Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-07-18
Territorial Items.

The Dalles is to have town clock.
Port Townsend has public read
ing room.
The hay crop of Lincoln county,
". T., is said to be immense.
There is great demand for har-
vest and farm hands in Eastern Ore.
Gon.
The circus was at Tacoma on Mon.
day. Business was almost wholly
suspended. A couple of hundred
Indians formed one feature of the
visitation.
There are more broken men in
town now, says the Walla Walla
, Statesman, than even during the
soup-honse davs of last winter. and
some healthy lonkir. fellows az.
bccolE., tor q 4aca!.
Governor Newell has received APP
plication for means of defense
against an apprehended Indian out
break at Moses Coulce, in Colville
county, which lie has referred 10 the
military commander of the district.
Elmunds is the name of a new
Postotfico established at Port Elliott,
on the Sound, and the Postmaster
has to keep twelve-foot range fired
up night and day to prevent the
letters from freezing so hard that the
ink disappears.
Says the Port Townsend argus:
Mr.. JAS. G.. Swan received a tele-
gram from Professor Baird, of the
Smithsonian Institute, stating that
81, 100 have been appropriated for
commencing the collection of Indian
manufactures for the great Centen-
NAL Exposition at New Orleans in
December.
Spokane Falls appears to be losing
something of that high moral tone
which year ago characterized it as
one of the chosen cities of the Pacific
Northwest. A public exhibition of
"bruisers" is tolerated, q variety
theater is running aud it owns an
orator who shook the tears out Of
the Rockford people on the 4th.
The rate of mortality in this city
for the past year was less than II
per cent. says the Walla Walla Jour-
nal. No city in the Union can beat
this record. The deaths for 1SS2.S3
from epidemic diseases were thirty
three; 1SS3-S4 only fourteen. There
were 1O7 births. 1t is drought that
all the births were not reported.
There were 100 deaths.
Campbell, the man who killed
Olsen at Port Eadson, attributes bis
crime 10 drink. 81 had no grudge
against Olsen" he said, sit is Just this
way: the 4th of July was running
high, l suppose, and oh, God! it ran
too high for me. l am not q hard
drinker, and am not a quarrelsome
man. l lave family, but they are
not en- this coast" That don't help
Olsen any.
Louis A. Knott, sentenced
to be hanged on July 18th for MUIR
der, has been respited by Gov. New
ell uutil the 10th of August, at the
request of District Attorney Allen,
on account of alleged informally
and failure of proper representation
of knott's case at time of trial. APP
plication will be made to the Su-
preme Court for q new trial.
James Claplanhoo, one of the
heads of the Makah Indians, gave a
big feast and dance this week at
Neah Bay. There were 1900 Tndi-
ans present, most of whom were
from the tribes on the west coast of
Vancouver Island. The meeting
lasted four days, and was conducte
with order and without any disturb
ance. It is said to have been the
largest gathering which has taken
place at Neah Bay for thirty years.
1t is said that the Republican
party intends to burslarize the Pres.
idency. Their principal tool will be
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