Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-05-18
Observation-Disclosures.

Effective water works have been put
in at LaConner.
Spokane Falls is in need of addition
al burial ground, says the Chronicle.
The paper mill at LaCamas is in full
operation, and employs % persons. y
Railroad surveyors are locating the
line between Skagit and Stillaguamish.
The copper mines of Cle-elum will
be worked quite extensively this sea-
son.
Fifty acres OF watermelons have
been planted this spring within short
distance Of Pasco.
The Empire says there are seven
hotels and boarding houses in Wallula,
and that they are full every night.
A petition is being circulated for
the purpose of removing the county
seat of Clallam county to Port An
geles.
Rev. Samuel Greene, of Seattle, has
organized Congregational church
society at Port Angeles, and church
building is to be erected.
A little town by the name OF Sidney
in Kitsap county, has grown into con-
siderable importance. 1t lies on the
south side of Port Orchard Bay.
Another backyard is soon to be
started in Ellensburgh, which makes
three. One of them has an order for
a million brick, to be delivered soon as
possible.
Seattle is promising another clean
up in the matter of thieves, burglars,
etc. We must be careful, lest the
overflow comes down here.-Port
Townsend Argus.
Fig-raising is becoming successful
industry in the vicinity of Spokane
Falls. Already thousands of fig trees
are growing in Spokane nurseries,
which will be in the market next fall
From all quarters of Whatcom coun-
ty come reports of good crops-fruits,
grain. hay and vegetables. Wherever
the farmers pillow has tickled the soil
the crops smile in promise of rich re-
turns.
A Justice OF the Peace in Whatcom
has decided that a man in possession
of land by virtue of a county tax deed,
has the right to use the necessary force
to repel the man who holds the prop
erty under quit-claim de,d. ...-.
Owners of sheep. in. Washington
Territory should remember that the
Legislature enacted a law imposing Al
fine of $500 and imprisonment on any
owner of sheep allowing the same to
run at large and trespass upon the
premises of another.
Oysterville Journal: A family named
Clements, residing near Camas, were
recently blessed with triplets-girls.
Their weight was over thirteen pounds
each. Ten months ago, the mother
bore twins-bOys, making five chill
dren within ten months.
Port Townsend is determined TO have
railroad connection with the outside
world. A meeting of citizens last week
resulted in making an offer of land and
money to considerable value to any
road that would build there. Two
thousand acres will be given at Port
! Townsend alone.
"More brickw is the cry these
days. We are having ~ veritabie
brick famine. Twenty-Five dollars
were paid this week for the last
thousand of brick in town. Our mer-
chants are all busy, and new contracts
are being made almost daily.-Port
Townsend Argus.
John c. Ohlert, of Seattle, has lately
discovered and prc-empted a. ledge .oi
fine marble on Orcas island, and he
and his partner, also Seattle man,
are preparing TO build wharves and
make other improvements preparatory
to developing the quarry. The ledge
is said to be 100 feet in width.
The new Gray's Harhnr- sawmill
will be built at Cosmopolis. 1t will be
operated with a triple-saw, u 56-inch
pony .cirEulaFsA 50-inch gang, ~ a.
inch gang, a 60-inch gang edger, a D.
inch gang edger; also three planners,
lath mills, boilers and other machin.
cry and equipments necessary for a
mill of this magnitude.
The proprietor of the Walla -Walla
distillery has shipped I'LL his machinery
from Des Moines, Iowa, but says he
cannot sell his property in Iowa for
more than two-thirds Of its cost, prices
having fallen greatly since the prohib.
atOry law went into effect. He adver.
tises that he will take all the corn the
Walla Walla farmers can raise, at sc
cents per bushel in the cob.
| c. Austin has been arrested ut Seat
tie for carrying on a bogus employ
ment agency on South Second street
It 10 alleged that he sent men to. Spo
kane Falls to work or a railroad, tax
ing fee from each for finding them 9
LOB, and on their arrival there they
found they we're the victims of mis-
placed confidence, not being able te
find the work they had paid the agent
for.
The importation of Cinnamon al
laborers on the construction of rail
roads in Washington Territory is still
going on. 1t is to be hoped that nc
Cinnamon will be employed on the Sc
attic, Lake Shore & Eastern railroad
There are plenty of sober, hard work.
ing. industrious white men in oul
midst and arriving here every day
who have prior claim. upon us for a
livipy.-Spokdne Chronicle.
| Last week, at Tacoma, the bond oil
E. A. Gardner, who was arrestedin Sc.
attic charged with smuggling, was fled
Lin. Clerk AbbOt's Office. His surcties
4 are A. NJ. Brooks and y ulils Horton,
twho qualify ia the sussA Sf$ 5;O00 each.
The indictment alleges that on the
22d day of August he, did convey into
the city of Tacoma 500 pounds of pre-.
pared opium, valued at $4,000. His
trial will take place at the .I,ex+e-term
of.the District Court. ;-s~~5
/ Walla Walla Journal: Governor
Eugene Semple arrived here un-
heralded aud unexpected. From all
indications, our Governor, like a SEN
sible man, does not banker after or
crave for much newspaper notoriety,
sometimes called popularity, for short;
but he quietly goes about the country
attending to his business, without