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

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trouble among the Apaches.
Seventeen cents per pound hat @
been refused for ho lay som OF
the rii~crs in Hing coany.
Foar sunstrokes III Boston and
suburbs On the ID, one fatal. Their
,n.meter 90. the second hottest day
o. the season.
One man killed, another crouabl,
fatally shocked and ii house dis,
maniicI bv lightning, at Llwronc"
rs, on the I'd.
An immigrant train OF six wagons
and aboat thirty people Is now III
the Suouu.lmie Pass, heading 10.
.;auak Valley. They are ir'n
Kansas.
The Mattu'ah Manufacturing
Company, doing bush, at S..
Francisco, Puyailup an Stattle,
increased its capital stock from
$250. 900 to $500, 600 last week.
Lewiston lime cost, 50 It barre
laid down i'll Colfax against Sc II
for that from San Juan. The latt i
is much the cheaper, however, Law
ing nearly double the strength Of &c
Lewiston product.
Iormons to the number of $50
sailed on the 9th from England foi
Utah. Switzerland and German,
contribute the greater nuIAber.
AYwo thousand Mormons have left
this Summer.
Tie St. Paul Pioneer Prrss pub
fishes careful estimate Of the whcai
Yield by county sources. The gen
eral average arrived at for the whole
State is .43 bushels to the acre.
This gives total product of Bill,
511 bushels, or about Is per cent.
less than last year.
An Enslshman has invented
sewing machine which it is claimed
is capable of making from 1000 TO
5000 stitches per minute according
to the number of needles employed,
doing in fact the work of twenty per-
sons. This is said to be the first
machine invented that will make
regular running stitch in exact imi-
tation of hand work.
The drought continues throughout
Virginia. It's effects are ruinous.
In many counties corn and tobacco
crops are burnt up. Streams have
gone dry, stopping mills, and farm
ers are put to great labor getting
water for stock. The James river is
lower than for fifty years. Tobacco
crops and Fall crops generally may
be complete failure. Dust in roads
is fearful. The situation is alarming.
Upwards of thirty families in the
township of Wilberforce, Stafford
and Bromley, Ohio, are homeless by
bush fires since the evening of the 1st.
All are distitute, many hungry.
Crops, buildings and everything
possessed were swept away. A
shower of rain in the neighborhood
of Kingston since then was sufficient
toextinguish bush fires. Tue smoke
is very thick and river navigation
much interrupted.
The steamer Chehalis in an easy
position on bar in the Skagit river,
about 500 yards above Mount Yer
an. She struck the same snag that
Sink her once before. A plank for
ty feet long was torn from her hull.
and the water is but q little above
her guards. She had on load of
hay, but it was taken ashore without
damage. The Nellie has taken scows
to her rescue. and it is thou h. she
will be raised without much difficulty
or damage.
The Tammany General Committee
recently adopted anti-monopoly res
olutions, also passed resolution ex-
pressing abOirence ct the attempted
assassination of the President,
rendering sympathy TO him and his
family, and expressing the nope that
his life might be spared. John KEEL
ly made an address in the course of
which he said Hancock was not de-
feated in this city. The rural Demo-
Gratis were accountable for the
ehemy's victory.
The Northern Pacific Company
has in this Territory 81 miles Of
completed railroad from Tacoma
to Wilkeson, log miles from Tacoma
to kalama. and 1873 miles from Aims.
worth to the Idaho line, or 1876 miles
altogether. The Minnesota division
covers length of 227 miles, the
Dakota division of 227 miles. and the
Missouri division of 222 miles. These
four divisions include in all 1,OO1
miles OF completed railroad. What
Will be done in the future can be
conJectured only, but it is said that
the Company's plans, as matured by
Henry Willard, aim at a system Of
ever six thousand miles.
fire was discovered in tho mine
at Newcastle last week and an exam
lnation disclosed it's extent. It was
confined 10 the old workings, above
the No 2 gangway, that have not
oeen used for year past. The fire
Is burning the Stag, remnants of
pillars, &c. and as long as it remains
there, can do no harm. The entries
have been bulkheaded, all the es.
capes closed, and the effort making
Is 10 confine the fire, and inally
smoiner 1t, which last may require
several weeks time to do. Mean
Wnlie the operation of the m;no nc
heretofore ne"a will not be delayed an
AT q meeting of the Victoria Civ
Council last week, proposition was
received from r. B. McMicking and
r.. 4. Baker. aoents 60. ~. &, M