Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-06-28
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.
Ilwaco has a brass band.

The clip OF 500 head of sheep is mar
keted at Ellensburg.
Seattle is soon to have four addi
tional letter carriers.
Spokane Falls police are raidint
Chinese opium dens.
The watermelon acreage is 2,S4(
acres more than last year.
J. NJ. Jones, pioneer of Spokane
Falls died last Thursday.
Strawberries are now selling at ten
cents box at Walla Walla.
Seattle expects to have a more com
modious postotfice ere long.
Port Townsend has recently organ
lied a Chamber of Commerce.
There is mild epidemic of scarlet
rash in the vicinity of Coupeville.
A uniform rank Knights of Pythias
has been organized st Ellensburg.
The elevator at Waitsburg is finished
1t has a capacity OF 10000 bushels.
Professional cracksmen, burglars and
band robbers have been doing Tacoma.
At Walla Walla Sunday afternoon
two prisoners escaped from the peniten-
tiary.
A Methodist church is being erected
of brick at North Yakima, at a cost of
$1,000.
The peach crops about Walla Walla
will be large. The trees now require
props.
The Shelton saw mill has been
stopped, owing to needed repairs being
made.
The fruit harvest in Columbia coun-
ty is the biggest ever known in that
section.
Ex-Governor Gray, of Indiana, has
decided to invest in real estate at Spo-
kane Falls.
The boys at Holmes saw mill near
Palouse City, killed a monster cougar
the other day.
The Bellingham Bay and Fairhaven
townsites will probably be pooled for
booming purposes.
The contract has been let to con-
struct twenty miles of the Puget Sound
and Gray's Harbor railroad.
A steam candy factory has been. es.
tablished at Seattle, and incorporated
as a joint stock company.
The Lendinghaus door and sash
factory at Chehalis, finds Tacoma a
ready market for its products.
Between March 10Th and April 25th
the Auditor of Columbia county paid
three men for 1900 squirrel scalps.
The case of VIM. N. Harmon VS.
United States, in the Seattle district
has been decided in favor of Harmon
One thousand business establish.
ments, involving a loss of ten million
dollars is the latest record of Seattle's
fire.
A new vein OF coal has been discov-
cred one mile from Durham, on the
Northern Pacific railroad, in King
county.
The bank of Sheldon having prop
erly filed articles of incorporation, il
now ready for business. Capital stock
$4,000.
Famers near Waverly are expert.
menting with beets, to test the practi.
cability of raising sugar beets in this
Territory.
Allen c. Mason, F. S. Harmon and
+. c. Ross have gone forth with the
intention of ascending the summit ol
Mount Rainier.
w. B. Clarke, formerly of San Jose
Cal, where he has widow and child.
rem, committed suicide by shooting al
Spokane Falls, Wednesday.
The Mississippi Valley Lumberm,an
has the cut of the stump of cedar
tree from Snohomish county 18 feet in
diameter, upon which thirty people
are standing.
Albert Galway, in a quarrel on a
ranch two miles from Spokane Falls,
drew revolver on another man, who
in self defense, struck him over the
head with an iron bar, crushing his
skull. Galway will die.
The Puyallup Republican says that
real estate is not quite SO lively as it
was through March and April, and
still we can hardly expect it SO to be-
1t is usually quiet before a storm, and
peddlers of dirt are looking forward to
a lively time in the nea r future.
Company H, First regiment N. G..
W., of Vancouver, have been called out
for service, and the boys are getting a
taste of military duty in guarding the
city of Seattle. They were prompt to
respond to the call and our militia
will be credit to the parent army.
Company H, First regiment that
went from Vancouver to Seattle last
week, has ten men who have served
over five years in the regular army, and
the Captain and Second Lieutenant
served more than that time. There is
no better company in the Territory.
Washington college, at Tacoma
closes this week. The programme is
Wednesday afternoon, field day, the
sports being held on the college
grounds; Wednesday evening the
boys attend the address given by DR.
Nevius, at st. Luke's church; Thurs.
day morning at 1890 the commence.
ment exercises take place in the school
room of the college building. The
exercises will consist OF speeches, Civ.
ing of prizes, medals, etc.
The Roslyn coal mines in Yakima
valley give employment to about L..
coo persons, and the output is as high
as |, 100 tons per day. This is semi.
bituminous coal in thick, clean veins
excellent for fuel, steam and cooking
So soon as railroads are built along the
Matches and Ahtanum rivers, equally
as valuable deposits OF coal will be un-
earthed and placed upon the market
and in the main Cascade range very
heavy deposits of anthracite coal will
be opened.
Snohomish, and the country in its
vicinity, was first settled in 1859. Nc
families went there before 1864. Il
was made the county seat of Snoho
mish in 1861. The first settlers were
all single men. Before 1872 only some
three or four families lived there. AL
the really valuable buildings have beer
put up since 1870. The first school
was taught there in 1869. Since 1877;
improvements have gone steadily for
ward and population has increased
until year ago over 1000 people re
sided in that place and its immediate
vicinity.