Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14
BURR still continues to distribute

our letters.
Our present rough weather may
be considered the after-piece of the
late wind-storm.
On Sunday, March 9th, the snow
was sixteen feet deep at Summit,
California, and more was coming
down.
HoRATIo G. Burchard has been
confirmed as Director of the Mint,
and took the oath of Office on the 9Th
instant.
SEATTLE wants somebody to estab-
lish q large tannery on the Sound,
q project which we suggested some
time ago.
Rev. D. Thomas will hold service
at the Church on Chambers Prairie,
next Sunday, March 10th, at 8
o'clock p. NJ.
Mrs. Thomas delivered o very in
teresting lecture on Temperance in
the Congregational Church last Sum
day evening.
AN arctic exploring expedition, to
be fitted out at San Francisco and
proceed to Behring's Strait, is now
under advisement.
JouN D. Whitney, charged with
the murder of Oliver HILBERT, was
acquitted on his second trial, at Sa-
lem, last Saturday.
The steamer Olympia, recently
purchased by the Hudson Bay Com
pany, is to have her name changed
to Princess Louise.
The Blue Ribbon League, owing
to the zeal and enthusiasm of its
membership. is getting to be one of
the abiding institutions of Olympia.
UNDER the head of the usual
VERDICT" the pro-law and order pa
pers of Utah are indignant over the
acquittal of Burton, the murderer
of Mrs. Bowman.
IT is now understood that Senator
Jones, of Nevada, will be the cham
pion of the people on the Pacific
coast in the Chinese legislation, and
will introduce o new bill in the Sem
ate.
If motives of humanity are not suf-
ficiently potent, mercenary consid-
erations should move the owners OF
pilch cows to provide suitable shell
ter for their animals during the con-
tinuance of the inclement weather.
The " Original Hutchinson Fam
lily" announce that they are about to
visit this part of the coast. Twenty
FIVE years ago, this family was made
up of middle-aged men and women.
Perhaps they have renewed their
youth.
CHEAP fare on the steamers plying
between San Francisco and Portland
is having the effect OF stocking Ore
gon and our Territory with hordes
of roughs that for years have been
the terror of the good people of Cal
ifornia.
THE extent to which railroad mon
opoly is carried may be inferred
from the fact that it takes the price
of twenty bushels of wheat to pay
the expense of transporting one car
load of the same commodity over
the Union Pacific railway bridge at
Omaha. ..
THE fishermen's meeting advertised
to be held at Astoria, passed off
quietly on Tuesday last, and it is
thought that the difficulties hereto
fore existing in the trade have been
so far amicably settled that no more
disturbance is apprehended between
proprietors and their employees.
CONDENSED reports show that the
number of vessels lost or missing,
bound to or from United States
ports during the month of Novem-
ber, is sixty-two. OF these, twenty
six were wrecked, twelve abandoned
or sunk by collision, one capsized,
seven fcundered, and twelve are
missing. The list embraces three
steamers, three ships, nine barks,
nine briggs, and the remainder schoon-
ers. The total value, exclusive OF
cAruoes is estimotel nt about ST