, 1888-02-02
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

hO ItCNlCH O.OOo DObuld-
tion for Spokane Falls.
Tracklaying is progressing on the
Spokaue 81 Palouse railway.
Spokane's real estate transfers in
1887 amounted to S2,500,000.
Colfax wants the class of its post
office raised to second. 1t is now Q
fourth-class office.
A Spokane merchant wagers S100
that he can devour three quail every
day for thirty days.
The secretary of war has issued an
order reserving GAO acres of land for
the military reservation at Fort Spo-
kane.
A man offers to sell 24O acres Of
land in Klickitat for $500. The
Goldendale Tribune says it is fine
fruit land.
The general western claim agency
of the Northern Pacific is soon TO be
removed from Helena to Spokane
Falls, says the Review.
Five persons, one woman, were
convicted of dealing at poker at Sno
homish City and sentenced to pay
fine of $500 each. Three paid and two
will board it out.
A wholesale house has recently
been established at Tacoma, with a
capital stock of $250,O00. That is the
kind we want to hear of in the City
of Destiny.
There are now thirty-two pupils in
~ 4h4 W-.rhf
mary, Tacoma, several new ones
having been admitted for the spring
term.
Yakima Republic: The raising Of
hops in Washington territory is des-
tined to become a great industry,
having increased from 1S5 pounds in
1886 to 1900 bales In 1887.
Asotin county has 632 children of
school age and the last apportion-
ment of school money gave 16 cents
per capital.
The general western claim agency
of the Northern Pacific is soon to be
removed from Helena to Spokane
Falls says the Review.
According to the News, a petition,
two yards long, has been set to the
Legislature, praying it to memorial
ize congress to give Palouse City a
charter to set up municipal gov
ernment.
There is rumor flying in the
air to the effect that there is some
likelihood of logging railroad being
built from Sterling to LaConner. If
said rumor is true, it will undoubt-
edly prove a bonanza to the project
ors of the schemo.-LaConner Mail.
No newspaper mail has been re-
ceived at the Mount Vernon postoffice
during the past week. Owing to the
ice the Cascade was unable to land
the paper mail at Stanwood, SO we
have to jog along in partial ignor-
ance of what IS going on in the
outside world.-Skagit News.
The following new post-ofices
have been established in Washings
ton Territory: At Viola. Lincoln
county, w. T., Robert j. Fields ap-
pointed postmaster, at Western,
King county, w. T., o. p. Mooney
appointed postmaster at Dean, Sno-
homlsh county, w l., and James
W. Halbert appointed postmaster.
At the present rate of progress
through the Cascade mountains the
tunnel will be completed about
April Both. 1t will then take some
time to lay track, which is to be oi
the best material, put in signal sta
tions and electric lights. There will
be but fourteen miles of mountain
grade-eight miles on the west side
and six miles on the east side
Heavy trains can then be taken
across the mountains without the
aid of extra locomotives 1t is ex-
J pected trains will be running
through the Cascades by the first
day of August One thing is GER
tain and that is, that no more
trouble will then be experienced
with blockadss on the switchback
The easy grades. by which the tun-
i mel is reached, can be kept open
by the rotary plows without extra
exertions.-Tacoma News.