Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-03-15
Territorial Happenings.

The Moxie company of Yakima
county will plant an additional 300
acres 10 alfalfa this year.
A moveme.t is on foot to open a
trail by way Of Lake Sutherland into
the Quilayute country.
A wildca. inca ufing fifty-two inches
from tip to tip WAS killed recently in
he on skirts o Wa'lula
The Seattle National bank with
capital st ok OF $2500O0, transacted
its first business Thursday l,.t.
Seattle's electric moter line will be
in operation in few days. It will be
ope. ated at first by no. Sc power.
Applications for the collector.hip of
Puget Sound are Allen Weir, ALI ii.
Wintrode and Inspector Mulkey.
The North Seattle Odd Fellows have
concluded to build a hall 40x120 feet
four stories high, with basement, at q
cost Ct $4,000.
The Teachers Institute for the
Third Judicial District will he held Mt
Waitsburg this year, beginning Mon
day, June, 2lth.
The PAuly Jail Company of st.
Louis, have been awarded the contract
to built new Jail at Goldenda'e,
klickitat county, for 81 800.
Philip J. Francis the old colored
jauitor Of Dexter Horizons bank Of
s. attic, has been adjudged insane and
taken 10 the asylum at Steilacoom.
Congress has passed bill creating
Seattle and Tacoma ports OF entry in
the Puget Sound customs district.
Even Port Angeles has become port
of delivery.
A steam smuggler which carries q
ton of opium at a trip, plies between
Victoria and Port Wilson. 1t runs
away from the revenue cutters wh;ch
get after it.
The Columbia river steamer known
as the Marie q. Haven h: been brought
to the Sound. She has been chartered
by Captain Spaulding of Seattle, for
the fishing season.
Jake Hull and VIM. Gill, having
taken it into their heads that they
were too ambitious to remain in Whit
man county Jail, lit out last Saturday
without as much rs saying goodbye to
the sheriff.
Old Satan has been getting the pas
tor and congrega of the First
Christian church of Seattle at logger
heads. Rev. Moss has, by order of
Judge Burke, been legally fired from
that church, and the Samuel Denny
faction are praying while the other
side are not.
The steamer Dispatch, Captain Nor
gan, has been chartered to go to the
San Juan islands and bring down the
cargo of the wrecked schooner General
Harvey. She will also salvage the
schooner and bring all movable articles
to Seattle. The hull of the old schooner
is SO seriously damaged she is not con.
sidered worth any outlay for repairs.
We learn from a private source,
that the Seattle and Southern Rail
road to be built this year, leaves West
| CeALtic anu etTihcS IOTtlduu, kdS>lHS
through Steilacoom, Olympia, Tum-
water, Centralia, and Vancouver. The
engineers engaged to locate the route
are instructed to secure as easy q
grade as possible, so that good speed
can be made to compete with the
Northern Pacific. A double track is
to be laid over the entire route.-Cen-
trdiiia Neus.
| L. F. Cook, of Vashon island, pro-
poses to cut steamboat channel
between Vashon and Maury islands in
order to shorten the route between
Seattle and Tacoma. He has also con-
ceived the ide., of building halfway
town ut the portage, making the entire
Island beautiful place for suburban
residences for citizens Of either place.
Three hundred and fifty acres and II
long piece of water front were sub
scri5ed to the enterprise. M. F.
Hatch, S. d. Sherman and J. McClin-
took were appointed committee to
solicit further subscriptions.