Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-01-18

One inch of snow covered the
ground Wednesday morning.
The Ddkota left Seattle yesterday
aud will leave Victoria on Monday.
Troy DYE, of Sacramento, has
been convicted of murder in the first
degree, for the killing of A. M.
Tullis.
CALIFORNIA has recently been de-
luged with rain in the lowlands and
visited by heavy falls of snow in the
mountain districts.
The young man, Jacob Swards,
the last of the O'Shea robbers and
murderers, has been found guilty of
murder in the second degree.
A PORTLAND editor says the cheap
est way to settle back rents is to buy
an ulster. We generally use good
sized needle with double No. so
thread
AT last accounts, our townsman,
MIR. s. W. Hall was enjoying the
freedom OF the city of Portland,
awaiting an opportunity to embark
for the East with his protector.
HAPPY the farmer, about these
days, who has ga little farm we'll
titled, q little wife we'll willed," and
a great big barn we'll filled with val
liable stock and feed enough to last
them all Winter.
MEssRs. Buchtel g. Stolte, the
photographers of Portland have dis
solved partnership, and the business
is continued by Mr.. Buchtel, who
has been engaged therein in the
same city, a quarter Of a century.
Mr.. Oliver is in town, with au-
thority to institute Lodge of the
"Ancient Order of United Workmen,"
a fraternal and beneficiary organiza-
tion composed of men of all useful
professions and occupations. This
order is similar in its object and
working to the life insurance pro-
vision in Odd Fellowship.
The recent murder, at Orcas Is
land revives, an old gossip to the eff
feet that, the squaw who shot Phil
lips was the former mistress of u. 8.
Judge Fitzhugh, we'll known in this
Territory, and that the young half
breed who figured in the melee is
an illegitimate child, born while
the Judge and Indian woman were
living together.
Mr.. Thomas Spain who was shot
at Kalama, the other day, while at
tempting to escape from the custody
of United States Marshal, died at
that place on Wednesday evening last,
from the effects of his wound. There
are some sad details connected with
this affair, Mr.. Spain having been
one of the first settlers at Kalama
and his only offence was giving a
bottle of liquor to an Indian.
AN advertisement is going tho
rounds of the papers to the effect
that, if one Joseph Thompson, g
printer, is still on this side of Hades,
the Portland Standard would be
pleased to hear from him. Now this
is rather severe on the honored frater-
nifty; plainly, though unjustly inn
plying that printers destiny is
either in this world or the fervid re-
gions which we all hope to avoid.
Mr.. Philip Hiltz, who left Olym-
pia about three years ago, has re-
turned to his first love, declaring
that, of all pleasant and beautiful
towns the world over, this is the
place in which to spend ones days.
He has tried Oregon and California,
but fails to find the land of his
dreams, and now comes back to our
classic shades, accompanied by his
household, hopeful and wiser man.
"THE Alta California Almanac and
Book of Facts, for the current year.
comes to us from the enterprising
publishers despite of mail detention
by snow and ice, or perils of the sea.
1t is a neat little pamphlet of one
hundred pages, containing review
of the industries and commerce OF
the Pacific Slope for 1878, besides
almost an infinite variety of just
such items of information as every
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