Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-06-07
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

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A cable is being laid from Alki Poin
to Beans Point near Seattle.
| Centralia, according to the Assessor
returns, has a population of LOO.
Chehalis has not houses enough t
accommodate her growing population
Columbia Lodge Knights of Pvthia:
at Walla Walla, has ~ 900 in its treas
ury.
ennsylrania parties are lool ing 70
n sight for bucket and tub factory Il
Kent.
CT. il service examinations for rail
wav clerks will be held in Seattle Jun
Nth.
Frank Knight has resigned his posi-
ton as editor OF the Spokane Fall
| Chronicle
An effort will soon be made to rails,
money to erect a Y. NJ. C. A. buildin.
at Tacoma.
The steamer City of Sprague" is Il
Re launched in Big Lake during til,
coming week.
The Presbytery OF Idaho is consider
ing project for building a universit,
at Spokane Falls.
Kent is having building boom
four new buildings having been com
menced last week.
II. J. Cole, of Spokane, has been ap
pointed Indian Agent at the Colvill,
Inuian rcserva ion.
The mill at Cosmopolis has shu
down for week and many of the boy
have left for other scenes.
Judge John Scott, superintendent o
the new custom house building, ha
arrived at Port Townsend.
The tough characters that wer'
driven out of Tacoma by the vigilance
OF the police, went to Seattle.
Friday night a ship carpenter
named Thomas Taylor, fell off thu
wharf at Seattle and was drowned.
A halibut weighing 50 pounds wa
caught off Point Defiance Wedncsda,
morning by a fisherman named Philips
Steps have been taken to organize
stock company to provide and conduc
polo and base ball grounds at Tacoma
1t is said that Eastern capitalist
will put up money to build railroa,
for freight and logging purposes iron
Blaine TO Lynden.
Hon. w. J. Thompson, OF Tacoma
has donated the city Board of Educa
ton $40, 90 to found a manual train
ing department in connection with tn,
city schools.
At Seattle Fri lay night, woman
attempted to jump into the water iron
the Potter, i'll order to escape her has
band. who told her he had warran
for her arrest.
Arrangements are being made to ex
tend the Whatcom-Nooks ack telephone
line on to Lynden. 1t is a success
from Whatcom to Nookpack, q dis
lance of fifteen miles.
| The death of Daniel Sackinan a
ort Blakely, last Thursday, remove
another of the pioneers Of Puge
Sound He located at Port Orchar'
thirty-eight years ago.
A four foot vein of coal, closely re
sembling anthracite, has been discoy
cred within two miles Of Steilacoom
Property values in the town are sal,
to be going up in true mining style.
Under the Territorial law, J. N. Ed
wards and a number of parties a
Blaine have taken up from Is to l.
acres on the water front at Blaine 70
the cultivation of oysters. The claim
have been recorded at Whatcom.
Capt. White, OF Tacoma, who wen
to scotland to induce immigration t,
~ ashington. has returned. He ha
organized u company with capital O
$4,000. The first immigrants for tn
Big Bend country will arrive in Octo
Der.
| S. A. Taber, aged 26, was accidentl,
drowned Monday while working on ,
raft of logs up the Hoquiam river NJ
one saw the accident, but it is sup
posed he slipped between the logs ant
was unable to find his wav from unde
the raft.
Sunday morning Peter Burke, ar
old-timc resident OF Steilacom, Will,
walking on the beach below the ben,
in that town, found box floating OF
the water which was found to contain
81 pounds OF opium, snugly stowe,
away i'll dried apples.
The settlers in the unsurveycd town
ships in the eastern portion of What
com county have long and patientl'
hoped for the government to order thu
survey OF said lands, and still hope Il
accomplish the result soon. There ar,
thousands of fine acres sQuatted upon
William Hainsworth, a prominen
steel manufacturer OF Pittsburg, is a
Spokane tails and. has arranged 70
shipping car load of various ores L
his city for practical tests If the re
suits are satisfactory he will return
and erect smelling works at Spokan'
Falls.
A chopper named P. r. Downs me
with an almost fatal accident nea
Samish Lake, last week. A tree h,
was chopping gave way unexpected !.
and he was thrown violently to tn
ground, break ing three ribs and d iv
ing one into his lung-IIhatcon
Reriellc.
Collector Bradshaw at Port Town
send, has received the following repor
OF an analysis made of a piece OF or
taken from the Olympic range, abou
twenty miles from the head of Discoy
cry bay; Two thirds of an ounce gol
ga ounces silver. and % &c oun
ces copper, with total valuation G
sS0!O5 per ton.
II Mr.. Morley, mining prospectol
who has lately been exploring abou
Sehome has discovered the outcroI
pings of great undeyeloped coal fell
up the steilaguamish, Nooksack an
I'ilchuck rivers. He is confident tina
each Of these pieces will one day be
vast region o; coal mining operation
The coal is tirst-class bituminous ga
coal O; very fine quality.
The Seattle and Eastern Construt
+, ton Company has increased its capits
stock from 100000 to <3OOOOO, an
the Northern branch of the Seattl
r Lake Shore & Eastern will be pushe
as fast as possible to connection wit
j.. the Canadian Pacific. The two con