Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-11-09
TERRITORIAL NEWS.


of 1000.
The debt of Yakima county is near
ly 100000.
In Seattle the arrests for. October
number 2S0.
Fishing and shooting is good in the
Puyallup region.
"A merchants night patrol is being
organized in Seattle.
Four inches of snow has fallen at
Roslyn and winter has commenced in
earnest.
The smallpox patients in Puyallup
are recovering and there is no further
spread of the disease.
Evangelist Moody is expected to
begin revival services in Seattle about
the 10th of November.
There is smallpox patient is
Providence Hospital, Seattle, who says
he came from Tacoma.
The Seattle Humane society en-
braces the work of prevention of
cruelty to children and animals.
The school at Puyallup will open
again next week, there being no long
er fear of the smallpox spreading.
1t is reported that many apples are
going to waste in the eastern part of
the Territory for want of picking.
The station at Puyallup is being inn
proved in many respects, the waiting
room being made more comfortable.
A Skagit county physician reports
that of seventeen births in his neigh
borhood this year sixteen have been
boys.
John Miller, of Samish, was attacked
by bull recently, who tossed him in
the air and trampled him under foot,
lnJurlng him severely.
Bohn, the soldier recently found in
a starving condition at Walla WaiIa,
is growing gradually worse, and his
recovery is not now expected.
DIR. John Gregory one of the Oldest
citizens of Walla Walla, has died from
injuries received by being thrown
from a carriage short time ago.
The Sobert Searles is o four-masted
schooner, lately launched at Port
Blakely, and is said to have the largest
carrying capacity of any small vessel
on the Sound.
The people Of Seattle are trying to
raise a purse of 5000 to induce an
aeronaut to jump from balloon, a
mile high, into the bay, a parachute
to be used in the descent.
A tramp who secured aid in Ellens-
burg on the plea of having received in
juries to his hand, when it was unhurt,
has been sentenced by Judge Nash to
two years in the penitentiary.
A rock was hurled through house
at Spokane Falls, the result of blast
ing accident. It broke dishes on q
table and struck the opposite side of
the room, but did not injure any one.
Col. Ellensburg has arrived at Gen.
tralia, bringing workmen for the new
railroad. An engineer from Chicago
will survey the road between Centralia
and Gray's Harbor. The work will
commence Immediately.
Judge Soderberg, of Seattle, for the
month of October, had SO cases before
him; "a ofthem were for drunkenness,
"a disorderly conduct, and the remain
ing 10 on various charges. The fines
collected amounted to 1886 95.
Sunday woman of an immigrant
family camped at Walla Walla was
stung by an insect. Her entire body
commenced to swell, aud is now of
enormous size. She is suffering terri
BILE. pain, and there is seemingly no
relief.
Two of the largest yields of oats on
record are reported from Skagit coun-
ty on Puget Sound. One field, 12a
acres in size, yielded at the rate of 1864
bushels to the acre from ground that
had been cultivated several seasons
The other place was a field of 20 acres
producing 152 3-5 bushels per acre.
| Poor old Seattle must need re
sort to questionable bait with which t.
angle for the unwary. The Puge
Sound Magazine. published at tina
place, contains two-thirds page illus
tration of an alleged "Scene in Seattl,
Harbor." The cut from which thi
picture was printed is what is knowr
as a stock-cut, and is in reality q seen,
in New York harbor. There is not ,
line steamer, such as represented. o,
this coast and never has been. Tn,
truth is good enough for Tacoma
Tacoma News.
Lieut.. Almy, of the Coast Surve.
schooner Ernest, reports that NOR
work was done this season thar
at any previous time. Surveys wer'
made in Holmes Harbor, Saratog,
Passage, northwest coast Of WILDLY
Island, between Deception pass ant
Point Partridge, Bellingham bay
Penn's cove and Oak and Crescen
harbors. The officers consist of Capt
Mayo, Lieut.. Almy, and draughtsmal
Edwards, and there is crew of sixteen
The probable number Of miles sur
veyed was $50. Mr.. Almy has beer
transferred to the Patterson for servic'
on the Alaskan coast.
Among the many new discoverie
of valuables in Skagit county ar
several lodges of marble. One o
, them ten feet wide and the ledge ha
been traced two and q half milel
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