Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-05-25
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

A tirst-class saw.mill is to be built a
Blaine.
Wheat is worth so cents IL bushel al
Walla Walla.
| Dayton has fixed the saloon license
at 81 900 per annum.
In Wbatcom county, dealers are pay
ing $l4 Il ton for potatoes.
Over 140 persons joined a prohibition
club of Spokane Falls recently.
The Territorial Grand Lodge OF Ma
sons will convene at Port Townsend in
June.
The output of the Snohomish coun-
ty logging camps this year will be
150,OOO,OOO feet.
! The postoffice business of Pomeroy
for the first quarter of 1883 amounted
to nearly $4,000.
The government is to build a fine
school house for its wards on the Puy-
allup reservation.
Wa-wa-che is new town on the
Wishkaw river, Chehalis county, with
about forty people.
Judge Allen is said to be heartily
disgusted with the Tacoma authorities
as to the escape of Martin.
The next annual session of the Grand
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, will be held
at Olympia, on the second Tuesday in
May, 1889.
The first house was erected three
years ago in North Yakima. where
there are now 500 buildings and 1900
population.
The Big Bend proper comprises a
strip of land 130 miles long and 20
miles wide, or, in other words, 1000
square miles.
In an accident on the Northern Pa
cific at Sprague, last week, six box and
two fiat cars were wrecked, but no
lives were lost.
The Roman Catholics are building a
$lOO,OOO stone church at Vancouver,
B. c. The plans are being drawn by
Scorly, of Victoria.
Since the 1st of March of the pres
ent year some fifty buildings have been
erected and are now in course of con-
st:uction at Ellersburg.
Mason county now has four stand
ard guage railroads, built and under
construction. The daily output of the
Satsop road is 100000 feet.
Ed. Campbell has resigned his posi-
tion as postmaster at Hoquium, which
he has held for just twenty years, and
Peter Autzen succeeds him.
The enterprising people of Aberdeen
have raised 81 900 to celebrate the CON-
ing 4h of July. They intend to start
in time and make success of it.
Bids for the construction of the ad-
dition proposed to be built to the PEN
itentiary were opened Tuesday. The
lowest ones exceed the appropriations.
The government, according to the
Whatcom Rerielle, spends 81 900 year
in the distribution of flour, blankets
and implements among the Indian
tribes of the Sound.
After long and patient waiting the
station twenty-five miles south of
Ritzville, known as Twin Wells, has
received new christening-Hatton
and the promise of postoffice.
The contract for moving the old
buildings at Fort Steilacoom, that is,
such OF them as are worth moving,
over to the new hospital building, has
been let to "A. o. Benjamin, of Seattle.
Lumber shipments from Gray's
Harbor for the month of April were
1925, 900 feet; 1884 600 of which was
shipped from Hoquium, !, ,42S, 900 from
Aberdeen and 1887 900 from Cosmop-
oils.
The city council of Port Townsend
has granted a franchise, extending
over q period of forty-nine years, to
Simms & Morris. OF San Francisco, to
erect and maintain gas works in that
city.
Wallula is flooded with about 600
idle men who cannot find work and
have no money. 1t seems that G. w.
Hunt sent east to an agency for $50
Italian laborers, to work on his branch
road, and they sent him 500.
Ellensburg is the place to buy horses
cheaply, and outfitting goods as rea-
sonably as anywhere in the Territory.
Horses are sold every day in the
streets. They sell from SO to $25, ac-
cording to size and estimated worth.
1t has been decided to build a Cath
olic church in Chehalis this summer
on the site selected two or three years
ago. The work ON the church will be-
gin in June, and it will be an elegant
structure and an ornament to the
town.
Mr.. Dunlay, farmer on the Swim
omish flats, last year cut 500 tons of
hay from 100 acres of land. He sold
the whole yield for $40 per ton, de-
ducting S. per ton for cutting, bail
ing, etc., which left him a net profit OF
81 800.
The prevailing impression at Gle
elum seems to be that the proposed