Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-04-19
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

! IERRlIORIAL HAPPENlNGS.
Another savings bank has been or
gained in s. okane Ia Is, with Hortc,
l.. Gutter as President.
The 0. Il. & n. Co, has force o.
men engaged in fencing their track
tetween Pendleton and Walla Walla
| A company with capital of $1,000
has teen organized to build and con.
duct an academy at Lltah, Spokane
county.
Nathan S. Porter, OF Olympia, grand
master Of the Mas mic grand lodge OF
Wa hington, was in Walla Walla
Saturday.
The wind Saturday morning blew so
strong a. b ker's bay that it drove two
pile drivers high and dry at the mouth
Of the Wallicut river.
The Columbia River Fisherman
Protective Union has over eighteen
hundred names OF members in good
sanding on the books.
The subscription for the WOODEN mill
at Chehalis amounts now to 5000.
S il more will he necessary in order to
get the factory located there.
Twenty-seven pre-emption and tim
Der claims Illegally obtained by a lum-
Der company, in Whatcom county,
were disallowed few days ago.
Monday last one span of the Delany
bridge al Tukanon, in Columbia coun-
ty gave way, precipitating a band OF
cattle iuto the seething water below.
The Seattle police are making Il
lively war on the gamblers and prosti-
tutes who have thrived in that city
under the protection of the Chief of
Police.
Copper ore running $75 to tine ton
has been discovered near Sumner. 1t
has large proportion OF sulphur with
it. 1t will be easily reduced and there
fore very valuable.
On Saturday ]. B. Redford of Spo-
kane Falls had valuable mare near
ly burned to death by attempting to
roll in The ashes of an oil straw stack
which had been burned the day before.
Last week, the Walla Walla Street
Car Company closed contract for 40
tons of rails-enough for two and a
half mil.s-for use on the car line
which will be construct, d Immediately.
f. l.. ? vne, better known as "Doc,"
a somesh It notorious crook, was con-
victed in Tacoma on Saturday OF steal
ing a suit of clothes from room in
lodging house tn re. He was fined
800.
The Chehalis Land aud Timber
company closed contract Saturday
with Architect Stanman, OF Sea- tie
for the er ctian OF two-stOry brick
block Work will lie commenced i'm
mediately
There is some $4,000 worth of lum-
Der on the wharves at South Bend,
which J. Il. Coulter is having shipped
to San Francis 0 to be sold. Two YES
sells fer that purpose were orde red
some time since.
The squatters of Shantytown, Sc
attic, propose to contest A. A. Denny's
cam to the portion of the beech that
they have occupied. Mr.. Denny
claims that the land in dispute is a
part of his donation claim.
An infant child of contractor
named Van Scoy, of Tacoma, was
smothered by falling in the mud
bordering a creek hack OF his house
When missed, e,rch was made for it,
and when found life WAS extinct.
The latest Seattle directory con tains
II, $40 names, which multiplied by
two and one-half will give the city a
population OF 2S,2SO, says a paper of
that city. Where, however, authority
is obtained for the ratio used is not
stated.
R'h!. Dunsmuir, President of the
Vie;u il Council, died of paralysis
Saturday evening, in that city. He
WAS n pioneer in that section and one
of the wealthie-t men in the dominion,
his property heing chiefly in coal and
iron lands.
According to the Railway Age,
Washington Territory has more miles
of railway projected than any of the
other Western States or Territories.
The construction contemplated aggre-
gates 1913 miles. California follows
with 1865 miles.
The piece OF property on the corner
of Main and Third streets, at Walla
Walla, which has cost the city already
many times its value in law suits, has
been purchased, and the council at
their next meeting will he called upon
10 issue scrip for the payment of the
same.
Six hundred tickets sre bought daily
at st. Paul for Washington Terri
tory. At this rate Washington will
soon be one of the most thickly in
habted and prosperous States in the
Union. The fact that it is about to be-
come State will also increase immi-
grafton.
Ex-Governor Eugene Semple has ar
rived at his home in Vancouver and
settled down TO hard work in his saw
mill. As Tor politics he dec ares he
will have his hands iull with his pri-
vate business, but should the ext
gencies of the times demand it, he will
put his shoulder to the wheel.
George ]. Hogue died at his home
at Boisfort, Monday last. Mr.. Hogne
was one of the pioneers Of Lewis
county, arriving there about twenty
five years ago. He was the first man
to do business where now stsnds the
city Of Cheh lis, having commenced
the general merchandise business there
in 1873.
Mr.. Ackley, of Pleasant Prairie, near
Spokane Falls, bad a narrow escape
fir m death Tuesday afternoon. As he
was driving along Howard street, his
team became frightened and ran away.
In attempting to jump out Mr.. Ackley
fell, striking on his head, causing a
fracture of the skull, and also breaking
his leg.
Appointments of new ministers by
the Presbytery of Washington, are as
follows: 7. J. Mcclure, Second
church, Tacoma; S. c. Head, Yakima /;
I. j. Glenn, Aberdeen; A. H. Lackey,
Sumner; A. G. Boyd, La Camas /;
Benjamin Parsons, Second church,
Seattle; F. Fru hit, with the Germans
in Clarke county.
A terrible drunken row, in which
about dozen tramps were engaged,
took place at Victor Desserts saloon,
Spokane Falls, near the Northern Pa
cific depot, about 10 P. NJ, Sunday All
kinds of weapons were used, except
guns The nalico vara scon o., 4ho