, 1888-11-22

A sweet potato weighing IL pounds
was grown in the Palouse country
Mr. Moody will go to spok.n.
Falls the last of neyt month
Washington leads every other stats
and territory in the average produe.
ton of wheat per acre
Noel Jacks, travelling secretary for
the Y NJ. G. A. of Washington and
Oregon, has begun Wcrh.
An exchange says that the timber
land now selling for $40 an acre will
be worth 500 in ten years.
County warrants TO the amount Of
$1,000 belonging to Hugh Eldridge.
have mysteriously disappeared
The railroad work Oh Fidslgo
island is under the superintendent
of Miner, of the Q, Il. & n. Co.
The Secretary of the Territory has
received official notice that there will
be no session OF the Legislature this
winter.
Charles Francis Adams, of the
Union Pacific, has purchased a
large tract of land adjoining Spo-
kane Falls.
The Moscow Mirror fayors the
annexation to Washington of the
four counties in Idaho lying il the
valley of the Columbia.
Several hundred acfes of land On
Fidalgo island are te be decided to
the editor of the Washington Far.
nter if he moves his paper to the
island:
About sixty men are now employed
on the ietty at the mouth of the
Columbia river The work goes
right along and material progress
is being made:
The boring in the attempt to OBJ
tain natural gas at Oleelum has
reached depth of 900 feet. No gas
has yet been found, but plenty Of
coal has been encountered.
The Pitzyille Times says to tbs
young women Of the Fast; Coed
girls are in demand. We will take q
car load and dispose Of them in
thirty days to young ''bsches," who
will devote the remainder OF their
lives to making them happy
The growth of Puget Sound com,
merce since the completion of the
Nor thern Pacific railroad presents
business aspect that is full OF prom
ise and insures degree OF Develop
Inent such as is rarely met with in
new country.-Ellensburg Loealizer.
On the Colville Indian reser .stion
in Stevens county there are less than
1000 Indians. The reservation is
about 100miles square and is very
rich in minerals. The people of
eastern Washington ara anxious that
the reservation be opened for mining
purposes.
| 4 Spokane councilman recently
said of a gambling den in that city:
II have travelled extensively over the
United States, l lived ID years in
New York, and I have visited the
slums of that city, but I never saw
any den worse than Fred Wickwire's
establishment in this city.
A year hence, and perhaps less, the
people of Washington will be called
upon to choose permanent location
for the State capital, and as ElleRs-
burg Is now in the lead, it is necessg.
ry that its citizens should see that
the position is maintained. Eternal
vigilance is the price of the State
Capital of Washington.
j Washington territory now ranks
sixteenth among the coal producing
states and territories, and yet her
coal has barely been totlched: As
Cheelum alone vast measures OF coal
exist, and within two miles of the
town vast mountains OF iron OF the
finest quality. have been exposed;
4 The territory has mere Of both c5af
and iron than Pennsylvania has
within the same area, and she has
vastly more territory than the Key
stone state.-Oregontan.
An immense wheat and stock
growing country lies eastward OF the
timber belt of the North Pacif Coast
that is bound to be settled. and thus
the demand for lumber will be en-
larged. Northern lun1bernen ap-
pear to look upon the Puget Sound
region as the more promising west
ern field of investment and operation,
and it is doubtless because they ses
that it lies contiguous to an expand
ling field for distribution. The grad
ual spread of cultivation in Califor-
MIA by irrigation will also develop
the lumber requirement, but it is
likely to be less rapid ttan in Ore-
gon and Washington territory
Northwest Lttnaberman.
| A cigar dealer in Mannheim, Pa,