Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-06-22
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

A census is being taken of Seattle.
Seattle clerks have organized Pro-
tective Association.
Spokane Falls is to have a county
Jail at an expense Of 81 ,O33.
Seattle received $4s,425 from liquor
licenses during the past year.
The Unitarians of Spokane Falls
will build 5000 church this year.
Eleven brick business buildings
are to be built in Ellensburg this
summer.
A force of 1000 men are at work re-
building the burned district of Pa
! louise City.
SnOhomish expects to have an
electric light plant in operation in
October next.
Losses by the Ritzville fire amount
ed to nearly $4,000, with only about
SIC, 900 insurance.
The fifth annual picnic of the North
ern Pacific Railroad employees will
be held at Media, tomorrow.
Ed. Jones of Alkali Flat sold 90
OOO head Of sheep few days ago to
local buyers at 81 SO head.
Walla Walla's last term of court
cost the public $7,267 95. The Pyle
Hurn case alone cost 81, ,748 O5.
The date of execution of Mrs. Pyle,
and her son John Hurn, for arson
and murder, has been fixed on Aug
ust Sd.
A channel is to be dug through the
Tacoma mud flats to the head of the
bay for the purpose Of assisting navi-
cation.
Donald Ross is organizing a loan
and trust company at Spokane Falls,
and is backed by several heavy capi.
talists.
The Cheney city election was held
June 4. The citizens ticket is elected
by large majority over the prohibi-
ton ticket.
The Territorial Convention of the
w. c. +. U. was held in the NJ. E.
Church ut La Conner on June 10Th,
Goth and 2lst.
The coal area of Washington is, in
round numbers, 10000 acres, and
the number of coal mines now in
operation is ten.
The Seattle dry dock company has
purchased marine railway machinery
in the East, capable of hauling the
largest ships into dry dock.
The wife of E. c. Jones, living q
few miles north of Garfield, gave
birth to triplets recently: Their
united weight was seven pounds.
A party of miners is said to have
discovered a fine body of coal in the
foothills of the Olympic range on the
proposed line Of the Port Townsend
railroad.
The yield of wheat ON Eureka fat
will be larger than ever before, owing
to copious rains. Six weeks ago it
was thought crops would not pay for
the cutting.
]. F. Parks, Of Spokane Falls, known
in Olympia as one of the Codo Com
missioners, committed suicide by tax
ing morphine, in Portland, on the
18th instant.
The Board of Trade of Ellensburg
have in contemplation the building of
q telegraph line connecting that
place with Ruby City, in the Okano-
gan country.
The extension of the Puget Sound
and Gray's Harbor railroad is progress
ing. track being already laid two and
q half miles from the head of Little
Skookum bay.
Chas. Mckinley, resident Of
Endicott, has made very valuable
fnd in the Ceur d'Alene mines. The
vein of ore is about six feet in width
and assays well.
L. H. Heidinger, q slaughter house
keeper of Puyallup, was fined $25 and
costs for maintaining a nuisance on
the 9Th inst. This is the second time
he has been fined.
A petition is being prepared for sig
nature, asking Governor Semple to
commute the death sentence of Mrs.
Pyle and John Hurn, Of Walla Walla
to life imprisonment.