Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-02-05
Territorial Items.
Seattle is to have q Government
postoffice building.

Seattle is to have a Government
postofiice building.
Seattle shipped 1915 tons of
coal to California and Oregon ports
last year.
The Presbyterians and Methodists
are holding revival meetings at
Ellensburg.
The Indians at Tulalip are doing
quite business in the cordwood liue
furnishing about eighty cords per
week 20 passing steamers.
The steamer Erangel, Capt. James
Tarte master, will commence run
, ming this week from Seattle to New
Westminster, via Wbatcom and Sem
iahmoo.
Pusco is having boom and its
magnificent possibilities are demon
s'rs,rd by blue map, showing it's
exact central position for the Terri
torial or State capital site.
An Indian boy is confined in a
dark prison. ON the Yakima reserva-
ton and led on bread and water for
stall blny half breed in the hip dur
ing q quarrel. Indian judges passed
the sentence and the agent approved
it.
Old Charlie Swegle is having an
artesiau we'll bored on Eureka flat.
near Walla Walla. He WAS to pay
Is cents for the first 10 feet; 50 so
up to Is; So up to 100, and 50 so
per foot up to 125, for a six inch bore.
The we'll is now down ZIG feet, and
has ia it 1 feet of water.
The Anacortes Enterprise has an
interesting item to the effect that
Miss Sibley a worthy young lady re-
siding with her mother, Mrs A Slb,ey
on Guemes island, is one of the heirs
of Pendelton, the California million
aiie, who recently died in that state.
An estate of 81 900, 900 will thus be
divided among some fifty heirs.
The powers that be have ordered
the mail service to Mount Vernon re-
duced to once q week. and the Skagit
Ne,cs INDUCES in some vigorous bot
justifable kicking. 1t says that it
required two horses to carry the
mail before and now it will take a
whole pack train. The people are
petitioning for the resembling of this
outrageously unjust order.
CHARLES Hall, the 1G.year- old son
Of Capt. Hall, formerly of the bark
entine Skaga while out hunting near
Port Ludlow on the 18th inst. had
his gun accidently discharged by
drawing it over a log, the charge
taking effect in his left forearm. He
was taken to Port Townsend for
treatment, but lost much blood on
the way. Amputation, which was
found necessary, proved to great O
shock, and he died at the Central
hotel.
Yakima Signal: The Northern Pa
cific company have been notified that
a large colony is being formed in
Ohio and Pennsylvania to take up
land and settle in the Big Bend
CO untry. The managers of the
colony have applied to the N. p. land
department for figures on 10000
acres, which their advance agent re-
ported favorabIy upon, and a COM
mittee is expected in FEBRUARY to
conclude negotiations for the same.
The sealing fleet, says the Port
Townsend Argus, will soon be out in
full force at Cape Flattery. The
schooner Champion, Captain Meal.
mond. is already waiting for favor.
able weather for a cruise over the
sealing grounds; the Mist, Captain
McFarlane. will soon follow suit; the
Lottie. Captain Brown, is fitting out
the 1easer, Captain Quinn, will be on
hand as soon as she carries her load
of merchandise to Quileute; and it il
presumed the Jennie, Letitia, Grang.
er, and others will also engage in the
business.