16 Feb 1892
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Newspaper
Olympia Tribune
Location
Olympia, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1892
Page
1
Fragmentary railroad and harbor transit notice mentions Teoerwa and Beattie, Port Townsend, Southern lines, trade and travel services. Includes unclear schedule details and a rough fare of 28 ree k or 35 carren for return trips, with times and locations only partly readable.
A fragment listing groceries and goods under headings like barrels, oats, corns meal and shirts. Mentions various vendors and entries such as Holborn CARA and a dues or duties section with odd terms.
Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Supervising Architect for the project building at Port Ante See on date. bids marked for the eye Chief and for the U8 must include identification and be addressed to W. J. Edbroc ORE Supervising Architect.
Fragmentary court record from Thurston County estate guardianship proceeding notices. Names and dates are unclear due to OCR damage but indicate official filings and county clerk involvement in the matter of a guardian for an individual likely referenced as Permin or Sounas with dates in February.
Dr Keeley explains his double chloride of gold treatment for drunkenness and opium habit saying it targets a disease not a vice. He notes fourteen years of development and claims many supporters while criticizing other bi chlorides and quote with cautious statistics from the Dwight era.
A sprawling local items list includes Everett mining and Tacoma companies with capital figures, a Stapleton vs Brickvon suit appeal, and a note on Francis Murphy meetings ending tomorrow. It also lists January pupil enrollments across several grade levels with names like Arthur Renner and Ethel Davis.
Eight alliance members of Congress from former Republican states benefited when an alliance candidate split the Republican vote. About seventy Democratic congressmen were elected through this arrangement, with alliance members organizing a Democratic majority and aligning with vain Democrats whether they wished to or not.
Sheriff Prince will take John Kane to Walla Walla this evening after Kane was sentenced to ten years for larceny. John Caldwell and James Wilson received one year each for the same offense at Tenino. Prisoners attempted to use an axe in their steel cell. A prior search uncovered braces bits and files in the cell after sentencing.
A brief notice states Capital Mills at Tamwater are running and making as good an hour as the market affords. Includes a call to try them and a telephone number 08 for contact. Also advertises Dr Miles Nervine claiming cures for sick headache.
In Coahoma Tennessee on Feb 16 Company G of the Tennessee guards with a Gatling gun and six pound howitzers commands the town and rail approaches. Miner and troop clashes erupt nightly with several miners wounded and a postmaster fired upon. Tensions rise as markets and travelers report turmoil across the region.
London reports heavy snow in London and across the United Kingdom with gales, blocked roads, and impaired telegraphic service. The English Channel ferry service is delayed, a schooner ashore at South Woald Suffolk, crew rescued, and a fish boat foundered off Ne County Ireland with the loss of some crew.
Mixed dispatches report Crisp presidencies in unnamed context. The Richard Thompson Iron & Steel Co. of New York failed. Trials progress in San Francisco for Actor Curtis. Calder firms of New Orleans assign. The Emperor William will not attend the Columbian Exposition. Mexico to exhibit creditably at Chicago World’s Fair. Sherman’s credentials extended six years. Bering Sea fishing talks advance in Washington. Massachusetts proposes repealing interstate commerce law. Dallas businessman’s insolvency mourns creditors. French President signs funds for Chicago Columbian exhibit. Twine, bagging machinery to be reported to Congress. Message urges funds to enforce miner protection act. Chicago Produce Market notes prices. Lunatic asylum destroyed by fire in Jackson MS, with losses. Steamship Alesia fire and cargo loss. Beer pricing talks in several states. Fort Wayne report of a plot to wreck a Pittsburgh line train. guards deployed.
Major General Nelson A Miles urged the need for land batteries to guard 27 principal ports. He contrasted 1845 fortified coasts with a defenceless present and cited Gibraltar Sebastopol and Fort Sumter as examples. He warned the navy alone could not defend coasts or lake ports and called for steel breech loading rifles mortars and mines.
The article lists numerous movements and statuses of residents and officials including E. L. Hamlin in Tacoma Mrs. C. C. White in Seattle Mr. and Mrs. I C Kilis in Seattle Herman Hadian to Tacoma Mrs. P Dolan visiting Tacoma Alfred Martin to Grays Harbor Judge Mason Irwin expected home GC S Wilcox represents Capital steam dye works Mrs Dennison returned from Tacoma Cal Geo W Hambright bed with grippe Mrs H P Lee and Miss Jennie Corliss visiting Portland W C Chapman and W Smith admitted to practice in supreme court Dr W A Newell to Grays Harbor and back Cal McFadden now practicing law at Whatcom here with bride te B White of Tumwater and Martha M Potter of Belmore granted marriage license Inspector McClelland and Frank Boberg to Tacoma for Jim Mow trial R C Owen appointed to succeed Superintendent to take effect February 20th Milton de Robert Frost ex Sheriff McClelland and M J Gordon accompany witnesses in Jim Mon a case F Munday G F Folsom J Suite A Pfeiffer E H Holbrook etc at Olympia plus others at Tacoma for extradition funds.
The superior court met in the old courthouse for equity trial. Cases heard include Stapleton vs Ericsson judgment against sureties Scott vs McNeal demurrer overruled Turpin and Manville vs Whitney and Son judgment set aside Habeas corpus in Joseph Casper denied Henry Steicher admitted to citizenship. Docket set for February 18 19 and 20, listing Joneson Elwell Henderson vs Page City L and D Co Stapleton vs Stapleton Brown vs Brown Connolly vs ne Labarr vs Lary Sherman vs Smith Co and McSorley vs Rosenthal.
At a board meeting of the Collegiate Institute Miss R F Smith resigned to take the post of general secretary of the Young Woman's Christian Association of the Pacific Coast. Miss Alice BE Parsons, a graduate and experienced teacher, was elected to fill the vacancy.
A little girl climbs into a chair before a mirror and tells her mother that her face always gets in the way when she tries to look at her reflection.
The pupils neither tardy nor absent in January were: Gertrude Conant Gifford Close Guy Overbulse Wille Justice John Justice Eddie Justice Arthur Bardsley Jesse Jennie Barnhart Thiezie Over Fourth Grape Bertha Fiora Grank John Joe Lar son Hattie Scots.
The Chautauqua Literary and Society Circle meets this evening at 7530 with rollcall physiology and botany led by the president. They review the first sixty pages of The Story of the Constitution and end with geography study of Alaska and News of the Day highlighting events of the current year.
The day saw a high of 46 as the low dropped to 28 with rainfall totaling .00 for the past twenty four hours ending at 3 pm. Dry cloudy conditions persisted with northerly winds across the state. Observer B Ouxey notes outlook remains fair.
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