Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-07
News Breyities.

There are thirteen prisoners await,
ing trial in the Jail at Walla Walla.
A cabbage head weighing q
pounds is shown in Vancouver from
the farm of H. L. Caples.
\ radsh 5 feet inches in length,
and Is inches in circumference is
one of the products of Yakima
county.
During the month of September
the steamers from San Francisco
landed over 500 tons of merchandise
at New Tacoma.
Mr.. V. G.. Bogue has been APP
pointed chief nsineer of the Cascade
surveys on the Northern Pacific, vice
Col. l. W. Smith, resigned.
Sprague, twenty five miles below
Cheney, has been selected as the
place for the round house, repair
shops and end of the division.
Fifty head, out of drove of $50
horses, were drowned while fording
Snake river at the mouth of the
Grand Ronde few days since.
Mary j., wife S. D. Maxon of Van
couver, died at her home in that city
on tho 25th inst. She was one of
the Oldest residents OF Clarke county.
A bridge is to be built across the
Touchet ten miles below Prescott
which will require about 10000 feet
of material. This will be shipped
! on tie cars to Prescott and hauled
the remaining ten miles.
The Spokane county teachers in
stitute held an interesting session at
Cheney on the 9th, 28th and 29th
of September. Fifteen teachers, u
of whom were ladies, took part in
the discussions and work of the in
stitute.
Bears are very troublesome in the
Nooksack country. Five fine hogs
were carried of by them in the neigh
borhood of Barnes prairie last week.
Farmers in the region have COM
bined for the destruction of the
brutes, and report one large black
bea- as . trophy of their determin-
alton.
A lively meeting of the Spokan
county woman suffrage association
was held at Cheney on the 9th ult.
1t was unanimously resolved that the
right of suffrage and all the civil and
political right now enjoyed by men
shall be extended to all persons born
or naturalized in the United States
of America.
1t is rumored that Henry Willard
and his associates have purchased a
tract of l 400 acres of land at Free
port, near Seattle, and that the New
castle road will be eventually run to
that point There is some doubt OF
the statement, as we have not
noticed anything concerning it in the
Seattle papers.
| j. B. Huntington, formerly largely
interested in cattle growing in east
ern Washington, has sold his ranch
and all his cattle in the Territory
except about twenty thorougbreds to
Ben Snipes. He will take his re-
serve band to Burnt river, in Baker
county, where he has about 1000
head of cattle and large band of
horses.
1t is understood that Gen. Ander-
sons report is adverse to building
the Northern Pacific railroad over
the Cascade range north of the Col
umbia. He possibly sides with Gen.
Deane, in the belief that the bail OF
the pot is no longer lying down than
standing up. Hence the route from
Aiusworth to the mouth of the Kick
itat will be constructed.
The wharves, lumber and ship
yards, machine shops, mills and
booms at Port Gamble, occupy fif-
teen acres. The common tides rise
to fourteen feet there. The extreme
high tides are eighteen feet. The
towns and mills are supplied with
pure water. The saw logs are
peeled. The lengths Of lumber
sawed there are from 20 to 40 feet.
The Oregon Railroad and Navi-
cation Company's agent at Dayton,
Eastern Washington Territory, has
been instructed to bill wheat from
that point to Astoria at 50 Is per
ton. This price is 81 Is more per
ton than to Portland, and may be
considered as lighterage, from Port
land down to partially loaded ships.
The same rate is charged from Walla
Walla to Astoria.
The Dakota, on her last down trip
from the Sound took ten tons of
pump logs from Olympia, $40 tons
of barrel material and 434 bales hops
at Tacoma; 200 half barrels salmon,
Is, 600 feet of lumber, 700 sacks oats,
Is dry hides, 80 green hides, IS
bales of hops, 200 tons barrels ma
telial, z bales sheep skins, 2 bales
deer skins and 6 tons general mer-
chandise from Seattle.
At the banking house of Dexter
Horton IL Co., in Seattle, are to be
seen some very large chunks of gold,
which were recently taken from the
Swauk mines, and bought by John
Shoudy, a merchant Of Ellensburg,
who brought them to that city. The
largest chunk weighs $500; the next
$102 so; the next $40, and 80 on
down to twenty dollar nuggets, of
which there are quite q number.
The question has often been asked
what Henry Willard intends doing
with his big iron steamships. 4
rumor is now prevalent among high
business circles that Willard is about
to send steamship to Liverpool
with cargo of wheat. Returning.