Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-12-24
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Seattle j. 20 have an ice factory.
Tacoma now has a broom factory.
Mr.. J. NJ Lyon has been appointed
Postmaster al seattle.
Mr.. John c. Ward. of Seattle. has
been appointed Assistant Keeper at
the West Point Light Station.
K. VI. Hu>kin>un, oi Eagle harl"r
kit.ap county, sold last season the
product OF five evergreen blackberry
bushes for about $50.
The Port Discovery Mill Company
have contracted with "A logger ut stuck
junction for :}45, 900 feet of long tim
her To- fill an order from China.
A number of farmers at Sumner
have p""lrd their hops, and have
shipped five carloads to Philadelphia.
There We're $50 bales in the pool.
The steamer T,tWood made a fine
run the ct her day between Olympia and
seattle Her time was five hours and
fifteen minutes from dock to dock.
An Eastern Washington exchange
tells ii of number OF changes to he
made in n p Railroad circles a. soon
as the Cascade Division is completed.
1t is rumored that "A ship-yard will
hc established ut Port Hadluck. Three
large planning machines suitable for
large timber are to be placed i'll the
mill.
A good sign Of the times: \ raft of
logs, cut ON the Sultan 10y Hamilton 4
Morrison was sold To the Tacoma Mill
Company last week, for 5000 per
thousand
1t is said that Cinnamon smuggle
opium from British Columbia into
Puget Sound towns by concciling it
in sticks of timber, which they tow
across the line.
Four prisoners from Spokane county
were placed in the Territorial pcniten-
tiarv at Scatco ON Saturday, to serve
out terms OF sentence aggregating
twenty-nine years.
c. c. Cunningham. II Walla Walla
saloon keeper, has sold 600 shares OF
Consolidated Virginia at IA clear profit
of 300. He brought for 10 cents a
share, Dee is, 1882.
Farmers are very busy blowing at
Walla Walla, in some instances run
ming three gang plows i'll field with
six horses to each gang. Young
wheat is looking VII.
The ship Ericsson on late trip
from Port Discovery to San Francisco,
with 100000 feet of lumber, wis out
% days the usual time for this season
being from ID to 10 days.
Eight families from Texas were look
ing up land near Sydney, kitSap coun-
ty, lately, being advance agents of
twenty other families from same State.
More people from Texas are reaching
this Territory than from any other
State.
A few days ago says the Whatcom
RerciHc, at Mountain View, two school
boys about ii years OF age, quarreled ;
blows followed, when one of the boys
drew knife and stabbed the other
under the eye, inhicting II painful
wound.
BY 4 letter received from Tunnel
City it is learned that the names of
those killed by the explosion in the
tunnel last week were Martin Brophy
Anthony Mustoe and Thomas Alland.
Seven men were in urcd, of which one
is said to have died since.
Miss Lizzie Matthews, of Texas, has
been appointed to Il clerkship in the
Customs House in Port Townsend by
Collector Brooks. 1t is understood
Miss Matthews will take the position
now occupied by Miss Scovillc, niece
of Capt. Beechcr, the late Collector.
For the vacancies to be caused by
the eyirations of the terms of Judges
HOyt and Greene in Washington Ter
ritory, there are four or more appli-
cants residing in this Territory, and
12O in different States who have APP
piled for judgeships in any Territory.
For the month ending November
3Oth last, the earnings of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company were ST.
3O4 ,952, an increase of $55 1874 over the
corresponding month of 1885. The
Northern Pacific Railroad Company is
now operating 1884 miles of road be-
tween Tacoma and st. Paul
One Of the recent ship-wrccks in
wolves the total loss of the schooner
Jessie Nickerson, lumber laden, at the
mouth of Shoalwater bay on the night
of the 18th inst. During II heavy
storm, she went ashore on Snag Island.
The crew launched life boat and
reached North Cove in safety.
Snohomish Valley has 25O,OO acres
of bottom land, $4,000 acres in fresh
water marsh land, 10000 acres of tide
marsh land, 1O0,OO0,O00 feet of timber
uncut and plenty of gold, silver, iron,
lead and copper. The export trade of
the valley amounts to 100000, one
half of which is brought in by the sale
of logs.
The N. p r. r. is making PROPOSE
tions to the city of Astoria to run the
track to that city. The road wants
a pretty large bonus, but the citizens
will not give it. The best they will
do is to donate depot grounds. The
road contemplates extending the
track from kalama with II transport mt
Astoria.
About forty men are now at work
on the Lake Union canal, and every
individual applying for a job is at once
handed pick and shovel. One OF the
locks has been completed and the 9TH
er is well under way An employee on
the work states that at the present
rate the canal will be completed about
the first of next June.
John Skyme, a minor, while on his
way home late Saturday night from
the saloon ut Wilkeson, and being I'M
der the influence of liquor, fell off the
wagon bridge into Wilkeson creek, his
neck being broken by tho fall A