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

hive ueclued To bulld new church.
Spokane Falls claims to have a pop
u!ation OF between $4,000 and 1000.
! Seven tons Of strawberries were
shipped from Walla Walla last Friday
Prices paid for wheat in Walla Walls
range from - cents to 80 cents PEI
bushcl.
The United States steamer Albatros.
will cruise i'll northern waters thi,
summer
An attempt was made to burn the
house OF Geo. Brown, at Tacoma, Sun
day night
Bonding OF Snohomish county fo1
county buildings will be submitted tc
the people.
Memorial service was held in nearly
every city and town in the Territory
last Sunday.
Real estate transfers at Spokane
Falls last week aggregated half a
million dollars.
The bankers of the Territory will
meet at Tacoma, June 10Th, for the
purpose of organization.
Steamers on the Sound have all the
business they can do in carrying freight
and passengers to Alaska.
The universal opinion of farmers in
eastern Washington is that there will
be very large wheat crop.
Some OF the La Camas people have
held meeting and resolved against
base ball playing on Sunday.
There are nine Cinnamon in the la;l
at Ellensburgh, the victims of a .aic
upon iiourishing opium joint
\ cavern Monday morning al Old
Tacoma, killed Morris Kidney, "A laborer,
while AT work on an excavation.
J. W. Perkins, OF Maple VALLEY. i,
shipping $1,000 feet oi lumber DAHL.
something unusual for that camp.
\ brick kiln containing between
10000 and 100000 bricks was fired at
the Walla Walla peni,entiary MONDAY
morning.
The dairymen Of Woodland, Cowli1
county, have organized Dairyman ,
association for mutual protection, with
19J cows.
Emil Sanderson is shipping pigeons
from Walla Walla to Seattle and la
coma and is doing pretty well at the
new enterprise.
The past months output of butter
by the Walla Walla creamery was 6 900
pounds, churning daily. The demand
exceeds the supply.
John Wren, prominent citizen of
old Tacoma, is under 81 600 bonds to
appear i'll Justice Court to answer to a
charge of wiie-beating.
Harry Morgan's shingle mill at
Buckley, was destroyed by fire last
Sunday evening. 1t is suspected that
the fire is of incendiary origin.
Archie Fagus, an old resident OF
Walla Walla, died near Grants Pass,
Oregon, on May 9TH, caused by ex.
posure during heavy snow storm.
Captain H. F. Beecher contemplates
| placing n steamer on a line from Vic
tOria to Port Townsend and thence to
Blaine and Semiahmoo via the islands
Tacoma has a college mems associ-
alton, embracing graduates of the vari-
Gus colleges of the country. The as
ISOLATION held banquet Monday night
A light draught steamer to navigate
the Cowlitz river is to be built. 1t will
be 40 feet long, by IS feet beam, and
81 feet depth of hold, costing $4,000
The election Of Edward Eldridge, as
a member OF the Constitutional Con-
vention from Whatcom county, is con-
sidered victory for the woman suf-
fragists.
Last week Seattle shipped ten cars
of shingles to Portland, Denver and
Chicago; two cars of fresh halibut to
Boston, and one car OF lumber to Ra-
cine, Wis. .ts.
Another new town is springing up
in the Palouse country on the Oregon
Railway & Navigation line in what is
called Pleasant Valley, the name be-
ing st. John.
The steam tug, Goliah, the Oldest
steamer on the Sound, and one of the
Oldest on the coast, is still on the low
er Sound. She came around the Horn
in the fifties.
Allen c. Mason has been on the
coast only six years, and was school
/ teacher nj Jacksonville. H. He made
his western debut in Fourth of July
orator at Tacoma.
Hops are reaching the tops OF the
poles near Kent, and are further al
vanced and show better prospects for
an extraordinary yield than ever seen
at this season of the year.
The bark Emerald, belonging to the
Puget Mill Company, OF Port Gamble,
while at Port Townsend loading cargo
for san Francisco, was burned to the
waters edge. The entire cargo Was
! consumed.
We don't know how to account for
it, but nine out of every ten, who
come to this country, intend to start a
chicken ranch, but always drift into
something else, eventually. - Wola
Waila Journal
A number of sheep recently shipped
over the Northern Pacific railroad
from southeastern Washington were
smothcred to death. Too many sheep
and not enough room, killed them
where they stood.
The school directors at Walla Walla
have purchased large plot of ground
from General McAulitf, lying west of
South Second street, on which to build
a new $2O,O 600 school building. Work
will BIO begun at once.
Smallpox is reported raging among
the Okanagan Indians. Doctors have
been sent there to vaccinate. The dis
ease is also reported among the In
dams near Sprague, 40 miles west, but
the latter ceport is denied.
A movement is on foot to perfect an
organization by which the amateur
musicians OF Seattle, Tacoma and
Olympia will be joined in one large
union. This will be done with the idea
OF giving a grand musical festival
in the near future.
The fine new steamer Montesano
has begun her regular run of two
round trips per day between Hoquiam
and Montesano. This is the fifth
steamer between these points and
makes it easy for the speculator to
spread himself over the harbor.
A writer from Okanogan says of the
mines: "lf the specimens that are to
be seen here from our different mines
were represented as coming from Alaska
or some other FOREIGN nlace there