Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-04-06
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

1t is reported that Wallula is to have
Il system of water works.
There are ia convicts in the Terri
rial Penitentiary at Walla Walla.
A bill has been passed making Ta-
coma and Seattle ports of entry.
Lime rock in large quantities has
been discovered in Douglas county.
Mason county will soon vote on the
question of q site for the county seat.
There are thousands of acres of fine
timber land vacant in WhatcOm cOun-
ty.
Fare from Colfax to Tacoma, $23 !;
to Seattle, $24; to San Francisco,
1920.
The LaCamas paper mill is now in
full operation and employs about 70
persons.
A large colony of Germans have
started "a settlement in the vicinity of
Okanagan.
A baseball club has been organized
at Seattle, under the name of the Seat
tie Browns.
The Puget Sound Fishing Company
have lately set large smelt net below
Old Tacoma.
The Masons OF Ellensburg are pre-
pared to erect handsome three-story
brick temple.
Several new buildings are being
erected in Garfield, and the town is
growing rapidly.
An attempts to be made this
spring to cultivate oysters on the mud
flats near Seattle.
Washington Territory has 100000
acres OF coal lands and 100000 tons
have been marketed.
Measles has again made its appear
ancc in Yakima and quite Il number of
sufferers are reported.
VIM. Stammers, a drunken sailor,
was killed Monday, at Seattle, by try
ing to leap on vessel.
The Port Townsend Building and
Loan Association has been organized,
with a capital of $3.50, 900.
Twenty-Five logging camps and sew
en- canneries will be in operation in
Pacific county this season.
Extensive works for creosoting piles
to prevent the ravages of the teredo,
are to be put up at Seattle.
A postoflce has been established at
Trout Lake, Klickitat county, with
Charles Pearson as Postmaster
OF the immigrants arriving in New
York last year the destination of L.
1879 was Washington Territory.
Armour 4 Co., the great pork pack
ing company of Chicago, has estab-
lished branch house at Seattle.
Efforts are being made to secure the
funds necessary to finish up ColfaX
college building for use this season.
The Oregon Improvement Compa-
ny's new mill will soon be shipping
lumber from Seattle to San Francisco.
Joseph Geer, of Snohomish City,
blew out his brains, because an inmate
of house of ill-fame refused to marry
him.
A dozen people from Texas arrived
on the last boat for Whatcom, and as
MANY came from Nebraska and Kan
SaS.
The Indian school building (Catho-
lic) is we'll under way at Yakima. 1t
is frame structure and will cost
about $1,000.
There will be nearly fifty houses
built on the Chautauqua grounds on
Vashon Island during the coming
three months.
M. J. McElroy has been appointed
Assistant Secretary of the Puget Sound
Loggers' Association, with headquar-
ters at Seattle.
The Seatco Manufacturing Compa-
ny's payroll footed up almost $4,000
for the month of February; and the
coal company paid out in the neigh
borhood of $4,000.
The moulders of Tacoma and Seattle
met in that town last week, organized
union, and made application for Il
charter. Meetings will be held alter
nately in Tacoma and Seattle.
A fast train of sixteen cars of sugar
left Tacoma for st. Paul last week
This is said to be the beginning of the
war which Claus Spreckles is making
on the Great Eastern sugar trust.
1t is rumored that the Northern Pa
cific railroad company has let con-
tract to parties in Idaho for $4,000 ties
to be used in the construction of the
Cheney, Davenport and Big Bend rail-
road.
w. c. Hill, who located scrip upon
32O acres of the Maynard donation
claim to the city of Seattle, has had
his title confirmed by the United
States Supreme Court. This land is
very valuable.
Colfax COmm0ner: The delinquent
tax roll of Whitman county foots up
$1l ,S97 40 of the original assessment,
The total amount OF taxes were $97 )
43S 80, ofwhich about one-eighth be-
came delinquent.
III. 4. March, of Fidalgo, WILDLY
Island, says the chances are good for a
bountiful crop Of wheat this season,
and that the last bad frost did no harm
as the buds were not far enough ad-
vanced for injury.
The contract for building the coal
bunkers at Seattle has been let. Mr.
Alexander has the contract, and is
grading roadway along the bluff at
Smiths Cove for the incline and bunk
| ers of the Seattle Coal and Iron Com
pany at that place.