Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-31
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS
Seattle will celebrate the Fourth.

motor line.
North Yakima has n nulne .ane
ditch company.
Seattle's Fire Department is made
quate for the city.
The Spokane Rerie'c advocates sci
ling the school lands.
Seattle parties claim 10 have iounl
gold east oi Lake Washington.
Dir. Millcr's residence and Morgan.
sawmill burned at Tacoma, sunday.
There is considerable complaint
made OF the telephone service at Seat.
tie.
Pcndlcton now comes to the front
agitating the building OF a street rail.
way.
The Pioneers Of Walla Walla Will
hold their second annual reunion June
10Th.
The citizens Of Wallula are irving
to plan for the division OF Walla Walla
county.
The Ellensburg New Era has been
rechristened under the naWe OF State
Register
/ John Plaukington, the millionaire
hotel man OF Milwaukee, Is doing the
Sound country.
Ex-Governor Semple is in training
for candidate for first governor OF the
new State of Washington.
Suspicious of foul play surround the
finding of the body OF Joseph Beckman,
in Lake Union, near Seattle
Palouse City is recovering from its
disastrous fire of Il year ago, and is re-
building in Il substantial manner
! Chehalis county will soon have five
newspapers, three new ones are now in
embryo at L ma, Aberdeen and Hoa-
quinn.
a poor farm tax was voted in Pierce
county at the recent election, very
little opposition being manifested
/ toward it,
kindall's store was burned at Lvn-
den, Friday morning. Loss, $l2,s
insurance, $4,000. The origin of the
/ IRE Is unknown.
Last Friday at Spokane Falls a
butcher shot his tormentor, named
Holmes. One is now in jail and the
other in the hospital.
A company OF French Noblemen are
doing the Sound, and will visit Alaska.
They are imbued with the ambition
to ascend Mount st. Elias.
The youngest member OF the Con
stitutional Convention, is Gwin Hicks,
OF Tacoma, who is also the only mem
Der who was born in the Territory.
1t is nip and tuck whether Spokane
Falls or Ellensburg receives the most
of the Okanagan trade. Both are
working theoretically for the business.
a man in Douglas county killed
four panthers in one afternoon. They
had been killing his sheep and he
went after them with blood in his eye.
The Puget Sound National and First
National Banks, of Seattle, were swim
died out of $4,000 by one VIM. NJ.
White Saturday, by means Of raised
checks.
Register Baird, of the Seattle land
office, has rejected julius Rochester
application to enter 40 acres of tide
flats at the head of Seattle bay, with
Valentine scrip.
Among the prominent debaters in
/ the Constitutional Convention will be
Crowley, Sharpstein, Turner, Allen,
Convey, Reed, Kinnear, Hoyt, Minor,
Dyer, Henry and Dickey.
The finest Masonic Temple east of
the Cascades, adorns the city of Ellens-
burg. The finest Odd Fellows Tenn
pie is at Olympia, but east of the Cas-
cades Walla Walla takes the cake.
A small green insect is reported to
be destroying the apple trees in the
vicinity of Melton They gather under
the leaves causing them to curl up
and wither. The remedy used is thick
soap suds.
AT a meeting OF the board OF regents
of the State university, held at Seattle,
all the old teachers were reelected,
and it was decided to employ another
teacher to take charge of the prepare
tory department.
The Knights of Pythias will give a
Fourth Of July celebration at What
com. 1t will be a regular old-fashioned
celebration, with the creased pig. etc.
A large crowd is expected from the
neighboring country.
Sheriff Thompson, OF Aberdeen, ar
rested at Snohomish last Saturday,
one w. NJ. White, the alleged forger
who raised two drafts on Seattle banks
last week. White is also wanted for
similar crime at Aberdeen.
p. d. Mcclellan and d. r. Hunton,
street railway officials, have been ar
rested by the Sehome officials for tear
ing up the street planking without a
permit. The legality OF their fran
chise is to be tested in court.
According to the Auditors report
there is now in the Walla Walla coun-
ty treasury the snug little sum OF &c.,
1869, part of which belongs to the
fund, created for the erection of the
new school house, in Singleton's addi-
ton.
The Pomeroy Independent says Mr.
w. w. McCalley has leased the flour
ing mills at that place for five years,
and will put in full roller process Cor
making flour. Mr.. NJ. is fine miller,
and Pomeroy can feel proud of this
acquisition to her business.
Traffic Manager Hannaford, of the
Northern Pacific, says; 1--WE are run
ming our overland train out Of st. Paul
in two sections of Is to Is cars each.
The stream of immigration across the
continent to Oregon and Washington
shows no si5ns On diminishing, and
looks as If it would last all summer
A large deposit OF granite has been
discovered few miles from the pro-
posed line of the Seattle, Lake Shore
and Eastern through Cady pass. A
specimen of the granite was sent to
Maine and there polished and pro-
nounced superior for building and
monumental purposes to the granite
of that State. A company has been
formed to develop the quarries.
The big raft that is to float from
Puget Sound down to San Francisco
will be made of longer logs than were
ever put into raft on Atlantic waters.
1t will have but 5000 logs, as against
the $4,000 of the Joggins raft of last
year, but none will be less than 100
feet long, and the great size of the
sticks , it is thought, will bring the
amount of lumber to the amount of
the Eastern raft.