Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-07
News ISrQyetieS.

Seattle coal miners shipped 49,
600 tons of coal during June.
Eighty-car loads of gravel each
day are dumped in the long tlestlc
between Chehalis and Centerville.
The new town site of Whatcom
will be located about half a mile
north of the colony mill, in compare
lively open ground. The survey is
now being made.
Jerome Porter, ESQ.,, has pur-
chased from H. S. Hogaboom, of
Walla Walla, the fine young colt,
Orange Blossom" by Orange
County" The price paid was 500.
The Laconner oatmeal mill is fast
nearing completion, and will be ready
to commence operations in about two
months. The mill will have a ca
pacity of grinding about 5000 or
5000 pounds per day.
W. F. Crosby, as the agent of
Christie & Wise, of San Francisco,
has bought all the wool in Pierce
county. amounting to GO, 900 pounds,
which is good crop. MIR. Crosby
has bought the wool crops of that
county for three years past.
W. H. Morrill, has been awarded
the contract for building the Pierce
county court house at New Tacoma,
for G,S5J. The contract requires
the building to be finished by No.
vember l, on penalty of $50 per
day for every day thereafter until
completed.
Inc new gang recently received
by the Tacoma Mill Company from
Pennsylvania is the largest on the
coast, and will cut 12O, 900 feet of
lumber daily. 1t is a ponderous
machine and will require a founda-
ton Of the most solid character, a
single item in the construction of
which will be $50 barrels of cement.
The Puyallup Hop-growers' Asso-
citation intend to use all lawful
means in their power to prevent the
selling of whisky to Indians during
the hop-picking season. To this
end they have asked the Territorial
Supreme Court to appoint a United
States Commissioner for Puyallup
valley, and recommend J. V. Meek
er for the position.
The Washington Steamboat and
transportation company, with a cap
ital stock of 100000, was incorpor-
ated at Utsalady on the Goth ult.
The company is composed of num-
Der OF the solid men of Port Gamble
and Utsalady, whose object is to own
and operate line of steamers on
Puget Sound and the rivers empty
ing INTO it. The officers are as fol-
lows: President, d. B. jackson;
Secretary, Il. s. Jacobs; business
manager, H. j. Olney.
Seattle Chronicle: A little three
year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
llngf"rd, living on Lake Washing
ton, twelve miles from Seattle, while
playing on the door step last Tues
day. was attacked by an eagle and
elevated eight or ten feet from the
ground. The screams of the little
one brought Mrs. Wallingford to the
rescue, who succeeded finally in
driving the eagle away. The child's
shoulders and arms were consider
ably lacerated by the sharp talons of
the eagle. The mother was so over
come with excitement that she has
since been Frustrated. 1t was sub
sequently ascertained that the eaa lie,
or rather a pair Of them, had a nest
IN the cliff of rock about 100 rods
distant from the house, and it is
reasonable to presume that had not
the little child's mother put in a
timely appearance, the body of the
little one would have been carried to
the cliff and it's tender flesh torn i'll
shreds and divided among the young
eagles. MIR. WallinSford's rifle, how
ever, has put a quietus on any fur
Their depredations by this particular
pair of marauders. The largest OF
the two eagles measured 8 feet from
tip to tip, and weighed nearly fifty
pounds.