Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-09-14
WHAT HAPPENED IN OLYMPIA AND
State TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
From The Washington Standard for
Friday evening, September 16,
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cCptCiuDtT IOs
1892. Vol. XXXH. No. 43.
Somebody has figured that there
are now in Western Washington 222
sawmills with daily aggregate ca
pacity of 6,696,OOO feet.
The latest sensation is the report
ed gold discovery on Waddell creek,
in this county. Six placer claim de-
scriptions were filed Wednesday by
Harry West, Fannie Horner, George
C. Clark. T. J. Horner and David
and Frank Provoe. These claims lie
principally in section 81, township
II, range 8 west.
George NJ. Savage has gone to Chi
cago and it is reported that his visit
has something to do with the intro
duction of the mystical naptha motor
as street locomotive.
Ground has been broken for Chas.
Changers brick block. 1t will be 80
feet square and contain four commO-
dious storerooms. The building will
be but one story high, but the founda-
ton walls will be thick enough for a
second story.
,, Nearly three miles of sewer pipe
have been laid since the 9Th of July,
when the work commenced. Nearly
now supplied and the work is we'll
all the business portion of town is
advanced on Westside and in the
northern part of town. Work will
begin on Eastside next week. 1t is
expected to complete the five miles
proposed this year by the LIST of No
vember, when the seasons work will
close. The work to date has cost
about $4,000, leaving an equal
amount still available.
The disappearance of E. B. Olney,
U. s. weather observer at this station,
last Monday under circumstances that
indicate his death, has been a matter
in which the whole community has
felt deep interest. About o'clock
on that morning Mr.. Olney went out
for row on the bay in one of Capt.
Kelton's outrigger race-boats. Soon
afterwards the boat was found adrift
off Priests point. with one of the oars
hanging in the row-lock. Mr.. Olney's
overcoat was lying in the bow of the
boat and its interior was dry. which
are indications that he had not fallen
from the boat, as many suppose. One
oar is missing and as dilligent search
all over the bay fails to disclose 1t, a
theory exists that he had used 1t on
the mud fats to 60 ashore and that in
rambling through the woods. rs was
his custom, he had met with an acct
dent which has disabled him or cost
him his life.' Large parties have been
out every day searching for him since
his prolonged absence first aroused
the solicitude of his friends. He has
a wife in San Francisco and she is
nearly frantic over the news. She is
now on the way to this city.
Mrs. Harrison, wife of the presi-
dent. has been dangerously i'll at
Loon Lake, N. Y, the past week.
The population of Snohomish coun-
ty is now 1850.
An old cedar tree on w. Hartmans
farm at Nesqually near Olympia.
measures IS feet in diameter. The
upper portion fell to the ground and
rotted years ago, while much of the
inside Of the trunk has been eaten
out, leaving an immense cavity as =
shelter.
The citizens of Tacoma are agitat-
ing the subject of making a park out
of Mt. Rainier and the adjacent coun-
try. 500 miles in extent. Engineer
Plummer and Lieutenant Schwatka
are to be sent there to obtain data and
government and state aid will be
asked. The region which 1t 10 pro-
posed to devote to park purposes
would be 20 miles east and west and
IS miles long north and south.