Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-09-11
Territorial Items.

I teacnerS, IN tne city OF Tacoma.
Major Armstrong, the retired Reg
lister of the Land Office at Spokane
Falls, has opened q law office there.
The alarming prevalence Of ty-
poid fever in Seattle is Justly mat
ter of general concern.
Mrs. A. J. Burr. mother of S. c.
Woodruff, has been very ill at Stella
COON during tho past week. She
was slightly improving at last re-
ports.
Among the exhibits to be for
warded by Mr.. Meeker, from this
Territory to the Exposition at New
Orleans, is large fir tree, 17t fee!
in diameter.
Edward Whitson, the Yakima
banker, was married last week at
Walla Walla, to Miss Nellie Bate
man, q sister of Mrs. J. B. Allen
and Mrs. Captain Charles Clancy.
j. w. Ronald has been appointed
special U. S. Deputy Marshal for
the purpose Of visiting hop ranches
during picking season and frustrat-
ing attempts to sell liquor to Indians.
Seattle has given another example
of energy in the right direction in
the addition of a soap factory to
her other industries. The use OF
soap promises to become popular in
Seattle.
The Tacoma Mill company has
Iibelled the snip Blue Jacket in the
sum of $12, 900, as damages claimed
for injuries done to their tug Tacoma,
June 18th, by the ships collision
herewith.
Charles Foster, aged about fifty,
while assisting in raising barrel OF
suger in the rear of Nelson Chill
berg's store, at Seattle, few days
ago, fell through the trap door into
the basement, sustaining painful in
iuries.
The Seattle Call says there are lit.
tie children in that city who, for
lack of other food, follow the
scaveneer wagon to the dumpaSe
ground on the beach and pick up
decayed fruit. etc, to satisfy their
hunger.
The Tacoma Laundry employed
white women to do the work at Sc
per week and had plenty of custom,
but the low prices which ruled from
Chinese competition made the bust
ness unremunerative, and it had to
close doors.
The Walla Walla Journal says that
a private dispatch from President
Harris states that the rshearing upon
the question of the terminal limits
Fof the Northern Pacific land grant in
that county has been postponed till
the 30th inst.
The Yakima Farmer. as illustrative
of the profitable crops raised in that
locality, states that a man there
raised q chicken upon the seeds of a
sunfower, and then cooked tie
chicken with fuel cut from the stalk
of the plant.
Col. T. A. Burns, the newly-ap-
pointed Agent at the Yakima Indian
Agency, has arrived and assumed
the duties of his Office. 1t trans
pires that General Milroy, whom he
relieves, was his old commander in
the army when Col. Burns was a
captain.
During past month the land de-.
partment of the Northern Pacific
has prepared nearly COO deeds;
nearly 500 of them have been re-.
turned, signed by the President, and
are now ready for delivery to the
purchasers in Oregon and Washing
ton who have been notified.
Another Seattle firm has gone
down amid the ruins which hard
times have wrought. w. D. Scott
g. Co., wholesale grocers, were at
tached last Saturday by bankers of
Portland and Seattle. At present
attachments to the amount of pro-
badly $50, 1000, stand against the
firm.
The oil we'll at Elhi on Saturday
night had reached depth of IS feet.
Thele is very little change in the
formation, it still being hard TO drill
through. The rope breaks nearly
every day, though one of stronger
material and 1,500 feet in length
will be put in use after sinking few
days more.
An effort will be made in the next
Legislature, says the argus, to SO
change the Judicial Districts hs to
more equalize the work. Judge
Greene has too much 10 do to run
the courts and attend to pastoral
duties atween-times. The change
suggested will place the Port Town.
send Court in Judge Hoyt's Dis
triet.