Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-09-17
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

DIR. Newell will speak to the people
at BOisfort, Tomorrow Saturday at
o'clock.
Ten cars of steel rails passed through
Chehalis this week ON the Northern
Pacific for the Cascade division.
Work on the artesian we'll at Ritz
Vile has been suspended, as the com
pany could not give the necessary
bond.
1t is reported that Captain Carroll,
Of the Idaho, and four associates have
sold gold mine in Alaska for 81 ,00O,-
OUO cash.
4 Colfax dispatch states that nine
y';r-old hoy WAS killed, in that place,
while playing with a loaded gun, last
Saturday.
The report is that Ezra Meeker has
sold the farm of l26 acres, mile from
Puyallup for ST., 600 to his son, Marion
j. Meeker.
stephen Ring and James Foster were
indicted, ut Seattle, for unlawfully
bringing Chinese laborers into the
United States.
Gov. w. C. Squire has received a
thirty days leave of absence and will
start for trip to the Eastern States
in day or so.
! The Government pays Chief Moses
II thousand dollars year, which that
/ worthy elbows in," on attractive dress
and horse racing.
The Grand Jury, at Seattle, has re-
turned true bill against J. w. Alden
of Tacoma, for robbing the United
States mails on board the steamer
Idaho.
A Franciscan Sisters boarding and
day school is to be erected at Sprague,
to be completed by October, says the
Journal. The building will be 40x5O
feet, three stories high and is to cost
about $4,000.
Hamlin, the man who married
Capt. Hallen's daughter at Ritzville
and then, after swindling everybody,
deserted his bride, has been arrested at
Lacrosse, Wis. 1t has been discov-
cred that he has wife and four chill
dren in Indiana. He will be brought
to Ritzville for trial on the charge of
bigamy.
The first ~ mile section of the Pu-
get Sound and Gray's Harbor railroad
will be completed next month. One
hundred thousand feet of logs are now
hauled daily over this road ami 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.
There is large growth of ash tim
her in the upper Chehalis valley, some
of which has been sawed into excellent
lumber Much of this timber is being
destroyed in the process of clearing
land, but it will be wanted in few
years, when Washington has become
populOus State. Ash lumber is
worth $40 thousand feet at points on
Gray's Harbor.
The closing of the saloons along the
line Of the Northern Pacific beyond
Cleelum has given birth to a new and
most offensive class of liquor dealers.
They have their saloons on the back
Of cayuse and their stocks concealed
in gunny sacks. They neither pay
license nor rent, and travel from camp
to camp dealing out the vilest of IL
quOrs with an assurance which is
bound to land them in the penitentary.
At the firemen's tournament in Sal
EN-, the Astoria teams carried off n
majority of the prizes. The next
tournament will he held in June, 1887,
ut Vancouver, Washington Territory.
The officers of the association elected
are: B. Worsley of Astoria, President :;
Henry Keeling of Walla Walla, Vice
President; F. E. Hodgkin, Secretary
and Treasurer. A board of directors
was also chosen.
A breakwater is being constructed
in the Columbia river in front of st.
Helens, which it is expected will put
an end to the filling up of the bar at
that place The brcakwater begins
in Washington Territory and runs OBJ
liquely to near Columbia City. Al
ready 1000 feet of this has beer built,
and an equal distance remains to be
completed. 1t will be so built that the
current will sweep through the channel
with increased fierce and keep it clear
Of all distractions.
The Pacific Boom company has been
incorporated under the laws Of the
Territory. The stockholders are G. B.
Noyes, James LOggie, $. W. Young,
AL. Rowell and James Moore The
new company has purchased the boom
and outfit of VIM. Styles, and will
put in a good and substantial boom ut
the mouth of the Skagit river. This
is one of the most important things
that could have happened to the Skagit
valley, and was greatly needed. The
result will be to cause an increased
activity in the logging interests of the
river. Success to the new company.
Last week Charles Henry, Deputy
United States Marshal for Washington
Territory, seized raft of logs con-
tanning 100000 feet, and valued at
$23, 600, at the mouth of Coal creek a
stream emptying into the Columbia
river on the Washington Territory
side. These logs were cut from land
included in the withdrawal lands for
the Northern Pacific railroad company
for its road down the Columbia
river and sold by the company to r.
F. Brock, who has been logging from
them to the extent described. He has
expended $4,000. Brock holds the
Northern Pacific.
A shooting ARRAY took place at Kali
anna on Monday night, the circum-
stances of which are these: Andy
Smith and man named Davis were
drinking together in a shanty in which
Smith lived. A friend of Davis EN-
tered and endeavored to get the latter
away, upoa which Smith interfered
and drew q revolver. A general scuffle
ensued, during which the weapon was
discharged and the ball entered Davis
thigh. Davis seized the revolver,