Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-25

MORE balmy weather.

MORE balmy weather.
Music hath charms, but trout fish
ing has greater. a
A NEW water company has been
organized at Walla-walla.
GREAT expectations are disturbing
the minds of Puyallup tobacco rails
ers. sF
CAPT. Wyckoff, of the coast sur
vey schooner, Ernest, began opera
tions at Steilacoom, this week.
San Francisco authorities are put
to their wits ends to manage the
hoodlums in the Industrial school.
MEssRs. Long a. Birmingham are
going to utilize the milk of three
hundred cows, at their new cheese
factory on White River.
OREGON damseis are on hand at
the baseball contest in that State, to
award prizes of cigars and boquets
to the happy winners. Who wouldn't
be q base-ballist ?
RUTGER's college has conferred the
degree of L. l.. D. on Edison, as a
compliment to his many late inven-
ton. College honors- cost but little
and sometimes go great way.
The amount of freight sent from
Olympia by the ocean steamers
is steadily increasing, fact of which
the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany are pleased to be made cogni-
zant.
A METEOR appeared in the north
western part of the heavens, last
night, about ten o'clock, shooting in
a northerly direction. When near
the horizon, it exploded into myr RAIDS
of brilliantly colored fragments.
The opium trade Is neither dead
nor sleeping. Sixty thousand dol
lars worth of the article was recently
shipped from Victoria to San Fran
citco. A single Chinese house sent
about thirty thousand dollars worth
by the last steamer.
THERE is likely to be an exodus
of tramps from the Atlantic States
to this coast on account of the string
ent laws recently enacted for the
regulation of that interesting frater-
nifty. 1t is time that our legislatures
were up and doing.
PRINTERS, as a class, are by no
means, the worthless members OF
society they are often taken to be.
James Gordon Bennett foots the
whole of the bill of expenses of the
Polar Expedition which recently
sailed from the harbor of San Fran
cisco.
A PETITION has been put in circula-
ton at Seattle to be presented to the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
praying the managers of that cor
poration to arrange their schedules
so as to continue Capt. Morse and
the steamer Dakota on the San
Francisco and Puget Sound route.
SEATTLE papers speak in doleful
terms of the strike among the hands
at the coal mine. No less than
three of the Coal Company's fleet,
the bark Gem oft Ocean, the ship
Eldorado and the Barkentine Weltoot
are in port waiting for cargoes. The
last carload of coal has been
shipped, and if the difficulty at the
mine is not speedily settled, vessels
will have to 60 elsewhere to find
cargoes. This is an unlooked-for
calamity to the people of Seattle.
A COMMITTEE, appointed by the
last Congress, is about leaving
Washington for the Pacific coast, to
inquire into the causes of the labor
depression. Hendrick B. Wright is
their man and the august committee
will be accompanied by several steno-
graphers. After reaching San Fran
cisco, they will probably make a
tour OF Oregon and the Sound. If
they come over here, they may pos
sibly be taken on trout-fshing ex-
pedition or be treated to q clam
bake. The mission upon which 90
much talent is sent is An engrossing
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