Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-06-14
TERRITORIAL HAPPENJ NGS.

Stevens county wants a new court
house.
The new fire alarm system of Ia
coma was tried Thursday.
Citizens of Colville are taking steps
toward being incorporated rs a city.
The cost to Walla Walla county for
the last term of court was over $lO,-
600.
The Bellingham Bay water works
are to cost 100000 and will be fin
ished by September 1st.
A $4,000 sash and door factory will
be built on the flats near the Puyallup
river in the near future.
John Pctcovich Of Seattle, has Sc
cured divorce from his wife on the
grounds that she is insane.
A change Of time has been made in
the Puget Sound Shore road from
Seattle to Puyallup Junction.
Hopkins has completed his electri-
cal fire alarm system at Walla Walla
and the test was very satisfactory.
The Seattle and Tacoma papers are
giving their readers another chapter in
the Observation-Disclosures story.
Over hundred acres of tide flats at
Whatcom have been laid out under the
Territorial laws as oyster claims.
Prospectors are locating claims on
the Cascade mountains in Snohomish
county, where the recentfind of silver
was made.
Last Saturday night one chinaman
shot another at Walla Walla, then
stabbed him twenty times with 12-
inch knife.
Frank Huff, working in the woods
near Skagit was seriously injured by
a tree falling on him. He was sent
to Seattle for treatment.
The Ellensburg Board of Trade has
secured the $4,000 necessary to insure
the building of the Ellensburg and
Columbia River railroad.
Grounds at Walla Walla for the
polo game have been secured, and the
club is organizing. A prize of 800
is offered for the best riding and dress
ing.
Burglars attempted to rob the safe
of Group Bros, at Dayton, the other
night. They were frightened off be-
fore they had time to get in their
work.
Memorial day a tramp entered Mr..
Hewitt's house at Chehalis and stole a
new pair of boots, leaving his old ones.
He helped himself to all that could be
found.
Jessie Crawford has had an examin-
ing trial at Ellensburg for attempting
rape upon the daughter OF ]. b. Jones
and was bound over to appear at the
next district court.
|. Louis Cass, the Indian who murdered
another Indian named Horni by stab
bing him, ON the Puyallup reservation
on September 25th last, has been cap
tured and returned to Tacoma.
J. NJ. Hayden was arrested at Walla
Walla, Tuesday morning accused OF
uttering forged checks at Colfax and
that city. He is also wanted at Oma-
ha. The checks forged were for small
amounts.
The steamer Hassalo struck on a
rock while coming through Deception
Pass Monday and sprung a leak, but
the damage was soon repaired and the
steamer proceeded on her way to
Whatcom.
The Colfax courthouse injunction
case has been settled by Judge Lang
ford forbidding the creation OF debt
exceeding | per cent. Of the assessed
valuation, including the existing in
debtedness.
Seymour & Spaulding's shingle mill
at Chehalis has been sold to the Alpin
Bros, recently from saltwater, MINI.
Seymour & Co. will Immediately erect
a new and larger mill on the river
nearer town.
J. J. Meany, of Tacoma, has re-
ceived the contract for grading and
planking three prominent streets in
Whatcom, which will cost from $l5,-
600 to $4,000 A few other contracts
will soon be let.
The Walla Walla Trust and Saw
ings bank has been incorporated, with
J. nj. Edmiston, +. w. Paine and ii
r. Keyler trustees. The capital is
$4,000. Another private bank is or
ganizing with abundant capital, the
wealthiest citizens backing it.
William Maskeline, OF Walla Walla
has again become crazy. He was
lately captured in Union county, Ore
gon, perfectly wild and in a nude con
dition. A friend brought him tC
that city yesterday afternoon. lie
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