Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-11-19
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.


The acting Mayor "l TacoIna vetoed
the ordinance reducing the liGlior L.
ccnce from $500 to $500 year.
Calvin Cole, a logger on the Skagit
river. had one Of his feet badly damned.
He was taken To the Seattle hospital
The total vote of Spokane county
foo.s up 4,2I4, and it l. estimated that
over 500 did not exercise their right
OF suffrage
Walla Walla Statesman: Dubois.
Republican candidate for delegate for
Idaho. Is said to he il cousin of Hon.
Charles ;. Voorhees,.
During the past two wears, saws the
kalama .ldrocate, Cowlitz county ha,
built five new bridges and seventv-fivc
miles of new roads.
The saloon at Waitsburg has been
permanently closed, the commissioners
having refused to grant IA license. not
withstanding the opinion given bv
Judge Langford.
A permanent fair organization has
been perfected at Spokane Falls, under
the title OF Washington and Idaho
FAR association. The grounds which
have been selected are one nil,. frori
the city.
General Adna Anderson is on his
way west III company with three Uni
ted States Commissioners to examine
forty miles of new track from Ellens-
burgh west ON the line of the Cascade
division.
The only Justice of the Peace Of q" f.
male pursuaSi"n" in Eastern WASH
ington is Mrs. Lena Campficld Of AID
er creek precinct, Yakima county,
says the Signal, who goes to the office
with II handsome majority.
Eighteen thousand cases of salmon
were canned this season in Aberdeen,
Cosmopolis and Lower Montesano, and
the Aberdeen journal says 5000 eases
more would have been but up if the
iislermcn's strike had not occurred.
Hollon Parker has been appointed
by the Walla Walla board of trade to
solicit funds to pay the expenses of a
representative ut Washington the en-
SUNG winter, to look after the pcolly'S
interest in the matter Of an opcn river.
The election III Pierce county will Lc
contested as ia Shricval;y. James
Knox, the candidate Of the pco1lc'S
PARTY, has secured the services of John
Arthur, OF Tacoma, and Strive, HaincS
4 McMickcn, of Seattle, as attorneys
to prepare and present the contest.
Mr.. Rcavcs, of Eagle harbor, Kitsap
county, father-in-law of c. II. Packard,
editor Of the Snohomish Eye, while
trying to cross to his home from White
river, on the Sth inst, was drowned.
He had dashed himself to his leaking
boat and the body was therefore recoy-
cred
The Spokane Oatmeal Milling COM
pany has been organized ut Spokane
Falls. A four-stOry mill is to be built
at once and first-class machinery will
be put in. The mill is to turn out oat
meal, buckwheat flour, corn meal.
pearl barley, etc. The company, with
one exception, is composed of Spokane
Falls residents.
The North Yakima Signal is author
lty for the statement that l.. II. Free
man OF the North Yakima Farmer.
who was elected from an eastbound N.
7. train at Pasco for failure To pay
fare, has sued the company for SIC, 600
damages, as he claims to have been
prevented in attending foreclosure
sale i'll which he was interested at Hell
cna, NJ. Il.
We don't know who is to blame, but
we do do know that the mail service
on the o. II. & N. is simply rotten.
We received few days since a letter
that was nine days coming from Van
couver, and another seven days from
Portland Papers from the Sound and
down the Columbia published on the
4th, reached us on the Sth, and SO it
goes all the time. If Uncle Sam can't
do better than that he ought to refund
our stamps or be prosecuted for OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
Tuesdays are persistent in having no
mail and Wednesdays run it Il close
race for the cake. We can't help it,
but We can kick, and by the continent
tai congress we do.-Goldendaie TriJ-
une.
The same here.
Mr.. J. M. Blaine, postmaster and
cashier for Contractor Nelson Bennett,
does not seem to share the somewhat
general sanguine expectations that
the Cascade switchback will be COM
pletcd by the LIST of January. He
says, however, that the work is pro-
crossing quite favorably. There are
175 men, on an average, ut each end of
the tunnel, working toward each other.
Nearly all nationalities are represented
but Cinnamon. The tunnel will not
be completed before year and half,
possibly longer. The work will be kept
going during the entire winter. 1t is
much warmer inside the tunnel than
outside, the temperature being about
60 degrees. 1t is all volcanic rock and
very dry. But little of the dampness
is visible that is found in most all 9TH
er tunnels pierced through mountains.
A few of the laborers have left, but
most of them will remain. The la
borers are paid 50 25 and 50 so per
day. The mechanics get $3 and So so
per day. Work on the switchback,
Mr. Blaine thinks, will be completed
within six weeks after spring opens.
The work ON this part of the railroad
will be pushed far into the winter, or
as long as the weather will possibly
permit it. The main line of the rail-
road to the tunnel, on this side at
least, will be completed during the
winter.
THIS is the land of posey A Min
neapolls paper says: "Corn, the
friend alike to poet, peasant and spec
ulator, lowered lovingly moment at