Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-17
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

Eight houses are beng built a
Hoquiam, Gray's Harbor.
Port Townsend Methodists will bull
large brick church edifice.
Joseph w. Dorr has purchased tn
Blaine Journal from Cain Bros.
One farmer in Columbia county wi
plant l2O acres OF corn this season.
The Seattle Board of Trade will in
corporate with capital of $4,000.
The census o. Ellensburg now bein
taken, is expected to show popula
, ton OF 1000.
/, An ice manufacturing company
with capital stock Of $4,000, la
been incorporated at Tacoma.
Cattle and sheep on the Umatill
reservation are now being driven there
from, under instructions from tn
Government.
The Presbytery of Idaho met i
Moscow last week. About 30 were il
attendance, IA of whom were Indian
of the Nez Perez tribe, eight of then
being settled pastors.
J. J. Meany, OF Tacoma, has receive,
the contract of grading and plankini
three prominent streets in Whatcom
which will cost from $l5 900 to $40, O0l
A few other contracts will soon be lei
Adolph Toeliner, living at Julien
about five miles south of Seattle, wa
killed at 6 80 Monday evening, by be
ing run into by the Tacoma train, a
the Grant street crossing, at the heat
OF the harbor.
William Whelan, well-known maj
at Tacoma, was found dead in BET
Tuesday morning. The coroner wa
Of the opinion that death was due Il
alcoholism. Whelan owned $S0,OO(
worth of property in that city.
Peter Johnson, the first white settler
on Commencement bay, where Taco
ma now complacently watches the I'm.
folding of the scroll of Destiny, dice
last Monday, at his ranch adjoining
the Nesqually Indian reservation, aged
II years.
Max Pracht, the newly appointed
Collector of Customs for Alaska, went
North on the Ancon Tuesday night
He appointed Edward H. Brown, Of
Port Townsend, special deputy at Sitka
and ]. Crit Tolman, OF Ashland, Or.
deputy at Kodiak.
William Whe,an, a well-known man
of Tacoma, was found dead in his bed
at Tacoma, Monday morning, by his
roommate Doc. Curtis. The coroner
thought Whelan died from the effects
of liquor. He owned considerable
property in that city and was worth
about $4,000.
Palouse City News, April26: Forty
two young ladies of the surrounding
country are training in Cook Cavalry
Tactics preparatory to an exhibition
on July 4th. They will carry nc
sabres or carbine, but swoop down
clad in smile that will be irresistible
rendering fool-hardy any attempt al
resistance.
The fall OF the unfinished building
at Tacoma, Monday evening, during
the storm, resulted in the death of Geo
w. Bell, a carpenter, so years of age
Walter Bates, ST., contractor, aged 90
years; Thomas c. Bell carpenter, "a
years; Stanislaus Gsrvois, lather, %
years, and Frank w. Cornell, carpen.
ter, 80 years of age. several Others
were injured.
Centralia News: Mr.. Charlamange
Tower will offer his lands in Lewis
county for sale very soon. These
lands are the cream of Lewis county
and consists of about 10000 acres
They lie just east of Centralia and the
opening Of this fine section Of country
will attract large number of people
to this locality, and add to the wealth
of the country.
TIE new steamboat Of the Fairhaven
Lind Company, called "The Fair
haven" which has been building at
Tacoma, will be launched ON Wednes.
day afternoon, and begin running on
the line between Tacoma and Belling-
ham bay next Monday. She is l35
feet long, 26 feet OF beam and will &C.
commodate $50 passengers and l5O
tons of freight. She will make three
trips week.
The remains of a human body were
found on what is called the Natchez
trail, about five miles below the mouth
os the Blue Water river, about 40 miles
from Buckley, on the 9th instant. The
body, which consisted OF little more
than skeleton, were covered with a
few sticks or small logs. Every thing
indicated that the person came to his
death several months ago. His cloth
ing was reduced to shreds.
A Walla Walla dispatch says that
Mary Summers, cyprian, charges
Marshal Hamilton with having appro-
priated $1,000 of her money, the
amount collected as insurance on O
building owned by the woman. She
tried to have him indicted at Walla
Walla, but the statute of limitation in
tervened, and she has gone to Seattle to
demand q settlement.
Commenting upon the fact that the
United States is now taking in about
$4,000 day in the northwest for
timber lands, the Pacific Journal says !:
" If the government was conducted on
business principles, or the same that
an individual would conduct his bust
ness, fully half that amount would at
once be expended in creating improve.
ments in the northwest"
Skagit county's famous oat lands are
all seeded and the prospect for big
crop is excellent. That, however, is a
matter of small importance here, as
failure, or even partial failure, Of crops
has never been known since the first
crop was raised twenty years ago. The
farmers are more concerned with the
market price OF hay, oats and hops
than with the crop prospects. At
present prices are very low and the
prospects Of better prices are far from
brilliant.
Ex-Governor Eugene Semple, Of Ia
coma, has been invited by the United
st..ts- Senate cVn."'ittee on Rela-
tons with Canads," which will be in
that city about the Oath inst, to ad-
dress them on the Resources Of
Washington Territory, the character,
extent, present and prospective value
OF its commerce with British Columbia,
and the manner in which its CONNER
cial and other interests might be af-
fected by Congressional legislation" and
othe. subjects &, rmane the after
being Investigated by the Committee.
California fruit men suffer many
drawbacks. The phylloxera, or what
ever it was, destroyed the grapes at