Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-03

The United States Fish Commi
sioner has written to the commander
: officer at Fort Walla Walla, askin
about the opportunities and advise
bility of putting a stock of Easter
brook trout in the streams of Wall
Walla valley.
, The Pierce county Commissioner
have inserted in the election notice TO
delegates TO the Constitutional Con
vention, a clause authorizing the cleo
tors to vote yes or no, on the question
OF raising $4,000 to purchase a coun
ty poor house.
Spokane Falls Reuiew says: The
riches and extent of the Wanacut lake
region of of the Okanagan country
still continues to attract the attention
of mining men, while the reports com.
ing in from that district are of the
most flattering character.
The Oaksdale branch of the Oregon
Railway & Navigation Co., which
leaves the Rockford Pennington road at
Tekoa and passes through Oaksdale,
will be run to point to be known as
Winona Junction, where it will again
join the o. R. e. N. system.
The little steamer Lake City, 35
feet long and capable of holding so
passengers, together with II sailing
and row boats, belonging to the Lake
City Railway g. Navigation company,
was launched on American Lake,
Pierce county, last Saturday night.
A man was found on the railroad
track just above Centralia about 8 80
Monday afternoon in an unconscious
condition. DIR. Russell was summoned,
who found him to be in a fit, also suf-
fering from softening of the brain.
He revived and was taken to Chehalis
If that s. 900 toward our city ceme-
terry, bequeathed by the late DR.. Baker,
is ever expended for the uses and pur-
poses expressed in the old mans will,
now is the time to do it. Whatever
can be done at any time is frequently
never done.-WdHa Wdlla Waterman.
Sunday morning Mr.. Mountell OF
Foster Creek, came to Watervil!e and
swore out a warrant for the arrest of
one White, charging said White With
attempting to kill him. Mr.. Mountsll
had a very narrow escape having been
shot through the leg and second
shot cut his cheek.
LaConner had another narrow es-
cape from disastrous 0Onfiagration
last Saturday evening. About IL
o'clock a partition in Geo. Tansey's
barber shop was discovered to be on
fire. The door was burst open and the
flames extinguished before any mater
ial damage was done.
A sand storm has been blowing
along the river between Arlington and
the Dalles, Oregon, since Monday at
noon, and the railroad track!has been
blockaded near Wallace. Three pas
senger trains are lying between Bls-
locks and Deschuttes. The blockade
| will be raised as soon as the wind sub
sides.
A young man named Essie Hatley,
was brought in on the 0. & w. 7.
train to Walla Walla Thursday night,
from Fishhook Bend, on Snake river,
suffering from conclusion OF the brain.
He was employed on the ranch Of
Hostler Brothers, at that place, and
while trying to ride a young horse,
Thursday morning, was thrown,
striking his head violently upon the
ground.
A gentleman, who has been visiting
Seattle recently, informs us that while
there train-load of live hogs was re-
ceived from Kansas City, and that
fully twenty-five per cent. Of the ami
mails died soon after arrival. The
butcher telegraphed and counter
manded the order for more hogs. A
law to prevent the bringing OF diseased
animals to Washington is greatly
nceded.-W. W. Union.
It is understood that company has
been organized to build the Is miles OF
road from Spokane Falls to Rockford,
so as to form the connecting link be-
tween Spokane Falls and the Oregon
Railway & Navigation Co.'S system.
1t was the original plan to have this
built by either the Oregon Railway &
Navigation or the Seattle Lake Shore
& Eastern Co., but for various reasons
this was found impracticable.
Owing to the remarkable salmon
catch in Alaska, a year ago, there il q
veritable "boom" in canneries this
year. At the mouth of almost every
river there lie a canning establishment.
The rivers are almost alive with fish,
and, in all probability, the catch will
be an enormous one. In Wards cove
and Langow's narrows, in Alaska, the
stream seemed to be q solid mass OF
salmon, they are so numerous.
CHI. Newman, a dramatic agent,
insulted Mrs. E. B. Muffley at the
Hotel Fife, in Tacoma, ON Wednes-
day, by trying to enter the lady's room
against her wishes. Mrs. Muffley is
the wife of travelling agent Muffley, of
the Chicago, st. Paul & Kansas City
railroad. When Mr.. Muffley learned
of the affair he found Newman and
compelled him to beg his wife's par
don, which he did in a humilitating
| manner.
A meeting of the regatta committee
was held Saturday afternoon at Ia
coma, and final arrangements were
made. O'Connor and Lee are both
there and will commence practice on
Monday. Hamm and Peterson will
be there sure about the 9Th, and
Gaudaur's hacker has announced that
Gaudaur will be there in few days.
Several local Oarsmen from San Fran
cisco are expected to take part in the
regatta. The race will be free for all.
The new hotel is going forward very
fast and the general impression is that
it is very uncouth and barn-looking
structure. 1t does not, so far Us one
can Judge at all compare in architec-
tural effect with the Denny Hotel in
Seattle, nor even the $4,000 Olympia
Hotel now being constructed. We
think any one of dozen Portland
architects could have outdone the
Boston effort on our hotel if an oppor-
tunity had been given them.-WeIcome.
At an early hour Saturday morning
James Dunn and William Ross heard
a cry for help from man in the water
| near the o. r. & N. dock in Seattle.
Ross jumped in and was grappled by
the man, who almost. drowned him.
j Dunn then diyed in TO save the two
men, and after desperate struggle the