Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-09-02
Gatherings by the Wayside.

ChIcHi HAS SnOOtluS SaIIcry.
Polk county crops over average.
There are ], All Masons in Oregon.
Eggs in Victoria, IS cents per dozen.
Loss by the Idaho City fire, $40, 600.
The Oregon Insane Asylum has 154
inmates.
Tho Eastern Oregon peach crop below
average.
Fast Portlanders shaking with tho
eager"
Tho Herald predicts a general In.
dian war.
Ex-senator Williams has returned
from the East.
Yosemite valley has had 1000 visi-
tors this year.
Ada County, Idaho, is said to be
500, 900 in debt
On the 9th ut, about onc.:hird of
idaho City was burned.
Harvest hands arc in good demand at
fair wages in Oregon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is to DO
invited to come to Portland.
A drove of 1900 cattle is on its way
from Kansas to Eastern Oregon.
Cars will run to Oakland, $50 mile $
from Portland, by lst Of January.
Scarlet fever and whooping cough are
raging in Doug las county, Oregon.
Large shipments of wheat are arriv-
ing at Portland from Walla Walla.
-" joaquin Miller, the Oregon poet,
is visiting his brother at Easton, Pa.
-Piute Indians have declared war
against the Shoshone tribe in Nevada.
A number of French communists
have settled in Kent county, California.
Travel on stages coming from Cali
fornia is heavier than ever before known.
1t is claimed that Claggctt (Radical)
is elected Delegate to Congress from Mon
tana.
Two Indian preachers we're in attend
ance at the late NJ. f. Conference ut
Portland.
The British transcontineutal railroad
surveying party has sent to Colvillc for
animals.
The Wala Walla Annual Fair will
commence September 10Th, aud continue
four days.
Mrs. Duniway and J. q Thornton
jointly won tho $500 prize for the best
essay on Oregon.
An extensive bed of moss agate has
been discovered near the Warm Springs
Indian reservation.
The San Francisco Radicals will put
no city ticket in the field, but will join in
with the " taxpayers"
President Grant has abandoned the
idea of visiting the Pacific coast this yca1>
He will not come even to California.
During the year ending june Both,
there were ten fires in the City Of Salem.
resulting in loss of S24 SIS.
Tho dead body of descrtcr from tho
U. s. ship Scranac was found floating
in the Willamette ut Portland few days
ago.
Mr.. j. b. Montgomery has 970 men,
white and Chinese, at work on his twenty
five mile section of the North Pacific Rail-.
road.
The present summer is the dryest
and hottest ever known in Arizona. A
number of deaths occurred from excessive
heat.
--Breadstuffs have materially advanced
in Australia and New Zealand, on the sup.
position that California would havo no ex.
port surplus.
"A number of cmigrants from Mis-
souri, and Kansas passed through Boise
City lately, bound for Oregon aud Wash.
ington Territory.
Fred Schwatka, graduate Of West.
Point, is visiting his parents at Salem:
He is assigned to duty as I'd Lieut.. Of Bird
Cavalry, in Arizona.
The NJ +. Conference at Portland
lately passed resolution that no min.
lister who used tobacco would be allowed
to preach in that Conference. f..
Vancouver, W. r., boasts a woman
named Mrs. Dice who weighs 1928 pounds.
She is 80 years old and is the youngest.
child Of family of nineteen children.
The Albany Democrat quots the pur-
chase price Of 100000 acres of land to
tho Willamette Valley and Cascade Wagon
Road Company, sold to Col. Hogg at s14O,-
600.
The threshing' season in Boise Valley
is now fairly under way, and the wheat
crop Is unusually light. 1t is pro.
badly the lshtest average crop ever raise d
! in Boise Valley. .t-.-.
A Jacksonville wedding party. con-
sisting of or 10 ladies and gentlemen,
were at tho mercy of klamath Lake for
two days aud nights recently, in on open
small boat, in terrible storm. When
rescued the Times says they we're worn
out and OK haustod BY priyation and snders.
ing.