Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-02-08
TERRITORIAL ITEMS,

Around Sehome many people are
living in tents.
A new M. E. church costing $45,O 600
will be built in Tacoma in the spring.
Coal was quoted in Walla Walla the
other day at $40 ton, and not much
to be had at that price.
There is now being organized at
Yakima, another lodge OF Odd Fellows.
Its name will be Progress Lodge.
Twelve brick and two iron buildings
have been contracted for in Ellensburg
and work will commence in March.
Five emigrant wagons arrived in
Walla Walla last week from Missouri,
having been en- route since Aug. n.
A destructive fire visited Port Town
send last Monday and property to the
amount of $4,000 went up in the
flames.
Mrs. Sarah Blair has been appoint
ed postmistress at Montesano, Chehalis
county, in place of VIM. H. Blair who
has resigned
Repairing shops, depots and hotel,
it is announced, will soon be built at
Walla Walla, by the o. 4 w. T. rail-
road to cost $4,000.
Reports from the custom house at
Port Townsend show that the trade
between Puget Sound ports and Alas
ka is rapidly increasing.
Many rumors are rife to the effect
that rich veins of coal have been
opened near Kelso, and that the sup
ply is practically inexhaustible.
A $500 pound hammer was lost
from a pile driver at Seattle Saturday.
1t lies at the bottom of the bay and
diver has been employed to find it.
A convict named Ward made an un-
successfel attempt to commit suicide
i'll the Walla Walla penitentiary Thurs
day OF last week. He hailed from
Spokane Falls.
Chief Justice Burke has anything
but picnic ahead of him. Seattle
alone has AGO cases now on his docket,
saying nothing about his business at
Port Townsend, Whatcs m, Snohom-
ish and Port Madison.
1t is believed that the immigration
to Washington and Oregon will
amount to 25O,OOO people during 1889.
They will come to a country where
crops never fail and where the extremes
of heat and cold are not known, says
the Tacoma Globe.
Weston Leader: From a private
letter we learn that q farmers club
has been organized at Walla Walla,
with the object of sending East for
their supplies; that is a bad state OF
affairs Indeed. Bad for the farmer and
bad for the merchants who should
receive their patronage.
The debt OF Lewis county was fund
ed this week, the bonds being taken
by Judge Lewis for parties in San
Francisco. The total debt OF the
county is 100000, but $4,000 ol
this amount is not funded. The
bonds issue run for u term Of from 20
to 80 years, at 6 per cent, which is a
considerable saving in the interest ac-
count, as compared with the interest
the county is paying on outstanding
warrants.
The Seattle Journal quotes the opin-
ion OF one of its citizens upon the pro.
posed hot-bed plan for promoting
Statehood, as follows: Should the con.
vention be so organized tina: the pub
lie would not have confidence in the
men who controlled it, or ii the Con-
vention neglects to incorporate pro
visions which the people believe
should be there, the Constitution will
be rejected, and more time will be lost
than to 80 slowly now but sure.
In Columbia county, according Ia
the Dayton Chronicle, there have been
bought, including what is now in the
various warehouses of the county, L.
289, 600 bushels of wheat; 5000 oi
oats; 10000 Of barley, and 5000 Of
corn, making a total of 1,422, ,0OO
bushels. This of course does not in.
clude the Columbia county grain han
died at Waitsburg or that is now in the
hands Of the farmers. 1t is safe esti.
mate to put the grain OF ali kinds
raised in the county in 1883 at two
million bushels.
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