Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-03-23
Territorial News.

LabOrers are wanted in Puyallup
valley.
Walla Walla ladies are petitioning
for nigh license.
An Episcopal hospital is contem-
plated ut Seattle.
Pomeroy and Pataha City are to
be connected by telephone.
Nolan Il Metzler will build a four
story hotel i'll New Tacoma.
james Hill, of WAlla Walla, has
been committed to the insane asv-
lum.
The new Town of Belmont in Col
VILE valley has had its name charged
to CuivIlle.
Snow has almost disappeared i'll
East klt'l;as valley and stock have
Jared well.
James Gaines, of Colfax, has had
both feet amputated, they having
been frozen during the winter.
The Heratd says wealthy citizen
OF Oregon is visiting Seattle for the
purpose of selecting a site for a
Touring mill.
y Greek, named George, working
for Nlcholas Andrews, WAS drowned
near Skamockawa last Saturday, by
the capsiZlng Of a boat.
The quarantine at Walla Walla
has been raised The two Russell
children at Weston have died and
the third is convalescent.
The directors of the Walla Walla
Agricultural Society and number of
stockholders are devising means to
purchase the old fair ground and race
track.
Ninety miles of grading are COM
pleted Oh the Palouse branch of the
U. Z. II. r., and over twenty-six
miles OF lion and ties are lying at the
junction.
The Puget foundry is nc engaged
In casting cylinder 26.inch bore
and 30 inch stroke, weighing $500
pounds, for the Port Blakely mill
company.
Mrs. Mary Lane, wife of D. E.
: Lane, died recently in the Puyallup
valley. She came to the Territory
in 1858, and has resided Oh the
Sound since that time.
Washington Territory hop roots
are in demand in the east. A. j.
Miller shipped from Puyallup few
days since, several thousand hop
roots. They went to various grow
ers in New York.
a German tailor named Fred'k
Eberspacher, committed suicide at
New Tacoma Saturday. by shooting
himself with shotgun. He leaves
wife and three children. Another
victim of intemperance.
Isaac Chrisman, of Colfax, has
sold his trotting stallion Sergeant to
4. Reeves Ayers, of Walla Walla;
price 81 600. He also sold his half
blood Percheron horse, Arabian bay,
to G. W. Lowry, Of Four Mile.
A prominent citizen of New Ia
coma has received a proposal from
eastern capitalists to put up $780,
600 to establish locomotive works in
New Tacoma. if the citizens there
will put up all equal amount.
Daniel Krutz, Fred Radloff and
Q. u. Schroeder, OF Goldendale.
have received a supply of the We'll
come variety of oats for trial. They
are said to weigh 40 or so pounds
per bushel, and to produce so to $50
bushels to the acre.
Llnahan, a bargeman at Aims.
worth, while drawing water for
donkey engine, fell overheard Tues.
day, and before help could reach
him he sank, and was drowned. The
river was dragged, but the body
could not be recovered.
The steamship Dakota, on her last
trip from San Francisco to New Ia
coma, brought up a force of about
100 laborers to work on the North
ern Pacific railroad. On account of
lack of accommodations the Dakota
was obliged to refuse to take 100 tons
of freight, which were consigned to
various merchants on Puget Sound.
Mr.. John Muir stated to Mr..
Leary while in the East that the steel
steamers being built for the Puget
Sound trade would ply between
Seattle and Victoria. The company
the trade will Justify
the putting on of these great and ex-
pensive steamers just as soon as the
Northern Pacific Railroad is com.
pleted from Lake Superior.
The Seattle Hop Growers man.
moth farm is booming with life. The
whole 300 acres of new ground in
tended for planting have been
cleared, fenced and plowed, and
planting is now under full swing.
Seventy-tive men are there employed,
and eighteen more are wanted. AS
stated before in these columns this
farm will be the largest hop farm in
the world.
Goldendale Gazette: Last wear
Daniel Cram protitably raised Is
acres of corn. Besides selling quite
an amount at 81 per bushel, it gave
him a large amount of excellent
feed for his stock. This is not
claimed to be d good corn country,
but almost every farmer could pro-