Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-08-06
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

VAN DE VENTER.
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
The Port Blakely sawmill recently
cut 2lS,MO feet of understandable lum-
Der in eight hours.
So far this season Mr. L. F. Thomp-
son of Puyallup, has purchased a
little over half a million pounds Of
hops.
The whole number of postoffices in
Washington Territory is 1884. Second
class, 3; third-class 8; the whole num-
Der of presidential offices IL; fourth
class, 373; money-order offices, 90.
Men who want work can find plenty
to do and good pay, on the Cascade
branch. The contractor wants 5000
more men. Already the company has
been compelled to contract for Chinese
labor, for the simple reason that white
men could not be obtained in sufficient
numbers.
A few days ago Mr. A. c. Campbell,
of Puyallup, sold his entire crop of
hops upon forty-three acres in the val
ley to Mr.. f. Meeker, who is agent
for Charles Green & Son, of Utica,
New York, for $4,000. Mr.. Campbell
states that in this sale he will clear
about 500 600, as it costs about 5000
to raise and pick the crop.
The Seattle Press SAYS: A decd has
been fled in the Auditors office, trans
ferring from the Northern Pacific rail
road company to the Northern Pacific
and Puget Sound Shore Railroad COM
pany seven miles of the former COM
pany's road between Stuck Junction
and the Cascade division road ut Puy-
allup, for consideration of $275,OOO.
PalOuse Gazette: On Sunday last
some parties living near Steptoe took
James Lane, boy about 16 years old,
stretched him up to a beam in barn
and forced him to acknowledge the
theft of a number of small articles,
after which they whipped him with
blacksnake and turned him loose.
He afterward stole saddle, bride and
blankets from F. A. Davis and skipped,
and it is supposed to have gone to
Dayton.
If Judge Greene is the conscientious
Christian he processes to be, one would
suppose that he would not clog the
wheels of Justice any longer, especially
as his term of Office expires in few
months, but would resign and thus
give the President an opportunity to
appoint some one who is not physically
incompetent to act as Supreme Judge
of the Territory.-IVaHo UaHa States
| man.
The Little Skookum railroad il be-
ing pushed ut quite nice little pace.
They have in operation about four
miles and the road bed is ready for
the iron for some distance ahead.
Contracts have been let to the summit.
Whether the enterprise will be pushed
further this season il not known, but
the general impression is that work
will not be suspended until tide water
on Gray's Harbor is reached.
Vancouver News: The men work.
ing along the line OF the Canadian
Pacific railway have Just had their
wages increased 25 cents per day.
Those formerly receiving $3.50 are
paid $1.75; those paid 81 are now
paid 1926, and those engaged at 2.25
are now getting $3.50. There is a
good demand for labor lust now
all over the Coast, both in British
Columbia and the United States.
Seattle Times: 1t seems that Farm
ington is not to have prohibition in
spite of its affirmative vote. A saloon
keeper Mt that place, Gid Holbrook,
was arrested there last week for violat-
ing the prohibition law and brought
to Colfax for trial, where the case was
dismissed OH account of the illegality
OF the election, the returning board
reporting the vote for and against
local option, instead of for and against
prohibition.
Mayor J. II. Whittlesey, died on
Sunday morning at his residence at
the Occidental hotel in Seattle, after
an illness of several weeks. He and
his wife came from Washington, d. c.,
some eighteen months ago. Mrs. A.
II. RaynOr, of the Annie Wright SEM
mary of Tacoma, is sister of the
deceased, and VIM. Whittlesey, of Port
Townsend, and Charles F. Whittlesey,
OF Seattle, are sons. The sympmthies Of
many friends are with the bereaved
survivors.
A Port Townsend dispatch of Mon
day brings the following news of q
submarine eruption and tidal wave ::
Saturday night several tugs, approach
ing Cape Flattery from the sea, were
struck by severe tidal wave. The
sea ran so high that steamers were
buried at times. The commotion
lasted about thirty minutes. After the
wave had subsidized, the sea was covered
with dead Goldfish, salmon and halibut,
The cause is supposed to be a sub
marine eruption.
Henry Sicade, Puyallup Indian, a
graduate of the government training
school at Forest Grove, is now in the
East sight-seeking. He was visiting at
Seneca, N. Y, about the middle of this
month, and was invited to deliver a
lecture on the Indians of the north
west, Over 500 people turned out to
the lecture, and were astonished to
hear a full-blooded Indian speaking
the queens English as well as the
average college graduate of white
blood. Sicade is a curiosity wherever
he appears in the east.
Saturday evening the salmon season
on the Columbia river closed. The
Portland News says OF the seasons II
has been very unsatisfactory one,
and the pack is small and will not ex-
coed 100000 cases, it is estimated,
which is a heavy fall of from last
year. Just now the run is slightly i'm.
proved and some very large salmon are