Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-04-01

Vice President. and W. l.. Bridge
ford, Secretary-Treasurer. who are
also e'-o9icio Directors, with q. Har-
ris and p. H. Carlvon. Meetings
are To he held on the first Tuesday of
each month. beginning with next
Tuesday. 1t is proposed to hold an
Auto-show on May 9th with a parade
in the evening
An explosion of the gelatine house
OF the Dupont Powder Works at Du
pont, near NesqualIy, last Friday
evening, resulted in the death OF
three men, who We're blown TO pieces.
Their names were Eugene Wheelan,
foreman; Julian Witte and Charles
Holden, dynamite handlers. The ac-
cident happened at about O'Clock.
Not enough of the bodies OF the vic
tint could be found to hold an in
quest. News of the disaster did not
reach either Tacoma or this city till
Saturday morning.
1t is claimed that the greatest In
ternational Sunday School Conven
tions ever held in the Northwest,
will assemble in Seattle from May Sd
to 9TH, this year. 1t will have the
largest attendance of Sunday School
experts from other States and In
ternational workers in the various
branches of moral training that has
ever been held on the Coast 1t is
earnestly requested that all labor
ers for the good of humanity remem-
Der the date and make arrangements
to attend.
The saloon keepers placed out of
business in the country districts, by
the late vote on local option, have
applied to the County Commission
erS for rebate of the license money
paid when granted. The last day of
grace expired Tuesday, and the ques-
ton arises what proportion of the
license shall be refunded, and does it
include the amount paid TO the State
or otherwise. An opinion from the
Attorney General was given yester-
day in which he says they will be
paid 80 per cent.
c. D. Bolster and family, who
have resided at Mud Bay about
eighteen years, will leave in a few
days for Edmont ton, Alberta. Mr..
BOlster'S family now consists of a
wife, four boys nearly grown and a
young daughter, who will seek a new
home in this far northern country.
Uncle Sam can ill afford to lose
so many of his substantial nephews
and nieces. Good people would not
leave our domains unless they felt
constrained SO to do for finding bet
ter opportunities in providing for
their loved ones and themselves.
Clarence Pickerel, the Mud Bay
Indian, convicted Monday, of stealing
sheep and theft of chickens, admitted
the truth of the latter charge. but
plead intoXicatiOn as the palliating
circumstance, and that the stealing
of the sheep was also true, and with
out any mitigating circumstances.
1t seems difficult for poor LO to I'M
derstand the distinction, if any, that
is to be drawn between plain stealing
OF sheep and theft of chickens while
under the influence of booze. but he
seems willing to run the risk of the
plea.
A member OF the Supreme Court
recently remarked that taxes and
assessments are so high it does not
pay to own property in Olympia
He declares that Wenatchee, east of
the mountains, is about one-half the
size of this city and that property
there, generally speaking, is worth
twice as much in the market as prop
erty in Olympia. If many people
residing here feel like this Judge, it
does not help local growth and de-
velopment. If he is correct, our
taxpayers ought to make some ell
fort to nring about more favorable
results.
Mrs. ]. G. Radcliffe, Postmaster
and N. p. ticket agent at Lacey,
died Tuesday morning, at an early
hour, after short illness of diabetis.
She was sister of Frank NJ. Kenney,
Secretary of the Olympia Brewing
Company. She had lived at Lacey
several years ago and was well liked
by all who knew her. She is sur
vived by her husband, two children,
her father, four sisters and her broth
er. The funeral was held yesterday
by Rev. Father Malley of the Catho-
lilo Church and interment was made
in the cemetery of that denomina-
tod.
Joseph Mauerman, Sc years of age,
an old resident of this county, was
found dead in his cabin a couple of
miles southeast of this city, Sunday,
by neighbor, and it was quite evil
dent from circumstances that he had
met death suddenly while sitting on
his bed and that he had been dead a
couple of days. Sheriff CASTOR and
undertaken Sticklin brought the body
TO this place and notified his son at
Pc Ell, where the body will be buried
beside his dead children. Deceased
was at one time well-to-do, and q
capitalist in a small way. A year or
two ago he decided his property to
his son Joseph. He is survived by
his wife, from whom he was living
apart at the time of his death, three
sons and two daughters.
The Mud Bay Logging company,
capitalized ct half o million dollars,
is building a new road from Mud
Bay to tap the Summit Lake country
for al excellent range of timber, and
as the Supreme Court holds that it
is not admissible to operate boats, or
rather maintain navigation over
Oyster-beds, and as the State owns
oyster lands on Mud Bay as do many
individual claimants, q lively contest
seems imminent over the nearby out
come. Under the present holding of
the higher court. an Injunction can
Of course be obtained, but where the
matter will end with the important
interests involved, it will be difficult
to foresee. The U. S. Engineers
have suggested a means out of the