Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-05-13


day on an extended visit to the home
OF her widowed mother at Carver,
J. Minnesota. Two sisters, Mrs.
Amelia Morse and Emma l.. Fell.
living i'll this State, accompanied
Mrs. Millett on this journey.
The Government has supplied the
foresters paid to watch the land re-
serves with motorcycles to enable
them to catch depredatOrs and is
talking of instituting telephone
service to enable them to respond to
party calls of whatever nature.
Fred. Sylvester, former stenog-
rapher for Messrs. Troy and Sturde-
want, has gone to Toppenish, East of
( the Cascades. with a view of seeking
new location. Fred is an energetic,
honest and capable young man who
VIII benefit any community in which
he may locate.
DR.. A. G. Cook and wife, of South
ern California, arrived in Olympia
this week for the purpose of spend
ing their customary summer vacation
among relatives and friends. The
doctor is still strong advocate of
civic righteousness tinged with the
spirit of Socialism.
Mrs David Goodwin, of Tacoma.
died Wednesday. at the age of %.
She was born in Yarmouth, England,
! and came to this country about %
/ Shn i c,,r,,,,,nl H.
husband and six grown descendants.
one of whom is Mrs. Ross Gibson, of
Nc Vile, southeastern suburb Of
this city.
Work is to Immediately begin on
removal of the Northern Pacific de-
pot to temporary site across the
tracks preparatory to breaking
ground for the new structure to
cost $4,000. The old building will
ultimately be moved to the vicinity
of the freight-shed and used for ex-
tending the facilities of that depart
! ment.
Will our City Council take meas
ures to have sane Fourth of
July as other municipalities are try
ing to do? Time and labor may be
more proftably employed in this di-
rection than in passing resolutions
and ordinances for burdensOme as
sessments, which at the present time
are unnecessary in certain localities.
especially in view OF our hight tax
levies.
The City Engineer is of the opin-
ion it will be no easy matter to es-
tablish the grade on Sixth, at the
intersection with Boundary street.
Some of the interested parties de-
sire a gradual slope on Boundary
from Fourth to Eighth streets, while
others claim it will be impossible to
get sufficient soil for this purpose to
make the fill at the intersection, ow-
ing to the natural lay of the ground
in that locality.
Murder in the first degree" is the
verdict of the Coil jury, after being
out eight hours and forty minutes.
The result was announced at 1890
yesterday morning. The penalty for
murder in this degree is death. and
he will doubtless be sentenced in
day or two. Another information of
murder Of John Hoffman was pend
ing should from any cause the jury
had failed to agree on the murder of
Hadberg by Coil.
The Laughton house, on Eastside,
was ransacked by some nocturnal
prowler, Monday night, during the
absence of its inmates, and trunks,
drawers and closets were searched
and their contents piled up on the
floor, but it is thought that the
quest OF valuables was fruitless, but
that matter will not be determined
until Mr.. and Mrs. Laughlin return
from the Bordeaux camp and take
an account of stock.
The local optionists, or more prop
erly speaking. the Prohibitionists,
will begin their campaign in this city
Sunday by three meetings. Boyd
P. Doty. President OF the Anti
Saloon League of the State, will
speak in the First Baptist Church;
]. H. Taylor, of Seattle. in the Y,
N. C. A. hall. and f. r. Margetts,
of Tacoma, District Superintendent
OF the League, in the evening, at
the First Presbyterian church.
The rainfall of the past few days
has done good service in keeping
under restraint to some extent the
forest fires which had got consider
able start under the hot days of a
fortnight preceding. A fire on the
Harbor road, this side of Aberdeen,
destroyed considerable fine timber,
and fires in King and Snohomish
counties had begun to assume alarm
ing proportions when the gentle
dew" began to fall and dampened tho
heritage sufficiently to limit their
bounds.
The long-drawn-out suit to de-
termine whether the county or the
Judges shall pay for the gowns
which the law prescribes they shall
wear while on the bench, has at last
been decided by Judge Shackleford,
of Pierce county, sitting for Judge
Mitchell. who brought suit some
months ago for payment of the
gown the law compels him to wear.
The expense was charged up to Ma
son and Thurston counties jointly,
Judge Mitchell's district. Mason
paid, and the suit resulted from re-
fusal of the Commissioners of Thurs.
ton county to pay Its proportional
share.
Again Boss Mackay is urging his
scheme for placing another mill
stone on the neck of our municipal
ity that is now grooming under a
constantly increasing debt. There
is scarcely session of the Council
when some proposition does not
come up for the lavish appropriation
Of mOpQU and incfapoac bouo hoo.