Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-03-09
Territorial News.

Territorial News.
Seattle shipped 12,465 tons coal
during February.
Transfers in Seattle property on
the I'd figure up s56,0S6 so.
LaConner Methodists are to build
81 200 church this Spring.
N. P. Larson, recently injured at
the Hoquiam mill, is recovering
rapidly.
The Dayton Chronicle proposes to
issue daily during the coming
Summer.
Hon. jacob Hoover, it is stated,
is about to remove from C0lfax to
Lewiston.
A lodge of United Wolkmen will
soon be organized at Mount Vernon
on the Skagit.
Sales of real estate at Seattle dur
ing February exceeded those of any
previous month.
The proposed Presbyterian uni
versity at Tacoma, has secured $780,
600 IN subscriptions.
P. G.. Carlisle, of Goldendale, aged
~ years, has had his right leg am
putated below the knee.
A movement is on foot at Seattle
to connect the waters of Lake Wash.
ington and Union by canal.
A new salmon cannery is being
built on the north side of the Cheha.
lis river near Cosmopolis, by Benn
L. Gibson.
The Port Discovery sawmill cut
during the year 1882, 100000, 900
feet of lumber, 5000, 900 laths and
80, 600 pickets.
The Ttdete learns that the Puget
Mill Co. will begin the erection of a
large saw mill on the Chehalis river
near Cosmopolis.
W. II. Fem, of Seattle, has been
appointed Warden of the Territorial
Insane Asylum, in place of Mr..
Peterson, resigned.
Cold weather has damaged Shoal-
water Bay oyster beds, and it is
thought the trade will be seriously
affected this Spring.
The pew national bank at Port
Townsend will have a capital of $50
600. Henry Landes will be Presi-
dent and r. G. Hill Cashier.
The tug Tacoma towed from Sam.
ish to Tacoma last week raft con-
tanning 100000, feet of saw logs.
This was the largest single raft ever
towed on the Sound.
Ten years ago one steamboat
could hardly pay expenses running
down the east shore of Puget Sound.
Now ten boats are kept constantly
busy over the same route.
Toklas & Singerman have sold the
Brownfeld farm, on Lake Union, to
De Kozlowski for $40, 400. The new
owner intends laying it out in FIVE
acre homestead tracts, and putting
it on the market.
A wooden mill at Tacoma seems a
certainty. Arrangements are now
being made to erect a building and
procure machinery. The agreeme
calls for its completion within six
months from January "a.
John Brown, Skasit river logger,
was imprudent enough 10 faster a
heavy boom chain AROUND his neck,
and when he slipped off log into
the water he could not free himself
from the burden, and was drowned.
On Wednesday last. a sailor be-
longing to the ship CITY Of Brook
Ign, at Seattle, fell from yard arm
into the water, striking the rail in
his descent. Death was immediate
and the body has not been recov-
cred.
The steamer Erangel ran into and
nearly split in two the steamer Col
! far on the Sound last Saturday. The
accident, it is said, was caused by
the breaking of the whistle rope on
gospel steamer. That boat is always
getting into trouble.
The Port Townsend Star says that
NJ. A. Mcpherson, ex-Presldent OF
the Kansas Colony at Whatcom, has
commenced running the lines for a
railroad from Whatcom to the bound
airy line. He refuses to dlvulge the
name of the company he is Of Grating
for.
The contract for the erection OF
the Whitman monument has been
! let to Harkins Il Patterson, of Port
land, for $l1, $50. the contractors
throwing off 500 of the original
price. The monument is to be of
granite, 81 feet high, and will weigh
10 tons. On one side will be the
inscription: "In memory of Mar.
Gus Whitman and his associated