Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-06-28

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Prescott, Walla Walla county, is the
only prohibition town in Washington
The lowest bid for brick schoo
house at Walla Walla was in excess O
$40, 900. -
The June race meeting began on
Wednesday and lasts till to-day, al
Walla Walla. "a.
Governor Moere and Vice President
Holeomb paid Port Townsend a visit
the other day.
Five of the six delegates from Whit
man county are in favor of electing all
officers this fall. A
On their trip East Henry Willard
and party stopped at North Yakima
and Ellensburgh.
The long siege of dry weather is be-
ginning to affect the crops unfavor-
ably near Coupeville.
There are only $4,000 Chinese on
the coast, of which but a small per
centage are in Washington.
The Agricultural Society of Column
bia county, will manage the Fourth of
July celebration at Dayton.
A team ran away with a water wag-
on lately at Ritzville and seriously in
jured the driver, S. G. Weller.
The business men OF Fairhaven and
Bellingham are taking steps to or
ganize a commercial association.
J. "A. Crom, of Smiths Springs, near
Waitsburg, a few pays ago fell from a
wagon with the result to break his
right leg.
While the family of Mr.. Harris
were absent from their home at Walla
Walla last week, robbers broke in and
stole gold watch, money and cloth
ing.
The large sawmill at Kent was
burned on the 18th and the flames
catching to several surrounding dwell
ings they were all burned. The loss
will amount to fully 100000.
Pasco urges their claim to the best
site for the State capitol, because
"every ton of freight and every passen-
ger destined for Puget Sound from the
East, must pass through the town."
Mr.. Blake has sold all the fir saw
timber there is on his place on Salmon
Creek near Toledo to parties who will
Immediately commence getting logs
ready to float whenever there is water
enough to move them.
Loafers at Seattle will be given an
opportunity to work in preparing for
the new buildings, and if they will not
work will be sent out of town unless
they can give pretty straight ac-
count of their means of support. Real
estate men excepted.
Forger White, arrested near Snoho-
mish recently, for swindling the Sc
attic banks, has been wanted at Hell.
ena and Butte, for several months for
exercising his professional skill in
those cities.
1t is doubtful if any of the fruit trees
affected by the salt water overflow a.
Padilla will survive, as many are al
ready dead and many more are with
ering. This is great misfortune, as
it takes SO long to get an orchard
started. The strawberries and other
small fruits were entirely destroyed.
Information is wanted of the where
abouts of Mary Schieser, aged IA years,
German descent. She is reported to
have been put off the train at The
Dalles, Oregon, in July of last year,
when coming from the East, travelling
alone. Anyone knowing her present
address will do a great favor by in
forming her father, Gabriel Schieser,
Uniontown.
Captain White, of the United States
railway service, and Thos. ]. Blakeney,
superintendent of the twelfth district
life saving station, have been appoint
ed commission to select and procure
sites for the establishment of life saving
stations at Coquille river, Umpqua
river, and Yaquina bay, Oregon, and
Ilwaco beach and Peterson's point,
in this Territory.
Sam Patrice Horn, an Indian, ar
rested a few days ago, on the charge OF
killing Lewis Cass on the 25th of Sept
ember, 1888, in the Puyallup valley,
was brought over to Tacoma last Sat-
urday evening, by the Sheriff of Yaki-
ma county. The defendant was taken
before Justice, waived examination
and was committed to Jail to await the
action of the Grand Jury.
Walla Walla's Agricultural Society
has been presented with three yearly
subscriptions to the american AgricuI-
turist, for use in the 1889 fair list.
This paper stands at the head Of the
American farm journals, and the sub
scriptions donated. will be given in
connection with the cash premiums
offered by the Society for the displays
of grain, fruit and vegetables.
A blue print map of Ellensburg,
with its various additions to the city
shows Capital Hill and the park in all
its elevated glory, with the 40 acres
they propose to give for the location
of the capitol. Ellensburg has laid
the city out in grand proportions, and
If their plans should be fully realized
they will have city of 1OO, 600 by the
time it is finished and filled up.
The Wallula people are going to
make determined effort to have the
county divided, and that place made a
county seat. They want the legisla-
ture to chop off the lower portion OF
Walla Walla county, including the
Touchet and the Eureka Flat country
and a sufficient portion of Yakima
county to make a county about %
miles square. Wallula is ambitious.
The amount of fruit that will be
produced in Walla Walla valley this
year, will be a much larger amount
than has been produced any year pre-
vious, for many years. The trees are
a solid mass Of fruit and many OF them
will have to be propped up to keep
from being broken down with their
immense load. The amount of small
berries raised is simply wonderful
Wallula Herald.
1t is not often that people can cross
the Cascade mountains before the
middle of June, but this spring people
have been crossing all the time. Lately
a man came over the Mackenzie route
and says there were no trouble from
snow. This shows what mild winter
we have had. The heaviest rains since
the year commenced have fallen in
May; before that the ground was not
wet down deep. 1t seemed probable
that there may have been snow in the
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