Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-07-23
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Puyallup, w. T., June 81, 1856.
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
A east-W ashington farmer is culti-
waiting sunflowers for fuel, as an exper-
iment.
In Arkansas, Cowlitz county. MI. E.
G. Bush recently killed a sheep which
dressed ITO pounds.
A farmer in Parker Bottom, Yakima
county, has 1,O40 peach trees loaded
to the ground with fruit.
The harvesty yield of Klickitat county,
according to the Goldendale Sentinel,
better than was expected.
Fine peaches and apples are fur
nished to the Portland and Sound mar
kets from Klickitat county, along the
Columbia river.
Walla Walla Journal: Last week
Gen. Dacres sold to VIM. Jones $1,000
bushels of wheat at 45a cents, deliv-
cred at the depot.
The Seattle Laundry has been
closed by attachment, and Cinnamon
in that city will again have full swing
in that branch of business. Score
one for the Loyal League.
Muck-a-Muck is the name of new
post-office in Texas, and in all proba-
bilities it has been started by Puget
Sounder, as Muck-a-Muck is classic
Chinook and means grub"
The new sawmill at Port Hadlock,
on Port Townsend bay, has been COM
pleted and commenced operations this
week. The mill has orders ahead for
all the lumber it can cut for year to
come.
The Post-Intelligencer asks who can
beat the strawberry yield of J. H.
Bowman, of North Seattle. From IL
rods of ground he gathered 100 gallons
of Strawberries, that is, 12a bushels, at
the rate of 173 bushels per acre.
The contractors at the Cascades are
calling loudly for more men for rail-
road work. There is no need of any
idleness on the part of men who de-
sire work, and at good wages. The
| Northern Pacific railroad will furnish
plenty of it.
George Marden, last week, was
drowned by being thrown from the
narrow guard outside Of the rail of the
tug Mogul, when off Wyadda Island
just outside of Cape Flattery. The
Mogul was returning from tow out of
the bark Emma p CropeH. Marden
was % years old, and unmarried.
F. ]. Parker, of the Walla Walla
Statesman, is delegate from this Terri
tory to the G.. A. r. celebration in San
Francisco, and all samples of wheat,
oats, hops, etc., left with or sent to him
will be taken down free Of charge ard
the headquarters of the department of
Washington will be decorated there
with.
There are in Columbia county of
horses, 1919; cattle, 4,216; hogs, s.
1854; sheep 1870. Number of acres
of wheat, 46,735; barley, 4,503; oats,
2,9SS; corn, 3,112; summer fallow, 49,
$50. Total number Of acres in culti-
walton, 75,888. The Assessor has
looked over the records and assessed
every man who had not already given
in his property.
There are two tunnels between e.
lensburg and the big one; one is $50
feet, and the other 526 feet. On the
west side Of the mountain there are
two tunnels built, one is 400 feet, the
other is 299 feet and three more to
build; one 100 feet, one 400 feet and
the other $50 feet. There are in all
eight tunnels between Ellensburg and
Tacoma, including the Cascade tunnel.
Though the warhorse, Col. F. J.
Parker, of Walla Walla, failed to re-
ceive official recognition at national
Democratic headquarters in the shape
of Office, he has been made proud
lately by letter from President Cleve-
land and wife, in which big bunch of
Democratic Washington Territory
cherries is handsomely acknowledged
from and old settler. The happy pair
regard the cherries I" as wonderful
proof of what can be produced in that
Territory"
Indians have already commenced to
arrive to engage in hop picking. T. J.
Wilson, representing the Seattle Hop
Growers Association, has gone to Brit
ish Columbia to engage pickers for
their crop. The association has 800
acres in hops, and will require at least
two thousand pickers to secure their
crop. Last year they employed 500
Indians and 800 whites. This year it
it will he difficult to secure white pick
ers, and more Indians will have to be
employed. It is thought the advance
of 25 cents per box will induce enough
Indians to come to the Sound to gath
er the crop. Picking does not com
mence till September, and generally
lasts about four weeks.