Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-11-26

Goes to the hole,
Pulls 1t in after him,
Mournful his soul.
The engineering party of 1G, with
James TiltOn Sheets at its head, en-
gagged in locating a railroad line be-
tween WhatcOm and Seattle for the
Bcllingham Bay Railroad and Naviga-
ton Company, is now approaching
Snohomish, and may he expected to
reach Seattle next week.
The much-talked-of contest by
James Knox, the defeated candidate
for Sheriff, i'll Pierce county, is off. "
The law specifies II limit of ten days
after the announcement of the result
of any election to file papers in case
of contest. As the filing has not been
made, the reported contest will not, of
necessity, take place.
Is there no Washington Territory
paper to ask, in the name of their
local madhouse, why the Tacoma Lett
ger continues to print month after
month and year after year, that rot
from Geo. Francis Train? Why
doesn't it vary the monotony and inn
prove the quality by getting Il daily
report for awhile from the Insane Asy-
lum of its own Territory? If the
Tacoma paper must have such stuff,
here is Il local industry that it ought
to develope.-Oregonian.
The Walla Walla Statesman says
Frank Singelton's ponds now contain
about 1900 trout and a considerable
number of carp, ranging in weight up
to five or six pounds. One of the
trout, about twelve inches long, is
kept in the milk-house spring as Il
protection against Cinnamon, for
whose noses he has n penchant. Not
less than three Cinnamon, Mr.. Sing
Teton, states, have arisen with nipped
and bleeding noses from an attempt
to drink out of that spring.
The beautiful little TOWNSHIP of Port
Angeles, the place selected for Vener-
able Smiths cooperative colony, is
nestled at the foot of the Olympic
range of mountains on the Straits of
Fuca, on one of the finest harbors any
where to be found. Long ago the port
of entry was located there, but a noun
tain torrent broke upon the little town
one day and washed the custom house
into the sea, and drowned its occu-
pants. Then the custom house was
removed to Port Townsend.
The Fox Island Brick and Tile
Manufacturing company have just
got under roof their new dry house
The structure is two stories high and
is supplied with four furnaces of the
most improved pattern. The building
is divided into two sections, each of
which are 30x4O feet. There are two
smoke-stacks, each reaching 80 feet
above the roof of the dry house.
With this improvement the com
pany will be able to manufacture
brick and tile extensively during the
winter. Previous to this, when the
rainy weather set in, work had to be
stopped.
The Board of Trustees and Building
Commissioners of the Fort Steilacoom
Hospital for the Insane of Washington
Territory met ut their office at the fort
on Saturday. They settled the plumb
ing and heating contract with c. II.
Patten of Chicago, and made arrange
ments to make final settlement with
Contractor Rainey ut their next regu-
lar meeting on the Sd of December.
Architect J. G. Proctor came i'll from
the fort, and accompanied by A. +.
Tuilis, one of the members of the
board, went to Seattle this week,
where they will confer with the former
architect, w. E. Boone, in reference to
some dispute pertaining to the archi-
tectural work upon the building.
When the whistle blew at the Port
Blakely mill on Tuesday morning,
about eighty of the employees refused
to 90 to work. The remainder of the
started work on the other side of the
mill. The men who quit were asked
to step up to the Office and get the
money due them. They did this and
were then told they were discharged
and would be furnished free transpor-
tation to Seattle. They refused to go.
As the mill company own the entire
place, the strikers were ordered to get
off of the property, or else the law
would be appealed to, to make them
90. A number of sheriff's deputies
are guarding the company's property
The above strike occurred after ten
hours day and full wages had been
announced the morning before.
Saturday afternoon the tug Hoiyoke
left Port Townsend with Customs In
spectors Learned and Davis for Vic
toria. Upon her arrival she took on
bard 1O1 Cinnamon with their cooking
utensils and provisions for three
months and took them to Port Discov-
cry mill on the straits where they were
tranferred to the bark Southern Chief
anchored in the stream. These China
men are en- route to China. They
took with them thirty barrels of brok-
en- glass; for what purpose, it could
not be be learned On the ship is also