Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-09-20
City and County


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The FEARL PUGET SOUND.
/ Four OF Washington's Indian tribes
/ will take part in a series uf running
races at the Puyallup Valley fair dur
ing the week il is open next month.
! Between 80 and 80 of the heetest
/ horses that Craze the reservat ion
| plains will be entered From the
North, the South, the East and the
| West the tribes will come with their
| families. their medicine men, their
| quaint dress, their rites, and best of all
| heir horses. The fair officials had
! no idea that such a gathering of the
tribes as has been practically ar
ranged for could be gotten together A
series of races between the Nisqually
| tribe and the Puyallup reservation
men had been arranged for following
a race last Fourth of July at Shelton
when the Nisqually braves sworc ven
Seahce. But since publicity was
given to the fact that these two an
cient and bitter enemies were about
TO lock horns again at the Valley fair,
word was received from both the
klickitat and the Mud Bay Indians
asking for permission to pit their
| horses against the others This is the
| been gathered together for one racing
| tournament.
| Western Washington is under the
spell of returning prosperity, as never
| before. The lumber industry is going
| at top speed and the price is advanc-
ing steadily. owing to the increasing
| demand. Machinery supply houses
| report the healthiest demand from
| lumber manufactures that they have
| had in long time. There has been a
| notable stimulus to building opera
| tons all over The smaller COM
| munities feel this in common with the
{ larger ones. And to get ready for the
| fall movement of crops from all parts
of the Northwest, the railroads are
adding to their equipment. So material
| is the increasing freight business of
| itt OitSOtl-f ndlllO du O
| Navigation company that it is now
erecting an addition to its Seattle facil-
Titles to cost 100000. 1t is to be used
| as freight house and will be 760
| feet long.
Wilhiamar Steffanson, who has just
returned from a five years sojourn in
the Arctic regions, reports the dis
covery of lost race. under the North
| Pole. They are said to have eau
asian features and being fair-haired
and blue eyed, show that they have no
relationship to the Esquimos who are
of Monaghan origin. These people
| are believed to be the descendants of
! Norwegian colonists who went to
Greenland in 1412 and were never
heard from. Explorer Steffanson re-
turned to civilization by way of Sc
attic, from which city he gave the
world the first story of his discovery.
The number of miners engaged in
bituminous and Ignite mining in 1911
was 549,750 and those in anthracite
mining, 172,5SS, total of 722,335.
The average production per man was
1873 tons for the year in the bituminous
and Ignite mines and 524 tons in the
anthracite mines. In 1910 the CORE
spending averages were ISL and 49S
tons.
Mrs. Mary Carico of Rockford, ILL.,,
was a guest last week of Charles E.
Maynard of this city.
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Miss Babe Mclean has returned to
Portland after spending a week in
this city.
Mr. and Mrs Robert W. Kelsey re-
turned to Olympia last Saturday and
will make their home here. Mr. Kelsey
was located in Seattle for several
months, having been connected with
Governor Hays publicity bureau.
There were 253 local baseball enthu-
siasts on board the Nisqually last
Sunday morning when it left on the
excursion for Bremerton. where the
Olympia team was defeated, through
the aid of the umpire by score of
to 6. The game stood 6 to in Olym-
pia's favor when, in the last half of
the ninth, base runner for Bremen
ton collided with Carson as the latter
was about to catch a fly, making him
| miss the ball. Both umpires called
the runner out, but the BremertOn
bunch as usual showed a lack of sport
ing blood and forced the umpires to
| reverse their decisions by threatening
that the local team would lose it's
share of the gate receipts, amounting
to $50. Ten innings were played, the
BremertOn team scoring in the ninth,
but the locals were unable to add
another tally. Haskell was in fine
form, the Bremerton team locating the
ball only four times in the ten
innings. The local lads feel that they
were handed raw deal, but they made
many friends by consenting to the un-
fair decision on foreign grounds in
| order to give the crowd a good show.
An absolute divorce on the grounds
Of abandonment was recently granted
! 70 Charles M. Munson from his wife,
Rachel l.. Munson, by Judge John r.
Mitchell. The plaintiff also gained
tile to property in section IS, town.
| ship 16 north, range 2 east.
Suit for personal injury damages to
the amount of $500 has been insti-
tuted by A. r. Durham against the
Gate City Lumber company, for an
| injury received November 4, 1910.
Durham alleges that while he was
working in one of the company's log
ging camps as chokerman he was
damned between two logs through the
carelessness of the hook tender in not
warning and sustained complete
fracture of the right leg.
p. S. LovejOy, until recently super
visor of the Olympia national forest,
left Monday for Ann Arbor, Mich,