Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-12-07
Territorial Items.
Goals $13 per ton in Walla Walla

The retail liquor license has been
raised from 500 to 200 in Whatcom
county by the commissioners.
One hundred and fifty pounds
of baggage is now allowed on every
full ticket over the N. p. R..
Whatcom precinct, Whatcom coun-
ty, has nineteen saloons and
no public school worthy of the name.
On the 2lst OF November, a miner
named John Limburg was killed at
New Castle, while blasting in coal
mine.
A brother of Chas. Montgomery,
residing in Colville valley, was killed
on the 18th ult., by being thrown
from horse.
Goldendale has Baptist, Meth :
odist, Presbyterian and Christ
ian church and an excellent four
room school building.
The sale of the Police Gazette and
other disreputable and obscene pub
LEGATIONS has been prohibited on the
lines of the N. z. r. r.
The Tacoma Ledger reports the
dismissal from service of H. Thiel-
sen, Chief Engineer of the West.
ern Division of the n. p. r. r.
There are now $50 students at
tending the University at Seattle.
Twenty OF them have entered since
the opening of the new session.
The new city laid out on Gray's
harbor at the terminus of the pro-
jected railroad, covers between fifty
and sixty acIes of ground, and
fr Onts for half q mile on the harbor.
On the great bend of Skagit river
a new town named Avon, has been
laid out, and has already a store,
postofice and hotel. This is designed
as being the future shipping point
for the Olympia marsh.
A new town has been laid out in
Yakima county, near Ellensburg,
comprising about fcrty acres. 1t is
pleasantly situated on a bench on
the south bank of Yakima river.
The name is yet to be selected.
1t is reported that a colony of
Scotch people will locate next year
on 1SO, 900 acres of land belonging
to the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company in sixteen townships in the
bend between the Yakima and Col.
umbia rivers.
II is stated on authority that the
reports crediting the Presbyterians
with having raised q large sum of
money for the building of q college at
Sumner ore incorrect. Instead, of
SIS, 900 or $4,000 having been
pledged for this purpose only the sum
OF 81 900 has yet been obtained. tits
however, that start will
be made next spring by putting up q
building to cost from S., 900 to Sc 900,
as an academy for the instruction of
youth.
The hop crop in PuyalIup valley
this season amounts to Sc, 900 bales,
or l lilo, 900 lbs. This is about one
half the yield estimated early in the
spring, based upon the largely in
creased acreage, and is nearly $780,
900 pounds short of last years crop. |
Nearly the entire product has been
of atprices ranging from
IA to 10 cents, while last year the
great bulk of the crop brought from
80 cents to 81 per pound. Large
crops and high prices can not be
every season, and hop
growers do not feel discouraged by
the results.
Bur few persons are aware that
the United States government has
adopted q new standard of time,
which is intended IL be uniform all
over the United a'es. By this
new standard the Unise States will
be separated into four sections, d.
yided in general terms as follows:
The first from Calms, Maine, to
Pittsburg, Penn; the second from
Pittsburg to near Omaha, Neb.; the |
third from near Omaha to the Rocky |
mountains; the fourth from tue |
Rocky mountains to the Pacific |
coast. The difference of time be-
tween each section ia one hour, 80 |
that when it is II O'Clock noon in |
Boston, it will be II o'clock in the |
locality embraced by the second Sec
lion; 10 o'clock through the third |
section, and 8 o'clock through the
fourth.
The new law in regard to prose- |
cutting attorneys provides that Wa!la
Walla, and Whitman shall each elect
one. the counties Of Columb ia, Gar.
field and Asotin, one for the three. |
and Spokau, Stevens and Lincoln, |
also one for the three. The second |
judicial district is divided into three
prosecuting districts, Clarke, Ska
mania. Yakima, Klickitat and Xiii
lass, to to be the first; Cowlitz,
Pacific. Chehalis, Ma
son and Thurston, the second, and |
Lewis the third. Tho third dis
trict is also divided into three sub.
districts-Pierce to be first, King,
kitsap and Snohomish, the second, |
Island and Jefferson, |
Clallam, San Juan and Skagit, the
third. Each prosecuting attorney
must be o resident Of the district |
from which he is elected.
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