Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-03
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.
The Snohomish Sun has been en-

/ A special tax of one mill has beer
levied to pay for lighting the streets il
Walla Walla.
/ The Swinomish Indians are abou
through putting in their crops, at Tho
lower end OF the reservation.
The Puget Sound and Gray's Har
Dor railroad is to be completed to Mon
tesano by the middle of September.
There 440 plats of additions in King
county about 375 of which represent
additions 10 Seattle apd its suburbs.
The Colfsx foundry is now busy al
work filling several orders for building
fronts, recently received from Moscow
Farmers near Elma, Chehalis coun-
ty, are making preparations to engage
quite extensively in the hop industry
A little son of Tom Carroll, City
Attorney of Tacoma, died while he
was visiting with his parents in the
East.
The Port Townsend surveying party
arrived at Chehalis Monday. Biukley's
band treated them to some string
music.
Two highwaymen attempted to hold
upa man in Seattle Saturday night.
He licked one of them and the other
ran away.
Alfred Holman is now president of
the Seattle Post-Inteligencer Company,
and l.. S. ]. Hunt is the sole proprie-
tor.
1t is reported that Conductor Wag-
ner, formerly of the o. r. & N, was
killed recently in an accident on the
Denver & Rio Grande.
An Indian was killed at Yakima
recently by drinking a bottle of lemon
extract in the bottom of which strych-
nine crystals were found.
OConnor, the oarsman, now at Ia
coma, was severely injured in the arm
Sunday, by gun kicking" while he
was practicing on n range.
Captain Paul Boyton, the noted
swimmer, padded around in Medical
Lake few days ago, to the amuse-
ment of an admiring crowd.
]. G. johnson was at Colville Mon
day and said he had struck ten-inch
vein of solid galena at the bottom OF
the shaft ON their iron claim.
Work ON the new $4,000 school
house at Chehalis was resumed the
fore part of the week and the building
will now be pushed rapidly ahead.
Judge Fee has fixed Friday, April
Goth, as the day upon which Pat Nc
Ginnis, the murderer of Tailor Lock
wood at Canyon City, will be executed.
The steamer Amelia, plying be-
tween Victoria and Nanaimo, was dis
abled Saturday night and had to be
lowed into port by the steamer Isa-
belle.
The bark Tidal Wave brought to
Port Blakely, from San Francisco, l.
200 sacks of barley and another vessel
brought 439 tons of hay from the same
place.
Gambling houses at Spokane Falls
are being raided, and the proprietors
of the games arrested and fined in
sums ranging from $40 to $40 and
costs.
The lighthouse keepers at Tilamook
rock are preparing to start a vegetable
garden on the rock, and for that pur-
pose have received by steamer 26sacks
of earth.
A great indignation meeting was
held at Port Townsend to protest
against the action Of the steamer Ida
no in failing to stop at that point on
her last trip.
The City Council at Tacoma, met
Monday afternoon, when the ordinance
raising the license fee from $500 to
81 900, and making some other changes
was finally rejected.
Mr.. Wright, partner in the firm oil
Sewall & Wright, sawmillmen at Cen
tralia, had the misfortune to get his
hand caught in the saw which badly
lacerated the thumb.
The Port Townsend people who
have built out on the tide fats beyond
the patent line are becoming alarmed
at the prospect of the new State own
ing their Improvements.
The Ship Harbor railroad excite
ment is very quiet in Whatcom county
just now. 1t was reported they would
resume operations on the 18th inst,
but they have not done so.
The City Council, of Tacoma, met
Saturday afternoon, when the ordi-
nance raising the license fee from
$500 to 81 600, and making some other
changes, was finally rejected.
A movement is on foot to start an
other paper at Waitsburg. dRItM.
Horner, a merchant there, will be
editor. There seems to be plenty OF
money back of the enterprise.
VIM. Garrehan, engineer on the o.
& w. T. train between Walla Walla
and Wallula, fell from his engine on
Wednesday and sustained a broken
collar bone and other injuries.
On Wednesday evening last, Mr..
w. s. Norman of Spokane Falls and
Miss Annie Sherlock, were married at
the residence of the brides mother ON
B. and Twenty-6rst streets at Portland,
Township No. Is north, range No.
6 east, and township No. 16 north,
range 8 west of the Willamette me-
ridian are to be surveyed; also severa!
townships east OF the mountains.
B. ]. Davis, Of Latah, has opened a
fine stone quarry on his newly &C.
quired property east of that town.
The stones taken therefrom very much
resemble the Maine granite in color.
The Vancouver Barracks Tennis
Club has received an invitation 70
participate in the lawn tennis tourna-
nent to be held at the Hotel del
Monte, Monterey, California, July 4,
1889.
Twelve stalwart husky Russians ar
rived in Walla Walla from Russia
Saturday and will make that city their
future home. Three carloads OF i'm
migrants also arrived on the same
train.
While DR.. Herndon was helping the
train hands to put the remains Of Mr..
Shead OF Bucoda, on the cars in Port
land few days since, some one stole
his valise containing a fine revolver,
Overcoat, etc. =
Surveyors have finished locating the
big ditch at Wallula. 1t lie to be four
and one-half miles long, and will give
a perpendicular fall of nineteen feet.
1t is located on the south side of the
Walla Walla river.
Mrs. McEachron, wife of James Nc
Eachron, laborer OF Port Townsend