Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-08-07
Territorial Items.


Vancouver will be opened about
August 18th.
General Gibbon, the Few depart
ment commander, arrived at Van
couver last week.
Large quantities of huckleberries
are being sent to Portland from Cow
litz county by the Indians.
The Northern Pacific will build n
new depot at Kalama in the place Of
the hotel recently burned.
Rev. L. Verhaag. editor of the
Catholic Sentinel, is making n tour of
the Sound and British Columbia.
By having their washing done at
Chinese laundry quite Dumber Of
Tacoma people have succeeded in
catching the itch.
M. Connel!, one of the publishers
of the Skagit Ne,cs, has been ap-
pointed to the customs inspectorship
at Whatcom, vice s. E. Spangler.
It is estimated that about one
tenth of the standing grain in Walla
Walla valley has been blown down
or shattered out by recent storm.
The Baptist Association of Puget
Sound and British Columbia has de-
cided to establish a Baptist college
at the terminus of the Canadian Pa
ciic Railway.
Mr.. Case, Of WILDLY Island, re.
Gently bought forty acres OF the
Ebey farm, paying therefor $40 per
acre, and the Hallers also sold 200
acres for $1,000.
The price of hops is so low that
many fields in Puyallup valley will
not be picked. The market price,
six cents per pound, hardly pays for
the trouble of picking.
Walla Walla has a big threshing
machine which turns out 4,5OO
bushels of wheat day. The thresh-
ers over there are charging seven
aud one half cents bushel this year.
---Fho--furmers Of wnatcom, Skagit'
and Island counties have secured
their hay crop without loss or dam
age by rain. The crop is very heavy,
many fields averaging five tons to
the acre.
Mrs. Carr, an old lady in Seattle,
had her collar-bone broken during
the thunderstorm last week, by q
runaway team, while attending the
funeral OF Hiram Baker. Other oc.
cupants of the carriage escaped un.
injured.
President Harris, of the Northern
Pacific, is reported TO have said that
most of the wheat raised in Wash
ington Territory is to be sent East
overland this year. The rate il TO |
be So ton to st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis or Duluth.
The County Commissioners Of |
Chehalis county have appropriated |
two thousand dollars to gravel the
road leading from Montesano to
Olympia as far as the Thurston
county line. They intend to put the
road in frst.class condition.
Lon Pierce, a well-known old
timer on the Snobomish river, died |
suddenly at Priest Point, Tuesday
the 28th ult. He was sitting in his |
chair after supper, feeling we'll as
common when suddenly he groaned |
and fell, and in few minutes was |
dead. He was buried Thursday |
morning.
The few hours the Queen was |
aground at Point Hudson last week |
cost her about So, 900. She had to
discharge 1000 barrels of salmon, |
weighing 400 tons. into lighters and |
lift them back again, and the tugs
Iyee and Virginia both, of course,
made hay during the temporary Pc
Rod of sunshine.
The thunder storm last week per-
formed some queer pranks at Seattle.
The electricity of the clouds melted
a telegraph wire, destroyed the in |
struments attached to it and set the |
carpet on fire. A lot of matches in |
one of the stores were ignited; q tel |
ephone pole was struck, and the
roofs of several buildings were in
jured by the electric fluid.
Messrs. Carr, Colkett and Harris,
Postmaster, Assistant and Mailing
Clerk of the Seattle Office, have been |
appointed by Postmaster General
Villas members of the Civil Service
Commission having supervision Of
examination of candidates for posi-
tions in the postal service Of this
Territory. The examinations will
be made in September.
The highway robber who last
week relieved the paymaster OF the
Island Railway of about SO, 900 has
been captured near Victoria. He is
lank young Texan, only twenty