Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-08

filling up with energetic settlers.
The west side extension railroad
will be completed from Portland te
Corvallis by the first of November.
ABOUT three-fourths of the stock oi
the railroad company was represent
ed Monday. at the stakeholder
meeting.
A MAN was arrested 1T Port Town.
send, on the 7th inst, supposed to
be Mitchell, the terror of the Colum-
bia river fishermen. The arrest was
made by Sheriff Miller.
IT is large estimate, but some
body says that cord of dry fiji wood ,
hauled now and put into the wood
shed is worth two cords of similar
wood drenched by the winter rains.
The reported breaking out of
smallpox, among tue Indians of Van
couver Island has caused an order to
be issued restraining the Indians
Of Neah Bay from crossing the
Straits.
SINCE the announcement was made
that Portland is to have free pos
tai delivery system, there have been
only between nine hundred and one
thousand applications for carriers
positions.
REV. S. Monroe Hubbard is gain
ing wide reputation as a temper
ance lecturer in Portland. We be-
lieve good field might be opened
for him in every town along the
Sound.
QUrrE serious fire occurred at
East Portland, on Saturday. The
foundry of Messrs. Thompson g.
Coonsg was entirely destroyed. An
other Farming to everybody to be
during the present dry sea-
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Ar q meeting Of the stockholders
of the Thurston County Construc-
ton Company, held at the Office of
the President, Monday. T. NJ. Reed,
E. N. Ouimette and L. Bettman
were elected as trustees to serve for
the term of three years.
We pronounce the report that
prisoners in the county Jail go out of
night to steal chickens and return to
prison to eat them, an unmitigated
falsehood. Somebody is evidently
p-ejudiced against our Jail, or the
iailers, and take this method of vent
ing their spleen.
The board Of engineers who are
empowered to locate the harbor of
refuge are still meeting and parting.
II they only knew the pain they are
causing to half score of ambitious
little towns, they would either make
the grand decision, at once, or re-
sign. But then the people must not
forget that they are human and q fat
per diem pay would naturally tend
to elongate the wisest deliberations.
A PARTY from Portland started
on a prospecting tour along the
north fork of Lewis river, Washing
ton Territory, on Saturday last. 1t
seems that Olympia ought to turn
out q good prospecting party, this
Summer, to search for the precious
metals, hard coal, etc., among the
mountains either on the West or
East Of us. That We are living with
in easy distance of unbounded min
eral wealth, there is no question,
and nothing but a little enterprise
in the way Of thorough prospecting
is needed to bring q rich bonanza to
the light Of day. Who will organ
ize.
The reception recently extended
to Maj. Haller, at Port. Townsend
and Coupeville, bv the citizens Of
those places, in honor of his ster.
ling reputation as man, and to give
expression to their joy over the full.
fllment of long delayed act Of
justice in restoring him to his place
in the army. will meet with q hearty
endorsement from everybody who
knows the Major or who is conversant
with tho history of his case. His
many friends will be pleased to learn
thai be has been assigned to duty in
tho Territory, and is at present in
command at Fort Townsend.