Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-12-12
Territorial Items,

CnlneSe DafOer.
Tacoma has $50 men EMPLOYED
laying pipes for her gas works.
Spokane county farmers have
sown $4,000 acres of wheat for the
harvest Of the coming year.
Hop buyers are constantly visit
ing White river and other growers,
and offering ID and II cents for
their crop.
The Spokane Falls board of trade
has expended $4,000 during the
past year in repairing roads leading
thence.
The steamer Washington has re.
sumed her trips on the Seattle
Whatcom route, relieving the +.
X. Merwin.
Thos. Robinson, of Orcas island.
who with his family was supposed
to have drowned recently, has
turned up all right.
Mr.. VIM. Hart has sued the city
OF Whatcom to recover $4,000 dam
ages for injuries received by falling
from a sidewalk not properly
protected by railing.
A dozen Indians crossed the riv-
err at The Dalles two or three days
ago with 100 deer skins, the result
of hunting expedition over in the
Warm Spring country.
Mount Vernon and Laccnner, ri.
val points in Skagit county, are very
nearly equal in voting strength. AT
the last election Mount Vernon cast
260 votes and Laconner 2S9.
The Methodist church in the
east has secured $l50.000 for the
building and establishing of an in.
stitution of learning to be located
on Puget sound-just at what point
has not yet been decided.
During the past four years the
mails carried weekly on the Puget
Townsend Neah bay route have i'll
creased from $50 to 420 and 500
pounds. No better showing is
needed to indicate the growth of
the country.
The enteries at the government
land office in Walla Walla last
month were few and far between,
but many proofs were taken, show
ing that there is still money in cir
culation. The receipts Monday ag-
gregated $1,000.
The Oregon Improvement COM
pany is selling Seattle coal at Walla
Walla at $3.50 ton by the car
load, and $1,000 by the single ton.
This is reduction of $3.50 "a ton
over last year, and the coal furnish
ed is said to be better at that.
The Columbia and Puget Sound
railroad company has compromised
the suit for damages for personal
injuries by Benjamin Korn, by
the payment of $1,000. and the
guarantee of a position as conduc-
tor for one year. Korn had one of
his hands badly injured while coup
ling cars.
Some scalawag put cayenne pep
per on one of the heating furnaces
under the NJ. f. Church in Walla
Walla last Wednesday evening,
during the meeting of the Lyceum,
and the whole audience were seized
with fits Of coughing and sneezing
to such an extent that the meeting
broke up.
According to the report of the
health officer for Walla Walla, Tor
the three months ending Novem-
Der 30, 1884, there were twenty
one deaths and twenty-six births,
and twenty-seven cases of contage-
Gus diseases, of which very
large per centage was diphtheria.
The county seats of the seven
new counties in the territory Gre
ated by the last Legislature, over
which there were spirited contests,
at the late election, are as follows:
Asotin, Asotin; Adams. Ritzville;
Douglas, Okanagan; Franklin, Aims
worth; Kittitas, Ellensburg; Lin
coin, Sprague; Skagit, Mount Yer.
non.
Over in Pleasant valley, Klickitat
county. this has been one of the
finest falls for grass and seeding
that the settlers have ever had.
Some are about through with their
blowing and some have got tired
waiting for winter to set in and
gone to seeding, and some will risk
their volunteer crops, which now
look very thrifty and nice.
Thursday news reached Seattle
of the accidental killing of Henry
Brinkoff, near Dogfish bay. Kitsap
county, on Sunday last. The par
ticulars as near as could be learned
of the sad affair, are as follows:
Henry Brinkoff, a young man %
years of age, who has father and
brothers in Nebraska, came to Sc
attic from San Jose, CAL. two or
three months ago. and put up at
the New England hotel. He was
visiting friend last Sunday, when
a limb from a falling tree struck
him, breaking his neck and one of
The table following is a report
of the assessment of the territory