Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-05-04
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

| Huntsville wants a drug store.
A first-class saw mill is to be bull
at Blaine.
Ilwaco, Pierce county, wants to be
incorporated.
Wheat is worth so cents bushel Il,
Walla Walla.
Centralia has nine saw and shingle
mills in its vicinity.
Dayton has fixed the saloon license
at 81 600 per annum.
In Whatcom county dealers are
paying $14 ton for potatoes.
Wallula complains of toughs since
railroad work has commenced.
Whatcom county has raised its
liquor license to $4O0 per annum.
Over 140 persons joined prohibi
ton club in Spokane Falls recently.
The Territorial Grand lodge of Ma.
sons will convene at Port Townsend in
June.
The seizure OF opium is of common
occurrence with down Sound customs
officials.
A party of 26 immigrants arrived in
Dayton last week from Arkansas and
Nebraska.
Asotin county's school apportion-
ment for April is $2,793 A. Number
of children 632.
Mason county commissioners have
decided to maintain the liquor license
fee at $500 y year.
There are 819 children OF school age
in Jefferson county, 46O of them in
Port Townsend.
The postoffice business of Pomeroy
for the past quarter of 1883 amounted
to nearly $1,000.
According to the new directory Port
land claims population Of 42,261, in
cluding suburbs.
Wa-wa-che is new town on the
Wishkaw river, Chehalis county, with
about forty people.
Expenses of Colfax city government
for year ending April 8, $6,626 SO; in
debtedness, $530.76.
A new roller Touring mill will be
built in Davenport this season by a
miller from Minnesota.
Five prisoners escaped from the Sc
attle city jail the other night by dig
ging out under the walls.
Garfield county's school apportion-
ment is 1886, and the number of
children of school age 1880.
The gross receipts of the Colfax
postoffice during the fiscal year end
ing April l, 1888, were $5,52l.
Solomon Allen will start q new TO-
600 feet a day saw mill at Lummi, the
mouth Of the Nooksack river.
A daily stage now runs from Gen.
tralia to Oakville to connect with the
Olympia and Montesano stage line.
A new steam boat is being built at
the Tacoma ship yards for use on the
Sound. Its machinery will be built
in Tacoma.
A new railroad company has been
organized in Spokane Falls to build
from that city to Colville and the CO.
lumbia river.
Washington Territory, at present
has l,O66 miles of railroad in opera
ton, land 500 miles of road surveyed
and projected.
Twenty-Five fine stations were ex-
hibited by their owners in Klickitat
last week. They weighed from 1,10O
to 1883 pounds.
Col. Hewlett, a Portland journalist,
has formed law partnership in Yaki-
ma with Judge George Turner and the
Milroy brothers.
The Walla Walla strawberr crop
gives promise of being larger than
ever before. Gardens everywhere are
looking splendidly.
Thirty new buildings are now in
course Of construction in Ellehsburg,
and as many more will be under con-
tract in thirty days.
Ed. Campbell has resigned his posi-
ton as postmaster at Hoquiam, which
he has held for just twenty yea RS, and
Peter Autzen succeeds him.
A large vein of copper ore has been
discovered in the Olympic mountains
during the past month and measures
are being taken to prospect it.
The enterprising people Of Aberdeen
have raised $1,000 to celebrate the
coming 4th of July. They intend to
start in time and make success of it.
Seattle has concluded to confine its
wants to things terrestrial. For this
kindness the heavenly bodies will re-
joice, and the morning stars will once
more sing together.
Lincoln county Times: Last week
forty well-to-do immigrant families
passed through Lords valley, q enroute
to find homes and locations in Lincoln
county and the Big Bend.