Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-08-17
Territorial Items.

an 60 iiSi'H par VI lOI' N-tiE u
p rsons have returned to S.attl,
f-om the LlIewalp Falls.
Walla Walla has settled upon {
$500 license and a bond of 81 900
An opportunity Tor a liberal policy
ED. Anderson, a young German
committed suicide at Eureka Fat
GU the 9th instant, by hanging him
self.
Eighteen members of the Seattle
Commandery Of the Knights Tenn.
plar will 60 to the 1rlennial Con
clave.
James Mcknight has lately pur.
chased 10000 acres of lani near
Gray's Harbor and in the Cheha.is
river valley.
Harry, a seven vear-old son of S.
d. Crockett, OF Seattle, Was caught
in the betting of some machinery
IN Hall Il Paulson's munufactury in
that place, last Saturday, and in
stantly killed.
Mr.. Mead, of Puyallup, who last
year refused the highest pricn for
his hops, recently sold them a. a
loss Of some $40, 900 or $4,000, SO
says rumor. Several other growers
ale still holding their hops, much to
their sorrow.
The Washington Packing Com
pany has been organized. Samuel
Bonn is President and Jasper Gibson
is Secretary. The cannery is stu
ated at Cosmopolis, Chehalis county,
W. t. Work will begin on or about
the 18th inst.
At Puyallup the hay crop this
season will not yield so heavily as a,
first supposed. The potato crop
will also be correspondingly light.
Had we any rain at all, properly dis
tributed, these crops would have
yielded handsomely.
Miss Clara Jones was accident,
tally drowned in Lake Union, near
Seattle, last Sunday. She WAS about
thirteen years of age, and it seems
fell of u log on which she was walk
ing. The body Was recovered half
all hour or more after the accident.
There are two small settlements in
the Qullleyute valley, W. T., on the
Irairles about 40 miles south of Cape
Flattery. Two and one-half town
ships have been surveyed. The
prairies are all taken up by actual
settlers. There are large tracts of
good bottom lands yet untakeu.
The ship Shirley, from Tacoma,
Puget Sound, IS dlscharging o super
ior lot of pine lumber, at San Fran
cisco, which will be sent to New
York by rail, to be used in making
ladders for the hook ami ladder
trucks of the New York fire depart
ment. Some of tho timLers are
seventy five feet long. the cost of
shipping the lumber will be about
SIS per 900, landed in the empire
state.
A letter from the Skasit mines
states that this il an unusually good
year for the miner. One man is
making from 50 to $40 per day, and
all the others Are doug rs well, ac-
cording to position and appliances.
The cause OF this good season is
the low water i'll the river, caused,
no doubt, by the light fall Of snow
last winter in the mountains, and
scalci.y of rain during the summer
months.
G. II. Sherman stated while at Spo.
kane Falls that it was his purpose to
recommend the enlargement of
CGur d'Alene to the capacity of
rsgimental post. This will probably
secure the building Of a railroad TO
it and bring it within very easy dis
lance of Spokane Falls. He was
not in favor of the consolidation of
posts into one in that vicinity, ami
his journey to the British Colum.
bian frontier WIS only to ascertain
whether feasible roads could be ss.
tAbrshed in that region.
The following No,aries Public
have recently been appointed: Henry
A. Swift, D s. B. Henry, C. B.
Bngley, Thuis,on county; 0. +.
Harmon, Lewis coun y; Adam NJ
Deunison, II. L Ross, Charles T.
Roth, Charles Cowdou, Alex. M.
Athens, Jerome Curtis, H. A. Jud.
son, A. c. Bowman, Harrison
Clotbier, Whatcom county; CLANCY
Brookway, CIallam county; Henry
C. Walter, Yakima county; George
e. Fulton, Snohomish county; j. S.
Kaufman, w. r. Andrews, Spokane
county; John b. Denny, Lewis S.
Sohns. Henry G. Strive, L. b.
Andrews, NJ. S. McPheeter, j. L.
McGilvra, A. Slcrah, King county:
Frederick G.. Hanford, Garfield
county; Edward B. james, Kitsap
county; Daniel B. Miller. Chehalis
county.