Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-06-17
GATHERINGS BY THE WAYSIDE.

Salem is to have brass baud costing
5000.
Portland city election on Monday
next.
Portland boasts a Chinese gambling
he'll.
-Kaama has a population of seven
hundred.
There are 80 scholars in the Portland
negro school.
"A sheep shearing bet is the latest at
traction in Iamhill.
The Willamette papers say the grain
prospects are excellent.
California will make 100000 gal.
Ions of wine this year.
Over 500 tourist are now at the Yosc.
mite Valley, California.
The second trial of Douglas in Idaho
has already commenced.
-Atrocious Indian outragcs are almost
daily perpetrated in Arizona.
Ben Holiday paid 5000 for farm
near Portland Il few days ago.
A grst and saw,mill is to be built on
the Grand Ronde Reservation.
The railroad route from the Columbia
river to Salem is being surveyed.
The Willamette is higher at Portland
than it has been for nine years.
Good Templars of Oregon have gained
400 members in last eight months.
The proposed bridge across the Will
lamettc at Portland will cost Sl50,000.
Portland has appropriated 1000 to-.
Oregon has 1000, 900 acres of swamp
land, while California has about 3, 300, 900.
DIR. Loryca is about to publish an T.
lustrated guide Of Oregon, its scenery,
climate, products, &c.
Portland City Council offers to ap-
propriate $1,000 for the Portland, Dallcs
and Salt Lake Railroad.
Water rates at Portland have been
advanced to s. per MONTH and the people
are very indignant about it.
A Chinese Young Mems Christian
Association numbers forty members, has
organized in San Francisco.
The railroad bridge at Harrisburg,
Ogn., will be three miles long, two miles
Of which will be genuine bridge work.
The New York Circus, with Jim
Cooke, Kingsley aud Gregory, performed
in Walla Walla on the Sd inst, aud left
afterwards for Oregon.
California is introducing one, two,
three and tivc-cent pieces for the first time
in her history. Hitherto bit has
been the smallest change.
The "imprcsSible conflict" between
Gov. Solomon and the Taylor Family has
been " cquitably adjusted" and both will
spout at Port Townsend on the 4th.
The exploring party found the bone,
of two human beings in the cave near
Wilbur. The skulls were almost perfect,
but the other boucs were very much de.
cayed.
Hon. Jesse Applegate, of Oregon, has
been invited to stump California during
the coming campaign, and $4,000 have
been offered to defray his " travelling cx-
pcnses."
The total Indebtedness Of jefferson
county on the LIST of May, 1871, reduced
to currency, was $3.50 81. There has
been a reduction Of Indebtedness during
the fiscal year Of $3.50 Is, in that comfy
The propretors of Kalama have do
mated to the Masonic fraternity in that
city two lots for the purpose Of erecting a
building thereon. 1t will be ~ by 36
feet, and "a feet high, and completed in
time to celebrate the Fourth of July in.
In the case Of Chas Douglass, on
trial in Idaho City on the Goth May
charged with the murder of +. d. IIol
brook, the jury disagreed after two days
deliberation, and were dischargcd-7 for
conviction, 5 for acquital.
The building to be erected at Salem
for the establishment for manufacturing
agricultural implements will be GO by $50
feet in size and three stories high. 1t will
be built of brick and made fireproof. The
cost will be from SIS, 900 to $1,000