Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-03-08
Territorial Happenings.

, Yakima will have telephone sys-
tenn ina few days.
A brick and tile factory is to be es-
tablished at Puyallup.
A steam bakery will soon commence
operations at Snohomish.
A fine deposit of fire clay has been
discovered near Franklin.
Grouse and deer are said to be
abundant ON Vashon Island.
A new steamboat is being built at
Snohomish to ply on the Snake river.
4R. -Ormsby killed-s-sssy-asus0w1lA
cat almost at his door, near Chehalis.
The Lydia Thompson tronpe Of
high kickers are performing at Taco
ma.
An electric light company has been
organized at Abcrsecn, Chehalis coun-
ty.
Seals are quite abundant at the
mouth of the Columbia river this
spring.
The Old Squak postoffice at Gilman
will hereafter be known by the name
of Olney.
The WILDLY Island company will
start up their new sawmill en- Friday,
March 1st.
Miss Mamie Paine, of Port Town
send, died Of heart disease, in that city
Thursday.
Forty miles Of the Washington Cen
t,al (Northern Pacifc) railroad will be
built this year.
Collum, the new Collector at Port
Townsend it is said cannot, or will
not be confirmed.
Col. J. w. Feighau ha, been elected
City Attorney of Spokane Falls, vice
HOugh on, resigned.
Charles SweaZa, farmer, had his
ankle broken near Walla Walla by be-
ing thrown from wagon.
The Seattle grand jury have indict-
ed q number of miners who were en-
gagged in the Newcastle riots.
G. H. Golfer, of the firm of Singer &
Golfer, Ellensbugh, has left the city,
leaving numerous creditors behind.
Hotels, boarding houses, factories
and mills in Seattle must be provided
with fire escapes by the 10Th OF March.
Last Wednesday an unknown was
found dead near Whatcom, supposed
to have been murdered by highway
men.
Officers Mckernon and Brundage
have been suspended for fifteen days
without pay, for attending variety
show in Spokane Falls.
The Walla Walla creamery made its
first run one day last week, and fifty
pounds of first-cliss butter was the
result.
Fire clay having been found near
Pasco, brick-making establishment
will soon be started, with plenty OF
capital.
John Miles, James P. Smith and
S. E. Blair have been commissioned
postmastcrs at Clagato, Cle-elum and
Montesano.
| Owing to the increase in business the
four banks in Spokane Falls have add
ed over a half million dollars to their
capital stock.
Iron works, having capacity of
ten tons per day, are being built ut
Port Hudson and will commence opc-
rations in April.
James Patchell of Ruby City, who
recently killed an Indian while the
latter was trying to break into his cab
in, was discharged.
An interest in the Fourth of July
mine, Ruby City, has been sold to
Montana parties on basis of 500, 600
for the whole mine.
Spokane has A saloons, Al real es-
tate firms, 25 grocery stores, II dry
goods stores, Is hotels, 13 cigar stores
and IL meat markets.
The syndicate which recently pur-
chosed 4S9 acres at Long Harbor, Port
Townsend, are plating the same under
the name of GlcnrOn.
Patents have been granted to F. B.
Kendall, of Olympia, for an improved
windmill, and to J. E. Ohlson, of
Rockford, for potato planter.
A vigilance committee has been
organized in Whatcom. The city is
overrun with criminals, who are get
ting very bold in their demands.
Port Townsend now has three in-
corporated banks; the Bank of WASH
ington Territory, with a capital of $780,
600, being the latest organization.
John Cort is now running eleven
theaters as follows at Seattle, Tacoma,
Portland, Victoria, B. c., Spokane
Falls, Eugene City and Port Town
send.
United States Bank Examiner A.
H. Heald, for the district comprising
Washington, Montana and Oregon, is
in Tacoma, examining the national
banks.
The first artesian well ever attempt
ed in the neighborhood OF Walla Walla
is now being sunk on the thousand
acre farm of George Delaney, just
south of that town.
The mine recently discovered near
Castle Rock, by Mr.. G. F. White, is
proving success. At present there
are five men working in it, and the
vein is about IL feet wide.
A meeting OF Chehalis business men
was held at the court house last Thurs
day night, at which an organization
under the name of the Business Mems
Association of Chehalis, was formed.
An eastern capitalist is considering
the proposition Of establishing starch
works at New Dungeness. He has
gone to Clallam county with view of
making contracts for the purchase of
potatoes.
Capt. Paul Boynton, the aquatic &C.
lebrity. passed through Tacoma this
week on his way to the west coast of
Vancouver, where he he is commits
stoned to obtain live seals for Lincoln
Park, Chicago.
James Irwin, farmer living not far
from ClaQuato, was taken to Chehalis
Wednesday and examined for insanity.
1t appearing that he had for some time
been of unsound mind, he was COM
mitted to the asylum.
A report from Chehalis states that
Joseph Piltz, OF Re-Ell, was found
dead in his cabin, with hole in his
, head and a Winchester across his
breast. 1t is supposed to be u case Of
suicide. He was a single man and a
Bohemian.