Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-09-13
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
North Yakima is shipping her fine
fruit east by the carload.
Over six miles of excellent plank
walk is being lald in HOquiam.
The force on the Centralia & Gray's
Harbor railroad has been increased.
Seattle has her Clearing House Or
ganiZed and ready to commence busi-
ness.
An old man named Ayers, living five
miles east OF Tacoma, suicided by
shooting.
Orting postoffice was relieved OF
$500 in coin by daring robbers Satur-
day evening.
Aberdeen's population is greatly in
creased at present owing to the influx
of fisherman.
The Lincoln County Republicans
have nominated H. w. Fairweather
for State Senator.
A new steamboat line has been Or
ganized at Port Townsend to compete
for the Sound trade.
A protest has been entered against
the Seattle & Northern crossing the
Swinomish reservation.
Lucy Lewis, aged 16, was .accidently
shot and killed by her brother at Sa-
mamish Lake, King county.
The Washington Hot Springs Com
pany was incorporated last week, with
a capital stock OF $250,OOO.
The Oregon Improvement Compa-
ny's new mill at Seattle will soon be
turning out $4,000 feet per day.
A new sash and door factory is
about to be erected at Aberdeen, by
outside capitalists, to cost $4,000.
Two men were recently killed in q
shingle mill at Port Angeles by the
bursting of some of the machinery.
Frank Campston, the man who ac-
cidently shot himself at Port Orchard,
died at Providence Hospital, Seattle.
Fifteen Cinnamon were captured on
WILDLY Island on their way from Bri-
tish Columbia to White River valley.
Kalama is expecting boom on ac-
count of improvements to be made at
that place by the Northern Pacific
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A valuable limestone deposit has
been discovered in the Teton basin,
about thirteen miles from North Yak
ina.
The celebrated yachts, Puritan, May
flower, Volunteer and the Scotch
yacht Thistle, have all masts and spars
of Puget Sound fir.
A new enterprise, in the shape of a
fish-barrel mandatory, is about to
be commenced at Aberdeen by Mr..
Frazier, of Michigan.
Louis, the 9-year-old son of P. Hall,
keeper of the Latoosch lighthouse, at
Cape Flattery, accidentally fell into the
cistern and was drowned.
Hoquiam is to have a new hotel cost
ing $25 900 built on the beach, and it is
intended to make the locality one of
the most pleasing resorts on the coast.
Fred Adams, in jail at Spokane Falls
for shooting John Moloney, is under
$4,000 bail. The crime was commit
ted in Colville, but Stevens county has
no safe Jail, so he was transferred to
Spokane.
A hack was struck by an engine in
Seattle and demolished, one horse being
killed and the other thrown into the
water, from which he swan to shore, a
distance of sixty feet, dragging part of
the harness and vehicle.
Louis Wick was struck on the head
by stick at Yesler's mill, Lake Wash
ington, and the frontal bone of his skull
crushed in. He was removed to Prov
idence hospital, at Seattle, and re-
mains in critical condition.
At the County Democratic Conven-
ton held at Snohomish, Thursday, the
following nominations were made
For Senator, Ex-Auditor d. w. Grad
dock: For Representative, William
McFee, OF Stanwood, and William
Whitfield, of Snohomish; delegates to
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man J. r. Winn, w. A. Allen and H
b. Myers.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the firemen's tournament tC
take place in Tacoma in two weeks
On one of the days of the tournament
which is to last four days, the Ii
France engine, of Salem, Or, and the
Amoskeag, of Tacoma, will see which
is the most powerful and which car
throw the highest and strongest
stream. The tests will be made al
their respective cities, the measure
ments to be taken in each city ant
transferred by telegraph.
The Fidalgo Brick and Tile Company
with headquarters near Anacortes, or
Fidalgo island, will begin burning bricl
next week. Machinery capable o.
turning out 10000 brick per day wa:
shipped to the island last week, and the
plant it is expected, will be doubled, SC
that running at high pressure loo, ,OO(
brick can be made daily. A pressed
brick machine is part OF the equipment
All the product will be shipped to Seat
tie, although they could find sale in
Whatcom. In three weeks Fidalgo is
land will be contributing supplies fol-
the famished builders of Seattle brick
blocks.
J. w. Thompson, an old man, and
William Claggett, a drayman, were
both seriously injured Saturday, al
Spokane Falls, by the accidental dis.
charge of double-barrel shotgun,
while moving the household goods OF
the latter. The gun was placed in
with other truck and when putting it
in the wagon the hammer caught on a
bedspring and discharged one barrel.
The charge glanced along the side OF
William Claggett's face, and several
shot pierced his ear and face, which
was badly powder burned. Thompson
picked up the gun, when the other