Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-07-12
Colyille will soon take out a charter

vancouver, Fronting by It's late dls
aster, has established fire limits.
The wheat crop in Garfield county
it very poor. 1t will not even make
hay.
A 100-foot tunnel is being put in on
the Alice lode, Silver creek, Whitman
county.
Peanuts will be raised in Yakima
valley this season.
Seattle will have another electric
road to run TO Lake Washington and
Union Bay.
Five OF the six delegates to the con-
stitutional convention are in favor OF
electing all officers this fall
The regents of the Spokane Univer-
sity have again postponed the selection
of the site for the university.
The Chinaman who was shot three
times and stabbed seven times
through his body at Walla Walla, is
still alive.
The Council OF Moscow is considering
the propriety of bonding the town for
$4,000 for the purpose of boring an ar
tesian we'll.
Twenty-Five cases of insanity have
been reported before the Tacoma Judge
since last March, and half of the cases
are from the East.
A large number of Indians from the
Umatilla reservation passed through
Pennington last Friday, bound for the
Ceur d'Alene agency.
One of the Cakes Willard combination
while at Tacoma, said the Union Pa
cific road is to go to Tacoma over the
Northern Pacific track.
About forty Indians voted at Sko-
komish. Some forty-four of them have
been given land patents, and are sup.
posed to be qualified voters.
Saltus, chief of the Cnur dAlene In.
dams, publishes in the Pennington Reg.
lister request to the saloon keepers not
to sell liquor to his people.
The little rain that has fallen and
the cool weather that has followed il
has been of great benefit to the crops
but much more could be utilized with
advantage.
Five hundred men are at work grad
ing the Hunt extension to the Waits
burg railroad, which will be completed
this week. The line to Dayton il
guaranteed to be completed by October
lst.
| There is some good wild land yet in
Columbia county, belonging to the
Northern Pacific railroad company
which can be bought upon easy terms
the price varying from $3.50 to 81 pei
acre.
| Washington Territory appreciate.
the following: The Navy Department
directs that on and after July A, 1889
the national flag of the navy shall have
AZ instead of 40 stars in honor of the
new States.
Willie Mason, one of the Indians ol
the Quinault reservation offers his ser.
vices-for a consideration-to all that
desire guide in visiting the locality
or in prospecting in the Olympic
mountains.
A party of land seekers, led by F. P.
Morrow, of Seabeck, found skeleton
OF man on about section q, township
20 north, range / west. The bones
were cleaned entirely of flesh, and bore
evidences of long exposure.
The journals of the Northwest nearly
all have lengthy articles ON the " Les.
son OF the Seattle fire." The whole bus
iness, as far as it applies to Vancouver,
is easily condensed: brick buildings,
good insurance, plenty of water.
Colfax is making gigantic strides
this summer. Since the question of
the county seat is finally settled and
the fine new court house is in process
of erection, the whole country seems
to smile in prosperity and plenty.
The convention to meet in Ellens-
burg on July 10th, in the NJ. E. church,
in the interests Of the proposed clause
In the Constitution to exempt all
church and school property from tax
alton. is attracting much attention.
J The people of Gig Harbor celebrated
the Fourth of July. They had the
usual programme of speeches, music,
etc. Arrangements were made with
different steamer lines to carry passen-
gers at convenient hours during the
day.
The U. S Fish Commission steamer
was at work outside of the mouth of
Gray's Harbor last week. She has
been engaged in gathering data in re-
gard to the fisheries of the Pacific, and
is now working along the coast toward
Alaska.
1t is reported that the Union Pacific
does not intend building its Washing
ton line to Tacoma, Seattle nor Port
Townsend, but to Anacortes, and that
all other talk and maneuvers are for
the purpose of pulling the wool over
the eyes Of the world.
The Supreme Court of Washington
Territory says that the Columbia
Chroaicle decided that women are not
citizens. A Montana Judge has decid-
ed that they are not persons Now
the question for the Philadelphia law
yer to determine is, What are they?
| Representatives of the Westminster
southern on Thursday purchased the
Garfield road, and entered into \ writ
ten guarantee with the citizens OF
WhatcOm to have the road from What.
com to New Westminster connecting
with the Canadian Pacific by Christ
| mas
Whitman county is one of the rich.
est and best counties in the new State
OF Washington; there are better op.
portunities to get homes, to build up
business, to grow rich, to make good
living in and around Colfax just now
than almost anywhere in this inland
En- pre-.
The farmers north of Ellensburgh
are discussing the construction of a can
al twenty miles long, the water to be
taken out of the Yakima river about
ten miles above the city. A stock com
pany will lie formed with capital oi
$50 600, and it is the intention to com.
plete the work in twelve months.
&c. Stamper, a citizen of Elma, has
just completed working up fir tree
which grew on his place adjoining town.
He received $l2 for the bark; built a
frame house 14x2O feet, 8 feet high
with shed kitchens feet wide and 20
feet long, built q wood shed l4x20
feet made $50 fence rails 10 feet long
made 334 railroad ties and 500 boards 6
inches wide and q feet long. and fifteen