Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-02
News BreyitieS.

year.
General Hancock SAYS lie cou- 'drra
Arthur patriotic man, ard on,
whom the people could truss III iii"
Presidential chair.
All mail matter for Ike Insane
Hospital should be addressed 20
Fort St,ilacoum, Il postotlice havin.
been established there
Miss ). A. ODDS, daughter ii he
former proprietor of tie MLden
(Neb.) Bee, who did 1t y months
ago, IS low conducting that paper.
\ Terri oria! CONVENTION vas held
at Harrisburg, Alaska, on the 10Th
and Il strong memorial adopted, de-
mauding of tongrcs, some form of
government.
1t has recently come to light jhat
some seventeen Nez Perces were
massacred by the Sioux, under Sit
ting Bull, in the North, month or
six weeks ago.
The Chief Engineer on the North
ern Pacific road, Gen. Anderson,
: arrived at Ainsworlh on the 23d ult.
! and will proceed TO Tacoma by way
of the Green river pass.
In Pierce county there are seven
ty-live persons who pay tax on more
than $4,000 and less than SIC, 900,
and thirteen who are assessed for
more than the last named sum.
Hop picking will commence on
September 5th, and the Indiars are
getting ready for their yearly harvest.
General Mllroy will suspend the
schools during the picking season.
The city of Liverpool is making
preparations to obtain supply of
water from the mountains of Wales
by an acGueduct of G7 miles. The
works will cost three million pounds
sterling.
| A man and wife named Temple
were killed in their house by light,
ming stroke near Fulton, ILL.,, on the
25th. Their five little children who
were in the house with them escaped
uninjured.
The County Commissioners of
Thurston county appropriated 500
per annum to aid i'll the operation of
the NesqualiS ferry on condition that
Pierce county should appropriate
the same sum.
The Cars lot is decidedly not a
happy one. He has lately received
models of different weapons and en-
glnes of assa ssination, with a with. ii
request that he should select one to
be used upon his own person.
/ Nine brick buildings are in course
of erection III Boise City, the aisest
of which is the new court house.
Two Are private re sciences and the
other six for business purposes, three
of Them being nearly completed.
The Board of Trustees of the Walla
Walla and Columbia River Railroad
elected the following officers at their
last meeting: President 7. +. Cakes;
ce-President, H. Nj. Chase; Trea-
surer, H. NJ. Chase; s. cretary, c. B.
Upton.
Mr.. /. W. Anderson, lessee of the
lime works on the Pu. .llup river,
situated about fifteen miles from
New Tacoma, has contracted to de-
liver l 300 tons of lime rock to the
Oswego Iron Company, to be used
in fuxing.
Private advices received in Paris
state that the explorer, Stanley, is
lying dangerously ill half way be-
tween Stanley pool and the mouth
of the Congo. He has so little
faith in his own recovery that he has
made his will.
The Bannock and Soshone Indians
have consented to provide for the
occupation by the Utah and North
ern Railroad Company of a strip of
land across their reservation,
amounting in the aggregate to 772
acres. For this lanG the Indians re-
ceive &C. 900.
Kalama, according to O'Meara
was the daughter of Kamehameha ],
and the Queen CT Kamehameha III,
and fourished in Honolulu thirty
years ago. Washingtonians gener-
ally imagine hat Kalama is an Indian
name, belonging exclusively to our
own fair Territory.
In the State of Iowa this season
storms and insects have produced n
loss extimated at sixty million bush
els of corn, and seventeen million
bushels of wheat. This is some
thing enormous and represents a
loss in money value 10 the State, of
at least SIS 100000
Gen. Francis A. Walker, having
accepted the Presidency of the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology,
will in October cease to be Superin-
tendent of the Census, in which post
he may possibly be succeeded by
| MIR. Robert L. Porter.
Mrs. F. Nj. Smith, the only white
woman on Ounalaska Island, is
spending good portion of her time
in teaching the little half-breeds
She has formed class, the members
of which are proving themselves
very apt pupils. This is of course,
charity work.
Some time ago an effort was made
to convert the late Mr.. Spotted Tail
to the Christian faith. After the
scheme of salvation lad been fully
unfolded to him, rs remarked:
white religion no good. God
come on earth, white man kill him.
Indian wouldn't do that.
The coal recently discovered on
the Palouse is causing more or less