Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-06-08
FRIDAY EVENING JUNE 8, 1883.

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discovered on Hoods Canal, neal
Lake Cushman.
By the leasing Of school lands at the
last session of the county commission
ers 81 $50 was turned into the treasury
of Whitman county.
Two more steamers are to be placed
in the upper Columbia by the Ellens-
burg, Big Bend and Salmon River Co.
The trade will justify it.
While out prospecting on the up
per Skykomish few days ago David
Boyle and Thos. Ryder found rich
specimens of tin and lead.
Graham & Ross are reported to be
putting in from their camp on the Up
per Nasel from 10000 to 10000 feet OF
logs day with two teams.
Chief Justice R. A. Jones will de-
liver the annual address at the com
mencement exercises OF the Terrific
rial University on June Sth.
Judge Langford has sentenced w
S. Clink, at Walla Walla, to five years
in the penitentiary, for arson. Clink
is well pleased to get off so easily.
The wool clip in the Walla Walla
valley is better than last year
Fleeces average two pounds heavier
and the whole is of superior quality.
Chehalis county has $1,000 IN hel
treasury belonging to the school fund
This gives about $3.50 toward the edu
cation of each child of school age.
1t is no exaggeration to say that
five hundred families will seek homes
in the Skagit and Sauk river valleys
during the coming summer season.
Port Townsend offers free sites to
manufacturing enterprises that will
locate there during the present sum-
mer. A move in the right direction.
Between March 6, 1884, and May
9, 1SSS-thirteen months and thirteen
days-there were three hundred mar
Iiage licenses issued in King coun.
ty.
Trains are now being run through
the Cascade tunnel. 1t is stated that
the switchback" will not be aban.
doned, but will be used for excursion.
lists.
Goodman brothers, Yakima county
have sold 10000 pounds of their wool
clip to Boston parties, for II cents
delivered at a Northern Pacific sta
ton.
The exports from Tacoma for the
month of May were as follows: Lum,
ber 10, ,1SS, 900 feet, lath 2,879, 600, pick.
cts $1,000, coal 2s,76O tons, wheat l.,
73S tons.
The Tacoma Ledger says q we'll
known commission merchant there
imported fifteen thousand dozen eggs
from Kansas in one lot, the freight on
which was $500.
The City Council of Chehalis passed
an ordinance recently prohibiting live
stock from running at large in the
streets, over the Mayors veto, by q
five-sevenths vote.
A movement is on foot by a number
of prominent Grand Army men to
have sort of reunion of the posts oi
Eastern Washington Territory some
time this summer.
A skeleton, supposed to be that of
John Cartwright, who mysteriously
disappeared ten years ago, was found
at Pasco. 1t is thought that he was
murdered for his money.
A subsidy in deeds and bonds for
property, which it is estimated will be
worth million dollars, when the road
is built, has been raised for the Port
Townsend Southern railroad.
Several new buildings will be
erected in Chehalis this summer,
among which are a public school
building, Catholic church, q big
shingle-mill, and probably sawmill.
w. c. Bartlett has purchased from
the Port Discovery mill company thir-
teen hundred acres of timber land,
consideration, seven thousand dollars.
The tract is situated on Big Skookum
bay.
At Prosser, few days ago, NJ. NJ
Darby was kicked by a horse ON the
elbow joint of his right arm, resulting
in serious fracture which will proba'
bly, deprive him of the use of that
member.
Port Townsend is terrorized by q
gang OF union sailors, who will not
allow sailors to ship, even for higher
wages, unless they belong to the un-
ion. There is likely to be big row
any day.
Rosslyn is said to be a town oi
1000 inhabitants. The N. P. Coal
Co. employ $50 men, the payroll ol
which aggregates over $50, 600 month.
ly. The quarterly output of coal was
43,77O tons.
The new store, lately erected at
Hackett's by Mr.. Harry Roberts, to-
gether with its contents, was destroyed
by fire recently. Nothing was saved
The building and contents were in
sured for $1,000.
The Northern Pacific has decided to
fence the railway track from the gap
below Yakima city down through the
reservation. 1t will be much cheaper
to fence the road in, than to pay fol
the stock destroyed.
Governor Semple has approved the
applications of the following-named
persons to be appointed notaries pub
lie: Jerome Ely, Oak Harbor; A. E
Reid, Wallula; ]. E. Edmiston, Day