Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-02-17
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Spring blowing has commenc cd in
the Yakima valley.
Chehalis county is grum bling about
its inefficient mail service.
Wheat is worth 80 cents at Garfield
and 55 cents ut Walla Walla.
The farmers OF Kittitas valley have
put more ground under cultivation
this year than usual
1t is estimated that the town of Ros-
lyn, has a population of 1000, the
growth of a period of fifteen months.
At recent Council meeting in
MontesLnO an ordinance was passed
placing the license Of saloons in that
city at $500 per year.
The Masons of Ellensburgh have
under consideration the building of a
temple to cost about $4,000. They
have the real estate and funds.
The Masonic fraternity of Shelton,
Mason county, dedicated their new
hall Jan. 81, and had jolly time,
some sixty-two persons being present.
The Cowlitz county Pilot has been
removed from Toledo to Winlock. The
advertising patronage afforded at Tole-
do was not sufficient to make it remun-
erative.
An exchange says that the COM
missiOners OF Cowlitz county will sue
Treasurer Martins bondsmen to re-
cover the amount lost by the recent
robbery.
Another cold wave passed over
Minnesota and Dakota last week. At
Greensboro, Mimi, the mercury was
"a degrees below zero. At PembinA,
Dakota, it was 81 below.
A scow load of liquor which went
over the bar got ashore ut the mouth
of the Chehalis river and the red skins
in the vicinity took advantage of the
occasion to help themselves.
The contract for the first five miles
of the Vancouver, Klickitat & Yakima
railroad has been let to Malone & Co.,
of Butte City, Montana, and work has
commenced,-Yakinsa Signal.
The Governor approved one hundred
and forty-five bills passed by the legis-
lature. Most of them were new laws
and some were old, with defective
titles, which had to be re-enacted.
In Tacoma there are 81 chuches, l
Catholic, 3 Protestant Episcopal, 5
Methodist, Episcopal, 2 Presbyterian,
2 Congregationalist, Lutheran,
Baptists, l Christian, l Unitarian and
l Advent.
High water and running ice carried
away two spans of the Mckee bridge,
in Yakima county. Seven persons
employed in building the bridge had a
narrow escape from death in the
angry flood.
There are 26 incorporated companies
in Tacoma doing business, mostly en-
gagged in manufacturing and COM
merce, with an aggregate capital OF
81 $685. coo. Six of these com panies
have a capital of 81 100000 each.
At the risk of being called a cheer.
full liar by the people of the frozen,
frigid east, wo will state that butter
cups are being gathered hereabouts
Our climate is at the bottom Of it and,
like salvation, it is free.-Palouse GAG.
etie.
In 1887 there were 500 miners EN-.
ployed in the mines OF Washington
Territory. In 1883, predicts an ex.
change, there will be 5000 miners EN-.
ployed in the gold, silver, copper, lead
iron and coal mines of this rich and
rapidly developing country.
The supervising Surgeon-general at
Washington has notified the Board of
Health at Port Townsend that $780,
GOO is deposited in the Treasury to be
expended at the ports on Puget Sound
in aiding the Territorial Board OF
Health to suppress the spread OF
pestitential diseases.
The Yakima Republic says that the
dreadful suffering and great loss OF
stock of the winter of 1881 and 1882,
has luckily been avoided this win
ter, as the farmers, forewarned and
forearmed by their experience of seven
years ago, have amply provided for all
possible contingencies.
A gentlemen from Snohomish says
that on Tuesday morning of last week,
at 4 o'clock two distinct shocks of
earthquake, accompanied by q loud
rumbling sound, were felt at Snoho-
mish city. \ number of persons re-
siding in the northern end of Seattle
also claim to have felt the shock.
The church of the Good Samaritan
has been organized at Colfax. 1t is q
branch of the Protestant Episcopal
church. The Gazette says liberal out
side money assistance is already as
sured toward suitable church build
ing, which is expected viii! be erected
in time to celebrate the next Christ
mas in.
The loggers along the upper Yakima
and Cle-Ellum have been doing a
flourishing business this winter. Mr..
Spense told us recently that the snow
in that section has been in splendid
condition for logging all winter. More
logs have been banked and at less ex-
pense than ever before.-Elyensburgh
New Era.
A big stick of timber from this Ter
ritory, will be exhibited at the Me-
chanics' fair, San Francisco. 1t meas
ures al feet in length and is 2Ox2O
inches in thickness. 1t contains 8, O34
feet of lumber and weighs 20,132
pounds. 1t is said to be the largest
stick Of timber ever made, and it was
cut in two hours.
The most summary case of justice
dealt was of one Jacob Keits at Che
halls the other day, who was arrested
on Wednesday, charged with the
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