Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-01-28

saved 10y 70 unt"er aid of nrighbor>.
Tn" latter loss was covered by IN
Suraucr
W L. WhitrSidc will leave next
week to start an undertaking rS-
adjustment at Aberdeen He was
engaged in the same business here
the past few years and 10y fair-deal-
my and good business abilities made
many friends who dislike to see him
leave our city. However, what will
b. Olympia : loss will bc the lIarbor
city : gain.
Ralph Graham and Miss Frances
Hill. both OF Tenino. We're joined in
wrd.o-k. in this city. Tuesday Jus
t.cr tiles tied the knot. They pro-
ccrdcd to Tacoma for short we'd
ding tour. Their friends at Tenino
are preparing as much of Il surprise
for them on their return as they were
given on the recent flight of the
couple The bride i assistant post
mistress and the groom manager Of
the King Coal Mining Company of
that place.
Last Years taxes will soon become
payable at the County Treasurer
Office. II paid by March 18th, par
ties making payment will be entitled
to Il rebate of 3 per cent. Dclin-
quent assessments for local improve
mentS are now payable AT that office,
which draw interest at the rate of
H. per cent. per annum, from the
time fixed by the ordinance making
the levy. Before the law of 1909.
delinquent city assessments were
collected by action in court. fore
closing the liens created thereby.
1t is said the total assessments
for local improvements against the
Foresters' hall building. on Wash
ington between Fourth and Fifth
streets, amounted to the modest sum
of twelve hundred and five dollars:
that tie contract price for making
| these improvements amounted to
about one-half of this amount. the re-
mainder was exhausted for surveys,
preliminary work and Inspection
The problem this association Is now
trying 10 solve is, how near the So
ciety came receiving an equivalent
/ consideration for the investment?
f. f. Martin, who formerly re-
sided in Olympia. known as a vege-
/ tartan of the most radical stamp,
suffered a severe loss by fire on the
18th inst. His dwelling house, near
Bangor, this State, and contents,
were entirely consumed by the de.
stroying element. He and his wife
succeeded only in saving the gar
ments they wore. There was no in
surance to cover the loss. He and
S. II. Weisdeppe, of Olympia, were
interested in several patent-right in
ventiOnS. All documents connected
Herewith were burned.
An interesting communication from
the pen of Miss Ruth Dunbar, daugh.
ter Of Supreme Court Judge II. y.
Dunbar, appeared in the Tacoma
Ledgcr, Sunday. The correspond.
ence purported to come from Naples,
Italy. Miss Dunbar is a good de
scriptive writer of the humorous
type. She considers that Italy is q
country in which graft and begging
have been reduced to system. She
enclosed in a letter to her father, 6
specimen OF an Italian flea that SHIT
captured while cultivating Close
and familiar acquaintance with hel
person. She requested her father
to hand the specimen to Trevor Kin
caid or some other naturalist, Il
diagnose and classify. A chance i.
here presented for some expert flea
OlOgiSt.
Whether it was the high price O
beef, or some other motive that i'm
PEELED Gorkard PETERS and Elber
Myers, bOlt-cutters on the New
aukum, near Chehalis, to slaughter
COW and carry off the carcass
Saturday night. or some other in
centive. the next day the own
, er and Sheriff Urquhart found lit
tie difficulty in trailing the thief
to the guilty parties. Myers, in ;
, confession, said that he had beer
coerced into the act by PETERS, wh'
threatened to kill him if he refused
, and had given him the comforting
, assurance that he intended to Kill
, him anyway in the Spring, afte
they got through bOlt-cutting. Pet
tiers is said to bear a bad reputation
where best known.
The city cases for the fOreclosur,
, Of assessments relating to concrete
} sidewalk improvements, against c
B. Mann and Eunice Turpin, aDut
ting their property located on Mail
and Fourth streets this city, wer
partially heard last week. Mrs. Tur
pin claims she had no lawful notic
whatever. and that there was al
error is alleged in the notice to C. b
Mann, which gave the number of tn
block incorrectly. The City AttOr
ney contends that the owners hat
actual notice of the Improvements
having received the benefits thereof
are now estopped from questioning
the sufticiency Of the notice. OWNS
to the absence of Judge Mitchell, tn,
cases were continued for future hear
ing. Judge Robinson, who appear
for Mrs. Turpin, and Messrs. Troy
Il Sturdevant who represent Mr.
Mann, think their jurisdictional point
are well taken.
Hazen Maynard. proprietor of tn
Capital City-Nesqually creameries
has on exhibition the De Lavel GU
!; created by the Washington Cream
cry Cooperative Association. 1t i
mounted on an ebony base and stand
10 inches high, five inches in diam
eter, is of solid silver, in plain bu
rich design, bearing this inscription
Or. Gustav De Lavel Cup. Pre-
scented to the W. c. c. A. by the D
/ Lavel Dairy Supply Company of Sc
!, attic" The cup was first awarde
: to Clayton Towers, butter-maker a
5 the Stanwood Creamery, in 1903; +
butter-maker c. p. Hansen at tn
f. 81 H., xol N,<x,