Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-02-03
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

The coal market has eased up At
Seattle and people are now enabled TO
procure all required at IS a ton.
The city of Vancouver has nearly
$1,000 in its treasury, and does not
owe dollar to anyone, saws the
Independent.
U. S. Marshal T. ]. Hamilton sold
in Port Townsend recently 2l24 Lbs.
of contraband opium at an average Of
$13 O5 per pound.
They have in the Chehalis Jail Cliff
ton Pathey, notorious rough, former
ly in McNeil's Island Penltentiary, who
escaped from there in q small boat.
Forty-seven divorce cases were
brought in Seattle during the year
just passed and thirty-one sets Of
matrimonial bonds were duly split BY
the court.
According to the Times Mounta;neey
the coolest day ever experienced at
The Dalles was Jan. II. 1854, when
the thermometer marked 30 degrees
below zero.
President Cleveland last week re-
nominated Edwin Eells,. of Tacoma,
to be Indian Agent for the Nisqually
and Skokomish agency, which en-
braces the Puyallup reservation.
The health officer at Tacoma reports
that the slight epidemic of measles
which has prevailed in that city for
few weeks past has abased and that
the cases are becoming fewer every
day.
Vancouver lake contains hundreds
Of sturgeon, and quite number have
been speared and captured the pest
few days by men who stand upon the
ice which covers the surface of the
lake, says Vancouver paper.
There is NO reason why Walking
ton Territory may not show, . mineral
production equal to any State or Ter
ritory in the nation. It has it buried
in its mountain vaults and only needs
capital and enterprise to get it out.
Whitman county has 4,729 children
of school age, says Walla Walla pa
per. The amount of money apror-
toned to the various school districts
in January amounted to $472 80, b.
ing at the rate of 10 cents per capits.
While playing at her home in Wal
lula one day last week, Minnie TusnetJ
aged 6 years, accidently set fire to her
clothing and was so seriously burned
before the flames were cxtinguishod
that she died from the effects . few
hours later.
A short time ago the queen of the'-
remnant of the Cowlitz Indians died Is
Freeport. She was said to have been
over 100 years old. The Cowlitx tribe
has dwindled down until there Az
but few old and decrepid Indians
left of that once powerful band Of red
men.
Over 40 of the 100 prisoners at thes
penitentiary offered themselves for ax-sI
animation as very sick men one day
last week. OF this number only four
were found by the physician to BE- =
all i'll. It is surprising how many q
them want to be ordered to the hosr
pital.
A tree was cut in the Little Skoo-
KUN valley, short time ago, that
scaled 5000 feet. Let's zee, exclaims
the Whatcon Revelle enthusiastically.
IS 900 feet at 81 20 per Thousand
would be $262 SO for one tree. Tia
timber lands in this county viii aseEs
age ten such trees to the acre. At thie 5
rate, take your pencil and figure out
the value of quarter section Of Ruget
Sound timber land. Four hundred
and twenty thousand dollars from Or
quarter section Of land can't be realized
in any other country OF earth except
Puget Sound. =
The Queen City 10 nothing, il noe
progressive. The latest sign Of iuas
provement is the construction of :
new block to bear the name OF tho'
" Boston Block" It is to b three
stories high aud basement, and Nh
be built on the corner Of Second ard
Columbia streets. The total cot q
the site and building will Be el3e, "a
itemized as follows: superstruCtug
$94 $50; basement, $4,000; excavak
ing, $1,000, and the two lots, (whlsA
were purchased from the Methods
church), $4,000.