Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-05-28
Territorial Items.


Twenty-four Chiuamen are min
ing on the bars on the Yakima river.
The highest price paid for wheat
at Walla Walla is ~ to 40 cents.
c. A. Bulkley, of Seattle, has been
adjudsed insane and sent to the asy.
lum.
There are over 2i5 different varie.
ties of birds found in Washington
Territory.
Several new logging camps have
been started in the vicinity of Gray's
Harbor.
Eight thousand acres of lao i have
been located near Rtzville the past
two weeks.
The assessment of Tacoma for
1886 foots up So, 100, 7O5, an increase
over 1885 of s2i5, ,213.
LaConner is arranging for the
establishment of waterworks to sup
ply the city from an adjacent lake.
The building boom at Ellensburg
continues, and FIVE new business
houses are in course Of construction.
The s.. .nate has confirmed the
nomination of c. H. Warner, as Reg
ister of the Land Office in Walla
Walla.
Judge Turner does not favor
women sitting on juries. and excuses
them from such service on almos.
any pretext.
The Blaine Journal says that Mr..
Robert Roper, of Semiah moo, awoke
one morning last week TO find him.
self blind.
The corner stone Of the new Ger.
man Nj. E. church, at Walla Walla,
was laid Monday. Active work on
the building has begun.
The merchants of North Yakima
have given notice to the public that
they will henceforth keep their
places of business closed on Sunday.
Nelson Bennett gives preference
to Mormon laborers on all his rail
road contracts, and majority OF the
men now in his employ are said to
be of that denomination.
Blanchard & Son, recently from
Pennsylvania, are putting $4,000
in the construction OF logging road
from McElroy slough. near Samisb,
two miles in tho timber. Tie road
will be four miles in length.
Quite number of persons on
Gray's Harbor have visited the
wrecked schooner Trustee, for the
purpose Of taking the contract to
unload her. Thus far no one has |
been found willing to undertake the
job.
The wife of Seattle ship carpen-
ter named John McEachern has Civ
en- birth to triple,s, their combined |
weight being 1S pounds. This is
the first instance of the kind in Se-
attic. Que Of the children was still. |
born.
The S. +. Alta Gays that the old |
steamship Dakota, which formerly
piled between San Francisco and
Puget Sound, is being stripped OF
rigging, boats, ETC., which can be
used on other vessels, and her hull
will be sold and turned into sailing
vessel of some description.
The Hoquiam Mill Company ore
cutting large ditch through their
property. This will drain large
tract Of land and secure it against
the overflow of tho tide. What Mr..
Emerson has done shows what can
be done with all the tide fat of
Gray's Harbor; every foot Of it can
be brought under cultivation.
The building of the Cascade
branch of the Northern Pacific Rail |
road has SO greatly increased the de-
mands for land co-terminous thereto,
that the company has decided to
place three land examining parties
in the field at once, in addition to
the party now engaged in that work.
These parties will leave for Yakima
and Kittiias valleys in few days.
There is a splendid water power at
tho east portal OF the Cascades tun-
mel. The water pours down q height
of some $50 feet over solid rock,
half of which Is perpendicular drop.
The water is guyed offLy wooden
chute and is d 'scharged into the can
yon below. The rock face Of the
tunnel has height Of some so or 90
feet. In this wall the tunnel began,
and is now in $50 feet.
Seattle papers are greatly exer-
cised over the discovery. as they
claim, of plot by socialists of that
city TO assassinate some Of Seattles
leading citizens, among whom were
Dexter Horton, H. l.. Yestler, u. T.
Denny, and Thomas Burke. The
papers claim that tho plot was
broached to the lateJohn T. Jordan.
and he had informed others of the