Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-08-26
News Brevities.

III 'uo tclcS idiju OllCc III Lewiston
last week.
Horses are in training for the
races at the Territorial Fmr soon tc
t.ke place at Olympia.
The hop crop ON the PuyalIup will
he the heaviest known for wears.
harvesting will begin - W, x.
y fire at Big R;,pl,,, =, michigan, on
the 18th destroyed 50 buildings,
comprising nearly thu who town.
The Cascade Mountain Road Com.
plny have declared their usual
monthly dividend OF three per cent.
Aired Daniels, IL weak minded
young man of Cheney, has wandered
away flOn home unt cannrt be
I loud.
Seventeen persons were killed ut
Il bull fight last Sunday in Marsail!es
and % injured. The manager has
been arrested.
The New York Herald expect that
in case Arthur shou Il become Presi-
dent, he will make change in the
Administrator.
/ The Sisters of Charity have en-
gagged to keep The paurers of Clarke
county for the ensuing year at 81 so
per week per capita.
On the 18th, man named Jack
Mckenzie, was killed at Walla Walla
by runaway team he tried to stop.
He had been employed by the o. r.
& n. Co.
The water famine at r chmond,
Va, continues. By order of the
mayor several mill-dams will be cut,
thus stopping The mills.
Mormon mis- ionaries are operat-
ing pretty successfully in Georgia
In White county they have gathered
up several hundred converts, both
white and black.
A San Francisco commercial paper
of the Goth says that the adv ince in
wheat since August has added mill
lions OF dollars to the value of the
wheat OF California.
G. B. Kennedy, steward of the
steamer Victoria, was drowned on
the evening of Friday, the 10Th inst. :,
at San Francisco. 1t is thought that
he committed suicide.
1t is stated that Arthur will not
assume the duties of the President
under the clause IN the Constitution,
which provides for the Vice Presi-
dent to discharge the same in case
of inability, unless asked to do so
by the Cabinet.
The dispatches give a long ac-
count of Guitteau getting hold of q
knife and in the attempt by the
guard to take it away FROM him a
pisol was accidently discharged =.
The whole thing is described by the
warden and deputy, ana looks very
much like sensation.
The Odd Fellows of Puyallup in
tend to build ball. The Library
Association will probably join, SO as
to secure the lower rooms for ger
manent library and reading rooms.
One person offers to donate one hun
dred and fifty dollars on the part of
the library and reading room.
The rate of taxation in Chehalis
county for the year 1881 has been
established as follows: County tax,
8 mills on the dollar; school tax, 4
mills; territorial tax, 8 mills; road
tax, S mills; county poll tax, 50 and
road poll tax 81 ON each male in
habitaDt, between the age of 81 and
so.
The Times says that the failure
OF negotiations with France for o
new commercial treaty must result
in serious curtailment of our trade
with her. A good fifth part of her
foreign trade will be annihilated by
her own act and along with it,
cordiality and good will, which q
profitable foreign trade does much
to establish and maintain.
General Noyes ssys that the ex.
ceptional prosperity of the United
States was attracting a large immi.
grafton from the old countries and
that the military system in Europe
greatly helped the exodus of thous-
ands of industrious men, who hope
to enjoy in the new world q freer
and more prosperous life than thew
had in the fatherland.
The taxes for 1881 for Clarke
county have been levied as follows:
For county purposes, So. 900, at the
rate of z mills. and poll tax of So
For school purposes, 81 900, at the
rate of 6 mills. For road pur-
poses, $4,000 at the rate of 4 mills.
and "a road poll tax. Three mills
for territorial tax was also levied.
making the tax rate for 1881 twenty
mills, or two per cent.
The Victoria Colonia says: 1t is
rumored that the cause which led to
the quick dispatch of H. NJ. S.
Garnet for the Sandwich islands on
Monday arose from the fact that
telegraphic information was re.
ceived of the intention of the Uni.
ted States to gobble up Kal akua's
Kingdom. 1t is added that the flag.
ship is Fastening toward Honolulu
from the South American coast, and
that the ships of other naval powers
have been ordered to rendezvous
there.
The NJ. E. Conference for Eastern
oregon and Eastern Washington,
was held at Colfax last week. In
the absence of Bishop, Rev. j. H.