Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-22
Organized.
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Onuer the organic ACT, civil gov
ernment has, at last, been established
at Sitka. The new machinery goes
into operation with Chief Magis-
trate and five select-men in as many
different precincts. These officers
are clothed with authority to trans
act all business that may arise,
whether of a judicial o: municipal
nature. Thus they can try criminals
as well as civil cases and perform all
acts pertaining to the municipal af-
fairs Of the colony. The absence of
all tests of American citizenship give
general satisfaction and tends to
inspire confidence in all classes of
residents. All white men twenty
one years Of age are voters; nor are
the collector and priest rendered in
eligible. by virtue of the offices they
now occupy, from serving when
elected to act in municipal affairs.
This government was formally or
gained on the second day of the
present month, although primary
meeting had been held On July 25th,
at which preamble and resolutions
tending towards organization, were
unanimously adopted.
These things having been duly
accomplished, it is now predicted
that the career of Alaska will be up
ward and onward. To anyone who
has been close observer of the prog
ress of events in Alaska, since it's
purchase by our Government, it is
clearly evident that, had civil form
of government been devised and set
in operation at the outset, that coun-
try would be far in advance of what
it is to-day, in all points truly vital
to IL Territory of the United States.
But all good things are better late
than not at all, and we congratulate
the citizens of that remote corner of
our Union that we can now recog-
nize them as part and parcel of our
great sovereign commonwealth. If
our Government does its duty
towards this new candidate for nation
al solicitude, we predict for Alaska
brilliant furture. Contrary to first
impressions, it is a region of vast
and varied resources. While its ag-
agricural productions will be limited,
the lack will more than be made up
by its extensive fisheries and mining
interests. A renewed emigration
thither may be looked for during the
coming Autumn, and Sitka will soon
become an important commercial en-
trepot.
A GUSHING young man says he saw
a score or more of meteors, last
night, in the western sky, all IA
dating from two points very close
together. Now we would innocent-
ly suggest that perhaps he had been
exchanging" textbooks on astron-
omy with some pretty schoolgirl,
just before closing up the store for
the night, or, possibly he was lean
ling over the front gate, watching
the scintillations of her bewitching
eyes. Who knows?
A WRITER in the Oakland Tribune
offers this plausible explanation of
the pasting of paper doves and Gu
pids on some peoples window-panes.
The dove, he says, is an intimation
that there resides in the house
maiden who is wiling to he wooed
and won. In the case of the cupid,
it is young widow who waits. 1t
is satisfactory to know that any kind
of explanation can be made of the
singular display.
ANOTHER accomplished young
lady" was married, in Portland,
the other day, to "splendid good
fellow" We will give a years sub
scription to this paper, including a
chrome of Washington when he
was a boy playing with his little
hatchet, to anybody who will send
these hackneyed terms to the wall.
| We find an item in leading jour-
nal to the effect that aldecoct ion of
the leaves of the common lemon YER
bena makes u fine cordial. 1t can
be used alone, or a few leaves can