Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-05-11

The citizens of Ellensburg hav,
organized board of trade, with sixty
members; and every merchant an(
business man in the city will join nov
in offering bonus for the establish
ment OF manufactures, electric light
etc.
kitsap county wants regular court
house. Port Madison is the present
county seat. There were no indict-
ments found at the first term of the
district court, and no case tried except
that of Miller, the indicated murderer,
who was discharged
| \ big scheme is now on foot to bring
-irrigating ditch ont Of Snake river
some 20 or 30 miles from this place, to
carry water for irrigating purposes
from that point to this city, This will
throw thousands of acres of rich agri-
cultural lsnd open to Wallu-
Ia Empire.
Ezra Meeker, in letter to the Post
Inteihgencer from the cars on his wa,
east, estimates the number of people
travelling to the northwest this year at
about 1,72O persons a week, over and
above the average number going east.
He thinks this Territory is getting Il
full half of this western stream.
The boring for gas, oil, or something,
at Cle-elum, has reached over three
hundred feet, and the drill will be kept
in motion until something is struck,
or until the hole has attained depth
of 1000 feet. This puts to shame the
Tacoma oil company, whose machinery
has been rusting out for several years
The editor of the Pomeroy Independ-
ent, claims to have taken the political
census of 27O new comers to Washing
ton Territory, on board a train en-
route for the Sound, recently, and
found 2O5 of them to be of Democratic
faith. He also came in contact with
crowd OF two. One was Democrat; !;
the other Mugwump.
1t is said that in ten miles forty
eight feet fall can be obtained from
the Walla Walla river, giving plenty
OF power for milling purposes, and suf-
ficient to irrigate the flats about Wal
lula, thereby turning the dry, sandy
desert into productive, blooming gar
dens. California capitalists are inter
esting themselves in this project.
Washington Territory is one of al
most infinite resources. To the lum-
herman portion of these resources
are particularly fascinating. Nowhere
on the face of the earth, so far as is
known, is there timber that so charms
the eye of the man whose fancy runs
in that line. He no sooner gets an
eye on it than he has an itching to
own some of fit.-Northwestern Lumber
man.
April 3lst, at Tacoma, Axel Anderson
was the victim of a most distressing
accident. Anderson was injured by a
falling tree, and was conveyed to the
hospital at about noon in a critical
condition. A branch of the tree had
brolson and forced iteclf into the mans
side. His injuries were promptly
dressed after he was taken to the hos
pital. Anderson is % years old, and a
native OF Sweden.
Seattle Press: A crowd of men were
gathered around the front of the Drum
saloon, attracted there by young
mouse-colored cinnamon bear cub,
which was captured sixty miles from
the mouth of the Yukon river, in
Alaska, by Capt. Oscar Van Tesmark.
The captain reports that this class of
bears grow to an enormous size in that
country. Some have been killed
weighing 1900 pounds dressed.
The Department of the Interior at
Washington has approved of the rec
concentrations for the erection of a
first-class school building on the Pu-
yallup Agency for u consolidated
school to combine all the children of
the Chehalis, jamestown, Skokomish
and Nisqually tribes on that reserva-
tion. The building is to cost about
$4,000. The present schools at Che
halls, jamestown and Skokomish are
to be discontinued.
Articles of incorporation were filed
recently at Seattle, King county, of the
Columbia Canning Company, whose
object is canning fish and operating
and running fishing boats, nets, etc.
The capital stock is $4,000. Trus-
tees, William E. Parker, w. F. Fellus
and Lille r. Parker, who manage the
affairs for six months, are also the in
corporators. The principal place of
business is at Seattle and its term OF
existence is twenty years.
The Snohomish Eye relates that w.
S. Clay, who in 1861 and 1862 conduc-
ted trading port near that city, re-
Gently revisited the place, and was sur
prised to End fruit trees that he set
out twenty-six years ago still bearing
as we'll as they did twenty years ago.
He found one of the cherry trees
measuring seven feet five inches in
circumference two and half feet
above the ground, and an apple tree
three feet five inches in circumference
three feet from the ground.
IT is reported at Ellensburg that ar
rangements have finally been made
between the Northern Pacific and the
Moss Bay Steel company, of England,
for establishing extensive steel works
i'll this country. The iron company
agree to furnish traffic for branch
line to extensive iron mines on the
Upper Cle-elum river. 1t will take
year to construct the works, which will
give employment to several thousand
men. The work of developing the
mines has been carried ON all winter
Six years ago, says a Spokane paper
Mrs. A. A. Howard, in some way forced
Il needle into her breast, and ever since
has suffered considerable pain in that
part of her body. Sunday morning
she felt a pricking sensation under her
left breast, and upon examination
discovered the point of the long lost
needle projecting through the skin.
She quickly extracted the bit of steel,
which was found much corroded. |
During the six years it has been mov-
ing about in her body causing the
pains which mystified The doctors.
She is much relieved, both physically |
and mentally.
Aberdeen Herald: A recent meas
urement by Capt. Lawson shows the
distance from the Gray's Harbor bar |
buoy to that of Shoalwater bay to be
seventeen miles, and from the Gray's
Harbor buoy to the black buoy at the |
Columbia river bar forty-one and one |
quarter miles. Aberdeen is nineteen