Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1911-06-30

rM.t' =. Is port district. guirr I'll,
moss lass, which it is believed woulc
tu mach 20 facilitate impruvemy o
t.r t"r'iJr and development Of battcl
... flr~ Tor tr4a~p pertinent from raj
Z" .ut and secure further govern.
..t appropriations for harbor I'M
n".t,urut
The contract for building 4 new
.oruHtory and ward building at IT,,
STATE school for the blind. Nancou-
t"''. was Jet 10y the State Board @,
tpu'r,.. Tuesday. To- Erickson x
Hansen. of Tacoma. at cost OF SIS.
"5A There were eleven bidders.
raauing high Is <4l.9S3. TIE bids
did not include plumbing, lighting
and wiring
b" weather continues cloudy.
with prcmonltlon of rain. What fell
Monday did considerable good in
many ways but too much of good
thing is sometimes worse than a
scarcity Of the article rs the old
lady expressed it in her prayer: "Oh.
Lord, don let it rain too much or
too hard; just give Us day or two
Of Sozzlesozzlc.
Frank Blake and others have petit
toned the County Commissioners for
ditch designed to lower Bigelow lake
and drain the swamp that heads in
to Phoenix Park addition north of
Fourth street The sections affected
are Il and II in township IS, range
west. and sections &, :. and Is.
township Is north range-west. The
petition was referred to the County
Engineer.
The State Federation of Woman $
Clubs elected the following officers.
at their meeting, yesterday: Prcsi-
dent, Mrs. r. c. McCrcdic, Sunny
side: Secretary. Miss BcsS Winson.
Seattle; Treasurer. Mrs. r. Jones.
Walla Walla: First Trustee, Mrs. J.
VI. Jenkins. Ellensburg Miss Janet
A.oore Of this city. was elected as
one of the delegates to the National
Convention.
Two amateur fishermen from Cen
tralia went down to Steamboat Isl
and, Sunday and soon caught a sal
mon. which they anchored in the
bay with a piece of stout line while
they partook of lunch on the up
shore. On returning they found
their salmon had been eaten to the
bone by several dogtish. which were
still sporting about their prey. They
took revenge by killing the cannibal-
istic dog fish.
Waiter Cowett has begun suit
against the Olympia Door Company
for 81. 900 damages. for injuries al
legged to have been received while
an employe OF the company, through
the fall of a pile of lumber on the
plaintiff, last October, by which he
sustained broken leg and arm and
numerous bodily bruises, from which
he has been confined to his bed until
March of this year, and is still
obliged to use crutches.
Harry Tamblyn is being sought for
passing worthless paper. by victim
\. f.. George. of the Palm. and a
number of other business men.
Tamhlyn appeared here about fort
night ago and obtained employment
as advertising solicitor for the Re
cor'er, when he cashed several checks
and cut quite wide swath on their
proceeds. When the checks turned
up at the banks they were found to
be forgeries and the smart Alec had
disappeared. The amount OF his
peccadillo is said to have been $50.
Mrs. Goldsmith of Puyallup. Mrs.
McCredie OF Sunnyside, and Mrs.
Scarborough of Seattle, three
prominent delegates to the Women S
Federation, in session here, narrow
ly escaped injury by runaway team
to hack in which they were return
ing from the reception in the Cover
nor's mansion, Tuesday evening The
horses took fright from the pole fall
ing and as result the vehicle was
thrown violently against telephone
pole. The main result to the women
was fright, when the horses started
TO run.
Mrs. Florence II. Williams. wife of
a rancher living about six miles
southeast of this city. died Monday
morning at the Woman's restroom,
where she had been ill several DAYS
from heart trouble. She was 62
years Of age, born and raised in this
State, being member of the well
known Yeager family. She is sur
vived by her husband. a son, Lee
Williams. two brothers and sister.
The funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at the home of
her brother, SAINT Yeager, and in
terment made in Odd Fellows GENE
tory.
Secretary Watson asks that as the
big window at the Chamber of Com
merce rooms is to be given up next
week to the display of flowers, fruits
and vegetables raised in Olympia and
Thurston county. it would be ad-
visable for those having fine exhib-
its in any of these lines, or of vege-
table growth, to bring them in early
so that the arrangement of the dis
play be attractive as possible for in
spection of the many visitors who
will spend the 4th of July with us.
This will afford an excellent oppor-
tunity to advertise our latent re-
sources with very little effort on the
part of our people.
The barn Of Allen James, of Roch-
ester, rural mail'carrier, was de-
Stroyed by fire early Monday morn
ing, with his wagon, harness and a
large quantity of grain and hay.
This happening Just a week from the
day and hour when the barn and
contents of Charles James. brother
oil Allen, was consumed with an auto
and horse, entailing a loss of 81 800,
with no Insurance in either disaster
g!,ea rt>e tu d suspicion OF incendiar-
ism, although neither of the victims
is known to have an enemy, who
would do such a dastardly wrong.
1 treat gErIf pmpDt rr1VailS ap1 tho