Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-11-30
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Rockford is 2443 feet above the sea-
level.
The NJ. f. University at Tacoma is
to cost $4,000.
The Washington Central has
reached Medical Lake.
Spokane Falls will soon have a cor
rugated iron factory.
The Salvation Army is about to open
fire in Port Townsend.
A bee tree in Whatcom county yield
ed 80 gallons of honey.
Walla Walla is to have free deliv-
cry after January 1st.
Seattle papers complain Of the city
being filled with "tin-horn" gamblers.
A quarry OF fine marble has just
been opened in Colville valley near the
old fort.
Eight inches of snow has fallen on
the wagon-road from Ellensburg to
Wenatchee.
The cranberries raised in this Ter
ritory are exceedingly fine favored
and very large.
Colfax is happy over the prospect
for the immediate establishment of a
creamery there.
The Rockford branch of the o. r
& N. system will reach Spokane Falls
early next season.
The cable road between Seattle and
Lake Washington has begun opera
tions. The fare is 5 cents.
Miller, the murderer of Kohl at
Spokane Falls, who has been recap
tured, has confessed his crime.
The evangelist, d. L. Moody, who
has been engaged in revival work on
the Sound, is now in Portland.
John Stantun, woodchoper from
Kamela, u frightful maniac, was COM
mitted to Jail in Pendleton Thursday.
The coal miners of Roslyn, un-
hampered by any knights of Labor
organization, are making IS to 81 a
day.
The Republic notes the discovery Of
fine line of coal and large bed of
lime some twenty-five miles from Yak
ina.
Messrs. Willard and Oakes have
bought a threc-fourths interest in the
Tacoma street railway system, for
100000.
Gloria Mundi apples weighing two
pounds were grown on the Sound
this year, and Bellfowers weighing
a pound and a half.
A pew station was opened this week
on TIN Northern Pacific railroad, be-
tween Rainier and Tenino, which will
be called Mcintyre.
The arc light has proved such a
success at Walla Walla that the intro
ductiOn of the incondescent principle
is in contemplation.
Palouse city has more than doubled
its population in the past year, not
withstanding almost the entire city
has been destroyed by fire.--Boomer-
age.
In Skagit county, several extensive
lodges of marble have been found and
thus another rich resource is dis
covered which will be developed at
once.
1t is predicted that the Spokane and
Palouse branch of the Northern Pacific
will be extended to Julietta and posi-
bly, to Camas prairie in the early
spring.
The Aberdeen Herald has changed
hands. Its Republican chair and
protection cissors are taken under the
wing of Democratic editor and pro-
prietor.
At the Whatcom fair there was ex-
hibited a limb from pear tree % ln-
ches long and one-half inch in diam
eter on which were "a pears weighing
Is pounds.
Land near Ferndale that had been
cultivated fifteen years produced
forty bushels of wheat to the acre this
season. 1t was clover sod and was
not manured
Mr.. Bucey, President of the Terri
torial Horticultural Association, thinks
that the climate Of Puget Sound is
more favorable for fruit growing than
that of the Willamette valley. 1t is
less liable to frosts.
Skagit county polled 1900 votes
this year. 1t gave Allen majority oil
1856, which is rather more than were
cast for the Generals" on the Repub
lican ticket. The whole Republican
! ticket is elected by majorities ranging
from 90 to 407.
Ex-Sheriff and Sheriff-elect John NJ.
McGraw, Maurice McMicken and spe.
cial officer James H. Woolery have
gone East to attend, it is said, the trial
of ]. C. Haines for implication in the
case of robbing the Ogdensburg Gus
tom house of certain contraband
opium. Mr.. McMicken is law part.
ner of Mr.. Haines.
Chief Justice Boyle arrived at Seat
tie last Monday, accompanied by q
committee composed of members o
the Seattle and Tacoma bar. He be.
gan a term of court at Port Madison
Friday. Mr.. Boyle is of rather small
stature, but bright and pleasing ap
pearance. He is accompanied by his
wife and son Edward.