Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-09-27
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

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Spokane Falls is to have IL magni-
ficent syndicate hotel, 3OOxlOO, to cost
$250,00O.
The Kent Recorder estimates that
King county will produce at least
1000 bales of hops.
Centralia will be handsomely writ
ten up in the November Northwest
Magazine, at q cost of $500.
Lucy Lewis, aged 1G, was accident
ally shot and killed by her brother at
Samish lake, King county.
William n. Hickinsic has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Artie, Chehalis
county, vice S. Sanders, resigned.
Miss Anderson, now of Port Blakely,
was the first white child born at Ia
coma. She is only 16 years of age.
A Mr.. Woodhouse claims to have To-
Gated ledge of graphite in the Cow
litz Pass, three miles long and eight
feet thick.
Clayton II. Packard, editor of the
Snohomish Eye, has been arrested on
a charge of libeling J. w. Gum, of the
Daily Sun.
Louis Wick, an cmploye in the Yes
Ter sawmill at Union Bay, received fa-
tai injuries by being struck in the head
by flying plank.
The Republicans of Chehalis county
have substituted c. j. Wooding on
their ticket for State Senator, in place
of J. T. Soule, resigned.
The Skagit river has been swollen
somewhat by the recent rains and the
loggers' faces wear smiling expressions
as rafting can now be done to the Sound
with ease.
An extensive deposit of a very fine
quality of limestone has been discov-
cred in Chehalis county. 1t is said to
be eminently suited to superior quail
ity of mineral paint.
The Sumner Herald says that an
electric railroad line will soon be estab-
lished between Seattle and Tacoma,
through the Puyallup and Stuck val
leys, by the aid of Eastern capital.
1t is reported that runners from the
Colville reservation are laboring among
the Palouse Indians, to induce them
to join with the Indians on the Col
vile and Montana reservations in gen.
eral uprising this Fall.
Mrs. Nora Mcmahon has sold her
fine dairy farm of 200 acres in the Vi
cinity of Slaughter for $4,000. The
purchaser is Mr.. Wellington of Min
nesota, who will stock it with the best
class of stock in horses and cattle.
The Port Blakeley mill, the largest
on the Sound employs $50 men and
turns out 100000 feet of lumber daily.
Two large ocean ships are being built
at Port Blakley docks, one of which
will have the capacity for carrying
1000, GOO feet of lumber.
A large consignment of Eureka Flats
wheat was started from Walla Walla
for Sicily, Italy, last week, to be used
in the manufacture of macaroni. Ex-
periments prove that the quality of
macaroni produced is superior to that
of any other wheat used.
E. w. Gragg, manager of the Burrell
lands in Whitman county, informs the
Colfax Gazette that over $4,000 bushels
OF wheat will be harvested from 1000
acres. This yield of twenty-five bush.
els per acres from so large tract does
not indicate that there is much of a
crop failure.
Port Townsend is to put in system
of water-works to cost several hundred
thousand dollars. They will take wa
ter from the Little Quilcene river, at
an elevation of 1900 feet, and their
reservoir will be located on Mountain
View Heights, with fall of 800 feet to
the city mains.
A recent discovery is that of a gran
lite quarry nine miles north of Spokane
Falls. There is wall of white gray
granite mile and half long and 600
feet high. Pieces so feet long have
been taken out. This stone will be
used largely in the construction of the
cremated city.
A prominent Spokane firm whose
went through the fire, found that its
books had evidently been rendered
worthless, and but for the bookkeep-
ers' discovering a simple means of read
ing the blackened and charred pages,
the firm would have been in bad box.
BY dampening each page and separat-
fng it carefully from the mass, the
clerks were enabled to transfer each
account to new ledgers, and incredible
as it may seem, they balanced to a
cent. The old books are as black as
ink, and are esteemed q great curiosity
by many business men and bookkeep-
ers who have examined them.
The corner stone OF the Puget Sound
University, an institution founded by
the Methodist church, was laid at Ia
coma last Monday. The ceremonies
were conducted by Bishop Bowman
and were most impressive. The build
ing when completed will cost $6O, 600.
OF this sum $4,000 has been paid.
The assets of the University are $780,
SIS, principally in land, which Bishop
Bowman advises to be used as an en-
dowment fund, the building to be COM
pleted by donations. 1t is the inten-
ton of the Puget Sound conference,
under the auspices of which the work
will be conducted to make it a thor
oughly educational institution, to
which the young men and young wo-
men of Washington will be admitted
on equal terms.
One of the lucky real estate deals
which sometimes come upon a fellow
unaware eliminated in Hoquiam re-
Gently, says the Washingtonian, and
young man made a small fortune-a
fortune which, if rightly handled, is
capable of making its possessor, in this
country, independent. Eight months
ago Charles Lyons, of this town, dis
covered and secured 160 acres of gov
ernment land adjoining the Gray's
Harbor townsite, paying therefor the
government price of 81 % per acre. He
has recently effected sale of one-half
his claim at the price of $3.50 per acre,
$12, coo. This is no fish story, but one
of the streaks of good fortune which
visit fellow in new country if he
keeps his eyes open and is always
ready to grasp opportunities.
Fire started in Blackman Bros. ex-