Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-17

ported from that vicinity. She should
have been heard from by the 25th OF
last month.
A Kansas editor will start paper
at Elma, Chehalis county.
Bishop Paddock offers to give $3.50
, towards the proposed Episcopal
church building at Centralia, provided
the citizens raise $3.50.
The Seatco mill made the largest cut
on the Sd inst, that has ever been made
at the mill, cutting forty thousand feet
of lumber in five hours.
Another dead body has been taken
from the ruins of the building blown
"own at Tacoma Monday night, max
ny five dea IL in all, and more to hear
from.
Seattle has 26 and Tacoma %
teachers among the charter members
Of the State Teachers Association
Olympia has IL, Spokane Falls 2, Col
fax l.
West Seattle boomers have received
a black eye from Senator Stanford
who says that at present the Southern
Pacific has no intention of going to
Seattle.
Attorney General Metcalfe has de-
cided that Territorial prisoners i'm
prisonment begins when he enters the
penitentiary, regardless of the date of
his commitment.
Lincoln county is divided into "a
school districts. The last quarterly
apportionment divides $l0,22990
among 2,l77 children of school age,
making the per capita $40.
The license of Alden S. Chase, at
whose place the disgraceful prize fight
ing row took place last month, was
on Saturday revoked by the County
Commissioners of King county.
Yakima Farmer: The Oneida colony
has paid SIT 600 as the first quarters
installment ON the 10000 acres OF land
that they purchased of the Northern
Pacific railroad company, near Kiona
in this county.
Assessor Custer says there is 1865
population within the limits Of one
mile square, now being incorporated
as city by the Blaine people. The
Blaine people are also fighting to keep
out the saloons.
Paul Henry, the Indian accused OF
numbering Mrs. Peavey, on the Ceur
d'Alene reservation couple of years
ago, is in Jail at Spokane Falls, charged
with being, or having been, at the head
of band of horse thieves.
The will of Austin A. Bell of Seattle,
was filed for probate last Saturday af-
ternoOn.. With the exception of NOM
inal bequests to relatives, he gave his
entire estate, valued at $500, 900, to his
wife and made her executrix without
bonds.
The city of Victoria, British Colum.
bia, is making great preparations for
celebrating the Queens birthday, oath
instant. There will be regatta,
cricket and base ball matches, a grand
review, fire works and Examinations,
etc., etc.
The Walla Walla creamery now
churns six times q week, making from
1000 to ], 500 pounds of butter. This
butter sells at So cents per pound to
the consumer, and of this amount the
farmers who supply the cream get 25
cents per pound.
Yakima farmers are raising sorghum
with success and profit for syrup, and
the yield is considered enormous, both
in the growth of cane and in sacchar.
inc strength. No doubt it could be
produced with success in almost any
part of the State.
w. II. Mer 1T, superintendent of
the Chehalis Laud and Timber Co.'S
brick building, has arrived at Chehalis
from Olympia with his family He
has decided to locate permanently and
will at once purchase property and
build him house.
During the storm which began on
Thursday and ended on Friday after
noon, one and nine-tenths inches Of
rain fell at Walla Walla. The fall for
the first three days of May was PIP
inches. The fall is already over double
the normal quantity.
A young real estate shark named
Carroll, who tried to boom off town lots
vt Anacortes a short time since, has
left Seattle and q number of creditors
behind. The young rascal even beat
his own father out of 81 800 before de-
parting for parts unknown.
The new steamboat Of the Pacific
Navigation Company, in course of con-
structiOn at Tacoma, will be launched
June l. She is ITO feet long, 81 feet
wide and has seven and one-half feet
hold, and will be the largest stern
wheel steamer on the Sound.
Mr.. Hand, a sort of a second.ha
man and matchmaker, who used to
keep few doors below the Slime house,
at Walla Walla, has suddenly disap-
peared, and several parties who left
their watches for cleaning and repair,
are anxious to know where the fellow
went to.
A Tacoma druggist has called upon
his brother druggists to make arrange
ments to establish q pharmaceutical
association for the new State, in order
that the laws regulating pharmacy
may be intelligently made, so that the |
profession and the public may be
properly protected.
The right of way of the Bellingham
Bay Water Works Company has been
slashed from the camp on the creek to
Harry McCue's. Contractor Mudd
expects to burn the slashing $50 feet
wide in ten days time. The remain
der of the right OF way (two miles) will
be slashed and cleared by June LIST.
For sometime certain parties have
been engaged in killing trout in the
river and the numerous mountain
streams just above Orting. Their depre-
dations have been watched for fort
night or more by those interested in
having them punished for this fiendish
violation of the law, and a visit from
the Sheriff any day ought not to sur
prise them.
Ferry Brothers, wealthy lumbermen
from ufanu 1xa.Vns Asi~L- l..-n nor
fected negotiations with George
Bracket, owner of the Edmonds town
site, for the purchase of five acres of
land, the present mill and the right of
way for a r4iIroad, and will forthwith |
commence work upon a new lumber
mill, the capacity OF which will be