Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-04-13

ibS lCtiOiCuiil NCll HAS DCCu dlSCOtcI-
ed between Centralia and Gray's Har-
Dor, and that a company, composed of
Centralia and Tacoma capitalists has
been organized to develop the business,
although the find may be a first Of
April enterprise. ..4... t...
Whatcom Democrat: Milas Galliher
Esq, of LaConner, was in the city
on Monday, looking for location for
a large hotel. He may make arrange
mcnts to purchase the Whatcom
House. He would put up three
story building if he could procure a
suitable location.
The Columbia Chronicle says that
seeding is further along now than any
previous year before the lst of April.
The weather since about the LIST of
February has been very favorable for
farming operations and all outdoor
work, except during the snow storm
the second week of March.
By clearing out the jams from the
south fork of the Nooksack river, at a
cost of not over $4,000, it is said that
the fine timber of that region can be
transported to Bellingham Bay at Il
cost not to exceed fifty-cents per thou
sand; while it costs $1.72 per thou
sand to carry it by cars to Seattle.
Commerce says that Mrs. Zerelda
Mccoy, of Tacoma, has been appointed
as notary public by Governor Semple,
who evidently is not so prejudiced
against the woman's movement as to
be insensible to real worth and merit
Of its female advocates, of which Mrs.
Mccoy is an acknowledged leader.
In regard to the unequal assessment
of taxes the Centralia News says there
are instances where land that could
not be bought for over $40 per acre is
assessed at not over five dollars, while
land valued at IS is taxed at 80 so.
The Neus favors Il uniformly higher
rate of assessment and lower rate of
tax.
Vidette:: Chehalis county offers to
capitalists as good opportunities for
investment as any section Of country
in the United States. With her lum-
ber, fish, farming and grazing lands,
mineral deposits, and openings for
manufactures of various kinds, a
better opening for men OF means can
not be offered anywhere.
Cowlitz county, at the present time
is in demoralized condition. The
county Treasurer was some time ago,
" held up" by robbers for the county
funds, 1902 20, and school funds to
the amount of $2,679. The Treasur-
er's bondsmen have been asked to
make the money good, but are back
ward in coming forward. ., -F
The Senate has passed a. bill to
authorize the Columbia river bridge
company to construct and maintain
IL bridge across the Columbia river be-
tween Oregon and Washington Terri
tory above Vancouver also bill ap-
propriating $1,000 for the completion
of monument to Mary, mother of
Washington, at Fredericksburg, Va.
Among the crops that do well in
Central Washington are wheat, oats,
barley, timothy, clover, alfalfa, fye and
red top. Oats frequently produce three
crops in succession without planting.
Alfalfa produces two crops year, and
in some instances three. More atten-
ton should be given to this grass than
it has received:-Ellensburgh Capitol.
A large mahogany log came ashore
on the weather beach a short time
since, and it is thought that good
16 foot log could be cut out of it, says
the Oysterville paper. Such timber
is n stranger in this part of the world,
and has drifted all the way from
South America. 1t should make
quite valuable stick of timber for
some one to pick up.
The Philadelphia Methodist confer
ence having protested against exclud-
ing the use of native language in the
Indian schools, President Cleveland
writes to q Methodist clergyman vim
dicating the idea. He says it will not
do to permit the wards of the nation
to become their own masters and to
indulge in their own barbarous Ian
guage, as it pleases them. The text
books and oral instruction should be
in English.
The Seattle Post says that the teredo
has already made such havoc in the
piling of the wheat warehouses that
it has been necessary to put in new
piles. 1t is proposed to ram in saw
dust around the piles in order to pro-
tect them. Sooner or later the foun-
dations of these docks will have to be
built up with solid earth, and the
sooner the railroad company puts in
such foundations the more money
they will save.
1t is said that all the Columbia river
salmon canneries, with the exception
of few, will be run the entire season.
The price of fish this year will be 81 if
caught by cannery boats, and $1.25 if
caught by private boats. This price is
very high, in fact too high, almost ex-
tortionate, but the canneries that have
preparations to run will pay the rul-
ing price, whatever it is. An attempt
to form combination of the cannery
proplietors failed.
Father Broulet, Catholic priest, who
preached to the Lummi Indians dur
ing Lent, says the Indians are better
Christians than the whites because
they devote more time to religion and
not so much in quest of the almighty
dollar. The number of Indians who
claim residence on the Lummi reser-
vation he estimates at 400, but many
of them drift from place to place.
Father Rroulet attends to the spiritual
wants Of l 400 Indians scattered from
Olympia to WhatcOm.
The body OF little girl rlnamed Hess,
buried on the Skagit river bank two
years ago, has been discovered to be
petriiied. On opening the lid of the
coffin it was found that the form and
features of the child were as clear and
well defined as they were on their
burial save that they were turned tO