Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-02-01
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Postmaster at Tulalip.
There are thirteen Presidential post
offices in Washington Territory.
A determined effort is being made tc
root out the gamblers in Seattle.
The postofIice at Oakland Ma
son county, has been discontinued.
Mr.. Fife, OF Tacoma, contemplate.
adding another story to his famous
hotel, at that city.
Julia, the 16 year old daughter Of
Robert Abbott, of Dayton, was taken
to the asylum at Steilacoom Sunday.
Mary E. Brown has been commits
stoned Postmaster at Grand Mound,
and Burr P. Briscoe at Newatche, in
this Territory.
Little Ida Alderman, OF Walla
Walla, was badly burned few days
ago by her clothes igniting while
ASutiHS u Hie.
A postofiice has been established at
Oxford, Chehalis county, and Sarah
NJ. Walker has been commissioned
Postmistress from Jan. Goth.
A dispatch from Black Diamond
states that Peter Hanson was killed
and Hugh Wilson injured in an acci-
dent at the coal mine Friday evening.
About all the snow seen in Puyallup
this winter has been bought into the
city on top of railway trains coming
down from the summit of the Cas-
cades.
Robert Kennedy, citizen of Walla
Walla, while lost on the Snake river
a few nights ago, had his feet frozen,
and it became necessary to amputate
all his toes.
Leslie A. Cullom, of Tennessee, who
was nominated recently by President
Cleveland as Collector of Customs at
Port Townsend, has arrived and en-
tered upon his duties.
Two Chinese laborers were shot
near Port Townsend by a hoodlum
named Louie Kortor, boy IL years
old. The shooting was purely cold
b!ooded. The Chinese are not ex-
pected to live.
Nearly all the business houses OF
Walla Walla have signed an agree
ment to close on Sundays hereafter.
The BARRIERS adopted the rule on New
Years day. The saloons are also talk
ing OF joining the movement.
Saturday night at a dance at mine
No. 3, Roslyn, Fred Blannen shot and
killed Frank johnson. Both are col
ored. Coroner Henton impanelled a
jury and returned verdict OF murder
against Blannen. The prisoner is
now here in the custody of Sheriff
PackwOod.
The sale Of the Puget Sound Daily
Argus, by Allen Weir, will be consum-
formerly Of the Walla Walla Statesman
ated on February l. w. J. Newell,
and Union, is tho purchaser, and will
continue to publish Republican
daily and receive u synopsis of the
press report.
Messrs. Hughes and Ward, the
temperance lecturers who visited this
place about a year ago, have left the
platform and gone into the real estate
business. Mr.. Ward is engaged in
boosting Port Townsend and Hughes
in the laudable endeavor of enabling
Portland to hold her own.
The Tacoma Steam Brick Works
are making arrangements for the
manufacture of ornamental and
pressed brick, AS well as the ordinary.
The manufacture of pressed brick
differs very little from that of COM
mon brick, except that when they
are formed they are given their shape
in steel mould under u pressure of
from five to seven tons to each brick.
After the bricks are formed they 60
directly into an oven, where they are
baked rather than burned.
The Walla Walla Union published
answers from 80 of the 167 inmates OF
the penitentiary to Q circular letter
sent to them by that paper, asking
among other things, "To what do you
attribute your downfall" Twenty-six
answered whiskey; from having been
a member of a fire company, l; disc.
bedience to parents, 5; evil associa.
tions, 5; not guilty and therefore not
disgraced, 4; bad temper, l; bad
women, 3; no work, l. The rest as.
signed miscellaneous causes.
Judge Nash, in sentencing a tramp
named Barber, at Ellensburg, gave
him long lecture and short sentence
He told him the industrious people o.
Washington Territory had tired ol
his class, and were determined to
make them either earn an honest liy.
ing, leave the country or serve terms
in the penitentiary. His offense was
one which ought to cousign him to
the penitentiary for twenty years, bu,
the judge felt disposed to be lenient
and would let him off with two years.
The Pacific Navigation Company
have let the contract to John Holland
for the construction OF their new
stern-wheel steamboat. This steame,
is the one intended to run between
Tacoma and Whatcom, and it will be
completed by the middle of June
1t is to cost about $4,000. The
length of the boat will be 165 feet
with 80 feet beam and 7 feet depth o
hold. Mr.. Holland will build the
steamer on the Puyallup river at q
point near the sawmill of the St
Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company
This place is becoming quite ship.