Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-10-02
Territorial Items.

Territorial Items.
Spokane Fails will have the elec.
trio light neat month.
A new -four. story hotel building In
being erected in Ellsnsburg.
II IL proposed TO ss,ablish school
for deaf mutss at walla Walla.
The Palouss country will export
.6OO. 900 bushels Of wheat THE sea-
son.
Spokane Falls IL 10 be illuminated
by electric light by tho Let OF Ocsc.
Der.
Tho salmon cannery between Point
Defiance and Tacoma 10 doing .
rushing business.
Three thousand sacks Of wheat
are daily being received at the mill
and warehouses In wsi,sburg.
Mrs. 4. Meeker has been appoint.
oil Lady Commissioner 10 the New
Orleans Exposition. by Gov. Squire.
Special Indian Inspector Dickson,
from Washington has been examin.
ing tho affairs oi the Tulalip rsser.
yatioD.
Civil Service Commissioner Tho
man examined seven applicants for
Government positions and olsriships
al Seattle. last week.
The frs, complete threshing ma.
chine ever brough, into the snoho-
mish valley has Just been imported
by farmer living near snohomish
City.
The high water In the sLagi, has
set n number Of booms u logs adrift
down the river aud they have brought
up agains, the Jam in tho South
Fork.
Twenty-Five boys between the ages
OF ~ and II years. met at the arm.
ory Of the Seattle rifles on Monday
evening and organized . company Of
Cadets.
Miss Myrtle Collins, Of Whslcom
county. has just finished q quilt con.
tanning 200 pieces. She In only nine
years old. which shows ths, shs In
an industrious young lady.
I. Z. Linder's thirty acre wheat
field adjoining A. L. Kinnssrs ranch
IN tho famous Fields auloh country.
Columbia county. yielded "a average
OF hfiy-iwo bushels TO the acre.
When the track is lsid 10 The end
OF the present grade on the Cascade
branch. the company will encounter
sixteen miles Of heavy rockwork b.
fore reaching the Ki,titas valley.
i,is anticipated h.. fully io,o
people will GO into the Cuur d'Alsns
mining region neg. Spring. and ths.
tho output OF gold will surpsss the
most ssnguins expectations Of the
earnest friends Of that country.
Carl Ssidel. who for many years
was . resident Of Port Townsend.
formerly proprietor Of the Charles
Hotel. died In Los Angeles, Cal, on
the 18th. lie was buried by the
Odd Fellows Of which order he was
a member.
Hon. VIM. II. White says be will
attend 10 ths duties Of U. 8. District
Attorney In Eastern Washington.
and that for the present c. II. Han.
ford. Esq. will continue In his ONCE
O. deputy. Mr.. White will not 70.
move. however. from Seattle.
II is rumored that on Sunday
night last masked mob went 10 the
Chinese camp at Newcastle In King
county. aud after disarming the
white guard. they called out the
Ch'namen AMI gave them peremp.
tory notice. under penalty Of death.
to leave within twenty four hours.
IL IL also reported that the Chinese
had been taken down To Seattle by n
special train. which hal boon sent 4,
Newcastle on receip, Of the news.
A Wallula dispatch Of tho 9th
ult' says that two Indians wore
killed near that place on the previous
night. A msn named Close came In
aud surrendered TO the authorities.
stating that some thievinv Indian,
came TO his place. aud tiled 10 rob
aud murder him. lie opened fir.
with a Winchester rife, driue nine
sho,s. Two Of the Indians were in.
s,sn,ly killed. their bodies being III.
orally riddlsd with bullets. Close
has been taken TO walla walla for
! TRIAL,