Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-04-26
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

VAGINA ed last week by Or. Buc hanan
o. the Tula.ip agency.
A tug to be used in the fishing in
dustry near Brown's p int is under
construction at Ho lands yard in Ia
coma.
The report that the Bellingh m b J
s'ona quarry hal closet down has
/ been de ned by Roeden & Rotn, the
propri tors.
Ii Seattl~'s trade confines % in,
crease in the present ratio it will bot
be many month, before her steamb );t
fleet is doubl d.
Palmer & Rey, Of Portland, will
soon estabi h an agency on tn
Sound to supply their increasing trade
in this Territory.
1t is generally conceded that at the
Republican convention held in Ia
coma yesterday, Scott Hewitt was the
strongest man FIR M yor.
Hon. Alonzo Leland, the veteran
journalist of Lewiston, Idaho, has y en-
again stricken with paralysis, and is
now in serious condition.
Seattle may not be very ambitious
musica ly, but her Easter programmes
showed that she can do something in
that direction when she tries.
The Idaho is now carrying the mail
on the LaConner route and will prob
ably continue to do so until the Has
salo's repairs are completed.
With 100000 acres of room there
is no danger of Washington being I'M
able TO take care of all the people who
may come within her. borders.
A notorious prost tute, of Tacoma,
named Lowe has been arrested j. Port
Land charged with inducing two girls
aged 16 to lead lives of shame.
Associate Supreme Judge c. II. c j.
} kins left for SIP kane Falls Tu sday,
a companied b Mr.. Huston. He vii
begin the duties OF the Office May 1st.
John Holland. master boat butler
for the o. r. & N. Company, has the
new boat for the P cific Navigation
Company almost completed at Ia
coma.
'.h'he real estate sales at Spokane
iIuring the past week amour ed
to- over half million dollars, being
the largest weeks business in the city :
history.
Dispatches from San Francisco state
hat growing fet ling exists tn re
among the stockholders of the Puget
Sound Colony, that they have been
swindled.
Sherman Gilfol, of Gilman, met
W tn an accident a Tfew days since
, falling thirty-eight feet and receiving
quite severe inju les, but hopes to be
!, around again i'll few days.
: On Wednesday night thieves tried
Tito enter the hardware store of c. I
I THOMPSON, at Walla WALL, but tn
, dog next door set up such howl tn Al
it frightened the thief away.
, The six-yearold daughter of Mr.
Doolittle, of Snoqualmie, had the ends
. of two of her fingers taken offwhile she
and her little brother were playing
about a rad wagon on the 2lst inst.
The Gle Elem Natural Ice Company
has been incorporated by ]. ]. Harris
of Tacoma, Augustus S 'sse of Gle
Elem and Hyman Harris of Nor h
Yakima, with capital stock OF $25, 600
Hon. w. d. Fenton, OF McMinnville
, Oregon, has formed partnership Wit
w. w. Newlin, prose curing attorney
of Seattle, and will shortly remove to
hat city to engage in the practice Of
law.
The burglar shot by Sheriff MeF~ r
land ia Walla Walls county, and who
was identified as Thomas Williams
alias Lindsay, saddler, who used to
, work for Thos. Quinn in that city, j.
, not the man at all.
Over IS college men Of Tacoma met
at the court house Tuesday evening
: and formed temporary orsaniza' ion.
Judge Allyn presided and H. X. Moore
acted as secretary A banquet will be
held the 7lh and Goth OF May.
The latest railroad project is con-
tenn plated line from S m,sh peninsula
through the Skagit valley +, Spokane,
where it will probably connect wi h
some transcontinental line, making
Samsh virtually the terminus.
Cap. White, of the steamer Premier,
wbo skipped some time since with
aboul 10000 OF the company. money,
now says it was lost in an opium d al.
The stuff WIS piped off and t. save his
ship he consigned it to the deep.
Gardner Kellogg, of Sea tie, defeated
w. r. D. dye, OF Iacom., in shoot ny
contest at five pig ons, for the cham
pionship medal held by Kellogg.
Tive rty-one birds were shot at, aud
Kellogg got eighteen to Dodge's eleven.
Broncho Liz, the slayer of her al
legged husband, Charlie Skerls, at Sp =
kane Falls, has applied to the court Of
probate, and desires to beuppoipt- d
Administrative of his estate. There is
gall for you. Whist Liz needs, is hemp.
A few days ago a man and wife
named Madden, from Sprague, stopped
at the City hotel, at Walla Walla.
On pretence of having left a satchel at
Pasco. The man left, and has not been
heard from since. 1t is supposed hs
has abandoned the woman.
Our power press behaved badly this
week and the print is not as good as it
might be, but the machinist and the
matchmaker are at work at it now, and
next week she will run again as easy
as sewing machine, but she is a
kicker.-Walla Walla Journal
l. Major J. r. Hayden, Adjutant Gen
eral r. G. O'Brien. Hon. 7 II Cava-
naugh, Representatives A. B. Cowles
aud P. Hiltz of George A. Thomas
post, Grand Army OF the Republic, at
Olympia, are at Spokane Falls attend
ing the Animal Encampment.
The construction on the ex'en-ion
OF the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern
Railroad will commence in earnest in
few weeks. The construction COM
pany are g. ting everything in resdi-
ness so when they do commence, work
can he pushed through without delay.
At the instance of the o. R. & N.
Co. an order h s been issued changing
the mail days on the L Conner rou C,
to Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sa'ur,
days, returning on alternate days
This is very inconvenient in several
, respects and protest will probably be
, made.
The Southwestern Tuesday evening
, kicked up quite a sea in the straits
and the heavy swell Wednesday morn.
ing made it rather dangerous for the
steamer Washington to venture out.
side, loaded to the gunwhales as she