Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-02-08

hours to dig them. Every evening a
procession of pals and shovels may be
seen vending their way to the beach.
Port ARacles Commonwealth.
4 case of smallpox broke ont in
Simpsons camp, near shelton, a few
days ago, and DR.. Flanagan went
down to set things right. Every pre-
caution has been taken against spread
OF the disease, and the doctor vacci-
mated eighty people at kamilchie, on
his return.
Mr.. SwartOut, owner al Protection
Island, is said to have refused fifty per
cent. advance on the price he paid for
it some months ago. He expects to
get large share of the purchase price
$4,000 back from the sale of Chinese
pheasants, which have multiplied to
vast numbers there since DR.. Minor
turned some loose on the island a few
Years ago.-Port ToWnSend Argus.
The Puget Sound lumber product
for the year 1883 was 2S5, 00O,O feet,
which was sent to various points on
the Pacific Coast and the foreign
shipment went to all parts of the
world, the largest shipments, however,
being consigned to the colonial mar
ket, which has continued to demand
our lumber with steady degree that
insured profit to the ship-owners.
Mr.. Mitchell, OF Oregon, has intro
duced in the Senate, bill to create an
additional land district in Washington,
the proposed district to be called the
Montesano land district. 1t is to be
composed OF Pacific, Chehalis and
Mason counties and all of Lewis and
Thurston counties, west OF range 3,
and all of that part of Jefferson cOun-
ty lying west OF range ., west of the
Willamette meridian.
Officials of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company are preparing to
organize construction company, with
a capital stock of probably $4,000, to
build the necessary terminal facilities
at Tacoma. The passenger and freight
traffic of the line has outgrown all
reasonable calculation made a year or
SO ago, and the construction of large
depot and freight warehouses is abso-
lutcly demanded Immediately.
The bright, cloudless and sunny
weather which Olympia has been hav-
ing for the past few days could COM
pare with those of the most famous
climes in the world. Mount Rainier
heaped with snow, forms u spectacle
of grandeur worth travelling 4 thous-
and miles to see" And from no point
can it be seen to better advantage than
from the city that is now making such
magnificent strides towards suprem-
acy.
The lumber-sawing capacity of all
mills in Washington Territory, as COM
puted from lumber shipments, and
local sales, for the past year, is 406,-
961 ,27O feet, valued at $6,759, $780,
the actual lumber production being
nearly 1923 100000 feet; the remainder
is divided up into laths, pickets,
shingles, spars and small lumber.
This production covers the territory
OF Puget Sound, Gray's Harbor mills,
Shoalwater bay and few internal
mills.
Shelton, the flourishing county seat
OF Mason county, is now incorporated.
The following trustees were elected
for the first year: David Shelton,
Thomas Bordeaux, w. II. Kneeland,
Geo. Cyphert, d. NJ. Duckworth. Sub
sequently the following town officers
were chosen: President of board of
trustees, David Shelton; secretary, A.
J. Taylor; treasurer, J. b. Shelton:
marshal, Georgs Voegtlin; street COM
missioner, Thos Reed; corporation
counsel, c. II. Aver, of Olympia.
A terrible accident occurred on the
upper Skagit last Friday, resulting in
the death of Anton Clabbe, settler in
that section. Clabbe was out pleas
ant hunting with Thos. McCaffrey, on
the Skagit about two miles above the
mouth of the Sank, and mile back
from the river. While running on a
log across slough he slipped and by
some means sccidently discharged
both barrels of his gun, the entire con-
tents of which took effect in his right
temple, ranging backward near the
left ear, blowing the entire top of his
head off. His companion was a short
distance ahead of him, and hearing
the shots looked around only in time
to see him roll off the log. When he
reached Clabbe he was already dead,
and his brains were scattered on the
ground. 1t is supposed that he slipped
and struck the hammers of his gun
against the log, which caused the dis
charge. Clabbe has lived in the Sank
country for long time, aud his terri
bic death is greatly regretted by his
friends.
The Skagit is the largest river in
Western Washington. Rising in the
mountains of British Columbia it flows
in southeasterly direction to n point
40 miles south of the boundary line,
when it turns and flows west, and re-
ceiving in its course Il large number
of tributaries, it discharges itself into
an arm of the Sound commonly called
Saratoga passage. The river is
flanked on either side by arrange of
mountains which gain in height as
they approach the main range OF the
Cascades. Between these mountains
lies the valley, which is nearly 100
miles long, by from 2 to 10 wide, gain
ing in width as it approaches the
Sound. Ten miles above its lower end
the valley becomes merged in the
Swinomish country, which extends
away to the north, and here it loses its
identity. The Swinomish is a low, fiat
and almost treeless region OF many
thousand acres in area, rescued from
the sea through the medium of dykes,
and converted into valuable farms,
not less prolific than those i'll the IA
nous delta of the Nile.