, 1889-01-10
TERRITORIAL.
Walla Walla has Is churches.

The W. c. T. U. of Tacoma receiv-
ed New Year calls.
At Ship Harbor 60 acres of land is
bonded for $4,000.
The governor of the Territory re-
ceives $1,000 year.
The Territorial Judges receive a
salary of $4,000 each.
The skating pond at Colfax is
lighted by electricity.
Plum tree blossoms were picked
at Whatcom Dec. 81.
Regular trains on the o. r. & n.
run into Rockford now.
Olympia seems to be getting up
little boom in real estate.
Whatcon county did not send any
delegates to Ellensburg.
The Whatcom county Democrat is
published now at Sehome.
Davenport now has population
OF 500 and asks for bank.
A man who settled in the CoIville
valley in 1887 died recently.
There are S29 school houses in the
Territory, and 1875 teachers.
There are % deaf and dumb Child
ren IN the school at Vancouver.
Oysterville wants the naval sta
tion located on Shoal Water bay.
La Camas. W. T., erected S35, 900
worth of new buildings during 1888.
A Whitman county man raised
5000 worth of vegetables Oh one acre.
The price of some of the property
adjoining Whatcom is $4,000 an acre.
Whitman county mas ten newspa-
pers and another is likely to be start
ed.
Washington has nearly twice the
number of daily papers that Oregon
has.
Land half a mile from the court
house at Whatcom sells for $1,000 an
acre.
The temperance people of Spo-
kane Falls are to bHild a $4,000
temple
The typhoid fever still continues
at Tacoma, and there are many
deaths.
A Seattle business man received
yesterday letter posted at Tacoma
Oct. 13.
Good judges predict for Medical
Lake population of 5000 by the
end of 1890.
The z. G. -Adcocate of Portland
issued very creditable twelve-page
holiday edition.
San Francisco capitalists are said
to be quite ready to invest in Puget
Sound enterprises.
More than 100000 acres of land
have been entered or purchased in
this territory this last year.
The Port Angeles Commonwealth
complains loudly about inefficient
mail service on Puget Sound.
Yakima is about to offer a bonus
for a sugar refinery. The soil there
is said to be excellent for the beet.
Walla Walla is supposed to have
the finest public building in the Ter
ritory-a court house costing $75,-
900.
Senator Stanford has sold wean>
ing colt for S12,500-the highest
price ever paid for one in the United
States
Sehome has appointed a committee
to wait upon the naval station COM
mission. Chuckanut is the site pro
posed.
The experiment of towing logs
from Puget Sound to San Francisco
and South American ports is soon to
be tried.
Five emigrant wagons from Mis-
souri, came into Walla Walla few
days ago, having been en- route since
Aug. 27.
Rev. Henry Bates, OF the First
Congregational church of Seattle,
has resigned his pastorate, and will
tfavel in Europe.
1t is rumored that the Northern
Pacific will build down tie north
side of the Columbia river to Port
land next summer.
A wealthy Philadelphia woman
has telegraphed Tacoma real estate
agent to buy for her $4,000 worth
of property in Tacoma.
The PaIouse Gazette suggests that
the people send petitions to congress
requesting that the Territory be ad-
mitted with the flame OF Washing
ton.
The mild weather in eastern Wash>
ington allows the farmers to do big |
lot of plowing. Consequently the
acreage of wheat will be largely in
creased.
The Journal says that one OF the |
first things Tacoma snould ask con-
gress for is government building
for postoffice, federal court and 9TH |
er purposes
A Portlaud paper intimates that
Col. P. B. johnson, of the Walla |
Walla Union has gone east to get the
position of register of the land Office
at Walla Walla-
A rust eaten, hand made ak has
been unearthed at Walla Walla five
feet below the surface. Had this |
been in the shifting sands of Pssco
it would not be astonishing.
The Olympia Standard of .s.st Fri
day contains large amount of in
teresting descriptive and historical
matter about Washington Territory
and Thurston county in particular.
A great raft Of logs, about s,OO0,-
600, is to be built somewhere on the
coast of Washington Territory to be
touoi To Nalnaraisn to be sawed