Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-07-27

4 Ter.
Three car loads of horses were re-
Gently shipped from Pomeroy to Kan
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A basket horticultural meeting will
be held at Ferndale some time in Au-
gust. X
The city council of Tacoma sppro-
priated $35, ,345 for Improvements last
week.
The free delivery system is to be
extended to the Walla Walla post
Office.
Marked traces of coal have been
found on Stratton Butte, near Farm
ington.
Work is progressing on the new ho-
tel at North Yakima. 1t will cost
$4,000.
A lodge of Good Templars was in
stituted at Sidney. Kitsap county,
July IA.
The District Convention of the NJ.
E. Church Was held at Pomeroy on the
oath and 25th.
Gold was found near Centralia by
men digging well on Montgomery's
ranch recently.
During the month Of June there
were twelve births and thirteen deaths
at Walla Walla. !.
Port Townsend is raising . fund
for monument to the famous chief,
the Duke of York.
Business men at Walla Walla ray
their trade was SIC, ,OOO better on the
Fourth than year ago.
Washington Territory has the low
est percentage of iIliteracy Of any
State or Territory in the Union.
Some of the timothy in the Colville
valley is over four feet in hight and
will average 8! tons of hay to the acre.
Lincoln county has 100000 acres
OF land, two-thirds Of which is good
farming land, capable of producing
2O,OOOOO0 bushels of grain per
annum.
| N. B. Gates, Of Chehalis, recently
killed six-months-old lamb which
weighed sixty-seven pounds dressed.
The burning Of the penitentiary
brick kiln has been completed, and
that institution has now 400, 900 brick
ON hand.
1t is said that the West Coast Rail-
road Co. will boom town at the
Nooksack crossing, and another at the
Skagit crossing.
The Democratic Central Committee
of Lewis county have issued call for
= County Convention to he held on
Saturday, August 18th.
Kitssp county, in Western Wash
ington, comes to the front with cher
ries that measure three and . half
inches in circumference.
The largest log ever rolled in the
Cowlitz river in Western Washington
was forty feet long, scaled 100 inches
and contained 1850 feet.
The school census OF Ellensburgh
shows 1852 children between the ages
of six and twenty-o,ie. IN increase Of
100 per cent. over last year.
Ten more miners have been put on
the Moss Bay Company's mines at
upper Cle-clum and large amount of
development work is being done.
William Eichstadt died ut Spokane
Falls on the Goth from the effects of
wounds received by premature ex-
plosion Of blast on street grade.
The Northwestern Soap Company
has incorporated at Tacoma, with =
capital of $4,000. The capacity Of
the works will be 10000 pounds per
month.
Two mills. two stories high, one
60x60, the other 60x66 feet, are in
course OF erection ut Seattle. The
principal business will be grinding
chop feed.
Mr.. Gorsuchtock, Of Vashon island,
took 5000 worth Of strawberries from
his three-quarter-acre patch this sea-
ton, though few crates sold for but
| 20 cents u gallon.
| The guards of the Territorial peni.
tentiary were uniformed on the Goth.
The suit is made of gray cloth, with
nickel buttons, and black stripes
down the trousers.
There have been many cases of
Typhoid and pneumonia fever in town,
but thanks to the small doses Of
medicine given by the doctors nobody
has died.-Chehalis Nugget.
| The Lewis County Fair Association
has decided to hold its annual fair on
the 25th, 26th and 9th of September.
Ten acres OF land has been leased and
q hali-mile track will be provided.
Philip Gallaher was drowned near
Wallula on Saturday night while in
bathing. Two companions attempted
to rescue him, hut their efforts were
unavailing. The body was found.
| In accordance with the provisions
of an act passed by the last legisla-
ture, the committee appointed to sink
an artesian well at some proper place
in Eastern Washington, ss an ex-
pertinent. have decided upon Pasco As
1.-The most suitable place.