Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-08-14
Territorial Items.

Snoqualmie pass last week reports
that he passed six immigrant wagons
enroute for the Sound country.
The mammoth circus tent, used
by John Robinson, for his great
Three Ring Circus, is the largest
one ever manufactured, and capable
Of seating 80 .000 human h ingl.
The Steamship IFaHa Wdlla will be
employed dredging Columbia river
bars for twenty days, at the cost of
about $1,000. The city of Portland
will pay one half the expense, and
the o. r. & n. Co. one half.
Walter Pulsifer. of Chehalis, was
burned to death Sunday. while at
work on the farm of w. d. Pitts,
near Claguato. he was burning u
slashins and was caught in the
flames, and being a man of about 60
years of age, WAS too feeble to make
his escape.
On the 2Sth day of July last c. E.
Kennedy, of Puyallup, gave Jas.
Stewart, of Hillhurst, a promissory
note which he said his mother.
Mercella Kennedy, had signed and
given him. It was three month
note, drawn for 500. Mr.. Stewart
gave him the money but afterward
found that the note was foro cry.
Louis Zeisler, Grand High Priest
of the Masonic fraternity of Wash
inston Territory. has issued pro-
clamation to the subordinate chap
ters enjoining the trial of Masons
who practice gambling in any of its
seductive forms, end providing as a
penalty either suspension or expul-
sion according to the degree of in
fraction of Masonic law.
Fire, the work of an incen6iary.
broke out near The Petaluma House,
Walla Walla, Saturday, ut 1870
P. NJ, owned by II. Z. Holmes.
which was totally destroyed; insured.
Whitman d Lacy's brick, used as
The Delmonico hotel, was completely
Quilted; insured for $4,000. Other
buildings. three adjoining, owned
by John Louga, were also destroyed.
A lake II miles long and six wide,
supposed to be the source of Cedar
and Snoqualmie rivers, has been dis
covered in the Cascade mountains.
to the north. The waters abound
in fish; the beaver makes it home.
and mountain sheep and other game
are numerous in the vicinity.
Messrs. Hill and Imloch, of Tacoma,
are said to be the only white men who
have visited this lake. An Indian
trail was found leading to il, but
from appearances had not been used
for many Years. Its elevation is
IA 500 feet.
Last week, at North Yakima.
Chas. Schanno shot and killed Adam
Golstein, brewer. who had been in
his employ. They were quarreling
over the wages due, when Schanno,
who stood very near Goldstein, shot
him through the head. The MUIR
dered man has wife in The Dalles.
from whom it is said he was sepsrat.
ed, and daughter in st. Louis, n
teacher in the public schools there
Schanno was the richest man in the
old town and has been irreconcilable
over the failure to make that the
principal town in the county. In
that case his wealth would have been
largely augmented. He has ten
and came into this valley
from The Dalles.
Fire broke out at Alkali, Oregon,
at 10 P. M. Friday evening, in o
building occupied bya lottery racket.
The loss is about $4,000. Linder's
saloon. Hendricks butcher shop, a
building owned by J. Service, and
W. A. Ridkey's general merchandise
store were totally destroyed. There
is only small insurance on Ridkey's
stock. The greater part of the stock
was saved. Much credit is due Rob
inson's circus. Without their help
it is probably that Keenev's saloon,
Graham's saloon, Heppner & Block
mans general merchandise store and
the Gilman hotel would have been
destroyed. This is the first fire in
the town of Alkali. One of Robin
sons circus employees was nearly
killed, while working at the fire, bv
an ak flying off the handle and
crushing his skull.