Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-01-04
Territorial Items.

i"rIlt0rlai Items.
Mill winter III Victoria. e. &.
llru>"hu'd coal * Il ton in Seattle
lhr Post claims 5000 population
iur Seattle.
\ ~ 0ob gallon water tank col
lap,,d nt Seattle Oh New Years dav.
The Columbia river came res put
u! 90. i3o cases of salmon last se;s-
son.
The Auditor for Pierce county, W
/. o., ISSUED seven,y-four LICENSES n
-
Dip,heria still fingers in Seat'l"
Hall dozen Cases Are reported
there.
\ Tonnage Of G.SJG o. belongs to
the collection distinct Of Puget
= md
Nineteen fam,l,cs of Norwcgians
have Sone over 10 Gieys han Dor to
1 locate.
Mrs. W. q. Drew, of Vancouver,
died suddenly III that place on
thursday.
\ woman named Ruby Wyman
was sent to the asylum ut Steilacoom
tins week.
The Knights of Pythias and Good
Templars organized lodges on Thurs
day at WhAtcom.
Sixty millions of dollars are the
reported damage Of the Mississippi
overflow last year.
The Clalam Indians of Clalsm
county alone, pay this year $l6S.3Q
into the treasury Of that county.
A report from North Powder river,
Idaho. says that Detzler, who killed
Bcaseley. was lynched on the 5lst.
One Of the new ordinances OF
Yakima City prescnbes that saloons
must be closed at IL o'clock in the
evening.
/ Mt. Vernon, Skagit county, W.
: T., is to have newspaper, at the
hands Of q man named Ewing, late
from the Last.
Puget Sound black cod are now
the rivals of the Columbia salmon.
La the East the first named are re-
parded us delicacies.
BY spring there will be six tele-
graph wires between Walla Walla
aud Portland, and it will be almost
impossible for the lines to 60 down.
Tho custOmhouss at Sitka, Alaska,
was burned on the 9th lust. All the
papers were saved through the efforts
of the sailors OF the U. S. steamer
Adams.
The gold and silver mines on the
south fork Of tie Puyallup river are
being rapidly developed. The rock
assays about $50 ton, and some Us
high as $54.
Seattle has expended 100000 in
the way OF water works since Jan.
1888; ten miles of streets have been
graded and 100000 expended in
new buildings.
1t is estimated that about 1,000,-
600 feet OF logs. belonging mostly
to Snoqusimie loggers, went out to
sea on q late freshet. The loss
amounts to about 81, 500.
Mrs. Duniway of the Ne,0 North.
,cest will leave Portland on Thursday,
for Washington, d. c., for the
purpose OF attending the National
Woman Suffrage Convention.
Our readers will be surprised,
perhaps to learn that u. P. jenkins,
formerly Of Seattle, but now of Spo-
kane Falls, is Q candidate for Gov
srnor Of Washington Territory.
BY actual count there were seven
teen brick stores. twenty-three frame
stores, mills and educational institu-
tons and lab private residences
built in Spokane Falls during 1883.
The Probate Judge OF Klickita.
county has received notice that
Nancy NJ. Smith, who was sent to
the insane asylum at Stsilacoom flom
that county in 1870. died ut that in
stitution Nov. 81.
A young lady named Williams,
who Was stopping 1t the Brunswick
in Seattle, made . mistake aud blew
out the gas in her room, the result
being that in the morning she was
found almost hfsless.
The. first shipment Of bonded
goodx arrived in Tacoma Saturday
night, en- route from Canada to VIC
toria. 1t cousiSted OF five carloads
Of sugar and carriages which 60 for
ward on the North Pacific.
To show how Spokane Falls: is
growing, the following is the in
crease from May LIST TO December
1st. 1888: Brick stores, II, frame
stores 81; dwellings,, 142; population
may Isl ,oOO, OeceluOeI ASts V,OOo'
With water freezing in fire hose at
Augusta, trains and business stopped
by snow in Buffalo and Ontario, and
tho mercury forty-five degrees below
zero in Mauitoba, Washingtonians
lnay congratulate themselves on hav.
ing q mild climate.
As the reward offered for a couple
OF desperate murderers on the wing
is only 500, most of the parties in
pursuit have decided not to take the
chances Of conflict, and have aban-
doned the search. The two men
Elius aud Owenby now have plain
sailing.
During 1883 there were 108 YES