Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-08-03
Territorial Items.

Anthracite coal is q recent discov-
cry in Yakima.
There are about 500 members of
the Cowilitz Catholic Mission.
The Snoqualmie wagon road COM
pany offer S35 per month for 100
men.
The thermometer at Sprague has
registered as high as 118 in the
shade.
Large droves of beef cattle are
coming to the Sound over the Sno.
qualmie pass.
Mr.. Pope, of the firm of Pope e.
Talbot, and Puget Mill Co., is now
visiting the Sound.
According to the figures of the
county assessor, the population of
Columbia county is $3.50.
The three Seattle lodges Of United
Workmen will have grand picnic
ut Renton on the 9th of August.
On and after August LIST, the lum
lumberdealers of Seattle agreed to ad
vance the price of lumber one dol
lar per thousand feet.
| r. McLane, a citizen of Walla
Walla, has fallen heir, a report says,
of one-thirteenth of 500, 600, 900.
That will be enough, though.
The annual selection of teachers
for the Seattle schools will be made
August 6. Two or three more teach
ers will be required than were EN-.
ployed last year.
Rev. j. P. Ludlow, Deputy Clerk
of the District Court of the third
judicial district, left by the Dakota
last week for Australia, where he
goes for the benefit of his health.
A narrow gauge railroad is pro,
jected between Spokane Falls and
J Medical lake. as travel to the latter
place is largely increasing. The
distance in an air line is only about
sixteen miles.
BY the late census showing, just
completed by VIM. Hardness, Walls
Walla county has a population OF
IL 900. The last census report gave
: population of 5000, which shows
a gain of at least 3 1000 in a little ovel
two years.
A company has been organized
called the Wala Walla and Snake
< River Railroad and CONSTRUCTION
: Company. Its object is to construc
and operate roads in Oregon ant
= Washington and Idaho Territories
1t will be in connection with tn
> Short Line.
The Fallon Brothers, near Wall'
=: Walla, have commenced harvestin:
+ their 7O0.acre wheat field. just t.
O get an idea of the probable yielt
they run the product of twenty acre
through the thresher and as resul
obtained 40 sacks. equal to forty
y five bushels per acre.
). Lieutenant Greene has instruc
a tons from the Secretn of War t
sell the military telegraph lines be
, tween Pomeroy and Spokane Fails
and between Fort C9ur'd Alene ant
Il the summit, to the highest bidder
q The sale is to be made within no
d more than forty days.
81 DIR. &. H. Atkinson, D. D.. ant
e Rev. Eels have been ordered bacl
East to collect subscriptions TO
Whitman college i'll Massachusetts
q Maine, Vermont and New Hamp
'. shire, by the American College ant
g Education Society, of which institu
; ton Whitman college is a part.
:, The annual conference of til
V Methodist Episcopal church for Ore
a. gon and Washington will be held q
, Vancouver this year, beginning Wee
= nesday, Aug. 22l. About ono hun
is dred and fifty persons will atten
', the conference, consisting primer
pally o; clergymen ana their wives.
i. AnO. r. d. n. CO. official inform
"a us, says the Wala Walla Union, tn,
it is the Impression among IL
s. officials of that company that til
s. Oregon Short Line will build dow
b. Snake river. tap Walla Walla count.
in and from thence run across 1akln
to the Cascades, and from thence
tide water.
q. The grounds for the depot of ii
Palouse branch of the n. p. railwa
u at Colfax have been located near IL
al bridge spanning the North Palous
lColfax will be on the main line