Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-24
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.
Kent has a brass band.

Pasco aspires TO be the capital OF
Washington.
Roswell ?. Flower and party were at
Seattle last week.
Two brick blocks are now being
erected at Puyallup.
Fifteen acres are set asi G at Walla
Walla for a city park.
Strawberries are rotting at Walla
Walla; too much rain.
A house breaker was killed near
Snohomish last Saturday.
The government has ordered sur
vey OF the Port Orchard navy yard
site.
Puyallup now has three weekly pa
pers, the Citi-en being the latest new
conner.
The county Assessor says that the
population OF Pierce county is about
$4,000
Ellensburg has ten brick buildings
under construction and will soon have
ten more.
Mr.. T. G. Nicklin now fills the
lucrative and honorable position of
Clerk of the District Court at -LaCon-
ner.
The annual session OF the w. c. T.
L. of Western Washington will meet
at Port Townsend on the llth OF
June.
At the regatta at Tacoma Saturday
O'Connor was the champion, with
Peterson, Hammer and Lee following,
in the order named.
A few OF Seattle's soiled doves are
getting in the meshes of the law for
robbing the verdant cOuntrymen who
are enticed into their dives.
Some meadows in the Puyallup
valley are said to contain already as
much as two tons of hay to the acre.
Four tons per acre is the expected
yield
A game OF base ball between Seattle
and Portland clubs was played at Sc
attic Saturday afternoon, resulting in
the score of Is for Seattle to Ii for
Portland.
Geo. b. Landsburg has brought suit
against the city of Seattle for extra
work in making an excavation on
Mill street. The amount claimed is
$2,262S3.
W. NJ. Hill, of Kelso, who left to
take up a ranch in Oklahoma, has re-
turned He says that, with the excep-
ton of the river bottoms, the land is
barren and worthless.
The Port Townsend team beat the
Snohomish nine by to in q game of
base ball Sunday. The Port Town
send team goes to Victoria on Thurs
day to play three games.
a new saw mill, to have cutting
capacity of 1000 o feet of lumber per
day, is going up few miles south OF
Kent, on the projected line of the Sc.
attic and Southern railroad.
In the vicinity of Padilla, the
ranches were flooded with salt water
last winter, and now with its desolate
looking fields presents a marked con
trast to the scene of other years.
A company has purchased the cedar
timber on go acres in the vicinity OF
Port Angeles, bought machinery for 8
saw mill, and intend to engage in the
manufacture of lumber and shingle.
on large scale.
The Northern Pacific and Capt. NJ
+. Hatch, of Tacoma, are disputins
over the possession of a valuable piece
of land near the wharf in that city
The matter is to be decided by tn,
courts this week.
The town OF Kent, in King county
has been making an estimate of tn,
cost of hose cart, hose, equipment.
and fire plugs and find it will come
within 5000 and steps are being takel
to =: that amount
La ;amas News: The pioneers O
the Territory will meet at Olympia OF
July 4th. This will give them al
opportunity to meet the State delega
ton and solemnly ratify the chang
from Territory to a State. Thi
privilege can occur but once in tn,
history of State, and therefore ever,
pioneer should take advantage of it.
A number of settlers in the New
| aukum and Hannaford's valleys, il
Lewis county, are turning their atten
ton to the raising of the tobacco plant
and such superior quality of tobacco
has been obtained that they find i
pays to raise this for market, to the ex
clusion of other crops. Quite revo
luton in the crops of these valleys ma,
be expected before long.
Mr.. J. II. Feuerbach, late of Clap
& Feuerbach, of Port Townsend, Oh
petition to the Judge OF the Distric
Court has had his name changed to j
H. Fairbrook. The reason given il
the petition for such change is tina
owing to the fact that petitioner is
banker and his name being Difficult
one to spell, often causes trouble
The new name went into effect on tn,
10th instant.
Sunday morning at about 4 o'clOcl
the saw mill of Dubois Brothers, a
Vancouver, was discovered on fire, tn
flames being already through the rool
There was little chance of saving an,
thing but the adjoining buildings
even had the nearest fire cistern, on
block east from the mill, been fille'
and enabled the fire company to max
, an easier connection. The loss j
about a. 0O in lumber, building ant
machinery. The cause of the fire j
unknown.
The Territorial Dental Association
held convention at Ellensburg las
week, and discussed matters of interes
to the tooth manipulators. The asso
citation elected w. w. Hare, of Ellens
, burg, President; w. E. Burkhart, Ia
coma. first Vice-President; E. NJ
, Cheadly, Spokane Falls, second Vice
President; c. w. Hunt, Port Town
send, fourth President; c. W
+ Chamberlain, Tacoma, Secretary; !
: II. Carlyon, Seattle, Treasurer. TIL
next convention will be held at Seattl
in May, 1890.
A few weeks ago II quarter section
of land near Whatcom claimed b
Thomas Stinson and Hugh Park, East
ern lumbermen, were thrown Ope
to settlement by the general land ofiic
, on account of alleged irregularite.
: AS the land is valuable there was
e great rush to file on it. Within
few days Messrs Jacobs and Jenner wi
4 file II suits in the district court O
9 behalf of Messrs Stinson and Park an
8 against the United States, to recove
e possession OF the II quarter section
: above mentioned.