Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-24

circles at Seattle.
Lee Morehousc has taken charge OF
the Indian agency at Cmatiila.
Arrangements are being made for
lighting Weston by electricity.
Milton f. Howe has been appointed
Probate Judge OF Douglas county.
]. y. Sutherland was married TO
Alice Rice, at Davenport, on the Sth OF
May.
New residences and business blocks
are being pushed rapidly at Gol!en-
dale.
Saturday there were filed with the
County Auditor three additions to the
city of Seattle.
The negro miners recently imported
into Roslyn are terrorizing the people
of that boisterous camp.
A mail sack on the road from Port
Angeles to Port Townsend was either
lost OF stolen last week.
The town Of Ccntralia is to have an
educational institution to be known rs
Grace seminary, to cost $4,000.
J. W. Redington, of the Puyallup
| Commerce, is on trip over the noun
| tains for the benefit of his health
Some of the Territorial towns are
passing ordinances declaring canvass
tents used for business houses public
nuisances.
A silver mine has been discovered
in the Cascades east OF Seattle and is
being inspected as to whether it will
pay to work it.
Joseph Martin, Tom Bremen and
Chas Williams, on Monday, cut hole
through the floor of the Snohomish
Jail and escaped.
The l.. J. Perry has been sunk in
the mouth of the Skagit. She had on
board l 200 sacks of oats which will be
nearly total loss.
The Front street cable car line at
Seattle, on which the killing OF Mrs
Waggoner occurred last week, will
adopt another grip.
Two Ii year-old boys who ran away
from their parents ut Beaverton, Or.
have been arrested at Walla Walla
and held for further orders.
Fairhaven has been replatted, and
it would seem that with new railroad
its line OF steamers, its mill and brick
yard, is coming to the front.
A Mr.. Jordan, OF Illinois, an expert
manufacturer of plows, contemplate
opening a mandatory for the making
of these implements at Coliax.
i Collector Bradshaw, of Port Town
send, will place the revenue cutter
Wolcott at the service of the Senatorial
Committee to visit Sound ports.
The work of digging trenches ant
laying water mains to supply the cit!
of Centralia with water will be com
menced as soon as the bids are in.
The skeleton of a man and hors,
have been found on the mountaion
near Enumclaw. But nothing wa
: discovered that would lead to thei
identification.
Recently at Weston, n Chinamai
: belonging to the o. X. & N. section
/ gang, while trying to draw water from
. a forty foot well, fell in, and was nearl,
, drowned
Nearly GOO men are employed OF
Fairhaven road-clearing and grading
Altogether five miles have been graded
, The ties will be cut at Fairhaven o
: Whatcom.
Tuesday night, J. Davis was sho
and killed by II. c. Hackell, while at
tempting to burglarize the latter
=, house. ten miles from Snohomish, OF
the Pilchuck.
. Work on the Washington and ldah
railroad across the C9ur dAlene res
ovation is progressing favorably
E Twelve hundred men and number c
teams are said to be employed.
, The clearing being done in Centra
: Whatcom improves the appearance c
G the townsite wonderfully, and the cor
8 nection of the streets will be followe
e by the union Of Sehome and Whatcom
There will be a camp meeting of tn
Christian brethren of Adams county
: ut the "Cow Greek Falls" common
a cling on Saturday before the fourt
: Sunday in this month, to run owe
), two Sundays.
> Clark Braden, as representative G
Christianity, and G. B. Reynolds, a
: representative of secularism, are ha,
: ing Joint debate in Walla Walla. !
great amount of interest is being take
in the discussion.
The King county commissioner
|. have retained ex-Prosecuting Attorne
Ronald and s. H. Piles to assist Nj
!. Newlin in prosecuting the embezzlt
I. ment cases against ex-Treasurer Hi
: and ex-Auditor Harris.
: The Supreme Court of the Unite
States has decided that the Suprem
q Court of Washington Territory ere
in dismissing the case of Hollon Pa
!. ker vs.. George Dacrcs, involving It'll
. to land in Walla Walla.
o The heavy rains of Wednesday nigh
so raised the water of Pine creek, nea
Y Walla Walla, that two bents of tn
high bridge on the o. X. & N. roa,
o this side of Weston, were undermined
4 and trains are not run across.
G Mr.. Walter Moore, the attorne
8 who has charge OF the Waggener cas-
d against the Seattle Front Street Cabl
8 company, says that the case will nc
be settled from the present outlool
\ but will be pushed to the end.
t Yakima Republic: Messrs Goodma
t and York returned from the recent
y discovered coal fields of the Tietan, al
T. report an extensive slide which cove
J. ed the mine. They will return at a
|. early date to repair the damages.
: Building is increasing rapidly {
+ Chehalis and new business and dive
:. ling houses are going up on all side
:. There are five new business lOus,
c now in course OF erection, and tw
c other contracts were made Saturday.
VIM. Chambers, one of the quartet,
8 of tramps brought down from Farming
y ton few weeks ago, and lodged in Il
+ County Jail at Colfax, on a charge
II assault, escaped from the Jail var
e through the help of some of his con
5. rades.
a Last Thursday as Thomas Bell, WI
II lives few miles from Spangle, W:
n digging in the bottom of deep wei
4 large quantity of clay caved in frol
r the top striking him on the right lie
a breaking both bones just above ii
ankle