Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-04-05
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

ter.
Work will soon commence on the
Big Bend branch Of the Northern Pa
cific.
Col. Clendenin, at Vancouver, is re-
port. d to have been ordered before the
retiring board.
John KLEIN has arrived at the peni-
tentiary from Spokane Falls. He is
in three years for manslaughter.
The steam sawmill of E. A. Hum
phrey, three miles from Medical Lake.
was burned Tuesday. Loss, $4,000.
A new steamer for the Nooksack
river, as we'll as another for Lake
Whatcom, are among the probabilities.
The Sehome city election occurs
April l, and Mr.. Carmi Dibble is the
most prominent candidate for mayor.
Ed Olcott, of Walla Walla, is under
$500 bonds to answer at Pendleton to
the charge Of counterfeiting $5 gold
pieces.
V.D. Lambert, OF Walla Walla, has
forwarded well-endorsed application,
to be appointed Receiver of the Land
Office.
The Eureka Hotel, at Dungeness,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday night.
The loss was 900 with 81, 500 in
surance.
Whitman county delinquent taxes
amount to SIS, 500, of which So $40 is
against the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company.
1t is possible that the Garfield rail-
road will run branch to Blaine. Men
are now clearing off the townsite Of
King -boro.
Captain Hamilton il Commanding
the Walla Walla garrison during the
absence OF Colonel Clendenin vt Van
couver barracks.
Owing to the increase in business,
the four banks in Spokane Falls have
added over half a million dollars to
their capital stock.
Ninety-four pounds of opium was
sold at public auction at Port Town
send, Monday, by the United States
Marshal, for 81 200.
Several of the Walla Walla sharps
have expressed an intention Of par
ticipating in the shooting tournament,
ut Tacoma, in June.
G. Thomas, of Walla Walla, who was
severely injured a few days since, with
a pistol, during misundersa anding,
is since reported 10 be in very dan
gerous condition.
On Sunday, the settling Of the Ma
sonic templs at El!ensburg, caused
the big plate glass ON the east side ol
the building TO br,ak and fall out
causing great loss.
The school directors Of Walla Walls
have purchased John Single.on's bloch
of ground in Singleton's add tion, 5OOx
800, for $40, 900, tor new school house
to be erected this spring.
Thirteen cars loaded with people
from the Eastern States were pulled
into tDe Pendleton depot last Saturday
Four carloads went through to Walls
Walla, the balance came to Puget
Sound.
1t is said that the Walla Walla street
car lin. will be completed from the
city to the fair grounds in time to &C
commodate the travelling public dur
ing the next county fair in Sep
.ember.
Burton Packard desires to get the
place held by postmaster Judson, o
Lynden, and d. C. jenkins and Mis-
Crockett are applicants for the What
com postoffice, now held by Mr.
lsensee.
A Perdleton man who never had {
thousand dollars in his life, has faller
heir to million, and he declares h,
has no idea what to do with it. Tha
man wants to steer clear of Tacomi
land johbers.
The divorce fever has at last strucl
the Indian reservation, the referee ir
the case of Annie Leggs VS.. Geo. Leggs
both Indi ans, on the Puyallup reserva
ton, showing that plaintiff is entitle.
to y divorce.
A case of continent smallpox is le
ported at the corner OF Nineteenth anC
+ streets in Tacoma. The place ha
been quarantined ami guard sta
toned. The victim was employed il
the Northern Pacific car shops.
Next Monday regular steanboa
connection will be formed between
Port Townsend and Union City, at The
head OF Hoods canal. The boat vii
make two round trips per week during
April and three trips week thereafter
At meeting OF the members of tn,
First Congregational church, at Seat
tie, it was decided to issue cali t.
Rev. George A. Tewksbury, of Cam
bridge Mass. Rev. 8. Tead of Boston
to whom a call was formerly made
declined.
Five of Washington's thirty-fou
counties report female school superiu
dents. These are Cowlitz, Lincoln
Pacific, Wahkiakum and Yakima. o
the forty-six graded schools in Wash
ington, eight are presided over by fe
male principals.
The contract for the new cour
house for Klickitat county, to be bull
at Goldendale, has been let to 8. F
French for S14, 1850. 1t will be bull
of brick, two stories high, with groun,
dimensions 50x9O feet and is to be com
pleted by December 1st.
The police of Seattle arrested
Thomas ArEond for burglary, com
mitted few weeks since, in the stor'
Of Mr.. Harris, al Great Falls, Montana
Almond, shortly after arrest, confesses
that he broke into Harris st-re ane
stole 500 worth of clothing.
r. G. Dun & Co.'s mercantile agen
cy reports that charges on incoming
freights to Spokane Falls over tn
Northern Pacific railroad for the las
year amounted to $l,6O0,O0O. Tn,
agency estimates the jobbing trade 70
the same period at $8 100000.
The G. and G. and the Post mills, o
Spokane Falls, have been sod to tn
Washington Power Company for $150,
600. With this purchase the Wash
ington Power Company gains contro
Of both rides of the river, and will con
troll all the water power below the falls
The Headlight says that the North
ern Pacific is bringing 5000 worth o
machinery for making pressed brick Il
Pasco; that the company has oh
tanned the right to bed of clay, pro
nounced Gas good as any in tn
world" out OF which it is going Il
make brick with which to line tn
Stampede tunnel.