to ruling of the Pos
tai Department weekly papers can
not go through the mails to sub
scribers who are BEHIND.
Last Saturday. J. H. Blass bought
from Olympia Jim, an Oyster Ba!
Indian, two and a half acres of Oys
ter lands in that district, for tn
consideration of $500. Anothe
deal is reported in the same kind O
realty, in which Dick Jackson sol'
to Thomas Frazier of Shelton, eigh
acres, on the same bay, for 81, 10
per acre.
The statement of the City Clerk 70
: the quarter ending March 80, 1905
and the Treasurer's report for tn
same period, were ordered published
! The Clerks report shows receipts
8 81, 077. 46, and n balance January ]
1908, of $40, 242 30, making total {
6 $27, 319.76. The disbursement for tn
+ same period were $11, 1899 leavin
a balance April /, 1903, of sic, 141. Al
Wednesday, the County Commi.
sioners selected the following Roa
: Supervisors for all districts in tn
county, except the LIST and I'd, VIII
will be named at their meeting mex
: week: No. 3, G.. G. Gallear, Vein
n No. 4, A. B. Smith, Rainier; No.
t John r. Cannon, BucOda; No.
Henry Brown, Grand Mound; No.
9 ]. F. McCorkle. South Union; No.
e Arthur Austin. Mud Bay.
n 1t is now reported that two {
three of the U. S. battleships wi
}. not visit Olympia harbor in May, :
s had been announced, change
7. route necessitating the omission
This will cause profound regret. ;
| many of our people would have bet
K delighted to see the warships, and e
r pecially the one bearing the name
our State.
>. The Olympia Hardware Co. gave
). demonstration Of the new gas su
= ply as an illuminant, Monday nigh
It worked quite we'll to the tune
a the merry click of the meter, whit
Ne was placed conspicuously in front
A. the store. The light will pass mu
ter with the improved burners, b
i. it remains to be seen whether the
!, is anything to be saved from an &c
y nomical point of view, and the ties
D. to be satisfactory, should be ma
d,r;nO tho Winter season