Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-31
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

The kittitas county fair occurs the
kr-t week in September.
The bridge connecting Whatcom
and Schomc has been completed.
Thirteen brick buildings are now
under construction at Ellensburg.
Ground Is broken for new court
house at Waterville, Douglas county.
The 4sEogd County Loqqer has been
started at Hamilton by Willis & Baker
\ project Is on foot to build steam
motor line between Blaine and Lyn-
den.
The Fourth Of July will be appropri-
ately celebrated nj LINDEN and Fern
, dale
One hundred and two people went
( from Port Angeles to Victoria on the
, Queens birthday.
/ The Democrats organized club at
Spokane Falls Tuesday, and propose to
/ prepare for an active fall campaign.
The county convention Of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Is now IL session at Spokane Falls.
Captain ]. II. Thomas, of North
Yakima, has donated to the city
ground for new municipal buildings.
Tho Board Of Trade at Watervillc. is
making arrangements for permanent
exhibition OF agricultural products this
fall.
Seven attorneys were admitted in
the District Court at Seattle, Tuesday,
to practice law in the Courts I'll Wash
ington Territory.
The first ward, oi Tacoma, has po-
liccman specially detailed to look for
iirebugs, owing to SO many buildings
being burned Of late.
The contract for the one and half
million feet of lumber for the Fair
haven &; Southern railroad. was let
! Tuesday. Two tcn-whcel locomotives
for the road have arrived.
! The subscription list for the new
hotel building ia increasing at an en-
couraging rate and the belief is enter
tanned that in the not distant future
Port Townsend will have structure
which will be credit to the city.
\ dispatch from San Francisco saws
that President Adams, of the Union
Pacific, has acknowledged that the
company has begun taking estimates
/ for new line of road to run parallel
with the Northern Pacific from Port
land, Oregon, to Seattle, at cost OF
81 100000.
Messrs. Blackman Bros, E. c. Fur
guson, Cathcart, L. Wilbour and f.
Sexton begin operating on their coal
mine in n few days The lead is only
one mile from Snohomish on the Pill
chuck. The company is known as the
Snohomish Mining and Prospecting
Company.
J. J. King, while engaged in blast
ing at Woodland park near Seattle
Tuesday, suffered serious injury from
the explosion Of quantity Of powder
He had lighted the fuse of blast, and
was moving away. when a spark from
the fuse got into bucket Of the COM
bustible he was carrying, and exploded.
The Me,hodists in the Seattle dis
trict will hold their first great annual
camp meeting at Puyallup. The
meetings will be held from the 18th to
the 9th of June. A large canvas pa
vilion will he erected in Pioneer park,
among the shade trees, which are ex-
cel!ently situated for camping pur-
poses.
The novel way in which the artist
at the Baldwin Locomotive Works has
spelled the word Spokane upon the
two new engines that arrived this
week, attracted no little attention.
The word is spelled "Spokehane."
How he could conceive Of that way of
spelling the name is matter beyond
conlccturo.-.Spokane Falls Reriew.
The work OF stringing wires for the
Tacoma Street Railway Company's
electric motor line TO Old Town will
begin in few days The poles are
about all up, and they will next be
painted in attractive colors. After the
Old Town line is completed and in op-
Grafton, work will begin on the cable
lines along Pacific avenue and Seventh
and Ninth streets.
4 meeting of bankers was held Tues
day night ut the Merchants National
Bank at Seattle, at which four leading
banks were represented, and at which,
practically, the consent of all the
banks in tho city was obtained for the
establishment of n clearing house as
ISOLATION. In the words of one of the
bankers who was present. "The
sentiment proves to be unanimous,
and a sufficient number has already
signed the articles of the association
to make it 60"
| The first q. A. X. official roster of
the Department of Washington and
Alaska has just been published from
headquarters and furnished to all the
posts of the order embraced therein.
Within Washington alone there are As
posts with total membership of 1872
being 22S less than the total member
ship in Oregon, which is 800. Grand
Army posts are located in the follow
ing-named places: Seattle, Tacoma,
Spokane Falls, Vancouver, Dayton,
Walla Walla, Olympia, Toledo, North
Yakima, Snohomish, Ellensburg,
kalama, Montesano, Sprague, Port
Townsend, Garfield, Puyallup, La
Conner, Colfax, Goldendale, Pomeroy,
Cheney, Whatcom, Chchalis, Ilwaco,
Palouse City, LaCamas, Blaine, Fort
Walla Walla, Pine City, Mt. Vernon,
Spangle, Sherman, Waitsbnrg, Rock
ford, Lynden, Cosmopolis, Castle Rock,
Waterville and Ritzville.
\ Question Of Some Importance.