Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-10-01
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

| IERRlIORlAL ITEMS.
Three years ago E. Becker, Of Kick
itat, planted SO grains Of black chaff
wheat, from which he raised this year
400 bushels.
The Eye wants county officers
elected who will reduce the $4,000
debt and prevent in the future 224
mills tax levy.
Mr.. ]. Nealy, Of Winlock, Lewis
county, has a contract from the Ben
nett-Mackey telegraph company, for
three thousand poles.
The tax levy of Chehalis county is
23t mills-the highest in the Terri
tory-while that of Walla Walla ocun-
ty, 124 mills, is the lowest.
Daniel M. Crane, aged 76 years, and
Mrs. Catherine Poncin, 5S years, were
married in Seattle on the 10Th, and
took wedding trip to Portland.
Charles Bishop raised on his farm
near Chehalis, this season, a piece OF
spring wheat of 81 acres that yielded
12O bushels, machine measure, exact
weight 140 bushels.
Two men in Satsop, Chehalis county,
killed 8 cougars in six weeks; aggre-
gate weight COS pounds. First in
hops, first in timber, first in cougars
in Washington Territory.
A Peola, Garfield county, hen made
her nest and laid lot of eggs in fir
tree, but the boys thought the hen
was getting above her business, and
lowered her to the ground.
The Wynoochie river is settled along
the banks for 80 miles from Monte
sano, by energetic farmers, whose
crops are thrifty. The land can be
cleared cheaply, and is adapted to hop
growing.
A warrant has been issued in Frank
lin county against an Indian named
Wolf, who is charged with the too
handy use OF the branding iron on
Josh Clark's horses. The Indian is
quite wealthy.
The Western Mill & Lumber Com
pany's property at Port Hadlock has
been sold for $3.50, 900 to w. J. Adams.
The former proprietors were Daniel L.
Randolph and Turner, Kennedy &
Shaw, of San Francisco.
The steam colliers WaHa WaUa,
Umatilla and Willamette are being
fitted up at San Francisco for passen-
ger service on the northern route. 1t
is reported they will go into the SER
vice OF the Northern Pacific.
There has been, during the past few
weeks, in various portions of Chehalis
county, sort of an epidemical dysen-
terry. The mill at South Bend was
compelled to shut down day or two
recently as nearly all the hands were
effected by the complaint.
Two boys named Ernest Purday and
John Mcdonald, about IA years of age,
were arrested OH the 18th inst, in Yak
ina county charged with horse-steal-
ing. They were two of youthful
party of four tramps. One of the
boys formerly lived at Prineville, Or.
Neil Henly, the only survivor of the
ill-fated steamship Pacific, and for
some time one of the guards at Nc
Neil's island, is now captain of the
schooner G. L. Taylor, 800 tons regis
ter, at Victoria, engaged in carrying
railroad material around the inlet for
the Island road
The Goldendale Sentinel comments
on the freight policy Of the Oregon
railway, which forces the people of
that county to sell their wheat at As
cents bushel, when it is worth GO
cents in Portland, and halls the com.
pletion of the Cascade Division as a
friendly competitor with the Oregon
railway.
On Wednesday of last week, Gays
the Vancouver Independent, a man
named Millen Wolf, working in the
logging camp at the Cunning place on
Vancouver Lake, wac killed by log
rolling back from the truck upon him.
He died almost instantly, being terri
bly, crushed. He had no relatives in
that part OF the country.
The Democrats Of Cowlitz county
have nominated officers as follows: ::
Auditor, Walter Crosby; Sheriff, Ben
Holmes; Treasurer, ]. F. Van Name;
Probate Judge, T. McCarty; Assessor,
A. F. Myers; Superintendent of
Schools, A. NJ. Barnet; Surveyor B.
F. Ivie; Coroner, William Bybee |;
Commissioners, G. Haskins, A. F.
Millard and VIM. Jackson.
The Journal is informed that a syn
dicate OF Portland capitalists, is about
to be formed to establish large hotel
ut Oysterville, to cost $50, 900. The OBJ
ject is to convert that place into a
fashionable summer resort. A good,
large first-class hotel is something very
much needed in Oysterville, as the
present accommodations are entirely
inadequate for the requirements of the
place
Here is an example that might be
protitably followed on Shoalwater bay