Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14

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valley. /.
TIE Workingmen of San Francis
co have endorsed the new constitu-
ton of that State.
BRITISH Columbia farmers are suf-
fering from the loss of cattle on ac-
count of the severe weather.
LETTERS received from Baltimore,
announce that the children, Rufus
and May Clark, have safely arrived
at their destination.
IT will please the many friends OF
Mr.. Edwin Eells to hear that he has
been reappointed Indian Agent at
the Skokomish Reservation.
THE late great wind-storm extend
ed from California far into British
Columbia, and, so far as observations
show, in a narrow belt of longitude.
Baseball players cannot resist the
tempting pleasures of that pastime,
the public square is yet in
a very unfit condition for such exer-
else.
We learn from San Francisco pa
pers, that E. s. Salomon, who few
years ago, was Governor Of this Ter
ritory, is candidate for clerk Of San
Francisco county.
OLYMPIA is not alone in the spirit
of improvement. Our Tumwater
friends are fully even with US in the
work of repairing old tenements and
the building of new ones.s
If a snowy exterior and well-flled
front windows serve as criterious to
Judge from, the Delmonico restaur-
ant of Mr.. Chilberg is destined to
become q popular resort.
IT is reported that several cattle
belonging to Mr.. Snider who lives
on the West-side of the bay, near
this place, were killed by falling
timber, during the gale last Wednes-
day.
AN auto-paripatetic jewelry estab-
lished is causing much excitement
among romantic maidens and sus-
ceptible lads. Gold chains are now
common as pin-wheels on the 4th of
July.
To those anxious about Indian
hostilities, it may be interesting to
know that a board of officers are en-
gagged in buying one hundred horses
for the use of the cavalry troops at
Walla-walla.
Mr.. N. 81. Bloomfield, Prosecu-
ting Attorney for the Second Judic-
ial District, wants everybody to un-
derstand that his address is now Van
couver, where he has recently taken
up his residence.
A MAIL service of three times o
week has been established over the
route between Vancouver and Ka-
lama. This move will be duly ap-
preciated by the people, since fully
two-thirds of the Clarke county mails
are carried over that route.
ONE of tine freaks of Old Boreas
last Wednesday was to lift a table
from farmers wagon while cross
ing East Olympia Bridge and whisk
it into the angry waves of the inlet,
when it foated away something after
the style of the good ship, noted in
musical lyrics, which left Dublin
Bay.
The Lewiston Teller says that there
are hundreds of sheep and cattle in
that vicinity which neither hay nor
salt can save. These are doleful
facts when contrasted with the
abundance and prosperity that reigns
throughout the Sound country. Let
our farmers exercise the virtue of
true gratitude that their lines have
fallen in pleasant places.
A IUMoR comes, that the Oregon
Steam Navigation Company have
purchased the ships Valley Forge
and Garibaldi, now at Astoria, with
the intention of putting them in the
coal trade between New Tacoma, AS
toria and Portland. If this be true,
it augurs much good to the people
of Puyallup valley, having failed as
thev already have in several enter