Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-09-06
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.


is 26,23l.
The Walla Walla fair will open Sep
tcmber 30.
Aberdeen has a new weekly called
the Bulletin.
Pasco is soon to have foundry and
machine shsp.
A Catholic chapel is soon to be built
in Palouse City.
North Yakima Is to have a salaried
fire department,
Moscow has issued $4,000 of bonds
for a water supply.
Work on the Port Townsend South
ern railroad has commenced.
Cheney will have a good water supply
this year, the contract being let,
The Washington Farmer, of North
Yakima, has been moved to Deception.
C. w. Coaley, of Goldendale, was re-
Gently taken to the Steilacoom asylum.
Ten miles of the Ellensburg & North
eastern railroad is ready for the ties
and rails.
Shelton has received 10000 brick for
new vault to be built in the court
house there.
The Northern Pacific has established
an express Office at Whatcom. d. P.
Mason is agent.
Frank M. Cpmston, who was acci-
dentally shot at Port Orchard. last
week, is no better.
The Whatcom Council propose to
enforce the ordinance relating to the
clearing off of lots.
Simon Taylor had his foot ground to
pieces by having it caught in the cogs
of an engine at Waitsburg.
Bellingham Bay will offer fine
field for a gas company as soon as the
railroads reach the coal mines.
There will be no encampment of the
Second regiment, Territorial guards
this year, owing to lack of funds.
Nicholas Meagher died Thursday at
Port Angeles, from injuries received in
the recent mill explosion at that place
The separator of threshing machine
exploded at Alto, seriously injuring D.
w. Thornton, who was feeding the
machine.
John Dooley, of King county, and
Maggie Elles, of St. Louis Mo-, were
made happy by Judge Best, at Tacoma
last week.
The vacancy il the Seattle city coun.
Gil, caused by the resignation of Terence
O'Brien, has been filled by the appoint
ment of F. A. Twitchell.
Guards have been employed to pa
troll the stream that furnishes water tC
the garrison at Walla Walla, and it i.
believed the trouble is now settled.
Real estate has greatly increased il
prices at Port Townsend during the pas
few days, owing to the work havin.
been commenced on the new railroad.
Twenty-seven new houses are in pro
gress of construction at Roy, a new
opera house has just been completed, 6
sawmill, shingle mill and sash ant
door factory has just been put in opera
ton.
The wife OF Rufus Bowles, at Ritz
vile was declared insane and ordered
to Steilacoom. Sheriff French anC
Mr.. Bowles started last week with hel
for the asylum.
On Wednesday morning the 11-year
old daughter of Mr.. Reynolds, of Bois
fort, fell while walking down hill
and broke her collar-bone. DIR. Adam.
was called as the attending physician
United States engineers are examin
ing the rapids of the upper Columbis
with view of enabling the Govern
ment to make improvement of thai
part of the river and make it more
easily navigable.
VIM. Compbell, a rancher near Nook
sack, was found dead by the roadside
Friday afternoon. His neck was found
to be broken. He was no doubt thrown
from a mule on which he had a shOrI
time bfore left home.
James Tate, a native of Texas, sen,
to the penitentiary at Walla Walla fol
nine years for horse stealing, has beer
pardOned by the Governor, after serving
four years, ON the condition that he
leaves the Territory at once.
Colonel Brad T. Moss and Captain
George Butterick, prominent residents
Of Stockton, California, are in Tacoma
with a view to investing. They ex.
press themselves as assured of the fine
business prospects of the Sound coun.
try.
w. HI. Fife, of Tacoma, accompanied
by his youngest daughter, Miss Ella
left for California this week. Miss Ella
will attend the NJ. E. university at San
Jose. Mr.. Fife will visit lower Califor.
MIA, and will not return for some two
weeks.
President Bryant, of the Seattle Goa
and Iron company, says the trade ol
the Gilman and Grand Ridge coal
mines is to be enlarged, and that the
company intends to build bunkers in
the bay at the foot of Marion street, as
soon as possible.
1t is reported that silver mine ol
great value has been discovered neal
Roslyn, in the Cleelum mining dis
trict. An assay recently made, marks
the ore at value of 16 ounces of gold
1856 ounces of silver and % per cent
lead, or value of 1924 to the ton.
Department Commander Cosgrove
of the &. A. r., Garfield, Whitman
county, reports the posts of Washing
ton in a fine, prosperous condition
There are now l,5OO members of the
various posts of the Territory. Com
mander Cosgrove expects to see 2,0O(
men in line in few months.
At Tolt last week, Mrs. Biddlecum
on returning from visit to her neigh
bors, found a large panther occupying
her home. The lady fled in dismay
and alarmed Chisholm & Mcdonald.
logging camp, near by. Several per
sons accompanied Mrs. Biddlecum tC
her home, but the animal had depart
ed doing no damage.
The Sprague Herald says that little
Susie Boyd, S-year-old daughter of John
L. Boyd, living a few miles east oil
Sprague, last week was bitten by a
rattlesnake. She was some distance
from the house at the time, accom-
panied by her sister Fanny, aged about
ii years, who with rare presence OF
mind, desired Susie to allow her to bit
into the wound and suck the poison
from it. Susie would not permit her to
do that. however; so Fanny killed the