Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-06-25
Territorial Items.
Tacoma has ten divorce cases.

Tacoma mas ten divorce cases.
The Auditor of Whitman county
has issued receipts for lis, 900
squirrel scalps, representing $4,000
which that county will pay.
Suipes & Allen, of Yakima, lately
sold 5000 beef cattle to Hoskins, OF
Montana. Consideration one hun
dred and twenty thousand dollars.
Over million feet Of logs has
been driven down the river from the
eastern part of Chehalis county
within the past ten days, and very
successfully, too, not a log being
lost.
! A paper received from Machias,
Maine, by Mr.. Geo. h. Foster,
states that fresh salmon are selling
there for 20 cents pound. Here
they being but two cents pei
pound.
Gen. Nj. NJ. Blaine, of Spokane
Falls. has heen appointed by Gov
ernor Squire to represent the Ter
ritory in the national conference of
charities and correction, to be held
in St Paul, July Is.
The Pierce county wool clip was
last Friday sold at auction in Stella
COON. There was about $4,000
pounds of the same, and it was
bought by MIR. Silsby, of Olympia,
at IL cents per pound.
The candidates for the Republican
nomination for Delegate to Con
gress are legion. Gov. Squire
Judge Jacobs, Judge Lewis, j. G.
Huines, Eben Smith, DR.. Minor and
Ezra Meeker are prominently named
A Mr.. Wheatley, of California vii
soon start up the Belllngham Bay
mill, which is one of the bes
equipped on the sound. 1t has
cutting capacity of about 100000
feet per day. Mr.. Wheatley hal
large orders ahead.
The Argus says that two men re
Gently took q trip back of Por
: Angeles, exploring the Olympic
mountain range. They report
large open country, with southern
: hillsides covered with bunch gras
s inches high, some snow in lh'
valleys, but extensive ranges.
Customs Collector II. +. Beeche
has flied his answer in the case Q
II. D. Temple against himself, il
which the plaintiff sues for SIS, O0'
damages for defamation of characteI
OF defendant. Beecher asserts tn
truth of the charges he mad
against Temple FOR defense.
The Port Gamble Mill Company
is surveying route from Clifton, OF
Hoods Canal, to a point on LAX
Mission, a distance of ten miles
They expect to build this railroa'
the coming summer. They viii
next summer extend the road froI
Lake Mission to Port Orchard
, This will then connect Hoods Cana
with the main body of Puget Scum
by rail.
Governor Squire some time az
applied to the Secretary of War TO
o full complement of improved Al
calibre Springfield army guns, sue
as are now being used by the re
gulars. He received word last wee
! that the guns would be sent. TIL
. new guus are lighter than the cum
bersome so calibres now in use ON
: the change will be very satisfactor
to the several local military CON
panies.
The Coleman Creek Reservoir an
. Irrigation Company, of Kittita
county, has been organized with
capital stock of SIC, 900, and article
. of incorporation filed with the count
/. Auditor, with w. H. Peterson, +
F. Fulton, T. Houser and II. Hes
as incorporates. The object is t
erect, maintain and operate dams
!. fumes, bitches, aqueducts, lesel
voirs and canals, wherein to conve
the surplus waters of what is know
az Coleman Creek, for irrigation an
domestic purposes.
;. Last week at Birch Bay youn
}, pirate known as Harry Shaw "stoo
8 off, three men. The kid had stole
b a boat load of goods from LAIR
Kelly's house on Cottonwood ISLAND
!. and was followed by settlers Kelly
Peterman and Gillis to the boundar
line. Young Shaw Tor as he Gale
himself Longfellow) covered ther
with rifle until he reached th
British side, then kindly gave the.
the boat and sold the goods. II
. claimed the questionable honor {
having robbed the Coupeville stor
recently.
t Says the Seattle Times: The dir
/. cover of tin was made this spring b
a rancher living on Oyster Bay
;. about twelve miles west of Olympus
9 In his prospecting tours he struc
q some ore in the foothills, back of hi
ranch, which lie had assayed. Th