Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-03-07

4 Germln lodge Of the X. OF =. is
about to be organized at Walia
Walla.
Accurlin. TO the suffrage law of
Washington Territory. women are
not required to pay poll tax.
Counting over band of 16, 900
sheep i'll Eastern Oregon, 1t is found
that less than 40 died during the
winter.
IT is said on what seems TO he
good authority that Mr.. Willard will
visit he Northwest in the beginning
of next month.
Walla Walla charity reaches out
to the suffering people of Indiana
A car load of provisions was sent
from there recently.
The name of the German sailor
drowned at the wreck of the Lizzie
NU$haH was Hibbler. He was at
one time on the It0icOH
The Pacific House of Oysterville
was sold last week by Richard Car
ruthers to Mrs. o. H. Srott and Mrs.
V. \. Dayman for S. go.
Levi FarnSworth, one of the ear
her settlers of Vancouver, died at
his old home in Jonesboro, Maine,
on January II, aged S3 years.
Settlers in Paciic county, W. I. ,
Oh the peninsula between the ocean
and Shoalwater Bay, are gong into
cranberry culture on u large scale.
The Kittitas Locdlizer is at present
engaged IN booming DIR. T. I. Minor.
1t wants him nominated by the next
Republican Convention for Delegate
to Congress.
Among the students appointed
to the university under the new Tel
ritorial law are Miss Mary Miles,
from Chehalis, and Miss Dodge from
Skagit counties.
The Auditor of Columbia county
is an enterprising immigration agent.
He advertises to issue marriage IL
cences free to ladies desiring to in
dulge during the leap year.
Government land is fast settling
up in the vicinity of Marion, Pierce
county. If it keeps on at the present
rate there will not be foot left by
next summer. People are now TAX
ing claims which year ago were
considered not worth taking.
Among the cargo of the Leo, from
Sitka, says the Tacoma Neus, was
almost hundred tons of spruce
bolts, this being probably the first
shipment of wood Of this kind to
this port from Alaska. The entire
quantity will be split up here and
sent to San Francisco.
Now, that man by the name of
Herman has started in to quote
from books Oh minera,ogy aud make
these quotations fit the CGur 'Alene
mining district, which he has never
examined, it is high time for the
public to lose faith. Herman was
connected with the Skagit fraud.
The Cnur d'Alene miners have
held a meeting at which it was voted
that the first Chinaman who ventured
into the diggings should be hung,
and not having sufficient rope at the
time to hang man, miner was i'm
mediately sent out on snow shoes to
Trout creek, where lie bot. ?; Int twenty
feet of the article and and returned.
Last Tuesday, says lie Cheney,
Tribune, 500 emigrants arrived :here.
They were from the Middle and
Western States, and thrifty lot of
settlers. Many of them had their
families with them to remain, while
others were looking at the country to
report to others. Several of teen
said there would lie Il heavy immi-
grafton this year 10 Washington Ter
ritory.
Benjamin p. Cheney has done
another noble act for Spokane county
and Washington Territory, says the
Tribune. A lew days ago two large
boxes arrived in Cheney for the
Academy. When opened by the
proper persons the boxes were found
contain a library of about 500 vol.
umes of choice books suitable for all
ages of students Of the Cheney
Academy.
Last Friday night party of r,gu-
lators made their way into the Jail at
Dayton and distracted one McAfee,
a dead beat, walked him out to edge
of town. placed rope around his
neck and choked until he begged.
They then stripped down his pants
and administered a good sound
thrashing to him, gave him few
parting words Of advice and ordered
him to skip.
Master Builder John Gates has
gone to San Francisco for the new
cylinder and crank require d on the
disabled steamer Emma Hayrard.
1t was proposed to take the cylinders
out of the $. q. Reed and place them
in the HaWrard-thus giving her
two inches more of piston-head--
and it may be done yet. In either
event she should be ready FOR service
in few weeks.
The Waitsburg Times is our au-
thority for the following "Master
Frank Brown, little boy of Waits
burg, who only few years ago en-
tered his teens, and Miss Dora Free
al. ha L., "A