Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1911-05-19

NDIhlHT p4r cue rs 10 tNr identity
OF the m4.cfaclor>
Earle Hamilton Smith. city editor
OF the f4bje""r>-im,ric,n. OF Manila.
+. J., who visited Frank NJ kcnncv.
in this city. afew weeks ago. write :
that he arrived home and is back at
his post OF duty. He speaks in high
praise of the Puget Sound country
and Olympia in particular. Mr..
kenney first met Mr. Smith in Manila
when he was on his foreign trip.
Monday forenoon few miles south
Of Tumwatcr, Mr. Charles Lathrop.
ST., suffered a diSiocation of his lett
shoulder, caused by the overturnng
OF a buggy while he had hold of one
of the lines This accident added 10
the old gentleman : misfortune. be
having been sick and feeble during
last winter and this spring occaSiOnei
by old age and general debility.
Mr.. }. VI. Hit. State Librarian. i,
in California While absent he cx-
! p cts To attend Il session of librarians
IN san Francisco. BEFORE returning
he will visit his son and family, who
resides near Los Angeles. 1t will be
remembered that Henry welded Miss
! PIERCE. the accomplished daughter of
II. NJ. Pierce, the genial proprietor
of the Mitchell hotel of this city.
1t is now said that the new steam
er NiSqually will not he able to be
gin her trips on the Olympia Tacoma
run till June LIST. She is now lying
at Il Tacoma dock receiving two
large engines each weighing 81 tons,
and large boiler. Then her finish
ing and furnishing will be of an eIab-
crate style, and will make the date
of service at least as late as that
stated.
Paul Strut. a workman on the
hoffman building. was struck by a
falling girder, Monday afternoon, in
tlicting a severe wound which will
probably keep him belfast several
weeks. This is the second accident
which has befcll this unfortunate
individual on the same building. He
was struck in the face by full blow
of a nail hammer the first day of his
work
Monday morning. Judge John K.
Mitchell decided number of legal
questions involved in several causes
that had previously been submitted
to him. The Judge is to be COM
merded for giving his views in writ
ing, which shows he had carefully
studied the propositions, and was
not afraid to put on paper the rea-
sons for the faith that was in him.
The next jury term will begin June
9Th.
Mrs. Elsie Morgan, a sister of Geo.
c. Israel, died at her home at Little
Rock. on the evening of the 18th
inst. Deceased was well and favor
ably known in the city and county,
and besides husband, daughter. two
brothers and two sisters, she leaves
a large circle of friends. The funeral
services were held at Little Rock
Thursday, attended by many from
this city. 1t is said that the body
will be cremated in Tacoma.
In the criminal prosecution of the
State versus B. ]. Wilson, informa-
ton charging perjury in a case
of Wilson against DR.. John Barnes
tried in the Justice Court, Judge
Mitchell allowed the prosecuting at
torney to file an OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
after having confessed demurrer to
the original pleading. on authority
of the Riley case reported in &c
Wash, page AL. The defendant s
lawyers excepted to the ruling and
the defendant was arraigned Tues
day.
A large number of citizens, and
neighborS have been in constant
search for James Twohy, who left
his home in this city on Friday night
of last week. while suffering, it is
thought. 4 mild arrangement from
stomach trouble. Blood hounds were
used. which tracked him to the vi
entity of Moss Lake, where they lost
the scent. Yesterday the lake was
ldynamited, in the belief that his body
might be in the lake and would rise
to the surface, but without success.
Searching parties are still out
An Olympia quid nunc makes the
most sensible suggestion yet pro-
posed for use of the big sewer that
persists in rising up and turning
over into the most grOteSque situa-
tiOnS, and that is to build q scenic
railroad" over it and charge a nicke
ride. Then to make it more profit
able, it would be well to have thu
cars to slip cog and dump the pas
Sengers in the mud to constitute {
bill for damages against the city. t.
rake down the prize to be provided
for by proposed two-mill tax levy.
Thursday evening an extensive
runaway happened. Mr.. and Mrs. f
B. Graves in a carriage and Charlie.
Griffith on bicycle were the mair
actors, and strange to state nobody
was hurt seriously. Mrs. Grave:
remained in the carriage, her hus
band for time under it holding OF
to the reins, and Mr.. Griffith and hi
bicycle lying in the road, the ont
| somewhat bruised and the Othel
broken. 1t was case of Much
ado about nothing" and a verified
tiOn of Ais well that ends we'll I"
If our city authorities are unable
to see the trend of public affairs
may not a slight Slimmer of the pos
sibility of driving the Light ant
Power Company to sell out to tn
interurban company now reaching
out for a continuous electric line be
tween Tacoma and Portland, ant
thus place another of our public
utilities under management from Ia
coma, same as the gas company il
operated? The building Of the gas
pipe line wholly by foreign labor in
dictated the policy melted out to Olym
pia by these cormorants.
Tho caSa nf vtall and tyifa nu,ipc