Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-06-07
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY FRIDAY EVENING JUNE 1885,
Wallula is incorporated.

, Wallula is incorporated.
Centralia has G. A. r. post.
At North Yakima there is deman
for business houses.
Five vagrants were arrested at TIA
coma on Decoration Day.
Walla Walla has raised 5000 for
Fourth of July celebration.
S. ]. Lowe, near Yakima, has
watermelon patch of % acres.
On Tuesday $685. pounds of straw
berries were shipped from Walla Walla
| A plank road between Chehalis ant
Centralia is urged as needed improve
ment.
Mrs. AL Hoat, q former resident O
Bacoda, died on the oath at tn.
Dalles.
Track-laying was commenced Thurs
day on the Spokane Falls and North
ern railroad.
The Colfax Gazette has published q
fine advertising circular called the
Mercantile Reriew.
The Yakima Herald wants the Jury
system OF trying offenders kept out o.
the new Constitution.
Robert Scott has planted $500
sweet potato plants on his ten acres
near North Yakima.
Ellensburg is thronscj with rough
characters and special force Of police
Is required to maintain order.
The Davenport Tanes publishes a
long, valuable article on the mineral
resources OF Okanogan county.
The Davenport Ti..es, Frank M
Dallam, editor. has been awarded the
county printing OF Lincoln county
The Port TownseEa Argus favor.
Thomas H. Brents AMI Watson C.
Squire for United Sta. : senators.
The Seventh Day a yentists have
been holding a camp meeting at Col
fax and baptised over i,O con er's.
A fire Wednesday 0estroye. a por
ton of the dry house connected with
Sewall & Wright's saw mill, at Centra
liza.
The Seattle Post-I,ieiligencer is adj
vocating Judge John ? Hoyt for Presi
dent OF the Constitutional Conven
ton.
The expected completion of the Port
Townsend Southern railroad is attract
ing a good immigration to the port oi
entry.
A base ball game Thursday between
the Walla Walla and Pendleton clubs
resulting in victory for the Pendle
tons, 81 to 8.
The Palousc City Neus has passed
into the hands of VIM. Goodyear, live
newspaper editor. Mr.. 1. /. Hughes i.
he retiring editor.
/ The underwriters committee ha
visited West Seattle to survey tn,
damage done to the burned steame
Dispatch. Mayor Moran was amonl
the party.
The Wallula Herald is indignant a
the lack OF support the paper is re
ceiving from that town, and the editor
lplaintively remarks: ave can live
on gopher-tail soup and wind pudding
for while, but not for always"
| Hall, one OF the defendants in the
case where a verdict Of guilty was re
corded against Byrnes and Hall, al
Walla Walla, for driving stock on the
o. r. & N. track, is missing, and il
supposed to have forfeited his bail.
An Ellensburg darkey, who could
boast of but one leg, attempted to com
nit suicide the other day by stretching
his form across the railroad track. He
was arrested after struggle and i.
confined in the Kittitas county Jail.
A game OF ball Thursday between
the "Counter Jumpers" Of Dayton
and the Hayseeds," of Wholesome
Hollow, resulted in a victory for the
latter. Score, 8 to 9. The game was
interspersed throughout by brilliant
playing by both sides.
An Ellensburgh real estate firm re.
Gently cut some farming property up
into lots, under the name of the Capt..
tai Park addition, and by trading these
lots off to various papers throughout
the Territory have been getting some
very cheap advertising.
Articles of agreement have been
signed by Mike Brannan, of Port Town.
send, and William Quinn, OF San Fran.
cisco, for purse of SEQ, the winner
to pay all expenses. The terms OF the
contest are that Quinn must throw
Brannan five times in one hour.
A cabinet is to be placed in the United
States Land Office at North Yakima
and the request is maze that speci.
mems OF minerals and other products
of the region be contributed. with a
view to forming a permanent collec.
ton for the benefit of settlers and those
who propose to become such.
The " enatchie limestone lands are
to be developed by Eastern capitalists
who have invested 500 0 in a plant
and expect to turn out 1000 barrels ol
lime per woek Steel cable and ore
cars have sbeen ordered for gravity
road, and the latest patent draw kilns
will be used. The lime will be shipped
down the Columbia.
1t is understood that an effort will be
made to defeat the proposed location
OF the naval station at Port Orchard
Prominent Senators have requested to
be furnished with data in favor of othel
locations, and have avowed their in
tention of contesting the adoption oi
the report to be made by the nava
commission.
The Okanogan and Conconully
country is being kept back this yea
by an outbreak Of smallpox. Tht
greatest development is being made OF
Allen c. MasOn's mine, the Lone Star
on which 900 feet of work has beer
done and S2O,0oO expended. Fifteer
to twenty-five men are constantly EN-
ployed and the monthly payroll run.
from 81 500 to $500.
. A party of cowboys on the Ahtanum
which divides the Indian reservation
from the Yakima valley, last night, de
, manded of an Indian fisherman a mes
of fish, which was refused. An alterca
, ton ensued and several shots wer
, fired by both the Indians and whites
and an Indian, whose name at thi
writing cannot be learned, was shot il
the arm. No arrests were made
The presence OF Mr.. Mercer in tow
this week recalls the fact that early il
! the sixties" he created furore b
successfully colonizing Puget Scum
: with Massachusetts school marmi
Many bachelors home was subss