Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-02-24
TERRITORIAL NEWS
Gray's harbor shipped 4 ,222 900 feet
OF lumber during January.

OF lumber during January.
The Republican Territorial Con, en-
ton will probably be held at Ellens-
burg, says an exchange.
The o. r. & n. have just purchased
seven locomotives from the Baldwin
works and they are now on the road
from the East.
Pacific Journal: During the freshet
last week, logs on the Nasel and tribu-
taries were all set afloat, and pretty
clean drive was made.
Gradually North Pacific products
are being utilized. Sturgeon are
shipped East in 300-pound casks and
make excellent addition to Eastern
menus.
1t cost the Puget Sound Construc-
ton Company $3.50 to fish up the loco
motive and tender that took lean in
to the briny deep a few days ago at
Seattle.
1t is reported that Columbia river
fishmen will demand of the cannery-
men 81 and $1.25 per fish the coming
season. Trouble will ensue if this pro.
gramme is carried out.
Edward Roddy, railway engineer
living at Wallula, and a brother-in-law
to VIM. Glenn, Of Walla Walla, has
received information that he has been
left $15, 900 by relatives in the East.
The temporary sawmill at Port
Blakely has commenced the work of
cutting out the timbers for the new
mill. The new structure will be about
the same length as the old mill, but a
little wider.
Mrs. Landes, wife of Col. Henry
Landes, President of the First National
bank OF Port Townsend, and one of
our worthiest citizens, died Tuesday
OF consumption, aged 50 years. She
was native of Germany.
The Territorial Supreme Court hay-
ing affirmed the decision of the lower
Court, Henry Zimmerman, convicted
OF the murder of VIM. Sterling, will be
hanged at Goldendale. The doomed
man still insists that the body found
was not that of Sterling.
A fast stage line, with stations Is
miles apart, will he put on between
Davenport and the Salmon river
mines. 1t will connect with the daily
stage from Spokane Falls. Concord
coaches will be used, and it is intend
ed to make it the fastest in Washing
ton Territory.
Capt. Solomon Jacobs, of Glouces-
ter, Mass, arrived in Seattle last Tues
day. He is the fisherman who pro-
poses to develop the fisheries of the
Pacific, and already two fishing YES
sells are on the way around Cape
Horn Tor Puget Sound. More vessels
Will start out during the year.
In so far as it is possible for law to
prohibit the sale of liquor, the sale of
liquor is prohibited within a STRIP a
mile wide around each incorporated
city by the new law. No one is au-
thorized to issue license within the
strip, and the penalty for selling
anywhere in the Territory without a
license is fine ranging from 500 to
III 900 for each offense.
Sunday evening the Office of the
Yakima Signal, at North Yakima.
took fire and burned to the ground
Nothing was saved except the press,
and that was so badly damaged that
it is almost worthless. At first it was
supposed the fire was the work of an
incecdiary, but the general impress
sion now prevails that it resulted from
spontaneous combustion.
L. Corbet has finished his labors on
the government artesian well at Van
couver, w. T., the hole being down
BIZ feet, with 100 feet of water in it,
standing at the river level. 1t took
him eleven months to bore it, and dur
ing the last five months only forty feet
was made. The difficulties sur
mounted were greater than ever be-
fore experienced in like work.
Two sixty-ton locomotives for the
Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railway
passed Minneapolis Saturday and are
expected to arrive in Seattle next
week. Their coming is opportune,
for work on the road has been DELAYED
by the falling of one of the locomo-
tives into the bay The new machines
are of large size, and it is expected
will be able to handle traffic on the
mountain division of the new road.
Indians from Scow Bay, near Port
Townsend, report that the coffin of the
smallpox patient buried between that
place and Point Ringgold has been ex-
posed to the elements by the sea wash
ing the sand from over the receptacle
This is confirmed by settler from
that neighborhood. The deceased was
buried by two men especially EN-.
ploycd for that service. When they
arrived over there they found that
they had come away without bringing
a shovel. A board was found with
which a shallow grave was dug on the
beach. The big tides of late have ex.
posed the coffin. 1t is thought that
rigid measures should he adopted al
once to prevent the Indians from cir.
culating the pestilence.