Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-31

Iers DOnuS 10 shoemaker.
Tommy Thompson, judge and chic
OF the Puyallup Indians is dead.
Plans for new school building OF
D street, in Tacoma, are adopted.
y new, large thea;er is projected t.
be built at IN early day at Walla Walla
The Territorial Sunday School Con
vention meets at North Yakima MAY
2Sth.
Plans are .almost completed. for ths
building for Y. NJ. c. A. purposes, in
Seattle.
The Democrats of Seattle have or.
ganized n club for social and political
purposes.
Harry P. Frazier, OF Port Townsend,
has been sent to the Insane Asylum at
Steilacoom.
An artesian we'll at Pasco is down q
depth OF aC6 feet with good indications
of flowing water.
The next annual meeting of the
Puget sound Congregational Associa-
ton will be held at Tacoma.
The Spokane and Northern railroad
will be completed and open for traffic
to Colville by September 18th.
The Olympian is one OF the bright
est newspapers in Washington 1t
will no doubt continue to grow.-The
World.
Mr.. Kincaid, OF Waterville, Doug
las county, offers $500 in cash and a
site of half block, for public school
building.
spokane Falls and hamlet in Mon
tana are disputing over being the
namesake OF the winner OF the Ken
tucky Derby.
The Sehome Gazette claims to have
underbid the Whatcom Rereile in
the matter of county printing, but
the contract WAS let to the Rereiie.
The increase in the membership OF
the Knights OF Pyihias in the grand
jurisdiction OF Washington and North
ern Idaho during the past year is ], 600.
A Seattle hotel night clerk had an
encounter with foot-pa Wednesday
night, but his agility rs on athlete
came to the rescue and his assailant
decamped.
Ex-Governor Alger, O. Michigan, is
expected to visit Puget Sound in July,
to locate large lumber mill. The ad-
vantages OF Olympia shoald be pre-
sented to him.
An educational Institution, to be
called Washington College and to be
located at spokane Falls is in embryo.
1t will be under the care of the Pres
bytery Of Idaho.
A party OF three yong men, re-
Gently from the East, have been pros
pecting the Chehalis and Newaukum
valleys, with view of establishing a
large shingle hill.
The contractor who has the building
of the Puget Sound and Gray's Harbor
railroad is P. Gibbons, Northern Pa
cifc contractor, instead OF Nelson Ben
nett, as has been published.
Mr.. John F. Carrere, an accom-.
plished journalist, assumes editorial
management of the Spokane Falls
Chronicle, succeeding W. D. knight,
who returns to the practice Of law.
There are extensive lime quarries
near Davenport, Lincoln county, which
furnish an inexhaustible supply of an
excellent quality of choral lime. Album
dant timber exists near by for burning
uses.
There are AZ ,796 acres Of land in this
Territory subject to pre-emption, home
stead, timber culture, desert land or
mountain timber entry. The greater
portion OF this is first class farming
and grazing land.
| 1t is understood that number OF
Cinnamon and over 100 pounds OF
opium lett Victoria in slcop Sunday.
and it is supposed an attempt will be
made to land them on one of the isl.
ands near Port Townsend.
Lynden, Whatcom county, has made
remarkable progress in building the
last year. The finest school buildings
in the the county are found at Lynden,
and the town and country generally
have grown beyond the most sanguine
expectations.
Jack Bell, a humpbacked burglar,
who was captured early Monday morn
ing while attempting to chloroform the
lodgers i'll the Union hotel at Port
Townsend, was committed to await
the action of the Grand Jury. He
claims to have lived at Seattle, Tacoma,
Ellensburg and Salt Lake.
Salmon berries are ripening, and the
crop will be large. These berries are
similar in form to raspberries, although
yellow in color and sour in flavor.
They are considered by some very de
licious, and are sought for as soon as
ripe. This is wild fruit, and only
grows on rich marshy land, among the
small timber.
| A grand specimen OF the American
eagle was killed near Neushkah, Tues
day, by one Of the men Of Haynes
camp. The national bird measured
seven feet from tip to tip. He will bt
stuffed by L. ]. Weatherwax, and may
grace the speakers desk at Olympia o.
the Convention on the 4th of July
Aberdeen Herald.
A party of Orting gentlemen wht
, were picnicing in the vicinity OF Lak'
Kapousin last Sunday, met one OF tn,
largest black bears ever frightened ou
, of his lair in that neck Of the woods
They scarcely appreciated old bruin'
: disposition to be familiar, and while h
!, exchanged courtesies with the dog, tn
picnicers skipped.
Mr.. Allen Mcleod, of the Muck set
tlement, dropped into the Oracle sane
, tum this week on friendly call. H
= assured us that they would soon hav
- a postoffice at Muck, and that the in
), habitants of that neighborhood woul
u be greatly benefited thereby. Mr.. NJ
Leod has lived upon his homestead i
that section twenty-eight years.-Or
o ing Oracle.
l, All the principal lumber yards q
r Seattle announce cut OF two dollar
" and Il half per thousand on roug
II lumber. This reduces the price fror
y twelve dollars TO nine collars and fit
l. cents per thousand feet The cut
supposed to have been made to free7
l. out the smaller mills on the Sound an
Ia reduce the price of logs The cut wi
le be general all over the Sound. 1t a.
4 plies only to rough lumber.
n Mr.. John Arthur was passeng,
P. on the steamer Hayward He 81!
III that when the steamer had reached
point just south of Alki Point the pa