Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-07-05
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

y stock company has been formed
80 build $4,000 hotel at Cheney.
C. E. Green, OF Seattle, has started a
large new furniture store at Ellens-
burg.
North Yakima is happy over the
speedy prospect ofwater works and cleo
trio lights.
At Walla Walla, DR.. l.. NJ Davis is
suing NJ b. Ward for SANDER, claiming
$4,000 damages.
BY vote of forty to four, Rockford
has decided to issue bonds to procure
means to protect the town against fire.
The steamer Fairhaven struck a
rock in Chuckanuck bay last Thursday
evening, but the damage was insigniti-
cant.
The work of grading on the Puget
Sound & Gray's Harbor road is adj
vancing as rapidly as could be ex-
pected -
Preparations are being made for the
erection Of $4,000 sash, door, blind
and wooden ware mandatory at Port
Townsend.
Ritzville. town of less than $50
inhabitants, boasts of having an opera
house. Ellensburg, a town of 1000
has not one.
By an accidental discharge of a
companions gun, one day last week,
s. f. King, of Walla Walla county was
shot and killed.
The Tacoma mill company is load
ing 100000 foot raft OF lumber for
Seattle, to be used in new buildings
under construction.
The Walla Walla street cars began
running regularly on Friday last.
The drivers receiving $l2 aweek and
the cars stop running at s 80 p. NJ.
Ex-Governor Squire last Friday filed
his answer to the complaint in the
suit for $4,000 damages brought
against him by J. o. Hanegan at Sc
attic.
Col. Chas. A. Wood, late president
OF the Territorial Council of Idaho,
and member elect of the Constitutional
Convention, died at Salmon City a few
days ago.
Seattle received aid to the amount
Of 1888, 81. 20 for the sufferers. The
fund raised for the Johnstown suffer
ers in Seattle was sent the next day
after the fire.
w. b. Russell, sentenced to the pen
etentiary for fourteen years, at Walla
Walla, for murder in the second degree,
whose time expires in November, has
been pardoned.
A Business Mems Association has
been organized at Fairhaven and Bel
bingham Bay, for the purpose of fur
nishing information to persons desir-
ing to invest capital in those towns.
In Eastern Washington huge banks
of the finest clay known to the trade
have been discovered and Colfax is Of
fering inducements to establish pot
terry.
The City Marshal OF Sehome, arrested
all the saloon kee3ers in town for
keeping open on Sunday. They were
fined by the justice $50 and costs
each, and will appeal to the District
Court.
The ladies of Ellensburg gave ball
recently, the proceeds of which were
given to the women and girls made
destitute by the Seattle fire. One
hundred and seventy dollars were
raised
The merchants of Walla Walla taking
alarm at the attitude of Willard re-
speeding the Hunt road, and in order
to preserve two strings to their bow are
directing all their patronage to go and
come by that line.
4 Mrs lone Skeels, who murdered
Chas. Skeels in Spokane last winter
has applied for Il continuance of her
trial on account of i'll health Two
physicians have been selected. to de.
termine her condition.
Enterprise: A new school district
has been formed in North Garfield
Superintendent Bean has appointed the
following persons as a school board
F. Mast, Joseph Hill, Henry Mcqueen
|. and w. A. Lemon, clerk.
The people of Tacoma contributed
$27 500 to the Seattle and Johnstown
sufferers: 81 900 of the amount was
to Seattle an $1,000 in provisions be.
sides. Tacoma did well and her gener
osity will long be remembered.
The discovery of silver ledes on the
west side of the Cascade mountains, on
, tributary OF the Skykomish, has ere
) ated some talk among the people o.
|, Seattle and Tacoma. George Bethune
) has made assays of it and pronounces
it very good.
) Judge Wingard, has been divorced
upon his own application from the law
/ He has not been in court house but
once Ito attend a railroad meeting
since he retired from the bench. He
/ is content now to be semi-agri-horti
fi0riculturalist.