Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-01
News BrevitieS.

ANSVo
Temperature highest for so years
in New Orleans.
Hops cornered; asking price 25c
in San Francisco on the 18th.
New York saloon keepers are or
ganizing to make beer for their own
saloons.
1t costs as much to send machine
ry to Mexico as the original price Of
the machinery.
Seven Hungarian gypsies arrived
flom London on the 2lst bound for
the prairies of the West.
A Puyallup hop vine recently
grew 10 inches in "a hours. One
could almost see it crawl.
c. B. Sperry, of Seattle, writes
that the Takou, Alaska, quartz mines
are undoubtedly very rich.
The new Catholic Church for the
ludiaus is being built at the forks of
the GIeen and White rivers.
There are several Swedish families
now on their way to Clarke county,
coming from the old country.
California taxpayers are going
after the big monopolies with view
to making them pay good share of
the taxes.
Mr.. j. A. Barker Is now General
Auditor of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road, with his Office at % Fifth
Avenue, New York.
1t is reported that j. w. Champ
bell has discovered quarry of lime
rock on the Columbia river, not far
from Lewis river, Oh the same side.
Over 100000 feet of lumber have
been received at Puyallup during
the month of June. Forty thousand
more are ordered for immediate de-
livery.
Major Alden has let contract for
clearing twenty acres of land, stu
ated one mile from New Tacoma, ten
acres of which he will have planted
in hops.
Prof. Klein, of Hartford, KY,
claims that he discovered the pres
ent comet last September, and
brings letters to prove it. He says
that it is the comet of 1888.
A severe wind and rain storm visit
ed Washington D. c., on the 2Sth,
blowing down some houses, unroof-
ing prominent buildings, bursting
sewers and doing other damage.
The directors of the Great Eastern
Steamship Co. have decided to offer
the Great Eastern at public auction
on the LIST of October next, unless
previously disposed of at private
sale.
The first kiln of brick ever made
in New Tacoma is now being burned.
The kiln only contains about 10000
bricks, but the intention of the
company is to put from 100000 to
3OO,O in those to follow.
A ditch eight feet wide and five
feet deep and three. quarters of a
mile long, is to be cut Immediately
south OF Puyallup. The land is to
be cleared and is suitable for market
gardens. hop yards or meadows.
Tacoma Ledger: Last Monday
morning Conductor Lindsay's train
brought from Carbon Hill one train
of 81 cars of coal amounting to 400
tons. This is the longest and heav-
lest train ever hauled over the road.
The village of Valois, Switzer-
land, consisting of 800 houses, was
entirely destroyed by fire on the
2Sth. One house was set on fire by
lightning and the flames under a
high wind rapidly spread over the
whole village.
The three masted schooner nearing
completion in Hall Bros yard at
Port Blakely is being built for Dol.
beer & Carson, of San Francisco,
and will be launched in about two
weeks. She will be called the VII.
liam Carson, after O member of the
firm to which she belongs.
The proposition to levy q special
tex of $4,000 in Seattle to build
new schoolhouses was voted down
by the people of that district. The
day was quite stormy, and but 161
votes were polled, % for and 13s
against the proposition. Quite g
number OF ladies voted on the cues.
ton.
The sealers off Cape Flattery have
given mp the business for this year.
They would have done we'll had it
not been for four or five weeks bad
weather in the middle of the season,
when the seals were most numerous,
and when their catch could not be
attempted on account of high winds
and rough water.
The Grand Lodge of British Co.
lumbia held its third annual session
in Victoria last week. From being
in debt $500 in 1878, the Grand
Lodge now has in hand S.. $3.50. The
now officers arc G. Nj. Chanbe
Grand Master; Henry Brown, Dep.
uty Grand Master; w. T. Livock
Senior Grand Warden, Eli Harrison
Junior Grand Warden.
Last week MIR. Isaac Abby of Um:-
tilla county, while driving band oil
sheep over the Blue Mountains, lost
all of the animals except $50 in q
very singular manner. While pass