Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-07-05

: At recent meeting OF the Cit
t Council of Seattle the replat of tn
burnt district was consummated.
new water system is also being di.
cussed, and Seattle promises to be il
all respects better city than it wa
before the fire.
Last week about twenty-five citizens
mostly young men, met in Wall:
Walla and organized progressiv,
club. The object is to advance tn,
interests of the city, eradicate moss
backs and secure the election of pro
gressive men to office.
The wife of William Norvis, living
between Moses and Grand Coulee
about SO miles from Waterville suicid-
ed recently, by shooting herself in the
breast with a revolver. Domestic
trouble and jealousy seem to be the
prime cause of the act. She was 90
years old.
There are all kinds of men in this
world. One representing himself to be
a priest has been soliciting relief for
the Johnstown and Seattle sufferers,
at Spokane Falls, and carefully put
ting the result OF his solicitations down
in his own pockets. 1t is hard to
classify such man.
Charles Looney, living in Walla Walla
while crossing the Oregon & Washing
ton Territory railroad track, a few DAYS
ago, was run into by hand car which
knocked off the hind wheel of his
wagon, throwing him violently to the
ground, with the result of badly
bruised head and shoulders.
The plans for magnificent new
opera house have been received at
Spokane Falls, and the editice will be
built Immediately. The Rericw says
that it will be one of the finest in the
United States and that it will be "a
credit to the city after it has attained
a population of hundreds of thousands.
The Ellensburg Register publishes
the following, editorally: We have it
on good authority that the Northern
Pacific railroad has caused to be
shipped to Olympia large amount of
wines, liquors and cigars, to be used in
their interest during the session of the
Constitutional Convention, which
meets there July 4th.
During a domestic row in old Taco
ma Monday night, a man named
Rampodo, shot and killed an Indian
woman said to be his wife, and during
the melee, bit off portion of the ear
of rival for his dusky spouse's affec-
ton. After committing the murder
he dropped his gun and escaped The
officers are in pursuit of the fugitive.
The export of lumber from the Sound
for the year ending June 80 amounts to
over SIS 600 600, and that of coal to over
&,O0O,OOO. Our exports in wool, wheat
and flour make another million. Quite
a respectable output for the Northwest.
According to present appearances we
should double our export trade during
the present year, and our business men
mean to.
+. C. Smith, who was arrested at Sc
attic, by Duputy Sheriff Woolery, sup
posed to be the Bucoda burglar, turns.
out to be another Smith. H. B. Nc.
Allister, in answer to Woolery's sum-
mons came to that city for the pur-
pose of identifying the man, but on
seeing him at once declared he was
not the man wanted, upon which
Smith was given his liberty.
Considerable complaint is made by
the captains of the steamers plying
between Montesano and other points,
with regard to the obstruction in the
river between the Central wharf and
Wyonoche. They have good reasons
for complaining, as logs and snags
have been accumulating in the bend
of the river for years, and are serious
obstruction to the navigation of the
river.
Articles of incorporation of the
Columbia e. Cascade City Railroad
Company were filed at Spokane Falls
on the Odd inst, with capital stock
of 100000. The object is to build
railroad from Colville through the
Kettle river valley to point on the
boundary line between British Column
bia and the United States, with view
to the connection of the Spokane &
Northern with the Canadian Pacific.
There is not very cheerful pros
pect ahead for the farmers of Lincoln
county this season, and large num-
Der of them have good cause for COM
plant. The spring of 1889 opened out
with the most fiattering prospects, and
up to the LIST of June it was confidently
thought that nothing could prevent
the harvesting of an unusual heavy
crop. But the prospective meteoro-
logical conditions of the season are
not safe to bet on.