Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-07-30

somewhat short, but even under this
unfavorable status our people will real
lze near on to quarter of a million
dollars for the crop grown within fif-
teen miles of North Yakima, if they
hold on for 40 cents.
Whatcom Rereille: Judge Harris
states that Blanchard & Co.'s logging
railroad, leading from Edison to Sam
ish Lake, will soon be completed two
miles. Next spring they propose to
put logging camp of seventy-five
men on Lake Samish. They estimate
that the timber an the line. Of sahair.
road III iasJ twent,. yoars a. .,..y
cut the timber they sell the land to
families and locate them on every
+ quarter.
Rev. c. G. Otis, who is in the East
negotiating for an endowment of $1O,-
OOO for the proposed academy on
WILDLY Island, has succeeded in OBJ
tanning half of the amount, and ex-
poets to procure the balance in short
time. The people of WILDLY Island
have subscribed sum sufficient to
purchase the property known as the
Hiwarden HOnse but on the condition
that the Congregationalists, under
whose auspices the academy is being
founded, shall procure the endowment
of $4,000.
The liquor men of Pennington over
in Whitman county in this Territory,
on the borders of Idaho, have entered
protest against the record of the
vote Of Pennington on the prohibition
question, on the ground that the local
option law is unconstitutional. The
case is to be heard before Judge Lang
ford, and the case will be watched with
much interest. It is the intention of
the complaining parties to thoroughly
investigate the matter and to go 80 far
as to question the validity of the wo-
man suffrage act. This will be q test
case and the result of it will undoubt-
fully settle the questions at issue.
Eastern men intend to make a fair
trial this season of the possibility of
transplanting and growing eastern
oysters in Shoalwater bay. Previous
unsuccessful experiments of this kind,
the Pacific Journal says, were made
under the most adverse and unfayor-
able conditions. The oysters had
first to be taken to San Francisco,
there planted and allowed to recuper-
ate, and then re-transplanted after a
schooner voyage. Now but few days
will elapse from the time they are yak
en- up until they are replanted in the
bay.
Washington correspondence of Ore
CONAN: "The contest over the con-
firmation of H. F. Beecher for Collec-
tor OF Customs has made a little item
OF expense for the Government. The
number OF witnesses last subpmned
from Washington Territory numbers
five; Judge Burke, Messrs. Kepler.
Temple, Jones and Beecher. They
are allowed five cents mile each vav
for travelling expenses and SS a dav
while here. The computed distance
between Port Townsend and Washing.
ton is $3.50 miles. At five cents a
mile each way each witness win there
fore receive 1928. This, counting al.
lowance for expenses while here, will
amount in the aggregate to over 81, 200.
During the month of June, IA yes.
sells sailed from Puget Sound lumber
laden for foreign ports, one going to
Callao, one to Makuhona, two to Hon.
olulu, one to Kalalui, s. L., four to
Melbourne, three to Sydney, one to
Noumea, and one to Valparaiso. Five
OF the vessels were from Tacoma, three
from Port Ludlow, two from Port
Ludlow, one from Seabeck, and one
from Port Discovery. From Tacoma
was shipped 2,555,475 feet of lumber,
1N,655 feet Of laths and So 3,7s3 feet Of
pickets. From Port Blakely went I.
S52,265 feet of lumber, 1855, ,1O9. feet
OF laths and $4,000 feet of pickets.
From Port Ludlow ,426, 1854 feet of
lumber and 151 900 feet of laths.
from seabeck 300,997 feet of lumber
and from Port Discovery went $780,
} OA feet of lumber and 937 700 feet OF
laths. Total: 1885, ,126 feet of lum.
Der, 1855, ,464 laths and $4,000 pick
cts.
MISS Fannie Anderson, of Kew