Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-05-04

The Government, according to the
Whatcom Reveille, spends about 81 900
year in the distribution of -four,
blankets and implements among the
Indian tribes of the Sound.
Whatcom merchants have been noti-
fed of advanced freight rates, on ac-
count, it is supposed, OF the arrange
ment between the Northern Pacific
and Canadian Pacific lines.
Whatcom lake lies three hundred
feet above Bellingham bay, and a
stream comes tumbling down over a
succession of falls to Whatcom, afford
ing splendid water power.
The Seattle Post mentions that two
miners who were prospecting for coal
at Port Discovery, found a magnificent
vein of rich copper ore, located on the
bay, with deep-water frontage.
About 250 Cinnamon, as an extra
force, have been put to work on the
Vancouver, Klickitat & Yakima rail-
road. The rolling stock and iron for
the first twenty miles has been ordered.
The city council of Port Townsend
has granted franchise, extending
over period of forty-nine years, to
Simms & Morris, of San Francisco, to
erect and maintain gas works in that
city.
The Blaine Journal claims that ar
rangements are about completed for
building line of railroad by the way
OF the north arm or the Fraser river to
Blaine to connect with the West Coast
road.
Spokane Falls has organized COM
pany to build from that place to Kettle
falls a railroad. Then steamers will
run from there to the Colville mines
and connect with the Canadian Pa
cific.
The man who was suffocated by
gas in the Grand hotel, Spokane Falls,
on the night of April 16, died Sunday
from the effects. His real name was
Jerome Boltano and his business
mining.
Two men claim'to have discovered
a rich vein of copper ore on Port Dis
covery Bay, near Port Townsend.
Copper ore is found in many places on
Puget Sound. On Guemes Island,
there is copper mine.
According to apportionment of dele
gates by the Territorial Central Com
mittee for the Convention at Spokane
Falls on September 4th, Eastern Wash
ington, including Clarke county, has
7S and Western Washington 70.
Three new candidates for peniten-
tiary clothes arrived at Walla Walla,
last Friday, from Yakima county.
Their names are Thos. Corrigan, John
Brooks, and John Mahoney, each sem
fenced to three years for burglary.
The Seattle, Lake Shore and East
ern railroad has contracted for 1900
tons of steel rails and will have them
shipped over the Northern Pacific road
direct. They will be used to extend
the Seattle, & West Coast branch to a
point north of Snohomish.
Paulson & Drums new saw and
planning mills in Tacoma will be ready
for use in a few days. They will
make also lath, shingles, cedar tubs,
pals and boxes. The cost of the
plant will be $4,000, and over 100
men will be employed altogether.
A Riparia correspondent of the Day
ton Chronicle says, that on the 9Th
ult., there were four engines working
between Alto and Walla Walla. Fifty
five loads of wheat were taken to Alto
in one day. Eighty loads were re-
ported from that place the same day
for Portland.
Capt. Lawson, of the Ranger, tells
the Aberdeen Herald that his log
shows the distance from the Gray's
harbor buoy to that of Shoalwater bay
to be seventeen miles, and from Gray's |
harbor buoy TO the black buoy at the
Columbia river bar is forty-one aud
one-quarter miles.
To build and equip railroad from
Bellingham bay to meet the West
minister Southern railroad at the boun- |
dairy line would cost, say, $500, ,OOO.
Such railroad built from that point. |
would make the 3,4OO acres of B. B. |
& B. G. r. r. lands around Whatcom,
worth over 81 100000.
Within the past few days over $685.
600 acres have been fled upon on the |
east side of the Yakima river, between |
that point and Prosser, in anticipa- |
ton Of the irrigating canal to water |
these lands. The work will begin at |
once. There is brisk movement in
town lots and acre property.
A number of Indians have recently |
died ON the Lummi Indian Reserva- |
ton from measles and like complaints. |
Residents in the vicinity of the Reser- |
vation claim that death does not lessen |
the number of Indians on the reserve |
40 such vacancies are promptly flled |
by new Siwashes from British Colum- |
bia.
To show the cosmopolitan character |
Of the makeup Of Spokane Fails, an
exchange of that city makes mention |
of the fact that an Irishman, an Eng |
lishman, a Scotchman. German, Afri- |
can and an american drank together |
a few days ago. A Chinaman and an
Indian stood looking on with mouths |
watering.
So rapidly has the population in
creased in Port Angeles that the Coun- |
ty Commissioners recently purchased
a 81, $50 lot, and are about to erect
thereon a school house, ut cost of |
81, 500. Building is reported to be ac-
tive. The Presbyterians and Congre-
gationalists are erecting houses OF wor- |
ship.
Work ON the Nwaco and Shoalwa- |
ter Bay railroad will be commenced at |
once. The company will let no con-
tracts, but hire all the work done itself. |
The road will be completed from Ilwa- |
CO to the East Portland camp, dis |
tance of four miles, before the summer
immigration begins, and pushed on to |
Shoalwater bay by fall.
The Port Townsend Coal Company,
who have had prospectors on the
Quimper Peninsula for some time
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