Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-17

The mmisr ton hat is coming :,
the Palousa corntry over the 0. X. 4
N. is surprising, the average being
carload a day.
Real estate transfers for the pas
week in Spokane Falls as shown by tn
r cords, aggregated d $4S6,321, agains
1882 ,349 the preceding week.
There is not much enthusiasm mani
tested i'll Colfax over he Cynstitutiona
election, although the various candi
dates are doing the usual amount U
handshaking.
George w. Babcock, Of Walla Walla
ne s,Uhiteet whose plans were adoptet
for the courthouse at COl1ax, Is work
ing on the plans for the Odd Fellows
and Masonic temple which is to cos
$4,000.
The validity of the law under which
the gamblers have recently been ar
rested in Seattle is to be tested in thu
DistrIc ct Court, an appeal of tue case
h wing been taken Saturday for thai
purpose.
In addition to the election OF dele
gates to the Constitutional Convention
on Tuesday, the citizens Of Pierce
county will vote on the question of es
tablishing poor farm in the county
costing $1,000.
Peter Bauman, agent Of the Bruins
wick Bake Company, was shot and
dangerously wounded in the Pantheon
saloon on Commercial street, Seattle
Satu' day night. by Moritz Choynski
caoinet-mak r.
Hon. H. P. Isaacs, of Walla Walla
Was nominated Saturday on the su'-
frage ticket FIR delegate to the Con.
stitu ional Convention. He says he
j. not prOhib, ionist in the strict se ense
of the term but favors high license.
A test case to decide the Oregon law
on riparian rights has been instituted
by DR.. Glove, of Wal Walla, against
several Or gon gra gers along the
w lla w LA riv r, Who dug irIigating
ditrhes a owe his tlace. Great inter
est is manifested in the case.
Inspectors Bullene and Bryant are
max ng an investigation f the COLI
ion N the ha Dor of Seattle, between
the E. ma Hayward and the ferry
City of Seattls. A number of witness
ses have been examine. The investi-
ga'ion will probably end Friday.
Monday evening Tincoate Rainville
a young Frenc man living on the res
ervati ~ near Adams, committed sui-
eide. The We. dict OF the coroner's ju }
was self-sacrifice from disappointment,
in ". The y. nng lady is said to b.
MISS Az es Kir. ey, liv ng near by.
An ther vi lain. whn has vic imized
woman, has been traced to Helena.
Hi name is John McCarty, and he is
a book agent + r Appl ton & Co. He
is wanted by his wife, whom he
n, rrie under the assumed name Of
Aston, in Elgin, ILL.,. two years ago.
The vote in Tscoma on Mayor was
Wheelwri ht, Dem, 1,l5O; Wingate,
Rep, 1,O6S. Wheelwright's majority
so. Total vote. 2,218. The Ledger
calls i. the nardestfought ELECTION
ever held in T coma" The r pdbli-
cans elected mos # ths other officers.
A pill dr. yer at sand Island to
drive piles or q tish trJp there, went
adrift Sunday night, crossed out over
the bar, but was picked up and towed
hack by the life-saving crew at Cape
Ha acock, and was towed to Fort
St phens by the steamer General
Ca by.
1t is whispered about in Wslla Walla
that number of influential citizens
are after the scalp of P. B. johnson
editor of the Walla Walla Union. He
wa nominated as Republican dels-
gate to the Constitutional Convention.
1t is said that Mr.. Shal pstein will beat
him badly.
John H. Ledger xooI, of the Ledger
wood Manufacturing company, build
e's OF no!siing engines, marine boilers
and o'her machinery, Saturday consu-
mated the purchase Of $40 acres near
The fair grounds in the northern part
Of 8, okans Falls, paying therefore
$4,000.
Unit d States Inspectors Bullene
and Bryant, at Port Townsend, refuse
to grant the seized British sealing
schooner, which W 8 Id at MarshaPs
auc ion, a license, on The ground that
Il has foreign ottom. Tn question
will b decided by the Sc, rotary Of the
Treasury.
Messrs Livingstone and Kuhn, ol
c, lax, are h wi 6 pl ms prepared foi
an addition to their build ny which
viii make it 7Ox90 feet, two ori-s in
Ii light. The upper floor is Tor mn
opera house which they intend msk
ing as complete as any in Eas,err
Washington.
Two young msn giving the nameI
OF Edward Coffee aud Howard Nc Mil
Ian were cap ured by the police of Sc
at'le, Thu sday. and when searched
had about $50 worth of jewelry or
their persons. 1t is supposed thai
they robbed Grossie's store at Van
e. uver, B. G.
L L Abbott, a San Francisco com
me cial ,r veler who came to tn.
Sound b. few weeks ago in search O
en- ployment, cannot be found. Hi
wife md children are in Victoris ir
destitur circumstances, and would b
glad to learn the whereabouts OF ths
missing man.
G or e Evans, a resident of Tacom
W II sail r Alaska this week in tn,
lit lie sl,.p 'iyak, which he owns
The Hyak is about 20 feet long ant
weighs about u ton. Mr.. Evans WI
sta alone in the II ak. hav ng al
ready take board provisions to la
or .eve al months.
G neral Bates, a retired English Ar
my officer, who arrived ut Seattl'
hursda Was surpris d upon inter
ing he dining-room # the Occidental
h tel to meet hi son p years OLD, Wit
W a waiter there. The young MAJ
lett home seven ye RS ago, and Ia
b n k ocking about the world since
A.C. Warner, D. w. Bass, H. F. VI.
Cure and II. Schroeder, o. seattl,
and w. G. Steele, Of Por land, com
pos five of party # Ell ht that y i'll al
ce T. d and illuminate Mount Rainier OF
the night Of July 4. The party vii
take 40 & evenly five pounds OF re-
fire, and burn it at IL O'Clock at nigh
The captain Of the British bar
Royal Tar, which arrived at MOODY
vile last week, an who was thous h
to have brought Dick Creighton, tn
csleor jury briber, OF San Frar
cisco, up from the Hawaiian island