Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-08-03
TERRITORIAL NEWS.


ish have been reduced ten per cent.
Henry Metz's shingle mill at Che.
halls turns out 10000 shingles II day.
Port Townsend's increase in pop.
ulation the past year has been % Der
cent.
Mills ut LynJen, Whatcom county,
are running extra time to meet the
demand for lumber.
Upwards of 100 people are calnped
ON Chauta,iqua beach, and the season
is only just opening.
The Port Townsend Land and I'm.
provement Company have incorpora-
ted, with a capital stock of $4,000.
VIM. Ray, wen-known logger OF
Satsop, reports ii good season. He
has 2,OOO,OOO feet of logs in the Wa
ter.
Waterville has been made the
terminus and distributing t:r, all
mail routes in the Big Bend coun.
try.
The will OF the late DR.. Baker ap.
propriates 5000 for the purpose Of
improving and beautifying the Walla
Walla city cemetery.
Stevens county farmers complain
that for the lack of transportation ia.
cilitits thousands of tons of their hay
crop will go to waste.
Gafford Stevens, a farmland, nea,
Dayton, had both bones of the left
arm broken recently by being caught
in threshing machine.
A crusade was inaugurated on the
9th, at Spokane Falls, against the ele
ment known as "tin-horn" gamblers
and several were arrested.
Hon. David Glass has offered Mr.
CosgrOve and others $4,000 cash fol
the Utter claim behind Sehome, which
sold for $l4, 900 last spring.
Winlock has been designated as 6
money order postotfice, and as soon a.
the necessary papers can be filed, or
ders can be purchased there ad libitum
The new tug Printer was launched
ut Hoquiam recently and taken tc
San Francisco for finishing touches
Many people witnessed the launching
A tramway is being built from tn.
large tract Of timber land northeast o.
Centralia to the Chehalis river tc
supply the mills of that place with
logs.
The grade of the Hunt railroad il
completed about twenty-five miles
beyond Wallula, and will be pushed
on toward Walla Walla with all DOS
sible speed.
Chaplain Stubbs, of the American
Seamen's Friend Society, has organ
lied branch society ut Port Town
send, with Mrs. Emma Molloy as resi-
dent chaplain.
Chris Nelson, a railroad laborer 3(
years Of age, recently from Seattle
shot himself in the head ut Spokane
Falls, ON the 28th. He died at tn.
hospital in that city the first of the
week.
Harry L. Emery, sent from Tacoms
in July, 1887, to the penitentiary fol
forgery and pardoned out, claims h,
pleaded guilty to the indictment t.
shield man with family. He viii
return to Tacoma to live.
McKinnOn's -four mills, on the Vel
Hawk, near Walla Walla, were total,
consumed by fire on the 9th ult. Tht
loss was $1,000, with $500 insurance
The cause of the fire is supposed tt
have been defective fiue.
The Walla walla paper manufac
turing company has been incorporated
Capital stock, $4,000. Trustees
Henry Steinberg, David w. Small and
John B. Mahana. Its object is tt
manufacture and sell paper in thi.
Territory.
The heather Chinee is getting des
perate in his efforts to get into tn.
country before the new treaty goes int
effect. Three more attempted to slid,
by the custom house at Port Townsend
on the 9th. They were arrested ant
returned on the Alaskan.
The Northern Pacific Railroad
Company's new bridge across tn,
Columbia river at Kennewick is tn,
largest on this Coust, costing $500, 600
1t consists Of nine fixed spans of 25(
feet each of wood and iron, and al
iron draw span 239 feet in length.
In South Tacoma, near the Stand
ard Oil warehouse, is located a Gyps,
camp. They are all genuine old-time
Gypsies. the men trading horses, tn.
old hags telling fortunes. and the
young women selling samples of theil
handiwork in the shape of bead orna
ments.
Near Waitsburg, on the 28th ult.
Willard & Wits threashing outfit wa.
destroyed by FIRE, including thresher
derrick and 1900 bushels of grain ir
the stack. The machine Was y new
one, making a trial run, and had mo-
been accepted. The loss is $500
Friction caused the fire.
There are about six thousand prop
erty holders in Spokane county, ane
the property is valued at 80 600 900 o.
an average Of 81 900 per capita. Th,
Northern Pacific railroad in its state
ment Of property owned BY it in tina
county, made to the Assessor, places