Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-03-30
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

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Town lots in elum are selling
for $500.
Palouse City is to have three-story
brick hotel.
Judge Allyn has invested $4,000 in
Tacoma real estate.
Dayton has nine buildings dedicat-
ed to church purposes.
An agricultural fair is to be held in
Chehalis county this fall.
Thirty-five cases of measles occurred
in Walla Walla in February.
Ellensburgh is making arrange
ments for an electric light plant.
Transfers OF real estate in Ellens-
burgh last week footed up $l6,647.
An Eastern man is thinking Of
starting a chair factory at Chehalis.
A Womans' Foreign Missionary So
ciety has been organized at Golden
dale.
Ninety registered letters were re-
ceived ut the Goldendale postOflice last
week.
Spokane Falls shipped several car
loads OF flour To San Francisco last
week
DIR. Teller, an old resident OF
Hoaquim, Chehalis county, died re-
Gently.
Seven Portland wholesale firms are
about to establish branch houses in
Seattle.
A factory for the manufacture of
wire fences is to be established in
Ellensburg.
A road six or eight miles long is to
be opened from Montesano up the
North river.
There are now 62 vessels on the
way or chartered to load ut Puget
Sound ports.
Sprague expects to have whole
sale boot and shoe house and liquor
store this season.
The acreage in cultivation in
Yakima county this season will be
double that of last year.
The new post Office at White river
station will be known as Buckley. Mr..
Morris will be postmaster.
The Winochee hotel, Chehalis county,
was burned on the Sth inst. Insurance
81 800. Loss much greater.
1t is reported that railway trains
will be running into Snohomish City
from Seattle by the 1st of May.
A colony of about so families from
Minnesota will locate in the neighbor-
hood of Gray's larbor this season.
Pacific county has its railroad sub
sidy all completed and is nearly ready
for the Ilwaco-Oysterville railroad.
The Sisters Of Charity will build an
academy in Ellensburg as soon as
suitable grounds can be procured.
The Big Bend country is expand
ing wonderfully. They guarantee the
shipment Of 900 tons of wheat this
year.
The Sisters of Charity will soon
build an academy at Ellensburgh.
The structure will occupy about IL
block.
About five miles of the Vancouver
Klickitat & Yakima railroad have
been graded, and large force of men
are at work.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
meets in Eliensburg on the 18th OF
April, and will remain in session
several days.
Frank ]. Parker is President of the
Penitentiary Commission lately organ.
lied at Walla Walla, and j. Z. Edmis-
ton is Secretary.
The Northern Pacific Coal Com.
pany has $50 men on its payroll at
the Roslyn mines, and 700 tons ol
coal is the average daily output.
The landlady OF the MontesanC
house will build Immediately hotel
52x60 feet. 3 stories high, with AZ
rooms in that thriving little city.
The Palouse Gazette reports that a
large hotel will be built in PalOuse
city this summer, by number OF
capitalists from Colfax and Other
places.
The Whatcom RepeMe says that
Senator Garfield is putting forth ev
cry effort TO begin railroad construc'
ton from Bellingham Bay to Skagit
coal fields this spring.
The Board of Directors for the Ter
ritorial Hospital for Insane of East
ern Washington has been organized
with ID. NJ. Drumheller us Chairman
and Stanley Hallett, Secretary.
A hen, near Goldendale, recent.
Matched a chicken with four legs
There is no reason why klickita
county should be outdone in tn
poultry line by any sister county.
The sixth annual meeting of TIN
Woman's Christian Temperanc
Union of Eastern Washington, met q
Spokane Falls, April 26, q and 2S
with mass meeting Sunday, the 18th
4 broom manufacturer thinks @
locating at Yakima, where from
specimens shown him, he is satisfied
it will pay to work the raw materiu
into brooms instead OF sending bacl
East for them.
| Rev. X. A. Sicafoose, of the Chri,
tian church in Tacoma, is organizing
church at Orting. Mr.. Eldridge Ina
promised lot, Mr.. White, lumber
and an edifice for worship will b
erected at once.
The Port Townsend Argus puts o
its specks," takes look at Tacom;
and CALCULATES: Tacoma's real estat
boom is something wonderful; not fo
its size, but for its make up. Me
deed their property to their wives, an
the wives deed it back again. One a.
sociation sells to another and tha