Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-09-18
Territorial Items.

Collins, died in Seattle, last week.
1t is intended to bring another
ship load of tea from Yokohama to
Tacoma.
Port Townsend is about TO have a
new sawmill which vii. employ one
hundred men.
A Snohomish pioneer named 4. ID.
Kroner died Of heart disease last
week. He leaves an Indian wife
and four children.
Adams county is a good one TO
emigrate to. the tax levy for 1881
being only II mills-the lowest yet
heard of in the Territory.
The big Blalock ranch of 1000
acres, in Walla Walla, sown in
wheat, gave an average of thirty-one
bushels to the acre, or total of over
GA 900 bushels.
A Seattle boy named Garry Lud-
low recently robbed his mother of
considerable money and fled to San
Francisco with q woman of the town,
80 the P.-I. says.
George L. Myers, has set his can
merry in operation at Milton, where
he employs few white men and
about forty Cinnamon at present.
The salmon run has not fairly got
under way, but when it does this
force will be doubled or trcbled.
The Rereile obtains information
from high authority that an offer of
SITS, 900 for the Lake Whatcom coal
field has been refused by the parties
now holding the claims. This indi-
Gates that there is coal there worth
something, but the price asked is
enormous-too much.
An effort will be made at tbs next
session of the Territorial Legislature
to secure the passage of an act
allowing the question of removing the
county seat from old Montesano to
the new town to a vote Of the people,
the last vote having been declared il
legal by Judge Hoyt.
w. H. Kneeland analyses the oil
found at Elhi. in Pierce county and
finds these elements: Kerosene, IS
per cent; paraffine, u; benzine, S.;
tar or asphaltum, II. He considers
the field large one, and finds no
dissimilarity between the geological
formation of Pierce county and the
Pennsylvania oil fields.
The Rev. Mrs. Jones, a Baptist
minister of Seattle, performed a
marriage ceremony in Chehalis on
the 9th inst, uniting Mr.. David
Temple and Miss Annie Wagley in
the holy bonds Of matrimony. This,
We believe, is the first instance
of a woman performing the mar
riage ceremony in this Territory, if
not on the coast.
Report came last week OF the
burning of two hop kilns near Or
ting but definite particulars could not
be learned at the time. 1t is now
ascertained that the two kilns be-
longed to Swamp Miller, and were
burned on Wednesday or Thursday.
They contained eight tons OF cured
hops, and figured at seven cents
makes loss of 81, ,120 in hops, to
say nothing of the kilns.
Capt. Fouts reports new discov.
cry on the Nooksack. A prospector
who desires his name kept secret has
discovered q grindstone ledge, with
the holes already bored. The dis
coverer's face wore a knowing far
away, I-have-struck-it rich appear
ance, as he took the boat to Seattle
on his last dollar. If this item had
appeared in any other paper than
the Whatcom Reueille we would not
have believed it.
Friday morning about Z o'clock as
the mates of tent, belonging to
Burns & Chapman, railroad con-
tractors on Green river, were getting
up, two tall trees that stood near the
tent gave away and fell to the
ground, striking the tent, killing one
man and seriously injuring eight
others. The name of the deceased
is unknown, but by nationality he
was a Norwegian, and had but one
friend IN this vicinity. He recently
came from Portland, where he has a
brother residing, and had been at
work but two days when the acci-
dent occurred.
Newcastle has been the scene of a
raid on the Chinese. At 11:3O
o'clock Friday night a mob OF
masked men attacked the large house
at that place in which the Chinese
we're quartered, and by firing of
guns and pistols and hooting and
yelling frightened the inmates so
badly they rushed out pell NELL and
took to the woods. The building
was then fired and burned to the
ground. 1t is impossible to deter.
mine who the men were who tool
part in thus aeranading the heathsns.