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

The Chehalis Bee now prints both
sides atihome.
Washington Territory is larger than
Maine and Massachusetts combined.
Twenty-Five logging camps and sew
en- canne eries will be in operation III Pa
cific county this season.
Mr.. McCarty, County Treasurer OF
Whatcom county, has set out 1000
currant bushes this spring.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany offers to give $500 in aid of q tenn
porary home for immigrants.
The Free Methodists converted the
Rev. J. W. Keeger, Baptist minister
Of Whatcom county recently.
In Whitman county, births are of
more frequent occurrence than usual,
according to COliax exchange.
Burnham Brothers, of Minneapolis,
will establish in Seattle Il manufactory
of cement, drain and sewer pipe.
In many parts of the Territory the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
will employ Chinese on sections.
The Holley system of water works
is to be put in for Colfax, to pnmp
water from the North Palouse river
Emma Dave, the widow of deceas-
ed Klickitat Indian, will make final
proof i'll support of her homestead at
Goldendale, May %.
The Northern Pacific Express Com
pany brought to Seattle during the
last ten days of March, 5000 dozens
of eggs from Oregon.
The Seattle, Lake Shore railway
will require about thirty acres for
their round house, machine shops
and side tracks in Ellensburg.
Walla Walla Valley raised last year
100000 bushels of wheat. The Union
says this crop would be worth $1S0,O00
more at Tacoma than ut Portland
J. b. Barton, of Cowlitz Prairie, says
he has sowed oats in the fall for
sixteen years, and this is tho first win
ter they have been killed by freezing.
1t costs a dollar and half ton
more to load a vessel with wheat at
Portland than Tacoma, or about "a 800
on an average cargo, says q Tacoma
paper.
Hon. Henry Roeder, of Whatcom,
has been selected for Delegate from
that county to the Democratic Con-
vention at North Yakima, which meets
on the 18th inst.
The Whatcom RereMe learns that
John McReavy, the extensive logging
man from Hoods Canal, is likely to re-
ceive the Democratic nomination the
Legislature from that district.
The people of Sprague evidently do
not want paper. A few weeks ago,
the Sheriff suspended the Journal, and
now the Sentinel man wants to sell out
before he meets with similar fate.
The Post-InteNigencer says that II. A.
Case of Asotin, has purchased OF
Messrs. Milroy and Reed, of Olympia,
the little Island at the mouth of the
Puyallup River for the sum of 81 900.
The iron mines in Iron Mountain
District are to be worked extensively,
and an order for 1000 tons for test
will be promptly filled The Big
Creek and upper Cle-elum iron mines
will employ large force.
The gold, copper silver and cobalt
mines i'll upper Cle-elum, which were
fairly prospected last season, will be
developed and considerable ore
shipped, as soon as the new roads are
constructed to the mines.
A man named Mark Mathew to
fame unknown has started new pa
per at Snohomish, and egotistieally
calls it Matthew's Opinion. 1t claims
to be Republican and for protective
tariff; against woman suffrage and
prohibition.
Blaine Journal: 1t is said that the
best oysters on the Sound are found in
the Blaine harbor, both on the British
and the American side, but the best
beds are from ten to twenty feet under
the water, and have never been proper
ly developed.
Port Townsend will buy over three
hundred acres of land along the water
front OF the city, and offer it to rail
way company as an inducement to
build to that place. Such efforts de-
serve success, and we believe Port
Townsend will succeed.
Three shingle-mills are running on
full time ut the White river station,
employing 100 mea and turning out
l75,OOO shingles Il day. Page < Son
cut 10000, A. w. Hight, 10000, and
the White river mill 10000. Two
Others mills will be started soon.
The Centralia News says that lum-
Der is now selling in the Lewis county
mills at two to five dollars per thous-
and less than the same can be bought
for at Tacoma or Portland, and it sug-
gcsts a combination of mill owners TO
establish price for each mill to sell by
Joseph Geer, logger from Penn
sylvanla, about twenty-fOur years of
age, committed suicide at Snohomish,
March 29th. A local paper narrates
the cause Of his death. He had been
on weeks whisky debauch, and be-
came despondent and killed himself
for shame.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union OF Eastern Washington will
meet in annual convention at Spo-
kane Falls, Thursday, April Goth, at
lo.5u A. NJ, continuing three days,
with mass meeting on the 29th. The
Northern Pacific railroad company has
granted one and one-ffth rates for the
convention for the round trip, from all
Local points in Washington and Ore
gon on the railroads controlled by