Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-22
OLD hunters say grouse are fat.

OLD hunters say grouse are fat.
The country is said to he full of
chickens and turkeys.
New wheat is selling in Oregon at
sixty cents per bushel.
REMEMBER that exaggeration is not
very far removed from falsehood.
The Post Office at Chimacum, JEFF
ferson county has been discontinued.
GEN. J. W. Spraguo started for
the States, last Monday, on business
connected with the Northern Pacific
Railroad.
GovERNEUR Morris has recently re-
turned from Alaska and tells in q
Portland paper, what he knows
about the country.
WoRD comes that our former
townsman, j. Bowlin, is making it
look lively in Tacoma with his array
of trucks and drays.
DIED, in this City, Aug. 2l, in
FAINT son of George H. and Eppa
Andrews, aged three months. The
remains will be taken to Portland
to-day.
THERE are, at present, twelve pris-
oners confined in the United States
Penitentiary at McNeil's Island. A
majority of them are serving out
sentences for selling liquor to Indi-
ans.
FRANK MYERS is hereafter to con-
duct the Port Townsend Press. He
is practical printer of considerable
experience, industrious and capable,
and we doubt not that under his
management it will become per.
enterprise.
TIE Walla Walla Walchman boasts
of having dozen hens eggs left at
that Office, each of which was as
large as turnip. Now if the editor
of that paper will only tell us how
large the turnips were, we will prob
ably catch his idea.
We learn that the safe of Messrs.
James L. August Chilberg, at New
Tacoma, was broken open, on We'd
nesday night (the 13th) and sixteen
hundred dollars abstracted there
from. Most of the money belonged
to parties who had deposited it in
various sums.
We hear that Mr.. D. H. Hume is
making extensive preparations for
commencing the fishing business at
the mouth of Chambers Greek, near
Steilacoom. He is building boats
and enlarging his fish house. He will
employ q large number of men and
is expecting to put up several thou
sand barrels Of silver salmon during
the season.
MEssRs. Newbury, Chapman & Co.,
of Portland, have bought harvest
ing machine which cuts swath ten
feet wide, binding the same ready to
be stacked or hauled into the barn.
This is the only reaper and binder
in the world that cuts swath ten
feet in width. Mr.. w. G. Scoggins,
large farmer in Oregon, has one Of
these machines in successful opera
tion. O shade of the old sickle!
SEE here, Mr., Permanent Resi-
dent, if you don't want to drive
everybody from the country, stop
your growing. Times are hard. it
is true, but so they are everywhere,
and you must not lay the blame to
Olympia, Thurston county or Wash
iugton Territory. It is widespread.
Many people are on the verge of
starvation in the large cities, and no.
where are they making more than a
bare living. 1t is misfortune that
this fact is not realized by those who
cannot see beyond the bounds OF
a very narrow range of vision. They
believe their own condition to be
anomalous; that other countries are
prospering because they prospered
a few years ago, before the general
prostration of business began. They
become moody and disheartened, dis
courage all efforts to retrive lost
ground, and finally 60 to some other
field of labor to find that they have
made fatal error. But the damage
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