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

Epictus How; Comptroller, John
Hooper; Attorney-General, Dennis
c Fealy; Treasurer, Allen Ct. Woods;
Surveyor General, J. H. Gould
Associate Judge of the Court of
Appeals, l.. G.. McParlan.
Tie following ticket WAS nom-
nnted by lie Ma>.:.c':' cts Green
hackers III conyen:!ui. i; Worcester
% the 2ith: Governor Israel W.
Andrews: Lieutenant Governor,
George Dutton; Treasurer, Gt orge
Porter; Secretary. \. b. Brown
Auditor, Wilhnr I. Whiting; At
toYney-Gencial, d. o. Allen.
The Alliance I5rae!it. niversolie,
of Which d. J. S"lioman is Tiea.ulcr.
appeals for funds to aid in bringing
to America oppressed Jews Of Russia
The first ins!allment Of emi.rauts is
expected in a few days. Land is TO
bo secured for them in the south
and west. They state that only
worthy and deserving persons will
he brought over.
The indications ale that Gen.
Grant has come into possession Of
the Jones fund of IL quarter of II
million, raised for the purpose OF
relieving him from the indulgence
which, it was said some time ago,
was oppre ssing him. He has pur-
chased an elegant house Oh Sixty
sixth street, off Fifth avenue, New
York, for 500, 600.
The Western Union telegraph
lines from Puyallup to Carbonate,
the new coal mines, and from La
Conner to the Dominion govern.
ment line, n distance of 65 miles, is
about completed. aud a line from
Walla Walla to Dayton was recently
completed. 1t will be continued on
to Culfax. On the Northern Pa
cific it has reached tAe boundary
line between ashiugton and Idaho
What is known rs The jacob For.
syth tract comprising 5000 acres in
the region of Wolf lake, below South
Chicago, has been purchased for 81 :.
200, 900 by a syndicate composed OF
the chief manipulators of the West
ern Indiana, the Chicago Belt and
New York, st. Louis and Chicago
roads. The track is said to COM
mand 40 miles of water frontage,
and the plan is to create manu-
featuring center to rival Pullman.
The building of the o. R. g. n.
Cos. trestle over Milestone Hollow
is gigantic piece of work, but is
progress nc rapidly. 1t will be $50
feet long, 80 feet high, and will be
what is known as three story tres
tie. The lumber is fitted together
on the ground and then hoisted in
position by means of an engine.
Five hundred thousand feet of selec.
ted lumber will be used in the con-
struction of this masterpiece of en-.
gineering.
The Puget Sound Iron Company is
about to erect rolling mills, the exact
locality being as yet undetermined.
Either San Francisco, Oakland or Pu.
get Sound will be chosen, as future
events may determine. Some of the
gentlemen connected with the enter.
prise would like to have Oakland be.
come the favored place, says the Oak.
land Times, but they have encoun.
tered serious objections among thei,
colleagues. There is a general i'm.
preston that the city is misgoverned
and that taxes are unreasonably
high.
The land at and near the mouth
of Chimacum creek, at Irondale, has
been examined by Inspectors Morgan
and Bullene, DR.. Wilson and 9TH
ers, with view of ascertainipg how
high dam could be built without
causing backwater to disturb Chin
acum valley farmers. 1t was found
that something like a so feet fill
could be obtained easily. The oh.
ject Immediately in view is the cree.
zion of sawmill. As the gulch a,
the mouth of the creek is quite mar.
row, and the round a firm clay, the
cost of erecting u dam would be
quite reasonable.
A great conference of Methodists
from all parts of the world is to be
held in London in the City Road
Tabernacle, which is the spot en-.
deared to the hearts of all Metho-
dists by the ministrations of the
illustrious John Wesley. The pro-
ject of holding this International
Conference took its rise last year at
the Cincinnati Conference. 1t is
stated that DIR. j. B. McFerrin OF
Nashville, Tennessee. will in all
probability be the oldest minister
present. He has been fifty-six years
in the ministry. He is in fair
health, and recently made short
address at reception given at the
old John street Methodist Episcopal
Church, New York.
In the Oregon Penitentiary are
now 1877 convicts. nearly all of whom
are laboring under contract. Twenty
are building the Insane Asylum, ff-
teen working in an iron foundry,
fifty-five in brick yard, three in q
tanuery, twelve in a chair factory
and four in a blacksmith shop.
There are also $50 acres of good
farming land connected with the
prison; this is run by the convicts.
This year they have in about thirty
acres of wheat, forty of oats, ten
of rye and twelve acres in garden,
where vegetables of all kinds are
growing in rank profusion. They
also keep between fifty and sixty
head of hogs, which furnish all the
bacon used at the prison.
The work of tbreshing has so far
advanced in Umatilla county that a
general idea of the result nav he ar