Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-03-15
Territorial Happenings.

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A fine deposit OF fire-clay has bee
discovered near Franklin.
Many new buildings are in course
construction ut Snohomish.
\ company is bling formed
erect a $50, 900 hotel st Montesanc.
Peach trees are bursting into bloof
in the neighborhood of Wall. Wal.
A prohibition club has been org N
lied at Colfax, with membership {
twenty.
The Odd Fellows of Ort;ng are abou
to establish lodge i'll that thrivin
little city.
1d', daughter OF P. J. Kelty, liviD,
near Walla Walla, died of pneumoni
last week.
Allen Weir is prominent candi
date for CollectJr of Customs at Por
Townsend.
The Colony sawmi.l at Port Angelo
will be run this year on full time by
Tacoma firm.
A new engine and brick making ma
chinery has been added to the peni
tentiary outfit.
OPIUM to the value OF $1,000 ha.
been seiz d in Tacoma by Inspector
J. b. Croake.
1t is said the Nortbern Pacific Raj.
road will build double track from
Tacoma to Portland.
A stage line is to be operated be-
tween Centralil and Gray's Harbol
this coming summer.
Chehalis is booming. It's ci izsns
have determined t. spend something
in advertising that city.
Surveyors are busy at W rk on the
line of the proposed Chehalis Valley
and Gray's Harbor Railroad.
The wife Of Engineer Perlee, of the
o. X. & N for long time ill, is al
the point OF death, in Walla Wall.
The city OF Whatcom has decided
to compel lot owners to cl ar the trees
and brush from the entire townsite.
The mining outlook in the Con.
cOuully districts is reported to be un
a'ly bright for the season If the
year.
Plenty OF snow in the Bitter Rool
mountains promises abundant waite,
for the Salmon river mining district
this summer.
At the election On the PuyalluI
reservation few days ago, Tommy
Lane WIS elected chief and jim
Coates sub-chief.
The Tacoma Neus thinks that -,
hatchet rampant on Il cherry tree yer
dant" be adopted as the seal If th,
new State of Washington.
John Justice has resigned rs warder
OF the penitentiary at Walla Wall. 1
is said he will be succeeded ty j.
Edmistoa. the present steward.
A little girl belonging to famii,
named Evans, agel tour yelrs, wa.
killed at Tacom, last Friday. by pill,
OF scantling falling upon her.
Wi. hin the past two weeks PuyalluI
has received twenty cars of lumbel
Tor building purt ose., besides tn,
quantity supp.i-d f.om the local mills
The prisoners ut Walla Walla have
struck because they Were taken ont or
the streets to work. They will be fec
on br cad and water for while as {
punishment.
Col. George +. Waring, who ha,
been preparing report en- a suitabl.
system OF sanitary sewerage for Seat
tie, says that complete system will
cost $325,OOO.
The man Wilcox who was charged
with emUezzling several hundred
dollars from the Roslyn X. of L., j,
very indignant at tn, charge, an(
says it was Only $42.
All Soon a Chinaman convicted O
chicken stealing il Seattle, VAS sen
to prison Tor fuus years, wmle Johr
Mcdonald, a white man, received bu
on, year for burglary.
The Masons of North Yakima hav,
purchased from Edward Viii son tn,
two lots on the southeast corner o,
a.d Second streets and will bull,
thereon Masonic temple.
John MeNsi', who some time ar,
had is leg broken by horse cart Will
assisting the Cart to ths fire, has bee,
awar., ed $50 and medical expeus ses b,
the city council of Walla Walla.
1t is estimated that Washington
Territory has 9,O0O,OOO acres of lau,
peculiarly adapted to raising whea
and which will yield from twenty +
forty bushels per ac:e every season.
A change Of time has taken place OF
the o. r. & N. Co, and N. P. r. Il
Company railroads, SO that Wall
Walia will have through passenge
trains be.ween both Portland and Ia
coma.
Special Ind an Agent Saunders, no,
on the Umatilla Indian Reservation
his made a demand for troops in OF
der to enforce an order for the vi
cation of the land By numerous whit
settlers.
Some time .ipce u fast vessel wa
noticed rrowling around Port Towr
send. 1t has now been ascert line
that the strange craft is an opiur
smuggler, and can steam away at th
rate of Is miles an hour. No craft o
Sound can overtake her.
A cablergram WIS received in Tact
ma yesterday from CallaO. Peru, b
the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co
closing contract for 100000 fee
OF lumber per year, for term OF te
years. The material will be ship c
from the company's mill hare.
The Skagit and Cumberlind Co,
Company has filed articles of incorpt
ration IN San Francisco for the purpos
of d1ing IL general coal and iron nit
ing business in Skagit, State OF Wasl
ington. The capital stogk is $4,000
600, divided into 100000 shares.
A new road to extend from Colder
dali t. some point on the N. P. X. r
probably Prcsser, h S been incorpora
ed under the name OF the Culumbi
Valley and G1ldendale X ,ilroad Con
psny, with capital stock Of $40 600
600, divided into shares or 800 each
On Orcas island the lime kilns wi
resume operations this month. TIL
McCurdy lime kiln has already bega
work; the Penyan Lime Company
kiln Will fire up rext week; a n
kiln will be built by Messrs. Gray
Switzerland. The demand for lin
Will be much greater this than it wa
last year, as building VIII be extensiv
| on the Sound.