Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-07-05

The City Council OF Centralia has
granted charter to street railway
company.
Work on the Waitsburg-D Dayton ex-
tension Of the Hunt railroad has been
commenced.
Port Townscnd's motor street car
line is expected to be in running order
by the Fourth OF July.
The Seattle Improvement company
has filed articles of incorporation, with
a capital stock is $l25,O0O.
Hon. Charles f. Laughton will soon
enter into the practice OF law at Spo-
kane Falls, it is reported.
Twenty-Five pounds of opium was
captured on the steamship Idaho at
Port Townsend the other day.
F. A. Allen has resigned his position
as general freight and passenger agent
of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern
railroad
For some time Chehalis citizens have
been annoyed by petty thieving, and it
is supposed that the mischief was done
by tramps.
The town of Chautauqua is growing
considerably. Elaborate preparations
have been made there for celebration
on the Fourth.
The vacant lands north of Meadow
have all been settled up recently, and
many of the new occupants are max
ing good homes.
Judge Beverly has ordered nineteen
persons to be committed to the insane
asylum at Steilacoom, since taking his
seat as Probate Judge on the 4th Of
March last.
Mica mines which promise rich re-
turns have been discovered near Span
gle. A tin strike is also reported in
the vicinity, assays going as high as
80 per cent.
Chehalis proposes to construct log
flume seven miles long, from the Ne
waukum river to that place, to trans
port logs and lumber and to furnish
water power.
Sheriff McGraw, of Seattle, started
for Walla Walla the other morning
with J. d. Mint and Joseph Mestes,
each sentenced to fourteen years in
the penitentiary.
The troops at Fort Walla Walla
have been ordered to proceed to Che
Ian, where they will go into camp for
the purpose of enlarging their knowl-
edge of field duty.
+. S. Musseter, formerly editor Of
the Seattle Press, is interesting Taco
ma capitalists in a bank which he il
starting at Shelton. The capital stock
is nearly all subscribed.
A four-foot vein of coal, closely re-
sembling anthracite, has been discov-
cred within two miles of Steilacoom.
Property values in town are said to be
going up in true mining style.
A contract for building the o. r. e.
Co.'s line from Rockford into Spokane
Falls, distance of 26 miles, has been
awarded to the well-known contractors,
Messrs. Fitzpatrick Bros. & Collins.
The three masted schooner Maggie
C. Ross is loading lumber at Ross
mill, near Vancouver, for Mexico.
She will take 100000 feet. There will
be more masts there before year.
w. H. Kearney expert, visited Six
Mile Bar on the Columbia Wednesday.
He says they have nearly a mile OF
sluices and are washing out some gold.
He also visited the Young America.
Seattle has received $500 from Tus-
carora, New, the amount having been
raised for a Fourth of July celebration
there, but which it was decided to send
to the relief fund of the Sound city
instead.
The Puyallup Citizen has doubled
its usual number of pages and is great
ly improved in other respects. Its
publisher is exhibiting an energy that
should be rewarded by a generous pat
ronage.
Nelson Bennett is advertising in the
Tacoma papers for men to work on
the Fairhaven & Southern railroad
This doesn't seem to indicate that
there are many idle men on Belling-
ham Bay.
An ordinance was passed by the
City Council of Montesano Wednesday
evening, granting a franchise and
right-of-way for a system of water
works to James X. Murphy and his
associates.
The captain of the steamer Whining
ton has agreed with the Whatcom
Chamber Of Commerce to bring freight
from San Francisco to that port at
Seattle rates, about So per ton, saw
ing of ~ on former rates.
At the private parlors of the Athlet-
ic Club, at Spokane Falls, on the 25th,
young Dempsey, claiming the light
weight championship of California,
whipped Tom Stockley, of Cotton, in
Is rounds for purse of 81 900.
Ore has been found already in the
new tunnel at present being run be-
low the former workings of the Old
Dominion mine, near Colville. The
tunnel is $50 feet below the old works
and is now about sixty feet long.
Hereafter the regular meetings of
the Whitman County Medical Society
will be held on the first Thursday of
each even numbered month, provided,
as one of the members remarked, that
such Thursday does not fall ON SUM-
day.
Harlow J. Smith went to Portland
from Seattle, the day before the fire.
Before leaving he hid 5000 in green
backs III the building that he partly
occupied. The building went up in
smoke and flames and he feels sorry
about his 5000.
Vancouver was to give Fourth of
Jnly celebration in which the United
States Army troops were to participate
with flags, bombs and artillery. The
fire wo'ks unfortunately went off in
advance, and the celebration will prob
ably be abandoned.
The death of Frederick Rabjohn.
one OF the earlier pioneers of the
Sound and a constant but ever unsuc-
cessful candidate for the delegateship,
occurred in Tacoma, last week. He
was an Englishman, and rather eccen-
trio in character, inclined to insanity.
The Spokane Falls papers announce
the sudden death in that city, June
10th, of Mrs. Charles Abel, aged 43
years. Mrs. Abel resided in Walla
Walla from 1866 to 1883, was married