Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-11-11

children, seven boys and six girls.
all of whom were present with HIM
in his last hours. The funeral rites
were held Tuesday at St. Michael S
church, conducted by Rev. Father
Malley.
The Olympia high school has Sc
lected Boyd Ellis, Harold Henderson
and Stephen Chadwick as the team
to represent the local school in the
interScholas,ic contests. and Linus
Brewer, Lloyd Henderson and Travis
Aver. as a second team, to engage
the first in debate-coaching in prep
aratiOn for the general contests. The
first debate will be held in this city,
Dee. ID
Robert ". Ellison, aged IS. who
WAS lately drowned in the Wshkah
river, near Aberdeen. was brought
here for burial, the funeral taking
place from Stichlin : chapel on the
Sd inst, and intcrment made in Odd
! Fellows cemetery. Deceased was a
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Ellison.
of New kamilche, and a brother of
Mrs. Joseph Kullrich. of this city.
He is also survived by a wife and
three children.
Charles Madison, the 20-year-old
son of William Madison, a well-known
rancher of Rainier. committed sui
eide Tuesday night at his fathers
home at that place, by shot through
his head from rifle. After three
days of riotous living at Tenino and
Chehalis, and spending $3.50. all his
money, he returned home without a
cent, went to the barn and shot him
self through the head. The body
was brought to this city for burial.
Articles of Incorporation of the
Chambers Prairie Grange building
have been filed in Hays school dis
trict, to raise funds for hall to cost
81 800, in that number of shares of 81
each. The present officers of the
Grange are 2. p. Briggs. President;
Joe Wickie, Vice President; VIM. G.
Millison, Secretary; J. f. Hutson.
Treasurer; r. E. Neese, Trustee for
one year; H. Morse, Trustee for two
years, and Ross Chilson, Trustee for
three years.
T. J. Kegley has brought suit to
drive OUT the inhabitants of the
restricted district, alleging that, as
a propertyholder. his interests are
greatly damaged by the presence and
tenancy of immoral people. 1t is a
significant fact that Gordon Mackay
appears as attorney for Kegley, and
has joined forces with Mr.. Orrick to
adopt unreasonable and cruel meas
ures of abatement of an evil that he
has tolerated and protected for years
of service as Councilman.
The City Council has instructed the
engineer to file written notice with
the big fume contractor Mallory,
that no longer delay will be tolerated
for completion of that conduit under
his contract with the city. The con-
tract calls for five days written no.
tice before the city can assume
charge of the work. When the time
has expired the plan should be aban-
doned, and that of an open water
way be substituted, at minimum of
the cost, and as being the only feas-
ible method for taking care of the
waters of Nozzle creek.
Rev. ]. M. Orrick, meets with the
statement that his proposed method
of dealing with the fallen women is
not Christlike by simply denial,
which when sifted is, certainly pre-
carious in its nature. constituting
Christ's words to not mean what
they express. 1t is a glib if not
convincing manner of meeting the
question:, and we must hold to
our assertion, despite his adoption of
a method that reminds us of an in
tention to resort in such emergen-
cies to the belief that A short
horse may be soon curried.
James R. S. Mitchell, q son of Doc.
Mitchell, one of the contractors on
State Road No. IA, on Hoods Canal,
was in town few days ago He re-
ports that the piece of road will be
completed soon and the outfit moved
back to this city. 1t extends to
Duckabush, on the Canal, and is a
link in the fine road to connect this
city with Port Townsend. 1t is ex-
pected that further contracts on the
northern end will be let next season.
Mr.. Mitchell says that it will make a
beautiful driveway, the fine scenery,
with the Canal on one side and Olym-
pic mountains on the other making a
landscape of unusual beauty and
grandeur.
Let us be thankful for several
small results of the primaries: Big
Glow is beaten for Attorney and
Mackay for Councilman. The for
mer has been only a figurehead, and
the latter the 1T" in city matters.
One is bad as the other. The one
ran the county to needless expense
from incompetency, and the latter
from knowing too much of the meth
DDS of addition, division and silence. !"
Claypool received majority in all
the wards but the Sixth. The total
J for Claypool was 529 and Bigelow
; 3O8-a majority of 221 for the for
} mer. Mackay felicitates himself up
on having received three votes, on
the Democratic ticket, and that he is
still in the field and may bob up Sc
renely" on election day, notwith-
standing Republican majority of
rs was recorded against him and for
his opponent, Mr.. Braeger.
RECoUNTING the success of the char