Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-08-30
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Board OF Trade.
Puyallup will obtain Indian hop pick
ers from Neah bay.
IN average wheat crop is expected in
the Palouse country.
Work on Port Townsends new pub
lie building has begun.
The number of school children III
Skagit county is 1863.
An average wheat crop is expected
IN the Palouse country.
The new Presbyterian church at Ia
coma will cost $4,000.
Puyallup will obtain Indian hop
| piekers from Neah bay.
The Lewis county fair will be held in
Chehalis October ,, 3 and 4.
Hugh Maginnis was killed at Dis
coyery bay by the falling of tree.
Walla Walla has eight policeman
during the night and two during the
day.
Whatcom county has thirty two
persons who pay taxes on more than
$4,000.
Sixty-eight acres of land near Ana
cortes, Skagit county, have been sold
for $1,000
1t is proposed to build sidewalk
between the rival towns of Chehalis
and Cent. ALA, four miles apart.
The Puget Sound salmon canneries
are as yet doing small business on
account of the scarcity of the catch.
The assessed value of property in
klicsitat county for 1889 is 81 800, $50,
an iacrcase over last year of Sl79,3S2.
! . tx, to be collected in Walla
Nai.a comfy this Y, twill amount to
*ltj,o1p, i2o,000, OF which goes to the
Territory.
The hop crop in the Chehalis valley
viii be fully up to the average and in
some fields the yieli will be better
than usual
Doctors Coleman, Adams and Hcrn-
don have been pointed board o.
examiners for applicants for govern
e n pensions.
Ia9 Nhatcom postotlice employs
three clerks constantly ard receives
and sends out from ten to twenty sacks
OF mail on every mail boat.
The total valuation OF property in
Yakima county, according to the Board
OF Equalization, is $2,S37 900, an in
crease over last year OF nearly ST. ,0O0,-
coo.
There are 35S, S,l25 acres of railroad
land in klickitat County, which are
assessed this year at an average OF
| about so cents an acre, and the COM
pany is cndeavoring 10 have it cut
down.
Mr.. and Mrs Robinson were stunned
by the effect OF lightning during n
thunder storm near Colfax recently
This is very rare occurrence this side
of the Rocky mountains.
The immense amount of brick, stone
and lime that is being used in Seattle
is causing a scarcity of these commod-
tiles, and contractors say that on this
account building operations will be
somewhat retarded.
The Washington Territory Invest
ment Company have added new line
To their business. Hereafter the COM
pany Will transact general insurance
business, having secured the agency of
several of the best companies in the
country.
Messrs. Bullene and Bryant, Inspec-
ttors for steam vessels of the Puget
Sound district, will leave for Alaska
early the first of next month, to in
spect the many crafts in northern
waters. The headquarters of the Board
is at Port Townsend.
A band of 1000 head of sheep which
were on their way to cross the Colum-
bia near Ellensburg last week were
watered at cold spring on the central
ferry road and fifty of them died from
the effects of the cold water. The
animals had been without water for
some time previous.
The census returns of the population
OF Lewis county, as footed up by Asses
sor Moore and Captain Berry, show a
total population in Lewis county OF
S,207. There are 1900 males and 1907
females. Two thousand nine hundred
and lightweight are married, and 5,2l9
enjoy single blessedness.
Garfield Enterprise: 1t is true the
crops are spoken of as failure, and
they are more nearly so than ever was
known here; but ii Eastern farmers
could be made to believe our yield for
even dis year, the Palousc country
w"gid not hold the stream of immi-
grants shat would pour into it.
Che census returns for the year 1889
shows the population of Walla Walla
county to be l2,3O7: Skamania 6IO;
Whitman, 15,2S1; Spokane, 25,aOO;
Mason, ,530 This is an increase over
the census of 1887 OF Walla Walla 1913:
Spokane, 1885; Mason, 1876; while
Skamania shows decrease of ITO.
The Sidney Pioneer says the last
assessment of Kitsap county gives the
full cash value OF land in the county
at T27S $50, Improvements $iGS, $50,
and personal property $4,000, making
a total of Sl,2l3,9lO. The increase OF
valuation of property over last year is
S2iJ,000. The total population OF the
county is 1898.
The survey and location of the West
Coast branch of the Seattle, Lake
Shore & Eastern railroad, which is to
connect with the Canadian Pacific,
will be completed this week. Active
work on the construction of the road
will be commenced at once, and it
will be pushed to an early completion.
Engineer Stixrud and party will re-
turn next week.
A terrible tragedy occurred last
Thursday on Doake's ranch, near Pa
louise City. A threshing crew was at
work, when Humason appeared, armed
with Il Winches Ter rifle, and without
warming shot his brother, killing him
instantly. He fed, and at last ac-
counts had not been captured. He
had threatened to kill his brother for
slandering their aunt.
A dispatch from North Yakima
states that the Moxie company has
Just finished it's threshing, and from
an acreage OF somewhat over 300 acres
of grain the average is thirty-five
bushels to the acre, with one field run
ming fifty bushels to the acre. The
tobacco crop, which was an expert
ment, has now passed beyond that
point, and the field will yield an in