Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-06-22
In February of the same year, Con-
gress created
THE COLLECTION DISTRICT OF PUGET
SOUND,

THE COLLECTION DISTRICT OF PUGET
SOUND,
With Olympia as the port of entry.
In May President Fillmore appointed
as collector of customs for the new
district Simpson ?. Moses, and Gen
eral w. w. Miller, afterwards super
intendent of Indian affairs and Quar-
ter-Master-General during the Indian
war of 1856, as surveyor of the port of
Nisqually, both Of whom crossed the
plains that year, and after five
months journey reached their posts of
duty. The 10Th day of November,
1851, marks the first day upon which
there was any business in the new Gus
tom house, and from this feeble, in
auspicious beginning has grown up
the commerce of Puget Sound, which,
in the aggregate amount of tonnage
entering and clearing, takes the fifth
largest place of all the ports in the
United States. On that day the brig
George Emory, commanded by the
gallant Enoch S. Fowler, one of the
fathers of Port Townsend, took out
coasting license, and the schooner En-
act cleared with q large passenger list
OF gold-hunters for the supposed new
gold diggings on Queen Charlotte
Island. This schooner had sailed from
Portland with party of settlers for
the Sound, among whom were our
honored fellow citizens A. A. Denny,
w. N. Bell and C. ID. Borsn. The gen.
tlemen landed at Alki Point, and re-
mained there until February, 1852,
when they located their claims upon
the present site OF Seattle, commenc-
ing from the head of Commercial
street and extending north to the
northern boundary of Bells claim. In
March DIR. Maynard left Olympia after
q lengthy sojourn and arrived at Alki
Point, and Messrs. Denny and Bell
moved their southern boundary to the
northwest to give him room for a
claim. In tho same year David T.
Denny, another enterprising, intelli-
gent and patriotic citizen, located his
present claim, and II. L. Yesler ar
rived from Portland and after another
shifting Of boundaries by Mr.. Denny
to give him claim, erected the first
steam sawmill on Puget Sound. The
FIRST plats for Seattle were filed for re-
cord separately by Messrs. A. A. Den
ny, Boren and Maynard in May Of the
following year.
TERRITORIAL OFFICIALS.
Isaac l. Stevens, already man of
national reputation, was appointed the
first Governor of the Territory and in
September, 1853, he assumed the
duties of his Office by = proclamation
issued at St. Mary, village in what
is now the western portion of Mon
tana. The first Secretary of the
Territory was Chas. H. Mason, n
young man from Rhode Island, who
held the Office until his death in 1858.
The first election resulted in the
choice Of Columbia Lancaster, a na-
native of Ohio and then resident Of
Columbia county, as Delegate to
Congress. J. Patten Anderson, who
was killed while fighting ON the side
of the South during the rebellion, was
the first United States Marshal and
the second Delegate to Congress, and
J. s. Clendennin was the first United
States Attorney. The Judiciary was
composed of Edward Lander, Chief
Justice, and Victor Monroe and o. B.
McFadden, Associate Justices.
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THERE is pond on the Lay ranch
at Golconda, which is fed by the wa
ters from the hot springs. This pond
has an area of two or three acres, and
the temperature of the water is about
IS deg, and in some places where the
hot water bubbles up from the bottom
the temperature is almost up to boil
ing point. Recently the discovery has
been made that this warm lake is lit
orally alive with carp, some Of which
are more than foot long. All efforts
to catch them with q hook and line
have failed, as they will not touch the
most tempting bait. A few of them
have been shot, and contrary to the
general supposition. the flesh was hard
and palatable. How the fsh got into
the lake is = mystery unsolved. With
in 100 feet Of it are springs which are
boiling hot, and the ranchers in the vi
cinity use the water to scald hogs in
the butchering season.-Silrer State.
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EMPEROR Frederick of Germany
died on the 18th instant. He was
born OH the 18th of October, 1881,
and was married to Victoria January
Us, 1858. His eldest son William,
who now succeeds to the throne, was
born January 27, 1859, and is conse-
quently 90 years of age. He has pro-
vided q successor to himself in the
little Prince William, now a boy of
seven. The Emperor Frederick
reigned o little over three months,
having succeeded Kaiser William on
the 9th of last March. He has borne
his sufferings from cancer in the
throat bravely for a long time and
exempli6ed throughout his life the
best traits of the Hohenzollern family,
which from an obscure beginning
thousand years ago, ripened toward
the throne of Charlemagne.
Miss MINNIE FREEMAN, the Ne
braska blizzard heroine, has left Ord,
where she was teaching, and gone
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