Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-03-30
Territorial News.

Seattle has Incorporated an immi
grafton bureau.
Senator Logan is coming to thi,
coast this Summer.
The telephone system is soon to
he established ut Waila Walla.
The Universalist church buidin j.,
at Dayton has been sold to Congre
gationalists.
James Hill, the Walla Walla boy
said to be afflicted with hydrophobia
has been sent to the insane asylum.
j. Lanahan, workman on one of
the stone barses at Ainsworth, il
missing, asd it is thought he is
drowned.
The bills of the new National
Bank of Yakima City bear upon
them vienetto of the celebrated
Yakima Gap.
A wharf is to be built at Peterson S
point, Chehalis county, this summer,
and light house. The people there
,hiuk it good point Tor grain ship
ments.
Miss Alice MILESTONE. residing
seven miles from Dayton, is down
with smallpox. This is the third
case in the family. Patients at the
pest.house are recovering.
Fort Colville, in Stevens county,
near the border of British Columbia,
will be virtually rebuilt and garris'
oned this year. This, M old post,
is in very dilapidated condition.
Some Indian logger last week
found a box containing five silver
watches, about three miles from Ia
coma, which had evidently been
stolen and hid away several years
ago.
Messrs. Williamson and Phillips,
recently from Kansas, nave pur-
chased $50 acres ut Windy Cove,
Mason county. On the tract Is Is
acres of cranberry marsh, and other
tracts will be converted to the same
| Use.
Aaron Showl, of Seattle. was held
in 5000 bail, which he furnished.
He suddenly left the town, leaving
his bondsmen in the !urch. AT Port
Townsend he was found under nu
assumed name and arrested.
The IIdeNe says that an entirely
reliable person has offered to secure
u donation of $4,000 towards an
educational institution in Chehalis
valley, with promise of $4,000
more if proper encouragement is
given by the people.
A presiding elder of this Mormon
church is at Chattanooga, Tenn. ar
ranging for the immigration of con.
verts to Utah. There are now 80 mis-
sionaries in the south, and he says tie
annual number of converts is 700.
One hundred and fifty will emigrate
next week.
The Seattle Herald says: There
is no good reason, expect a lack OF
enterprise, to prevent Puget Sound
from being the largest shipbuilding
location on the American continent.
1t has superior advantages for the
development of such an industry,
but lacks capital and enterprise.
Tallahatchie county, Miss. is over.
flowed and Greenwood submerged.
The water is only II inches below
that of 1882, but is rising slowly
From Greenwood to Henry Island
the whole country is submerged
Some of the largest Yazoo river plan.
,ers are fearing that their interests
will he seriously damaged.
The Washington Grain-pipe Clean
ing and Transportation Co. ha.
been incorporated at Walla Walla
by NJ. c. Moore, F. W. Paine, Sc
wall Truax, NJ. Baumeister and B
d. Croker. Capital stock $500,
900. The objects of the company
are to build warehouses, elevators
ETC., along Snake and Columbis
rivers.
Walla Walla Union: All the mar.
row gauge Cars heretofore used OF
the Blue Mountain road are being
shipped partly to the old portage al
the Cascades and partly to Puget
Sound. The locomotives are beng
repaired at the Dalles shops prior t.
Their being put into service hauling
coal cars to the coast from coal mines
controlled by the .. l. Co. OH Puget
| Sound.