Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-03-23
WHOLE NUMBER l,427.

Territory. One OF the party was
heard to remark that hundreds in
Iowa will sell out for so cents on
the dollar to escape from the rigorous
winters there and reside in the genial
climate of Washington Territory.
North Yakima will soon have a
new brick hotel, which when COM
pleted, it is said, will be the finest.
structure in Eastern Washington.
The walls fronting the streets will be
composed of pressed brick. The
building will be 5Ox75 feet and with
the basement will be four stories hight
The Rev. A. H. Sheldon, who was
drowned in the Skeena river, was an
enthusiastic worker in the missionary
work. He has many friends in Vic
toria, as we'll as in New Westminster,
in which place he was we'll known and
highly esteemed. A mission church
was recently erected by him at Met
lakahtla, in which he took great in
terest and pride as the result of his
labors amongst the aborigines.
On the 18th inst. the Aurora hotel
at Walla Walla caught FIRE and to-
gether with an adjoining building, was
entirely consumed. While this was
under way another fire was discovered
in two dwellings on the corner of
Third and Birch streets, and they
were soon destroyed. One man was
burned to death, another burned SO
badly it is feared he will die, and two
others are missing. 1t is feared they
also perished.
At a meeting of the Penitentiary
Commissioners at Walla Walla, on
Tuesday, of last week, the following ap-
pointments of officers at that institu-
ton was made and their names have
been forwarded to Governor Semple
for approval: First warden, John G.
Justice; second warden, Henry G.
Tobin; overseer supply department,
F. L. Edmiston; second overseer,
Chas. Berg; physician, DR.. Y. c..
Blalock; guards, Hugh O'Neil, F. D.
Henry, d. Morrille, A. McCorkle, M.
Ames, ]. H. Hosler, 8. Dewey, J. S.
McCowen. A. B. Thompson, editor
of the Dayton Inlander, has been ap-
pointed clerk OF the board of Com
missioners at o salary of $500 a year.
The Union says the list of appoint
ments is generally satisfactory to
everyone.
The Bucoda Coal Company at
Seatco. employs about 100 men who
extract from the mines daily $50 tons
of glisteniDg bituminous coal. OF
this large quantity nearly half is pur-
chased and consumed by the North
ern Pacific railroad company, and the
remainder is sold to ready purchasers
at 50 so to $3 ton. The payroll for
hired help of this mining company is
nearly 5000 per month, and the
further the "leads" extend under the
mountain the brighter the quality Of
coal, and consequently the greater its
demand in the worlds coal markets.
Therefore it is only question of
few years at most that the present
large number of miners and help
must be largely and indefinitely in
creased.
According to the sentence passed
by Judge Turner on J. H. Thinner
man, at Spokane Falls . few weeks
ago, the condemned man will be hung
at Goldendale April 6. A Goldendale
paper in referring TO the forthcoming
execution says that Mrs. Zimmerman,
the wife of the doomed murderer, gives
notice that she intends to make an
application to Gov. Semple for par
don. In her notice Mrs. Zimmerman
states that the application for pardon
will be made on or about April 2.
From all the circumstances connected
with the case, and the cool-blooded,
deliberate manner of its perpetration,
there seems scarcely bare possibility
of the Governor interfering to prevent
the law from taking its course. The
wife applies for pardon, but COM
mutation to life sentence il all that
could possibly be expected.
The Union says: The Board of
Trade have referred to the committee
on manufactures the proposition of
Mr.. Fred Mendynski, to establish at
that place large distillery. The gem
tlemen's proposition in brief is, that a
subsidy of 25 acres of land with run
ming water, somewhere close to the
city and railroad facilities, be given
him, together with exemption from
taxation for five years, he in return
guaranteeing to erect, this summer, a
distillery plant at cost to exceed
$50, 900 and employing fifty men; and
also guaranteeing to purchase and use
from the farmers of the valley 500
bushels daily of corn, at fair valua-
ton, with the understanding that as
business increases the increase in raw
material used will be purchased from
our people. The matter is now in the
hands OF the committee and it is to be
hoped that they can make the neces-
sary arrangements for the establish
ment here of this institution, which
would be a source of much prosperity