Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-01-18
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

The penitentiary at Walla Walla is
now heated by steam.
Medical Lake boasts OF having two
RAILROADS and four hotels.
CentrIlia wants somebody to build
new hotel in that growing town.
There are 2,lO3 Free Masons in
Washington Territory and fifty lodges.
Five acres OF land near Centralia
were sold a few days ago for 81 900 an
acre.
John W. Scrafiord committed sui
eide in the Bartlett House at Seattle
u few days ago
The militia law requires meeting
twice month Of the National guards
in this Territory
The Board of Trade of North Yak
ina intend shortly to begin the publ
cation OF IA newspaper.
The investigation into the causes OF
the Newcastle riot of last week has
not been concluded yet.
The net earnings of the Tacoma
postotlice for 1883 were SlS,0702J.
This is above all expenses
The total exports of the Puget
Sound district for the year just passed
were valued at So 100000.
The custom house employees at
Port Townsend have not been paid
anything since last October.
The new water works route from
Lake Anderson to Port Townsend is
being located by the surveyor.
The body of Annie Bodala, the
child victim OF the dynamite tiend of
Gilman, was buried yesterday.
Mrs. Emma Brown died this week,
at Seattle, from the effects of Il surgi-
Cal operation to remove Il cancer.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Bodola, who were
blown up by dynamite at Gilman, are
now out OF danger and are rapidly get
ting well. -
Repairing shops, depots. and hotel
it is announced, will soon be built at
Walla Walla, by the o. W. & T. rail
road, to cost 100000.
Wool to the amount Of 100000 OF
pounds is not small lot of wool But
this is the amount of wool produced in
the Columbia river region in 1888.
The Yakima Board of Trade are
thinking of offering handsome bo-
nus to the party who will erect Il
great sugar refinery in that locality.
The Walla Walll City Council has
ordered the drafting Of an ordinance
tending to suppress variety shows and
gambling and to close saloons on Sun
day
A man named Wood, recently from
Texas, was accidentally killed by the
discharge of his own gun while hunt
ing in the woods near Toledo last
! week.
A row between Chinese occurred in
Seattle lately, in which knives and
pistols were freely used. No one was
killed but considerable blood was
spilled.
THE outfit with which Prof X. o.
Welts intended to publish II paper at
Lyman, on the Skagit, now lies at the
bottom of the raging Nooksack; the
steamer on which it was shipped hav-
ing capsized.
A call has been issued, at Seattle,
for mass temperance convention to
be held in the M. f. church, on Janu-
airy %. The convention will adjourn
to Spokane Falls OH the 25th, when
permanent organization will be effect
ed.
During the year 9,36S instruments
were filed in the Auditors office at Ia
coma. Deeds aggregate 100000.
Two hundred and sixty marriage IL
censes were issued and 402 declara-
tons of intention to become citizens
were made.
In 1853 Washington was set apart
as a Territory with its own Territorial
government. Since that time there
have been Is Governors. The first
was Isaac Stevens, from 1853 to 1857.
The longest term of service was that
of E. P. Ferry, from 1872 to 1880.
Land near Bellingham Bay has late
ly sold for $500 an acre, and wild
land half mile from the Whatcom
court house sold for $1,000 an acre.
Mr.. Bennett, through agents, is
buying and bonding property at good
figures. Land two miles from the
court house sells readily for 5000 an
acre.
Mr.. Gerry Smith, about 60 years of
age, living with Mr.. S. f. Phillips
about four miles from Chehalis and
near Newaukum, was taken sick with
mild form Of smallpox last Thursday.
There is no danger of the spread of
the disease from this case, rs the place
is quarantined.-Nugget.
On the Colville Indian reservation
in Stevens county there are less than
1000 Indians. The reservation is
about 100 miles square and is very
rich in minerals. The people of East
ern Washington were enjoying sleigh
ing and skating, many of those on this
side of the Cascades were blowing.
! The slOop Emerald was seized by
the Revenue Cutter WolcOtt, in Port
Discovery Bay, last Friday, with
twelve cinnamon and 100 pounds of
opium on board. The two men found
in charge were bound over to appear
at the next term of the district court,
and the vessel and cargo were taken
to Port Townsend for further orders.
The Tacoma News gives the dimen-
sions of two logs recently photograph
ed on the line of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, which will give some idea of
the size OF Western timber. The pic
ture shows two short sections of logs
one a red fir and the other Il spruce,
on platform car. The dimen-
sions of the red fir log, were; Diameter
$685. inches, or nearly eight feet. The
height of the tree from which it was
cut was $500 feet; years of growth
653. Spruce log: Diameter $40, or
nearly eight feet six inches. Height
of tree 1869 feet; growth PIT years.
Attorney-G General Metcalfe has rem
dered lengthy opinion upon the
legal phase of the proposition to con-
vene the Territorial Legislature with
out the necessary pecuniary appropri-