Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-12-21
Territorial items.

The Paiouse Gdz~te thinks tn.
mighty intellects of our legislator,
should be preserved iu alcohol.
Among the pleasant affairs las
week at Centralia, Lewis county
was the marriage Of Mr.. McClait
aud Miss Holbrook.
Tue Territorial Auditor and Treas.
urer have brought II two and three
ton safe respectively for their offices
ut a cost OF 81, 41G.
The latest enterprise of Seattle
people Is the organization of a com
rany bicked by unlimited capital
Tor the purpose of development OF
The lime Interests of the San Juan
archipelago.
Although the two Tacomas have
been consolidated, the names of the
two posloilices, Tacoma and New
Tacoma, will remain the Same until
changed by the department.
The wrecked steamer Jictoria is
'yiEg IN eighteen feet of water in
Port Oxford, and her hull il OIL,
visible at low tide. She will doubt
less break up at the first heavy gale.
1t is reported that the Superinten-
deut Of the Hampton PACKING Com
pany, at Astoria, intends to do away
with Chinese help next season, and
employ girls to do part of the work
now done by Cinnamon.
SO far, says the Walla Walla In
ton, Maj Truax has not received any
application for scholarship at the
Territorial UNIVERSITY" the young
folks deeming the Eastern Wash
lngtOn schools batter than Seattle
high schools.
BY the recent floods in the Nook
sack River. Mr.. f. Nj. Cudworth
and others have lost several hundrt
thousand feet of saw logs. The
boom near the mouth of the river,
containing about 100000 feet,
broke, and many logs have gone to
sen.
The new barkentine built by Mr..
Doncaster al Port Ludlow, for the
Puget Sound Commercial Company
! or III other words the Puget Mill
Company, was successfully launched
, this week and named the Skagu.
She is all rugged, and will in few
days commence loading lumber fol
San Francisco.
The Spokane Falls Chronicle bub-
bles with woman suffrage FROM re-
ligious standpoint. The preacher.
editor says: Whatever may have
been the previous inability of race,
sex or condition, Christ came to give
equal privileges to all, and we are
no longer living under dispensa,ion
Of law, but of grace"
NJ. T. Hopkins, who was so bru.
tally murdered in King county few
days ago was an honoled and esteem
citizen of the Nooksack valley. He
came from Moody county, Dakota,
Territory, where he was recognized
as a benefactor to the poor and
needy. He leaves family and two
brothers, A. G. aud Edwin Hopkins.
Every person who arrives from
the far East repeats the same
story-that the food of immigration
the coming 81 ring and Summer will
be Unprecedented in the history OF
of the Territory. Not only will there
be rush of settlers, but thousands
Of tourists are coming to view the
glorious scenery of the northwest
coast.
The Tacoma Ledger pays this
compliment: Miss Buckley, daughter
of the Assistant General Manager oil
the Northern Pacific road, showed O
high degree of talent in the rem.
dition Of q humorous place at ST.
Luke's Christmas tree sociable on
Friday evening. She evidently pos
sesses histrionic ability of no mean
order.
The Cotton. w. T., correspon.
dent of the Colfax Gazette writes
Wood becomes more scarce every
year, and as winter comes on the old
familiar cry is heard, Wood.
Flour is selling here for $3.50 per
barrel; bran So per ton. shorts SIS
per ton and middleings $50, when
it is on hand. The Cotton mil
turned out $4,000 worth of foul
in one night last week.
The Ainsworth. correspondent Of
the Walla Wslla Journal writes: Fiji
teen miles OF track have been laid
thus far on the Cascade division. 1,
is expected that the 25-mile section
will DO completed be Christmas.
The greater part of the work on the
bridge is in place and workmen are
now engaged on the travelling der
rick to bs used for the iron con.
struction. The people of Answortt
have unlimited confidence in the flu.
ture of the town, bridge or nc
fridge. Twenty men were dis
charged from the Cascades division
yards yesterday. Eight trains pei
diem pass and repass over the N
p. Much planting of fruit trees