Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-10-22
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Never before was the run of salmon
SO large on Puget Sound as at this
season.
A broom factory, which utilizes the
home product as material, has been
established at Dayton.
Chas. F. Munday, Of Seattle has
been appointed Assistant United States
Prosecuting Attorney for Washington
Territory, vice C. H. Hanford resigned.
The Chehalis Bee states that the
sash and door factory Of Luedinghaus
Bros, is getting out the material for a
$4,000 schoolhouse in Butte City,
Montana.
Seattle boasts of one OF the oldest
war veterans on Pacific Coast, A. c.
Coombs, who has just celebrated his
9Oth birthday; was in war Of 1872 and
born before close of the administration
of Washington.
Spokane Falls is backed by forests
of finest timber that can be floated
down the river to the city at the min
imum expense of 25 cents per 1000 in
logs, which when sawed is sold from SO
to $12 per 1000 feet.
A villain by the name of John Nc
Govern, who recently assaulted Sa-
phire Simon, little 15-year-old girl at
Tacoma, was arrested by Chief of
Police Mckay, and his preliminary ex-
animation was held on the 14th instant
He was held for lack of ST. 900 bail.
Mr.. Geo E. Atkinson, of Tacoma,
reports that the lumber trade is pick
ing up all over the Sound, and that
the foreign demand for Puget Sound
lumber is increasing every day. At
the docks of this company are load
ing several large ships, and in a few
days several others are expected.
An exchange says in twenty-eight
out of thirty-three counties in Wash
ington Territory, ladies' have been
nominated by either the Republican
or Democratic conventions for School
Superintendent, and that in nearly
every instance the lady will be elected
to that position.
A. J. Herren, brother of 8. G.. Her
rem, of Chehalis, a gentleman from
North Carolina, visited Winlock last
week, and purchased the Howe estate
on Cowlitz Prairie. In a few days
Mr. Herren will return to his old home
in North Carolina, and in the new fu-
ture he will bring his family to his
new home on the Cowlitz.
The first six-and-a-half-mile section
of the Puget Sound and Gray's Har-
Dor railroad will be completed next
month. One hundred thousand feet
of logs are now hauled daily over this
road and put into salt water. This
amount will be increased from time to
time until the mill at Port Blakely is
wholly supplied from that section.
The Colfax Gazette says that as far
as heard from, Frank Hardesty, living
six miles south of Colfax, on the r. P.
Owen place, which was settled upon
fourteen years ago, reports the prize
wheat yield. A patch Of ten acres
yielded 50 bushels per acre, and one of
13 acres went Al bushels per acre.
The land was summer fallowed and
fall sown.
Byron A. Young, the Tacoma livery
stable keeper, had quite narrow es-
cape last week. He was riding up
the valley with his gun in his carriage
and saw grouse by the roadside
which he started after. In walking
upon log through the brush his foot
slipped and as he fell his gun was dis
charged with the muzzle near his right
leg. The contents of the gun passed
along the side of his leg, tearing his
clothes, making slight flesh wound
below his knee. Had the gun been q
few inches nearer, the contents would
have probably shattered his leg.
The Northern Pacific passenger de-
partment has figured up the revenue
received from the Grand Army travel
over its road last summer. The de-
partment counted upon securing 1900
delegates, but the complete returns
show a little over 1900. These tray
eled in squads, and had they returned
together they would have filled five
trains of eight coaches each. The
revenue derived from this source was
$4,000. The Grand Army travel was
all east bound. None of the delegates
came west over the Northern Pacific.
The Fox Island Brick and Tile Man
ufacturing company have begun at
their place of business the construc-
ton of fine two story brick dry-house
5OxS0 feet, which will be heated with
furnaces and hot air flues of the mod
ern style. The building, when COM
pleted, will cost about $4,000 and it
will enable the company to dry their
wares at all times and more success
fully and aid them in their work. They
are enlarging and improving their ia
cilities in order that the work may go
on at all seasons-during the winter
as well as the summer. They intend
in short time to begin the experiment
of making sewer pipe. They have