Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-03-22
the Hassalo collided, Saturday, near

ed last Sunday.
, Paul Boynton will give an aquatic
exhibition at Seattle, Sunday after
noon, March 31st.
The Seattle Coal and Iron company
will add facilities to increase the out
put OF their mines.
Don w. Evans, ex-county Comm S
sioner of Snohomi-h, had his ltg bro
ken few days ago.
Paul Boynton will give an aquatic
exhibition at Seattle, Sunday after
noon, January 3lst.
i Twenty barrels of herrings were cap
tured in iwo hauls of nets at Port An
| geles few days ago.
Tom Nicklin, of Wha'com, desires
the appointment Of clerk of the Dis
trict Court of that city.
The jury in the case of Mar hal
Stinson, of Whatcom, charged with
murder, have disagreed.
Twenty barrels of herrings we {
caught in two hauls of nets at Po:t
Angeles, a few days ago.
The late rains have done great good
to the coming crops in the Yak ma
valley, insurlng large yield.
A horse attached to a meat wagon
collided with, and demolished q pop
corn stand in Seattle, Saturday.
Captain Sylvanus d. Libbey, an old
Puget Sound resident, died at Seattle
on the 18th inst, aged 60 y, ars.
The various land offices Of this Ter
Iitory are besieged With applicants 10
take up homesteads.
John Quinn, a chrome drunk of
Wha'com, gave up the ghost Satur-
day. John had been on long spree.
A deer was clptured hy two men on
the steamer Mountaineer, last week,
while it was swimming in the Pert
Orchard Narrows.
| Rumor hath it, among boomers, that
Port Orchard stands very good show
of being s lected as the site of the
proposed naval station.
At Roslyn Tuesday night Fred
Woodscn, colored, during a drunken
braw', shot James Merchant, white, in
the leg, inficting dangerous wound.
The Port Townsend and Northwest
Normal college will begin its initial
term March 25th, with Prof. w. w.
Felger, A. B., from Ohio, as principal
Edgar V. Kimball, dentist al
Orting. committed suicide in that
town, Saturday night. He alleged
that his wife, by her actions, drove
him to commit the rdsh act.
The co'onists in Port Angeles are
engaged in building a very fine little
steam schooner OF some seventy ton;
burden. She is to be fitted with q
neat high pressure engine, which ar
rived recently from the East.
VIM. NJ. White, whose third trial fol
the killing OF James Mcmillan, was
concluded at Tacoma, Saturday mig hit
by the jury returning a ve:d'ct Of not
guilty. This remarkable t,ial, in all
is phases, has lasted four yelrs.
The steamer Walla Walla has been
seized at Port Townsand, by the Gus.
tom officers. This aet is the result OF
n recent seizure of two barr Is oi
alleged souelkraut, VIII n, in fact. they
contained $4,000 worth of opium.
VIM. Hart, a saloon-keeper of What
com, is charged with the .bdcu-
ton of an Is year old gil, from
that city. On the other side, it is
charged he took the girl, at her re.
quest, to place her in a convent ross
the line, so as to prevent party W ON
che did not love marrying her.
Two convicts in the Walla Wa Ia
penif ent;ary were detected few nights
ago cutting a hole through the brick
wall in their cell with Il chsel. They
were discovered jus. in time to e.
vent their escape. Their names sre
Jerry HAIL and John Brady, from
Seattle.
Rainier, a station on the Northern
Pacific, on Tenalquot prairie, ia be-
coming an important point, and as
pires TO have a rost flee. The ar
rsnsement made by the Railro d COM
plny with tie Union Pacific, it is
thought will lead TO the laying of an
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eral prosperity all along the line.
People are coming to Washington
Territory to find homes and settle,
for all the reasons which any intelli-
gent per, on in the neishborhcod
knows of. Many of them have been
iterated ard reiterated from these co..
umns and among them, that we have
a delightful climate in general way
free from blizz ,rds, cyclones and other
atmospheric disturb noes, protected
from the polar region and kept tenn
perate by the Japan current; we bave
no epidemics or plaques of locusts
the soil is rich, all vegetation is prolific
the scenery is grand, resources for
mining and manufacturing are nu-
merous and it is altogether q glorious
Walla Waila Journal.
An attempt was made last Friday
morning to burn tie custom house.
Private Secretary Humphries disov.
cred blaze in the stationery room
and before she flames had time to get
any hold, the fire was extinguished
doing little damage. The front door
was op'n waiting for the steamer
Premier's Office RS to enter from Victo-
ria and afforded an opportunity for
the miscreant to enter the building.
The only reasonable theory as to the
motive of the act is the destruction OF
the records. Mr.. Lupton, first auditor
of the treasury department, has been
here fer the past three months over.
hauling the books and papers, and il
there has been crlokedness, as alleged
and, indeed, as indirectly charged by
the summary removals about -four
m nths ago, Mr.. Lupton has probably
found some p oof, though on this sub.
lject he, as we'll as other officials, main.
tain discreet silence.
A meeting of the Board of Directors
Of the Olympia Hotel was held Satur
day in the Office of Col. Owings, at
which all the members were pre- -ent
1t was about definitely settled that
they wouli build hotel 120 feet on
Main street and as many back as
would require to provide 50 suites Of
rooms, bath rooms, barber shops, etc.
The lower floor is to be devoted to a
store room for The use of the hot,l /
No stores VII be in tie building and
the general arrangement is to be such
as the Tacoma Hotel in Tacom,.
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HARRY Holmes, q beast who was un'
der indictment for incest in icrdmen.
to, succeeded in starving himself to
death.