Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-11-12
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.


in Seattle elected.
Henry Roeder, for Joint Council
man, has 13O majority over Garfield
in Whatcom, Island and Jefferson
counties, and is probably elected.
Geo. +. Atkinson, Superintendent OF
the Tacoma sawmill, reports that the
lumher business is improving on the
Sound, and that the foreign demand is
increasing.
A Seattle firm last week received
an order for $4,000 pounds of Puget
Sound salmon for the Fulton market,
New York. They were shipped in a
refrigerator car.
A Mr., Bevans of Idaho, has pur-
chased of Mrs. Stone of Puyallup, an
acre of land for $3.50 adjoining the res
idence OF E. Mceker, and will remove
from Idaho and settle in Puyallup.
The Kalama Adrocate claims a pop
ulation of 1900 for the county. 1t in
vites immigration and claims that
there are thousands of good acres of
land in the county which are unset
tied
Col. W. II. II. Waters, an old news
paper man and prominent citizen of
Oregon, has been appointed to the Of
flee OF Deputy Collector of Port Town
send, by the Collector, Quincy A.
Brooks.
Captain Waud with force of about
% men have been engaged in cutting
brush just below Kalama to be used
i'll the abutment opposite st. Helens,
Or. The brush is cut and shipped on
scows to the place where it is used.
At the recent election the voters
of Spokane county by large majority
decided to move the county scat from
Cheney to Spokane Falls. This, it
might be supposed, would settle the
controversy, but not so. Cheney dies
hard. The matter will be appealed to
the courts.
The Pacific journal suggests the
feasibility of canning claims as a lu-
crative industry. New England clam
canneries are, it is said, unable to fill
orders for the product. Another en-
terprise that would doubtless prove q
success would be a plant for convert
ing the myriads of smelt that infest
the waters of Puget Sound into sar-
dimes.
The erosive action of water on the
cliffs and banks of the lower Columbia
is strikingly illustrated at Gray's river
falls, where a log that twenty-three
years ago just spanned the falls few
feet above the present surface of the
falls, the constant cataract and tumb-
ling pebbles having eroded the bed of
the torrent to that extent in that space
of time.
The contractors of the switchback
over the Cascade mountains are cut
ting ditch 600 feet long, Is feet wide
and 8 feet deep, SO as to drain Green
river channel in order to obviate the
necessity of building a bridge. Work
on the switchback is progressing fav-
orably. 1t is now thought that trains
will be running over the mountains
by the first of the year.
The Misses Clara Haines and Carrie
Seamen proved themselves expert and
competent clerks of election last week,
at Sumner, and passed through the
severe ordeal of an all-night count
with the tenacity and purpose of" good
citizens and true" The woman at the
polls is a success, and those of Sum-
ner precinct show that they have a
proper appreciation of their duties
and privileges.
I. J. Lousday, an insane patient
from Klickitat county, arrived at the
Hospital for the Insane few days
ago. He is Al years old and unmar-
ried. Some time ago he was injured
in giant powder explosion, sustaining
a shock which seriously affected his
brain and finally dethroned reason.
He imagines that some persons owe
him large amount of money which
he cannot get, and talks incessantly
about this money. At times he is
very violent.
In the U. s. District Court of the
Fourth Judicial District of Washington
Territory began and held at North
Yakima on the 11th day of October,
the Hon. George Turner, Judge presid-
ing, upon a question touching the
qualifications of a woman, born in a
foreign country and not a citizen, to
sit in the capacity of a juror, it was
held and decided that if the husband
of the woman was citizen and an
clector, the woman acquired the same
status as that of the husband, thereby
being entitled to vote and sit as Il
juror. This decision conflicts with
Judge Langford's opinions ON the sub
ject.
The official count of Pierce county
shows the election of the following otfi-
GERS, all of whom are Republicans
J. NJ. Steele Councilman, J. p. Stewart
and w. J. Thompson Representatives,
sheriff J. H. Wilt, Prosecuting Attor-