Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-01
WashingtOnians.

La Conner celebrated st. Patrick's
Day with clam-bake."
Fourteen Indians paid taxes in
klickitat county last week.
\ White Salmon, Klickitat county,
correspondent writes that the Fall
wheat is looking fine and was benefit
ed by the deep snow.
The expense of running the Seattle
schools with twelve teachers is $3.50
per month. There are sufficient
funds on hand to run the term until
the first week in June.
judge Wingard has finally decreed
that the county seat of Spokan county
shall be located at Cheney, pursuant
to the desire of the ma ority of voters
as expressed at the last general
election.
Gen. Sprague intends closing the
south channel of the Puyallup at
Commencement Bay with a dam. y
great deal of tide land will be thus
reclaimed and the building of track
yards, etc, facilitated.
Walla Walla, in the Indian Ian
guage of its origin, signifies many
streams, and is the name given riv-
err in Eastern Washington, on account
of its being fed by the Touchet, the
Coppei, Spring Branch, Dry, Mill,
Russell and Garrison Creeks.
Sheriff Marsh, of Whitman county,
recently accompanied woinsane per-
sons to the Steilacoom asylum-a
Mr.. Ashworth, who is a monomaniac,
and VIM. Gullich, man who has
given the public of that country COLI
siderable trouble heretofore as q
criminal and lunatic.
Mr.. Hansee of Seattle, has been
engaged in purchasing cows during
the present month, to stock dairy
ranch hear that place. He bought
about 80 head in all, mostly in Che
halls county. The prices ranged
from S25 to S35, averaging about
$50, which is much more than has
been the ruling rate for several
years past.
In that portion of the city known
as South Seattle, says the Post, two
enterprising ladies' undertook to
grade Il piece of ground, thirty five
feet in length by twenty-five feet in
width and five feet in depth. 1t was
very hard digging, being clay and
gravel. They had to remove earth
some distance, but they worked
industriously, and at the end of .
week had accomplished their task,
showing what energy and ambition
will do for The fair sex. They found
numerous Indian relics, old coins,
medals large quantity of beads,
bones, skulls, ETC., while eXcavating,
and presumably supposed the spot
was an Indian buryins ground i'll
days gone by.
According to Agent Milroy, the
Suuaxon reservation, which is on all
island near Olympia, has an area of
l ,492.15 acres. Connected with it
are about 100 Indians, old and young,
male and female, only two-thirds
Of whom make it their permanent
homo. The whole of the reservation
was allotted 70 81 Indians in Novem-
Der, 1878, but as yet titles have been
withheld. The Indians for subsis-
tence depend almost wholly upon
gathering and selling oysters and
clans, and upon working around
among the whites. Agriculture among
them is practically unknown. The
condition of the SqunXons is deplor-
able. They are without government
and, being few and feeble,
are exposed to vice, superstition, ig-
noranc., barbarism and kindred evils.
Their children have no schools to
attend, and the government alone
has the power and ability to rescue
them from lives Of the lowest and vii