Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-10-15
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

TEKRlTOklAL ITEMS.
Sprague Journal notes the arrival of
large numbers of immigrants.
Fine sweet potatoes were raised in
Walla Walla county this season.
Ten or Is new grocery stores have
been opened at Spokane Falls lately.
E. B. Wise, of Klickitat, kills deers
in the mountains by using tame de-
coy deer.
Port Hadlock, the new sawmill town
on Port Townsend bay, has applied
for post Office. '@'''''
Seattle has two electric lighting COM
panies, using the Thomas and Edieon
systems respectfully.
Mr.. G. G.. McNamara has been ap-
pointed Postmaster at Port Townsend,
vice Learned, suspended.
Fallon, of Walla Walla, employed
200 Indians and 70 Cinnamon to pick
A acres of hops, yielding 1925 bales.
Three canneries are running on Che
halls river; salmon being plenty, some
boats making as high as $40 per night.
An Indian near Snohomish City, w.
T., caught and landed without help
sturgeon eleven feet long and Weighing
500 pounds.
The Seattle brass and bell foundry is
owned by John e. Good, once foreman
of the Baldwin Locomotive Works of
Philadelphia.
Gray's harbor is becoming quite a
shipping port; a gentleman recently
there stating that there were II vessels
due at the harbor.
The Press says that people of King
county, that is the Republican portion,
have declared in favor of local option;
but practically they are opposed to its
enforcement.
Kanaka Jack, who has been Jeffer-
son county charge for over 13 years,
costing the county nearly 5000 to
support, has been sent back to the
Sandwich Islands.
Peter DeJorup is laying off new
townsite on the eastside of Utsalady
bay, adjacent to the mill site. The new
site is beautiful one and the lots are
large and desirable. -.
E. r. Leaning, of Yakima, planted
five acres to peanuts this Spring and
now has crop equal to any ever raised
in Tennessee. The vines are loaded
and the nuts large and well matured.
Goldendale Sentinel says that cattle
ranges in Kliekitat county have retro
graded SO much that stock will have
to be greatly curtailed. It advises di-
viding herds of from 10000 to $1,000
cattle and sheep, in order to relieve
ranges. asi $50 aa
w. Bennet Of Nispually Bottom,
raised cabbage this year measuring
6Ox63 inches, weighing 22} pounds
Exchange, We can raise" that cab
bage just 174 pounds, having been
shown one the past week that weighed
even 50.-Pomeroy Independent.
Robert, the four-year old son Of R.
L. Carpenter, of vashon, vas acci-
dentally killed Saturday. An older
brother and he were out hunting.
The older brother was carrying the
gun and by some mishap it was dis
charged. The charge Of shot struck
the little fellow squarely in the fore
head and killed him instantly.
The Pilot says that Capt. Orrin Kel-
logg has been awarded the contract
forcleaning the snags out Of the chan
mel Of the Cowlitz river, and COM
menced the work last week with the
steamer Toledo. He has also set q
force of men at work on the river Just
below the town of Toledo, and ex-
poets to make valuable improvements
to the river with this appropriation.
Mr.. L. F. Jordan, q we'll known
citizen of Port Townsend, died on
Friday, suddenly. The cause of his
death is said to have been internal
hemorrhage. Mr.. Jordan was about
80 years of age. He leaves q wife and
seven children to mourn his loss.
His vile il daughter of Mr.. ]. G.
Ginger. Mr.. Jordan has been
resident Of Puget Sound twenty years
or more, having lived in Seattle and
Olympia good many years ago.
Victoria Colonist: Within few days
some 800 Cinnamon have left this city
for Sound ports, California and China.
There is said to be quite demand in
Seattle for Chinese labor, $S q day be-
ing offered in some cases for hop pick
ers. Colonel Bee, the Chinese consul,
has telegraphed from San Francisco
that no soup kitchens will be permitted
in Chinatown this winter, for the rea-
son that they tend to habits of indol-
ence, John taking in many cases more
kindly to soup than to work.
KEEP your young oysters at home"
says the Baltimore american. BY all
means. If there be anything which
should be reprehended it is the neeli-
gence Of parents who allow an oyster
to go wandering about the streets
smoking cigarettes and singing Sweet
Violets."
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