Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-04-20
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

n new hotel and town mall are beng
built in Garfield.
A Republican club has been organ
lied at Newcastle.
Yakima parties contemplate raising
tea the coming season.
There are 365 men employed by the
Tacoma Sawmill Company.
Many ladies voted at the Golden
dale municipal election last week.
Several Yakima parties contemplate
taking an excursion to the Sound in
May.
Spokane Falls pledges $1S5,O0O to
the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern
railroad.
Over 5000 people witnessed the exc
cution of J. ii. Zimmerman, at Col
dendale, last week.
Last month Tacoma shipped pro-
duets, including wheat, coal and lum-
Der, valued at $326,995.
| Call J. Georich, of Muck, Pierce
county, has been awarded n pension
for services in the Mexican war;
| Dunng the month of March, the Sc
attic coal mines turned ont "a .375 tons,
of which 1873 tons was shipped away.
The grand Mcknight mansion in
Seattle is to be fitted up for the Rain
ier club, the initiation fee of which is
800.
| J. II. Williamson and VIM. w.
Hickles, OF Seattle, have been granted
II patent for an apparatus for examin-
ing ores.
The name of Kidd postoflice, Spo-
kane county, has been changed to
Chattaroy. James G. Cowgirl is Post
master.
| Port Townsend is happy because she
thinks the Southern Pacific Railroad is
going to be built there before many
months.
The recently launched schooner Pu-
ritan, of Port Blakely, started out on
her first voyage last week, bound for
San Francisco.
Mrs. J. Pyle and her son, John
Hurn, were arrested at Walla Walla, a
few days ago, charged with burning
the Aurora Hotel.
Captain White, who ran away from
Seattle with 50 800 of the Canadian
Pacific Navigation Company's money,
has been arrested in New York City.
At Spokane Falls, last Friday, n
colored man engaged in the Grand
Hotel, suddenly dropped dead on the
sidewalk in front of the dining room.
A few days ago shark was captured
on the beach on Guemes Island, which
measured seven feet in length, and
weighed between 200 and 800 pounds.
Roslyn is now the largest coal city
in Washington, and promises great re-
suits. No doubt the average daily
shipments will reach 1000 tons, this
summer.
Hundreds of Ceer are being killed
annually in what is now Okanogan
county, We are informed, for no other
purpose than to carry the horns to
England.
The Presbytery of Puget Sound, of
which Rev. Il. b. Dilworth is modera-
tor, met at Ellensburgh on the 18th
inst, and will remain in session sew
cral days.
Walla Walla paper: 1t is stated
that the peach crop along Snake river
is failure this year A large number
of trees were also killed by the cold
last winter.
Theodore Remer, private soldier
stationed at Port Townsend, fell dead
from heart disease Wednesday after
noon, while drilling. Deceased was a
member of the G. A. Il.
Commerce.: Two locomotives, one
for the Puget Sound and Gray's Har-
Dor road, and one for the Blanchard
railroad at Samish arrived at Puyallup
last week on the way down the Sound.
Mt. Constitution, on Orcas Island,
was named after the American ship,
Constitution, by Commodore Wilkes.
1t is the highest peak on any island OF
Puget Sound, the altitude being 1887
feet.
Vancouver Register: The salmon
fishing season opened last week, and
now some splendid specimens OF Chi
nook salmon are in the market. There
is said to be good run Of fish in the
Columbia this season.
The steam ferry boat Rather is be-
lieved to be in position by this time,
short distance below Priest Rapids,
prepared to cross parties bound from
North Yakima to the Big Bend coun-
try and Salmon river mines.
: A recent edition of the Port Town
send Cal reports seven vessels loading
lumber ut Port Hadlock. The lumber
market does not seem at all slow, if
the mill men do feel as though they
| must cut down the price of logs.
Collector Brooks, last week, APP
| pointed George Poor, of Seattle, and
Thomas Delaney, Of Port Townsend, as
Customs Inspectors. Mr.. Poor is Stew
art on the Aldskan, and Mr.. Delaney
an expressman at Port Townsend.
The Prosecuting Attorneys of the
districts in whose limits railroads are
embraced will meet in Tacoma within
two or three weeks to determine upon
II plan for the assessment of railroad
property under the new law.-NeuS.
DIR. Nevius has accepted the position
. of general missionary in the jurisdic-
!. ton of Washington Territory, and is
for this month engaged in work in
Yakima and Ellensburgh and parts
adjacent, says the Walla Walla States
man.
The sixth annual encampment OF
5 the Grand Army of the Republic OF
? the Territory will be held at Seattle
commencing April Is. This is the
first time the encampment has been
held in Seattle, and the G. A. r. boys
I of that city promise to make this the
r grandest gathering of old soldiers in
the history of the Territory.