Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-11-26
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

The Tacoma Coal Company have
ordered from Port Townsend 10000
fire brick to be used in erecting their
coke ovens at Wilkeson. The bricks
are expected to arrive there shortly.
The Aberdeen Packing Company
packed at their Gray's Harbor can
merry, at Aberdeen, S,1OO cases of
salmon, and those at Cosmopolis and
Montesano, 5000 each, or a total of
$4,000 cases for the Harbor. The Her.
aid says the price touched bottom at
81 16.
Palouse Gazette: The highest vote
polled in Whitman county in 1884
was 1886, the delegate vote being 40
less. This year the total vote amounts
to LIZA, the vote for Delegate falling
IL short. The gain in two years is
97S qotes. In this respect Whitman
presents a better showing than any
other county In the Territory.
The Cheneyites have given up the
contest for the county seat of Spokane
county, and Immediately thereafter
rooms were rented in Spokane Falls
for the county officers. The county
records will be removed to the Falls
in a few days. The District Court
was to meet on Monday and the wide
awake Spokanites hastily furnished u
hall for the use of the court.
Those who have to pay the penalty
of Ex-Sheriff Thompson's shortage in
the treasury of Walla Walla county
are, r. Guichard, w. Kirkman, s.
Schwabacher, w. O'Donnell, C. Maier,
Thos. Quinn, r. r. Rees, H. E. Holmes
and Max Baumeister. They held a
meeting last week and decided to set
tie without suit. Unless the deficiency
is otherwise reduced, each one will
have to pay $14S Is.
Every farmer in Washington Terri
tory should grow and fatten q few
hogs; should keep an outfit of poultry.
ducks, geese and chickens; should
have at Christmas time n yard of fat
gobblers and pigs for roasting pur-
poses to sell. When the time comes
that these suggestions are observed
and lived up to, then will three mil
lions of money that now goes abroad
for those things yearly, be saved to
the Territory.
Following are the official majorities
received by the several candidates
voted for at the general election in
Pacific county: Bradshaw, SO; Cow
ey, 100; Warman, Is; Moody, 27S;
Probate Judge Olsen, Sc; Commits
sioners, Hunter 81, Brown %, Goodell
"a; Auditor Wood, 563; Sheriff Tur-
ner, 100; F. c. Davis 120;. Superin-
tendent Mrs. Hicklin, 210; Surveyor
Pagles, IL; Hanselman, 70; VIM.
Mills, $50. The total vote of the coun-
ty was 56S.
The terms of Judges Greene and
Hoyt, of Washington Territory, ex-
pire January Goth. The Seattle Press
says B. L. Sharpstein, of Walla Walla,
recently elected to the Council from
the First Judicial District, and George
Fuller, a prominent lawyer Of Tacoma,
are working industriously for Judge
Hoyt's seat; while J. Paul Judson,
also of Tacoma, is endeavoring to per-
suade President Cleveland he is the
proper aspirant for the official honors
at present claimed by Judge Greene.
The barkentine San huis, which az
rived at Seattle last Saturday, has
something of history. Twelve years
ago, says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
she was steam revenue cutter, the
property of the United States. She
was sold, her machinery removednnd
her rigging transformed into that of a
barkentine. Ten years ago Capt.
Alexander, now master of the flagship
Queen of the Pacific, was mate aboard
of her, and Mr.. NJ. NJ. Buckman, now
in Seattle as the Special Agent of the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company,
was purser and freight clerk. OF late
years the San Luis has been in the
codfishing trade away off in the North
western seas. She brings to Seattle a
hundred cases of Goldfish.
The firm of Lilienthal & Co. have
bought from Puget Sound growers
since the first of last January no less
than 10000 bales of hops, and about
5000 of these were of the 1886 crop,
for which they paid an average of %
cents per pound. Estimating each
bale to weigh $50 pounds, it will be
seen that they have brought into the
country over $4,000 for the crop of
1856 alone. Mr. Pincus says that the
present depression of the hop market
is caused by the rush of German hops
on to the American market. There
are left unsold on Puget Sound about
$500 bales, which the growers are
anxiously holding for higher offers.
1t is impossible to predict when the
present dull market will change for
better.
There is probably no section of the
United States so admirably adapted
to the growing of potatoes as the river
valleys along the streams tributary to