Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-04-09
Territorial Matters.

Frank Pettygrove is to erect a
two story brick block and warehouse
at Port Townsend.
The steel steamer ALASKAN, sister
vessel to the Olympian. is soon to be
placed on the Sound Victoria route.
The First National bank of Dayton
will soon close up. 1t has done but
little business in the past two years.
E. w. Devoe has been appointed
superintendent of the new public
building to be erected at Port Town
send.
The Knights of Pythias are max
ing preparations for grand time in
Seattle, May 18th, the date of hold
ing the Grand Lodge of the order.
Wide West Lodge of Odd Fellows
Was instituted at Lacamas, Clarke
county, w. Il March 25rh. Wide
West is the 43i Lodge of Old Eel.
lows in Washington Territory.
The Wilson family, banished from
kittltas county two years ago, have
'ak"n up their residence there again.
Strlct orders were given them not to
return. The court dissolved the in
junction.
The Walla Wnlla Statesman won.
ders how on earth i'll these days OF
mugwumpery SO good Democrat
as Nj. G. Barney secured the Spokane
land office. VOORHEES, must have fer
gotten himself.
March 18Th, voun- sou # George
Coffin, at Wailula, fell down tie
cellar steps, winch resulted in u
severe conclusion of the brain.
Since then the child has been in q
precarious condition.
The Government is now building
a saw mill. flour mill, church and
school house at the mouth o. the
Nespelum river, for the use of the
Indians on the Colville reservation.
About $1,000 will he expended.
Lottie Goodhue, one of the
daughters of j. p. Goodhue of Wal
lula, fell from stills, upon which she
was walking on the school ground in
Wal!a Walla The other day, and
broke one Of the bones in her left
arm.
Tie Nrws says thut Dame Rumor
hath it that Charles Francis Adams,
President of the Union Pacific Rail.
roud, will again visit the Pacific
Coast during April. His mission
here is in connection with the pro-
posed extension on the Oregon
Short Line.
Nine hundred Ions OF coal, says
an exchange, have been recovered
from the wreck of the John Rosen-
teld. The purchasers expect to
lighter 1000 tons more, and save
the ship, which is slid to be very
little damaged.
A move will be made in a few days
by the commissioners of Columbia
county to take definite steps toward
the erection of Courthouse to cost
about $40 900. Columbia county is
rich enough TO treat herself to such
q necessity, and Dayton is pretty
enough place in which to erect a
handsome ediiice.
Mrs. Lulu Hawkin, 26 years of age
lately of Moscow, Idaho, attempted
to commit suicide ut Walla Walla,
last Monday, with an overdose of
morphine, taken on the street.
She was saved by the administrator
Of emetics. She was penniiess and
unable to get work to support her.
self and child.
Among the new industries at
North Yakima are pump factory,
basket factory and washing ma
chine factory; and factories for turn.
ing out brooms, starch, beet sugar,
castor oil, peppermint oil, pearled
barley, flour, furniture, wooden
goods and many other articles might
be made to pay handsomely there,
and at many other points.
1t is a remarkable fact that the
most expensive steamboat mail SER
vice paid by the United States is that
on two routes in this region. From
Tacoma to Port Townsend, % miles,
the Government has paid 500. 700 a
year during the past year for daily
service, and from Port Townsend to
Sitka, G72 miles, it has paid SIS, 900
year for one trip month.
A soldier in the United States army
named Walter Kember, stationed at
Fort Townsend, while on his way to
the fort Sunday night, intoxicated,
missing his road near town, climed a
fence built on the edge of the bluff
as protection, and fell head.first to
the beach, distance of over 100 feet.
His neck was broken and his head
crushed to jelly. He was about 35
years old.
1t is said that local option will
carry in North Yakima. The TEN.
perance people there would not have
taken any stand In the contest that
is coming, had the Council enacted
an ordinance for high license, so as
to regulate and control tho traffic;
but as it is they intend to 90 to the
polls and vote and work in favor of
prohibition, and with q probability
of carrying their point.
Three prisoners confined in the
Kittitas county Jail escaped last
Tuesday. One took the mountains,
but had such a hard trip that he
returned and gave himself up, while
the other two boarded skiff and
floated down the Yakima river, and
are pow-the Lord knows where.
1t is believed they were assisted in
their escape by parties from the out
side. A reward of $50 each is
offered by Kittitas county for their
capture.
Court convened at North Yakima,
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