Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28
Tagri Orial Items.

Depot >iou h, near Yaqninl bay, on
June 29.h.
Tue wotk of dragging on the bar
At the IlGurh @: Columbia is in salts
.aciuly pln- =, and is, ii is thought
some benefit.
The Uni'cl Statts has seIzcl sev-
'-ral miil Ia feet of logs and 80 GEO
inhntd ties which al" being hroug ht
down the \ ,hima for the Northern
Pacific
y heavy wind storm visited Walla
Walla Sunday, rolling up the dust
III immense clouds, breaking down All
occasional shade tree, and turning
over one or two c'l:mnrys.
The citizens Of Cheney have formed
a corporation w.th Il capital of 81
900 900, to buIld road from Farm
ington thlouGn CHENEY and Medical
Luke to the Big Bend country.
The total cost of the buildings
and furniture of the Olk-e h:Hrl,
Cheney, will he abuu: SIS ttri. 1t
Will be ready f"r oinmO,iaiIon Of
5;ues on The l-t OF September.
There were eleven bids for build
ihr the lew school house at Seattle,
the lowest hring sos and the
highest S2S 333. The conilac, will
be let aud the work proceed ut once
The contract for building the new
school house al Vancouver has been
let to j. L. Goss, Il. W. Downing
and G. ID. Wilcox, for SIG, S04. The
building is to he ready for occupancy
by Dec. l-t next.
Lieut.. q. b. Backus, LIST cavalry,
has been ordered to accompany
Lieut.. Henry II. Pierce, 2lst in-
fan,ry, in scientific geographical
expedition through the Northern
part of Washington Territory.
The asylum gardens at Steilacoom
furnished this year 49, gallons of
strawberries. Tue improvements
to be made to the asylum buildings
this year will cost S2,40J. OF the
lib patients now under treatment
there twenty are women.
Davenport is the name of the
new town recently started at Cotton
wood springs, ana given after one of
the townslte PROJECTORS, John G.
Davenport, CT Cheney. 1t is located
i'll one of The finest farmin. countries
north of Snake river, and one that
is rapidly developing.
The basis of representation for
the coming Territorial Republican
Convention will, his year, leave
Eistern Washington sixteen votes
short of a majority. Should East
crn Washington insist upon havln5
the Delegate aud Puget Sound OBJ
ject, the river counties would decide
between them.
There are thirteen prisoners in the
United States prison on Mcneil Is
land, Two miles from Steilacoom.
Nine of these are incarcerated for
selling whiskey to Indians, two for
robbiug the mails and two for muir
der. During the daytime the men
are occupied out of doors, in the
garden, making shingles, etc.
Last week Indians to the number
of l 900 met near the mouth of Rock
creek to have what they called their
4th of July, which lasted several
days. 1tconsisted of feasting, dane.
ing and horse. racing The Uma.illa,
Yakima and Warm Spring tribes
were represented, the first named
getting away with nearly al the
prizes.
The contract has been let for the
new Vancouver school house, the
price being SIG 1874. With school
house like that money will build
and with a new $40, 900 courthouse,
Vancouver will do Very we'll this year
in the matter of public buildings,
and with the orphan asylum, the
military station, etc, it will be as
we'll provided with public buildings
as perhaps any other town i'll the
country OF 1000 inhabitants.
The n. Z. r. II. Co. are opening
a wagon road from Carbonate to
their new coal minds which lie one
and half miles east of Carbonate.
They have sent east for diamond
drills, with which it is proposed to
prospect the veins. They have one
vein that has been traced for dis
lance of two miles and runs six feet
thick. Besides this they have two
more veins opened, all of which are
found to contain excellent bltrmin-
Gus coal.
Among the accomplishments at
tanned by the Puyallup Indian boys,
who have been attending school at
Forest Grove, Oregon, is the art or
science of playing base ball. The
other day they played against a
picked "nine" from Tacoma. and
beat the whites badly. They are now
anxious to play against the Seattle
boys for a purse of Sl,OO0-$500 a
side. The Tacoma people agree to
raise one-half of the purse for the
Puyallup players, providing they
themselves will raise corresponding
amount.
Says the Pierce county Netcs: A
few days since, while coming to Ta-
coma on Sound steamer from Vic.
toria, which had on board large
number of Chinese, a gentleman was
given a cigar by one of those who
had the Chinese in charge. The
weight of the article aroused suspi-
cion and when attempting to light it
our friend found it to he Il solid mass
of opium covered with tobacco leaf
i'll imitation of large aid we'll made
cigar. The donor had made mis-