Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-06-17
News BrevitieS.


Albany.
The outlook for crops in Kentucky
is very unpromising.
There are AZ horses in training at
the Walla Walla race track.
Crickets are devasting many Ct
the ranches on Burnt river.
Southern Oregon will produce a
fine crop of peaches this year.
The Columbia river NJ. E. Con-
ference will meet at Colfax on the 4th
day of August.
A son of Stephen A. Douglas is to
be Fourth of July orator at Mar
shalltown, Iowa.
The city of Little Rock, Ark, was
flooded by four hours heavy rain;
damage several thousands.
| Louis Muller cut his throat at
Pleaston, CAL, on the 10th, while
delirlous from strong drink.
The negro who grossly assaulted a
little girl at Eutala, Alabama, was
caught in Georgia aud hanged.
Eight hundred Cinnamon went up
this week to work on the railroad be-
tween The Dalles and Cascades.
A few days ago 40 salmon were
caught in one seine in the Columbia
that averaged 40 pounds piece.
A South Carolina plantation is to
receive Chinese laborers FROM San
Francisco by way of experiment.
White men are contracting the
opium habit on the Canada Pacific
railroad from contact with Chinese.
The buried locomotive at Puyallup
has been lifted fully ten feet, high
enough to permit the ringing of the
bell.
One salmon weighing II pounds
and another of ~ pounds were
taken mouth of the Columbia last
week.
A private message states that a
cyclone at Scion City, KS, on the
9th, killed two persons and did much
damage.
Secretary Waite writes that the
celebration of the Fourth will not
lprobably be included in the State
Fair hereafter.
There are three vessels loading at
Tacoma with lumber, and the mill is
being pushed to its utmost limit to
give them quick dispatch.
The condition of Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln, who is now at Springfield,
Illinois, is such that little hope of
her recovery is entertained.
An Indiana court has decided that
while cash collections may be made
in church on Sunday, q SUBSCRIPTION
made on that day is not binding.
The former proprietors of the Con.
stituti0n at Keokuk, Ia, have bought
the Springfield Register and will give
Illinois a first-class Democratic pa
per.
H. P. Isaacs of Walla Walla re-
ceived last week q fine lot of carp
from Sonoma, Cal. They were
placed in the reservoir of the North
Pacific mills.
A telegram states that q hundred
persons were killed and six injured
by an earthquake which recently de-
wasted q number of villages in the
passalie of Van, Armenia.
The Umatilla Chiefs have signed
an agreement with the Oregon Rail-
way & Navigation Co. granting right
of way through the reservation at the
rate of 81 so an acre for improved
land.
The wool crop of western Wash.
ington this season as estimated at
$40. 600 pounds, an increase of 49,
600 pounds over last year. The
average clip per head is about four
pounds.
Miss M. M. Gillett, of Wisconsin,
has been appointed notary public for
the District of Columbia, the first
instance where a woman has received
such an appointment from the
President.
The Goldendale Gazette prints this Il
The crickets have eaten up several
acres of grain for Mr.. Bothrock and
Mr.. Pittman, of high prairie. But
they do not fear any farther damage
from them.
In Portland, d. P. Thompson has
been nominated for Mayor, Ad. Bach |
man for Treasurer, and w. B. Honey
man, Capt. Chas Holman, John w.
Brace and John P. Raleigh for
Councilmen.
The annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will
meet in East Portland on the 18th
of August next. Bishop E. o. Ha-
ven, who now resides in San Fran
cisco, will preside.
1t is intended if possible to run
trains on the railway through the
St. Gothard tunnel by electricity
which is to be produced by machines |
now employed in pumping DIR into
workings and for other purposes.
Crops on the lower Cbehalis river
never looked better than at present. |
Every indication is that the largest
results over known will be obtained |
by, the farming community. Espec-
tally does the hay crop look well.
Many of the discharged census
clerks are working in hopes that
deficiency bill will be passed next
Congress. This will cause investiga. !
ton as to the manner Of expanding
the former APPROXIMATIONS for census