Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-02-12
Territorial Items.

A new lodge of Odd Fellows is to
be instituted at Black Diamond, in
King county, on the 18th inst.
MIR. Bolen, of La Center, will soon
commence erecting his mill at Kelso,
the new town in Cowlitz county.
The Northern Pacific railroad
people intend building a Y to con-
meet the Cascade division with the
kalama division.
A fire at Aberdeen, Chehalis coun-
ty, last week, destroyed saloon and
fixtures belonging to Mr.. Loveless,
valued at 50, 500.
Tacoma is to have q first. class
steam laundry. The machinery has
been received and is said to be the
best that money could buy.
Tacoma sends D. B. Hannah,
Alex. Macready and Geo. D. Lawson
to the Anti-Chinese meeting, to be
held in Portland tomorrow.
Richard Charonck, 95 years old,
died at Tacoma the other day.
Think of the changes that have
taken place during that mans life!
Clarence Umbarger, worthy
young man of Avon, Whatcom coun-
ty. met death by accidental discharge
OF his gun, while hunting, on the
30th ult.
At CentraIia one night last week a
dozen masked men called on two
gangs of Chinese section hands work
ing on the N. P, and ordered them
to ego" The celestial "got" for
Portland the next day.
The Washington improvement
Company of Seattle has let O
contract for the driving of tun-
mel through the portage between
Lakes Union and Washington and
building flume therein.
The steamer Wcstport which was
sold some time since to a Mr.. Hal
Ter, of Puget Sound, has been
waiting several weeks at Astoria for
favorob blo rvaotbor D., .~x,,, ,vo,I l.
the 4" Mediterranean of the Pacific. :"
| A shipment of prairie chickens
from Yakima was received by the
Northern Pacific Express company at
Seattle last week for A. p. Mann of
Lopez Island. They will probably
be turned loose on that Island by
the consignee.
While hunting recently near his
place on Fidalgo Island, Tom Sharp
stumbled and fell on the rocks, break
ing some OF the bones of his right
arm and iujuring his hip quite Sc
verely. The prompt application of
suitable remedies prevented any Sc
rious results however.
| At about IL o'clock Friday night
Mr.. Martin Gimel died of enlarge.
meut of the heart at his home in
Steilacoom, aged about 81. He was
an old and we'll known resident of
that place, and a Frenchman by
birth. He leaves u wife and nine
children.
| Public parks seem to he gaining
in popular favor. Crater Lake,
Oregon, is to be reserved by the
Government for a public recreation
ground, and Surrey (B. C.) Council
has taken steps to secure tract on
Semiahmoo Bay, for an international
pleasure resort.
| Alucky star appears to now preside
over Col. Hamilton. He had hardly
taken possession of the Office of U. S.
Marshal when the steamship Idaho,
valued at over 81 ,OOO, 900 and s51 900
worth of opium smuggled on her,
were seized. His share will be two
per cent. of the amount realized or
$1,000.
| ]. J. Murphy, Postal Inspector
for Oregon and Washington, and II.
Wilbur, Superintendent of Pacific
Coast mail routes, have both been
re-appointed by President Cleve-
land. Both are Republicans. 1t is
presumed, Of course, that good
enough enough Democrats could not
be found for the places.
A young man named j. e. Foster
was found dead at Renton, on Sat-
urday under circumstances which
lead to the conclusion that he had
committed suicide. He had mani
tested great dependency and ex-
pressed remorse at an injury he had
done a friend. for which he declared
he could never make amends.
The Yakima Farmer reports that
an explorer of Tietan Basin says he
found a sulphur spring there, at
which he made better matches than
the Chinese article on sale in this
market, bearing California brand.
The explorer dipped one end of q
bunch of tooth-picks in the spring,
and took them out we'll sulphured.
he thinks he has q bonanza on the
match business.