Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-06-11
Territorial Items.

ture. has gone into the hotel bust
ness at E,lelsburg.
f. c. Manning, Of Washington
d. c., who will establish q creosots
wood preserving plant at some point
on the Sound, is i'll Tacoma.
Snohomish shipping lumber and
shingles to the Eastern States over
land. A Seattle mill has made
shipments as far as Montana.
s. q. Simpson, contractor on the
Puget Solnd and Gray's Harbor
railroad, wants 100 laborers to work
on the extension OF that road.
Mr.. J. J. Calhoun. Prosecuting
Attorney, and Miss Mary Plummer.
both residents OF Port Townsend,
were married at that place May 9th.
John Somerville. residing ne ar
Napavine, has small patch of rye
that has grown seven feet tall. The
stalks are very large and the heads
are developed in proportion.
DIR. E. p. French and Mrs. Belle
Hunter, daughter of Judge Sheasby,
were married, on the 30th ult. at
the residence of the brides parents,
in Montesano, the Rev. Caldwell
officiating.
Owners of sheep in Pacific county
are prohibited by law from allowing
the same 20 run at large. The pen
atty is damages to the person tres
passed upon, and fine not exceeding
s25 for each offense.
Pomeroy boasts of female den.
tist. Her name is Carrie WestIing
and it in asserted tbat business is so
good with her that she has a mort
gage on most OF the bachelors
ranches in Garfield county.
A. NJ. Cannon, mayor of Spokane
Falls in his annual message TO the
city council. strongly opposes pro-
hibition in that city. He thinks it
would injure the city, and not pro.
hibit drunkenness or lessen drink
ing.
Says the Stevens county Miner.
The Moses Indian reservation has
been thrown open, by executive or
der, for settlement by the whites,
and immigrants will soon be toiling
through Colville bound for that IA
nous belt of fine farming land situa-
ted in the western part of Stevens
county.
A. L. Butler of Tacoma, has re-
ceivcd the contract for the construc.
tion of warehouse for the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company at the end
of the fiftieth mile post over the Gas.
cade division Of the road. Mr.. But.
ler will go up the valley in a few
days and begin the erection of the
building.
TIE Yakima Signal says: There
is rumor aAoat, which is no. with
out some foundation, that Wells
Fargo & Co.. will discontinue all of
fees along the line OF the Northern
Pacific on the 26th OF June. This is
the result Of q Supreme Court de.
cision favorable to the Northern Pa
cific Express Company.
An exchange says there is q cedar
stump in Chehalis county, eight
miles from Chehalis town, which
has characteristics as follows: Two
and half feet from the ground it il
26 feet in diameter; nine feet from
the ground. Is feet in diameter; IL
feet from the ground, 13 feet in di.
amster; 15 feet from the ground, II
feet 4 inches. Tho circumference,
one foot from the ground, is 81 fec.
q feet from the ground, 70 feet G
inches. The stump is hollow and is
about 80 feet high.
Says the Dayton Chronicle: Our
readers will remember last years re.
port Of the wonderful cow whose
milk was almost pure butter, and
whose cream was converted into but.
ter by three or four strokes OF q
spoon in five seconds. She is still
in existence. and her owner, s. S.
Martin, informs US that when he,
calf was about one month old, in
April OF this year, the mother aver
aged three pounds Of butter o day.
She has transmitted her excellen.
qualities to her calves, one of which
at two years old averages one pound
OF butter a day. dong as we'll as he,
mother ut three years of age. The
cow herself averaged one pound OF
butter per day at three years old
two pounds at four, and now, at five
years, is making three pounds day.
Eighteen and ,wo.thirds pounds OF
her milk make u pound of butter.
According 10 the published call OF
the Republican Territorial Central
Committee by the Secretary Mr.. s.
F. Sahm, and A. A. Newbery
Chairman, the committee will meet
at Vancouvero on Tuesday, June 10th,
! at tan o'clock 10 the morning for the