Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-12-05
Observation-Disclosures:
SOME NEWS NOTES OF The CITY

Local time tables on the Northern
Pacific have been changed 50 that the
morning train to Grays Harbor is now
! leaving here at 1915 instead of 1924;
the morning train to Tacoma at the
present time, II o'clock; the afternoon
| Harbor train at 3:25 instead of 500,
and the afternoon Tacoma train at the
present time, 2.50; the evening train
to Tacoma at 715 instead of 7, and
he night train to the Harbor at Z: AZ
instead of 7.24.
J. L. Peters, the well known local
real estate dealer, has announced that
he would build a one-story concrete
building, 60x120 feet, at the north
west corner of Fifth and Washington
streets, which is now occupied by
frame building. Work will be started
before the first of the year and part
of the completed building will be oc-
cupied by II. r. Moore of Idaho, who
will install new motion picture and
vaudeville house there. The building
will cost about $4,000.
Some of the steel needed for the new
federal building has arrived and the
balance is on the way and is expected
almost any day, so that the work of
constructing the building will be be-
~un some time this month. Quite a
little preliminary work has been done
during the last few weeks and the
workmen have everything in readiness
to begin the erection of the steel
frame work as soon as the material
arrives.
Chief Justice Herman D. Crow has
denied the writ of error applied for
by DR.. Linda Burfeld Hazard, the
hunger expert" to permit her to ap-
peal her case to the United States SUI
p. enc court, holding that no federal
constitutional questions are involved
in the case. Consequently DR.. Haz-
slaughter in the Kitsap county super
ior court for the death of Miss Claire
Williamson, an English girl, must
serve her sentence of from two to 20
years in the Walla Walla penitentiary.
Attorney General w. v. Tanner last
week issued an opinion sustaining the
position taken by the Thurston county
game commission, wherein he held
that hunters caught running deer with
dogs are guilty of a gross misdemean-
or, If convicted, and punishable with
fine of 81 900 or Imprisonment in the
county Jail for not more than one
year, or both.
Word was received In Olympia this
week of the death in Seattle last Sat-
urday of Charles Prosch, SO years old,
a pioneer of Seattle and the Pacific
Coast, territorial printer in Olympia in
1867 and publisher of Pacific Tribune.
which later became C.ympia's first
daily newspaper.
Bo1ss lex -McClintic company have
spared no expense in remodelling the
portion Of the Reed block on Sixth
street which they recently leased I'M
til now they are credit to the city.
The stock is complete and moderate
N price, the chapel large, well fur
nished and conveniently arranged and
all departments strictly modern. Day
or night calls promptly attended
Phone 1872. adv
Mere than 200 men, representing
seven of the Protestant churches of
Olympia, attended the banquet at the
Methodist church Wednesday evening
when Rev. Carter Helm Jones, pastor
of the First Baptist church of Seattle,
gave stirring address. At the close
of the meeting plans for the big reviv-
ais in January were taken under con-
sideratiOn, much enthusiasm was man.
! ifested and at the close 80 of those
| present had subscribed between $500
and $500 toward guarantee fund Of
81 900 to provide against deficit. A
tabernacle 110x7O feet, capable Of seat
| ing 1900 people, will be built, the ma
terial for which will cost $500 and the
labor, if hired, $3.50. 1t is hoped, how
ever, that most of the labor will be do
mated and quite a number of the men
present at this meeting offered their
services free. One of the generous Of
fers of the meeting was made by Man
ager Falconer of the Olympia Light &
Power company. who told the execu-
tive committee he would furnish the
necessary wires and incandescents
and lipbt tha tabernacle free the Onlv