Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-04-12
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

A pO>tOlHCe mas been eSta0l1shed at
Chico, Kitsap county.
Not q poisonous reptile, inSec. or
plant is found in the Puget Sound re-
gion.
A new town has been laid out at
PENIS Cove, to be known as San Juan
de Fuca.
Charles E. Newcombe has 14-acre
oyster farm in front of the city of
Whatcom.
The price of lumber in cargo lots has
fallen 81 per thousand for export from
the Sound.
The Methodists of North Yakima
are about to erect handsome new
church edifice.
The basement OF the Presbyterian
church at Sehome is used for public
school purposes.
Kelso Brothers are opening what
they believe to he gold mine within
mile OF Centralia.
Mi ME Dunbar attempted suicide in
Spokane Falls Saturday, bv taking
morphine, but was resuscitated
Washington Territory has seven
more national banks thsn Nevada,
Arizona, Idaho and Utah combined.
John R. Brown, at McNeil's island
for selling liquor to the Indians, has
been parioned out by the President.
Dayton is destined to Ave electric
lights at no distau day. Water power
has been secu ed and power for that
is the main thing.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany hiss placed an OPP osition line of
steamers on the Snake river to rum be-
tween Pasco and Lewiston.
A boulevard, to run straight for
three niles is to be built his MINER
from n nth Yakima to Cd Yakima
by the County Commissioners.
The Spinning-Davis contest case,
involving tr ct of land at Pnyalup
valued at $50, 1000, hs- been in pr .gres>
at the Sea lie land office this We, k.
Two trappers came into Orting last
week with $500 worth of beaver, otter
and mink skins, which they had cap
tured along the south TO k of the Puy-
allup river.
Coal, copper and iron have long en-
known to exist in the Puyallup valley,
but now gold has been discovered IN
the south fork Of the Puyallup river,
just above Orting.
The first through passenger train
% the Sound over the o. & w. 7. road
left Sunday afternoon. This was a
happy event for this city and valley,
and ought to be recorded.
Sehome has a new hotel, which is
lighted with electr city and has S. 900
worth # urnitnre, but the newspaper
fro :, which we gather tn. item fails to
state the size or cost of the building
ITSELF
There are at present 103 prisoners at
McN.il's island serving terms varying
from me year t. imprisonment for
life. The longest sentenced white
man is Fuller, the murderer Of the
Roman Catholic archbishop of Alaska.
He is now serving ten years. Fuller
is not sane and at times is very violent.
E. ]. Brickel and Simon Openheimer
OF SPOKANE Falls, have purchased of
P. d. and w. H. Kearney, a half in
terest in tho Old Dominion mine at
Colville, on the line OF the Spokane &
Northern, for $4,000. The IN ne is Il
pawn one, the last shipment If ten
tons of ore givieg net return of ST.
SAG.
An engineering corps, locating the
line of the o. r. & N, extension from
Rockford to Spokane were at Spokane
Falls few d,ys ago, having rea- y
completed their work 1t is under-to d
they will commence work Immediately.
The extension will give tht company
and city a competing line into the rich
Palouse county.
After June 80, 1889, the Seattle
post flee will be rated among the first
clas- offices OF the United S ates.
Receipts from the sale of st.mIs, box
rents, ETC., for the year en'ing Ma CHI
81, 1889, aggregated $41 200, which is
81 200 above the requireme mt for first
class Offices. Receipts by quarters
were: Fir-t, $1,000; sec, nd, 5000;
thi.d, SIC, 300; four h, $1,000.
The Indian police on the Colville
re-ervation are securing the country
in search If warlike band # m.
'auders under the leadership of an
Indian wro killed the so, of chic
year ago and afterward viii man
at Ruby. There are sad to be eight
braves in the band and they nee
hens Ives in the mountains, making
frequent raids into the settlements for
plumber.
Waterville has rai,ed high its bau-
ner and proclaims its superior -itna-
ton for State capital. The Immigrant
says: Waterville expects to be a can
d;date for the State capital. Ellens-
"urg, North Yakima. and OF, mpia
lease take notice. We have the geo.
6 aph al center and Wien the Seatt @,
Lake Shore and Easter is built, this
city will be the most accessible from
all parts Of the State"
Aui"o NaibhCA, OuC VI 1<hNOuIleT |
most highly respected citizens, de.
parted Monday on the Chief with his
family and household effects for Olym-
pia, where he intends to l cate per
manently. Mr.. Galliher is an cid pio-
neer of the Puget Sound country,
having left his old home in Iowa for
the far west in 1852, thus residing in
Western Washington for period of
81 years. He lived in Olympia from
the spring of 1853 till the spring of
1882, when he moved to LsConner,
a. d purchased the Terrice ranch south |
of town, which he has farmed up O
the pre.ent time. He says he never
witnessed failure of or, ps--either
cereal or fruit-since he first stepped
foot Oh Puget Sound soil nearly forty
years agO-a most remarkable record. |
Mr.. G. owns an addition to the Capitol |
City. known rs Gtll hers addlti n
which promises handsome returns to