Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-08-30
TORY: FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1889.


the largest hop kiln in Washington.
Work on the new brick block and
bank building at Orting is being rap
idly pushed.
A forest fire near Snohomish came
near destroying the logging camp Of
Isaac Cathcart.
a new fish canning establishment
is to be erected at Gloucester, adjoining
Port Townsend.
A ledge of peacock copper has been
discovered near the boundary line,
north of Okanogan.
The Bee says that the population OF
Lewis county, according to the Asses
sor's returns, is S,5O7.
The Farmers bank, at Fuyallup,
will begin business Sept. 1st, with a
capital stock OF $4,000.
The Arlington Mining Company is to
erect new mill for their own special
use at Ruby in the near future.
The work on the Seattle & Northern
railroad has been suspended and $50
employees paid off. 1t is understood
no more work will be done the present
year.
c. c. Woodhouse, mineralogist, is
making an examination of the country
about Chehalis and preparing a map
showing the location of iron and other
minerals.
Aberdeen is to have a new bank,
to be started by gentleman named
Stevens, from Lawrence, Kansas. 1t
is to be called "The State Bank of
Aberdeen"
An exchange says: "Among the
contestants for the State capital are
Olympia, Ellensburg, Yakima and
Pasco." Wrong; Olympia is not a
contestent. She is the possessor.
The public schools of Tacoma will
open on September I'd. The Annie
Wright seminary will be open on
Thursday, September II; Mrs. Sarah
X. White, the new principal, has arrived
in that city.
The present annual revenues OF Alas
ka are 100000, yet the Territory is
practically undeveloped. Kennel coal
has been discovered there in large
quantities and the mineral resources
are said to be enormous.
Charles Dinson a mechanic from
Tacoma, in the penitentiary at Walla
Walla, made duplicate keys to the
prison doors and came near releasing
all the convicts few days ago. The
plot was discovered just in time to pre-.
vent a wholesale escape.
In one day, recently, the Tacoma
saw mill cut 465, 1928 feet of lumber
thereby breaking its former record oi
10000 feet. There were employed in
and around tie mill 220 men. The
largest cut ever claimed was one @
100000 feet, ,eut by some Eastern mill
In the hstsof taxpayers at Seattle, w
T., Ladd of Portland is down for $54,
315, and d. P. Thompson, of Portland
for 0,S0O. The largestindividual tax
payer in Seattle is A. A. Denny
whose assessment is $4S3,3lO. H. l.
Yesler is next, with SAC, 1866. Yhe North
ern Pacific Railroad Company,s assess
ment in King county is $S73, 3,744.
Fruit-raisers state that the apple
crop this year will be unusually shor1
in most all portions of Western
Washington. This is due almost en-
tirely to the ravages of the caterpillar
in the spring. In some places this
pest entirely denuded the trees of foil
age, thereby destroying the crop. Thi.
is said to be particularly the case along
the Black river and its tributaries
Other fruits suffered less and will aver
age we'll.
Dalles Mountdineey: The Walls
Walla Journal and Statesman have beer
sued for libel because they warned the
community against women whom they
considered a blk" A lawyercould de
nounce them before jury as every
thing that was unseemly or unpretty,
and no cause of action would lie against
him; but the editors are forced to
handle matters with kid gloves when
they are fully assured that an imposi
ton is practced upon the community
The total assessment of taxable
property in King county is 81, ,121,.
$50, an increase of $6,O42, 1865 over
1883. Seattle contributes of the total
$16,O7S,6S5. The total county acreage
assessed is 297 1854; acreage inn
proved. 1O,S61.77; value of land, $16,.
S62, 100; value of Improvements, 81,
964, ,O35; value of personal property
$3, ,354 ,S25. Land was assessed this
year at so per cent. of its cash value
and personal property and improve.
ments at 40 per cent. of their cash
value.
A dispatch from Washington States
that the Fish Commission has been ad
vised OF the report of the discovery oi
a cod bank on the Pacific coast eight
miles off Nestucca, Oregon, and sixty
five miles south of the Columbia river
The same advices state that true cod
have never before been found south ol
Puget sound. To this Acting Com
missioner Rathburn says: "The true
cod is reported as far south as the
Farralone islands fishing grounds Ol
San Francisco, but have not been
found south of Puget sound in suffi.
cient quantities for commercial pur
poses.
An Eastern company has com.
menced the erection of large ware.
houses and a factory at Glennan, Port
Townsend bay, for preserving halibut
salmon, herring and other fish. They
have purchased 80 acres of land and
five sloops and are negotiating fo,
large vessels to prosecute the fishing in.
dustry. Facilities for making sardines
and smoking fish will be the most ex.
tensive on the Pacific coast. Nearly
x6OOOO is being expended on the
works, and the output will be $4,000
cases annually. The salmon will be
from Fraser river, b. c., caught in
American waters.
United States Attorney White re-
ceived a dispatch lately from Assis.
tant Attorney General o. w. Chapman,
instructing him to 60 to the Dalles,
Oregon, and settle the trouble among
the Indians at the Tumwater fish
cry. The trouble is between the
Indians on the Washington Territory
side and one o. d. Taylor. For years
the Indians Of the Yakima nation have
maintained salmon fishery at Tum-
water rapids. This has been granted