Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-01-18
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Tacoma has 90 churches.

Every county in Western Washing
ton gave Allen a majority.
In Kittitas there were A wedding
during 1887, and So in 1888.
Free postal delivery went into ef
feet at Walla Wsilla on the Cd inst.
The fancy price of 5000 per acre il
charged for land adjoining Whatcom
Not a single business failure was re
corded in Spokane during the past
year.
The lumber cut OF the Territory fol
1888 was 7OO,OOO,OOO feet, valued al
So, 100000.
The Masops OF Yakima are cOntem-
plating the erection OF $4,000 tenn
pie next year.
A beautiful ledge of moss agate
marble has been discovered near
North Yakima.
The Tacoma City Council has grant
ed $75 monthly toward the support of
free reading room.
In Washington Territory there are
$50 post-offices; in Idaho 211; in
British Columbia 12O; total 6S1.
Several logging camps are being es-
tablished along the line of the Van
couver, Klickitat and Yakima railroad.
The City Council of Port Townsend
has been asked for franchise TO run
a steam motor line on the street car
system.
The population Of Walla Walla
county is 1900, and t. per capita
valuation is $4,000. The county has
1000 taxpayers, an average valuation
to each of $S,OO0
Negotiations are said to be nearly
completed whereby the Northern Pa
cific will either assume the whole, or a
controlling interest in the Bellingham
Bay railroad enterprise.
The Seattle Lake Shore and Eastern
railroad company has decided to
adopt the Cady pass through the
Cascade mountains. This pass is in
the vicinity of the headwaters of the
Wenachee.
Tacoma by ordinance authorizes its
City Council to expend each year the
sum of $1,000 in purchasing and
planting trees in the streets, avenues
and alleys of the city, exclusive Of
public parks.
The prohibition vote in this Terri
tory was 1.73S less than the vote in
1884. This decrease is doubtless due
to the fact that the women did not vote
this year. West of the mountains
the vote was 569; East it was 56s.
J. NJ. Buckley, Assistant General
Manager Of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road company. has resigned the posi-
ton of Manager Of the Northern Pa
cifc Coal company, and John Kangly
of Illinois, has been appointed to the
position. Mr.. Kangly will have his
headquarters in Tacoma.
At the penitentiary at WalIa Walla,
one day last week, John Kelly, con-
victed of burglary at Seattle, while
assisting in carrying an iron beam,
Was thrown from the third story of the
building to the ground, resulting in a
fractured skull and a hip being very
badly hurt. He may not recover.
Mr.. S. S. Cook. of Fishers landing,
has 1900 prune trees and 700 pear
trees set out on twenty acres of land
for which he refused $4,000. The
trees will come into bearing the COM
ing season. He has also five acres of
black-cap raspberries from which he
netted 800 per acre the past season.
From the Walla Walla Statesman it
is learned that on New Years eve the
new electric lights at the Penitentiary
shone forth in all their glory, having
been started generally for the first
time. Everything worked very salts
factorily indeed, much to the pleasure
OF the Penitentiary Commissioners and
numerous citizens Of Walla Walla,
who drove down to do honor to the &C.
casion. The machinery worked with.
out hitch, and a brilliant light was
kept up from 4 P. NJ. to 7:30 A. NJ,
next morning. The scene from town
and other places was beautiful, the
whole building being surrounded out.
side with the incandescent lamps.
The Spokane Falls Water Powe,
Company has been organized, with 9
capital Of $500, 600, for the purpose o
enlarging the facilities for utilizing the
falls and enhancing their usefulness
An immense fume will be constructed
probably on the north side of the
river. This fume can be tapped al
any point desired. 1t is the inten
ton of the company to offer extlaor
dinary inducements to the manufac
turers in the way OF liberal terms
Heretofore nearly all available ground
that could be used for manufacturing
has been occupied and the remainder
held at such high figures rs to prac
tically result in excluding small and
experimental manufactures.
Capt. Christian johnson who pro-
poses to establish a halibut fishery or
the northwest coast with head quar-
tiers in Tacoma, is stopping at the
Hotel Fife. The captain halls from
Swampscott, Mass, where he was q
fisherman for seventeen years. He
set sail from Marblehead December 10
1887, and arrived at Puget Sound
May 2, 1888. Since that time he ha.
been carefully investigating the fish
ing grounds OF the Pacific to latitude
| 20 deps. l& mins. north and lonpifnde