Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-03-12


chaige ui the Tacoma N.'Ws
The c,'izeus of vancouver have
dona ed 100 acres Of improved land
for the Drnf and Dumb Asylum, and
The trustees meet next week to accept
a transfer Of the property.
The s'imi'klm en- mines. British
Go uuhin. seem 'u he the c,n'.r of
nltiac ion THIS y-nr, aud long b. fore
midsummer viii be the scene of sew
eral thousand eager and hopeful
miuers
Mr. Stewart, fireman on the steam
~ Acii'". plying on the Snohomish
river. was ~ severity scalded Monday
morning by the bursting Of one of
tie es. that he died soon after
wards.
Snohomish is at last u white man .
town. The three Cinnamon who
were loft in the wash house after the
exodus of three weeks ago, sold off
their goods, tools, etc. and in COM
pany with one who had been cooking
in Snoqualmie logging camp, left
for more congenial climes.
The bodies of the late James Man.
ming Colman and WILDER Patten,
murdered a few weeks ago ON Lake
Washington in King county, were
found day or two since in about Is
feet depth OF water. Both had been
shot twice. Investigation for a clue
to the nurderers is still going on.
l.. +. Thompson, of Sumner, a
few days ago, sold to Weaver Bros. =,
Of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 100 bales
of his growing crop of hops at 81
cents per pound. The general con-
dition of the hop fields is favorable,
they being in excellent condition.
The weather is all that can be de.
sired.
Charles llagberg, the unfortunate
man who bad his face crushed in by
being struck by bolt hurled from
tho lath machine in the Port Blakely
mill last week, and who was subse-
quently taken to Providence Hos
piial, Seattle, died in that institu-
ton on Sunday afternoon from the
effects OF his injuries.
The steamer Merico on her last
trip brought in bond from British
Columbia an immense lump of
coal weighing eight tons. and meas
uring eight by ten feet. The speci-
men is to be sent across the CONT
ncnt to New York, where it will be
shipped to England as an exhibit at
tho forthcoming Liverpool EXPOSE
ton.
A sample of gold bearing quartz
from the Stevenson ledge, Simil-
kameen. assayed at the government
Office, Victoria, gives result of 1929
in silver and s., 100 81 in gold.
This ledge was located by Mr.. Rob-
crt Stevenson nine years ago, and
California parties have lately acquir.
cd half.interest in the ledge and
will put up o mill.
Last Saturday evening while a
seven year old son Of. Mr.. Fred. Par
ker was playing on the Tacoma Mill
Company's wharf, he in some man
ner fell into the bay. His brother,
q brave little fellow about nine years
old, jumped in after him, but as he
could not swim much they were
both drowned before bystanders res.
cued them.
The Hall Brothers. shipbuiIdsrs at
Port Blakely, have contracted to
build another steamer for the Haw-
allan Island trade. She will be
about 400 tons measurement, and is
intended to succeed the steamer
Planter, recently wrecked. The
Planters engines and boilers will be
saved, aud boat built by the Halls
10 put them in: The Planter was
built by them three years ago.
The following are the estimates
for Washington Territory harbors,
az made out by the engineers: Cas-
cade locks, 81, 100000; Upper Co.
lumbia and Snake rivers, $50, 900;
Cowlitz, 800, 900; Chehalis, Skagit
and others, ESQ. 1000; Olympia har-
Dor, $147, $50; Puyallup, $50. 600;
Wallopah, SIS, 900. The bill now
introduced in Congress appropriates
about q fourth of the estimates
above mentioned.
Tho following changes will be
made in the buoys in Puget Sound
as soon as practicable: New Dun
geness, from red second class nun,
to a red first class nun buoy. Point
Middle, from q horizontal stripe
spar buoy, to q horizontal stripe
third class nun buoy. Partridge
Bank, from q black second class
nun, to a black first class can buoy.
Port Ludlow, Pala Point, from q
black second class nun, 10 q black
spar buoy. Olympia Harbor, from
. red third claes can. to red third
class nun buoy. Oak Harbor, from
. red third class Can, to red third
class nun buoy.
Geo. +. Smith, of the Seattle
and Walla Walla Toll Road Com.
pany," has o team and fifteen men
ut work on the wagon road through
the Snoqualmie pass, to connect
Eastern and Western Washington.
He declares, says the Intelligencer,
that he will have, by the Fall of
1856, q good carriage road between
Yakima and Seattle. Well we hope
that he may; the more roads the bet
ter. 1t costs IS per head to chip
cattle from Eastern Washington
around by the way of the Columbia
to the Sound, while they can be
driven across the mountains at an
expense Of 81 per head. Quite q
saving. and we would like to see