Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-12-10
TERRITORIAL TIE Ms.

host OF thu ttntralIa hotel, AT Cen
tralii.
W'hatcom l. the only county seat III
Washington Territory without GENIE
terry or jail
There are many applicants for the
"ilir, OF Postmaster, at Tacoma, Which
hrcnlmrs vacant next May.
Six men, some with families, ar
rived at Chchalis from Texas and
have settled in that county.
There are now forty prisoners at the
United States prison ON McNcils Isl
and Every cell is occupied.
Out of the w nty-iivc babies born
in Douglas county since the FIRST "f
January, SAYS the Yakima Signni,
all but two are girls.
In fourteen OF the thirtythrec cotln-
ties oi the Territory the office of SUI
pcrlntcndent ui Schools is held by wo-
men. five Of whom are unmarried.
Douglas county boasts of not hay
ing "A saloon within its boundaries. 1t
is the only county i'll the Territory
that can truthfully make such il claim.
Grand Secretary Shaw has just re-
crivcd an application for another new
lodge OF Odd Fellows to be organized
at Tacoma, to bc hailed as Crescent
Lodge No. "A.
Chief Inspector of Customs F.. A.
Gardiner. of the Puget Sound District
is on leave Of absence and will go East
10 consult Il celebrated ucc,Ilist with
reference to his eyes.
On "Wednesday Il young man 10
wears old, residing near Napavine,
and son OF Thomas Roach, had his
arm badly cut with II circular SAW
while edging shingles.
Mr.. W. III. Ball has purchased ma
chincry and will build Il shinglr mill
ON the Newaukum river, ut the old
mill site where Moore & Nights saw
mill burned down few years ago.
The divorce suit OF Peterson W. Pet
rr>un, OF Chchalis county, has been de-
cidcd and decree of divorce granted.
The property was divided equally be
tween Glenn Peterson and his wife.
Yakima !SjgnaI, Dcccmbcri: Notice
of contest for the office OF Joint Rep
rcsrntativr was served on I. J. Y.
Clark 10y Sheriff Parker. on Saturday
last. The grounds stated for the con
test are illegal votes and fraud.
The Columbia ChronjcIr, Rcpuhli-
can paper, is moved to remark: The
Republican party is the party of re-
form and progress. 1t has progressed
50 far in the matter OF reform as to
place the Democrats i'll power i'll the
Territory.
Parties from Portland were ut Che
halls last week. looking for sawed
shingles and dressed flooring. This
begins to look like business, and is
quite Il contest from last year, when
lumber dealers went to- Portland beg
ging for sales.
At the municipal election AT Contra
lia. last Monday, \. Nowy, W. r.
Zcnor, Ed. Channel, Frank Rhodes
and T. r. Winston We're elected truS-
tees while d. w. Cameron secured
the clcrkship and W. J. Salisbury the
office oi marshal
Judge Greene. of Seattle, has decided
that the Oregon Railway and Naviga-
ton steamship EIaho is forfeited to the
government, on conviction of having
engaged in smuggling opium last sum
mcr. The case will be appealed To the
L. :. Supreme Court.
Abe Shelton, IN old-timcr in Seattle
died ut Providence hospital Saturday
Of dropsv of the heart. He WAS an
Englishman, about 81 years OF age
and Il carpenter by trade. His death
WAS very sudden, as he was taken very
i'll only the previous afternoon.
Since the 18th ult., there has been
two feet OF snow ON the summit OF tn,
Cascades and work is considerably de
laycd i'll consequence, especially i'll tn,
matter of throwing up treStlcS, as
loftsmcn refuse tn work where the
danger of slipping and falling is sc
great.
The government snag boat .Skagi
has almost completed the work O
clearing the Nooksack River, and thai
stream is now open to steamboat traf-
fic. Thousands OF acres of land are
thus made accessible to settlers, all t,
become tributary to seattle, the steam.
boat center of the sound.
The three great oat-producing see
tons of the Sound are Stiilaguamish
Swnomish and Samish. They pro
duced this year 232 900 sacks Of as fin,
oats as were ever thrown on the mark
ct. OF this amount I25 900 sacks vii
he, or have already been, shipped t,
San Francisco, while the rrmaincr vii
be used in this section.
The total vote of Whitman count,
will Indicate an increase of about |,
600 over that of two years ago. Tn,
woman vote figures largely in this. Il.
they came out i'll greater numbers tins
year, but it is safe to say that tn,
male vote has increased ut least 800
indicating an increase in the popula-
ton of between 1000 and $500.
Judge Greene lately decided that tn,
law of this Territory, making it pun.
ishable offcnse to smoke opium, is un
constitutional. An individual ma,
smoke opium as freely as tobacco, hu
persons have no right to open house
for the smoking of opium by others
John may smoke all he wants himscl
but he can not run Il Joint" for tn,
ruin of others.
The Board of Trustees and Buildin.
Commissioners of the Territorial Hos
pital for the Insane met at their uflic
at Fort Steilacoom Friday, and trans
acted the routine business for TIN
month. They were to have made
final settlement with Contracto
Rainey, but for some reason the settle
ment was postponed till an adjourne,
meeting, which will be held next Mon
day.
In 1884 Voorhees, had majorities il
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