Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-06-29
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

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Puyallup will incorporate as city.
Hon. J. Hamilton Louis will be the
4th of July orator at Walla Walla.
A heavy deposit of bog-iron ore has
been found near Nooksack crossing,
Whatcom county.
Congress will appropriate $1,000 for
the survey of the Columbia from the
mouth of the Willamette to the Cas-
cades.
Morgan's gambling house in Ia
coma was az ain raided on the night
of the 25th inst, and about forty per-
sons arrested.
Two Indians who robbed o China
man in Colville county have been
sent to the Penitentiary for three
and five years.
A stranger bound for Seattle was
robbed of $130 by a confidence opera
tor on the train between Kalama and
Tacoma last week.
Up to the LIST of June it is estimated
the salmon pack ON the Columbia river
amounted to 100000 cases, a number
equal to usual season.
Norwood is the name of q post
Office just established in the Stuck
valley, to which all mail matter should
be directed. J. G. Dieringer is the
postmaster.
The last Whatcom Rsveille has q
notice of the death of Rev. ]. w.
Dobbs, formerly pastor of the Meth
odist church at Puyallup. He died
on June Trn.
Washington Territcs- lead. .y.,y
State and Territory in the Union in
the yield of potatoes per acre. This
Territory yields 152 bushels, followed
by Oregon with 122 bushels.
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II is said that small worm is in.
juring the currants in the Puyallup
valley. It may be found in the seed.
Prune trees grated on peach roots
ate often sold to the unwary and
soon die.
Judge Thomas Burke and Cyrus
Walker will Immediately commence
the construction of six-story brick
block, 120x24O feet, on Second street
between Marion and Madison, Seattle
to cost 100000.
A company, having the exclusive
right to use the Birmingham ANAL.
gamation process for the treatment OF
gold and silver in Washington, Ore
gon and Alaska, has been organized al
Walla Walla with capital stock OF
$25O,OOO.
It costs the Northern Pacific Rail
road Co. but $50 per day to operate it.
business through the Cascade tunnel
while it cost 1921 so to maintain tina,
expense over the switchback. 1t cost
81 ,16O, 600, and is one of the lowest and
easiest mountain crossings in America
Mrs. Peck 4 Co. is the name Of q
new real estate firm at Sehome. Mrs
NJ. N. Peck is the head of the firm
and Mr.. Geo. Inwood, of Vancouver
B. c., is the eco" It is not very
often that we learn of woman man.
aging the business of real estate
firm, but here is an instance.
Hon. David Glass, OF Winnepeg
speaker of the Manitoba House, re.
Gently bought three hundred acres oI
land near Whatcom, known as the
Lisle claim, paying therefore $32, 900
1t is generally believed that the North
ern Pacific railroad is backing Nelson
Benefits railroad to Bellingham bay.
Experienced fishermen say that tn,
storm during the last few days at til,
mouth Of the Columbia was the worst
ever known in the fishing season
Several boats were capsized and foul
fishermen were drowned. Some of tn,
trapmen were not able to lift thei
traps for three days on account of tn,
heavy winds.
The trouble between Allen G. Mas
and the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company about the railroad from tn,
First Ward (old Tacoma) 10 the pro.
posed smelter, was settled on the 10Th
inst, the railroad company assuming
Mr.. Mason's contract. Nelson Ben
nett, who has the contract to build
the road, has large force of men al
work and expects to have the road
completed before July 1st, at which
time the right of way expires.
James Balch, former inmate of the
insane asylum at steilacoom, was re.
Gently discharged from the institution
on writ of habeas corpus before Chisl
Justice Jones. Balch has been an in.
mate OF the asylum for years, and
claims to have been perfectly sane all
the time. He says that during that
time he repeatedly endeavored to have
his case come before the courts, but
was never successful until at present
Balch is native of Indiana and is q
veteran of the war.