Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-04-26
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1889.
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

IERRlIOKlAIt HAPPENINGS.
The towns of Edgewater and Ere
mont have decided TO incorporate.
An elegant three story hotel is to be
built in Pasco by the Northern Pacific
Railroad.
Charles E. Newcomb has fourteeen
acre oyster farm in front of the city OF
Whatcom.
Snake river opGhardists say the
prospect for big fruit yield this year
is very promising.
The acreage in cheat in the Palouse
country the coming season will be
greater than ever hfoEns.-.s ss ..s i
The last 30 bales of hops of the 5000
shipped by E. Meeker & Co., OF Puy-
allup, to London, has arrived in that
city.
A carpenter working on the N. P.
was seriously injured Saturday by
coming in contact with a switch en-
gine.
A petition for the incorporation Of
the town of Orting has been presented
to the district court and will be heard
shortly.
The real estate sales filed for record
at Spokane Falls during the past week
aggregated 1854 $50, against $434 ,565
last week.
AS result of the appointment OF
officer Butterworth TO the head of po-
lice in cattle, ten officers of that city
have resigned.
Some enterprising citizens of Seattle
have named one OF the additions 10
that city Traceyton after B. F. Tracey,
Secretary of the Navy.
Spokane Falls expects soon to have
State Normal School, as Seattle, Ia
coma and other pr minent towns have,
already, some public institution.
The numerous fine showers of this
spring are bringing all kinds of grain
crops up in fine shape throughout the
Territory, insuIing heavy yields.
Tacoma's City Council, Saturday,
granted a number of street railway
franchises. This insures for that city
two more electric and moter lines.
A number of Territorial papers ap-
pear to be warning ever the fact
whether or not lottery advertisements
should find space in their columns.
A prize fight has been arranged to
take place, at Spokane Falls, between
human bruisers. 1t will take place on
the oath and will be for purse OF 500.
The Fourth of July mine purchased
few weeks since for 100000 was
sold few days ago for 5000, 900. This
is the largest sale made in the district.
The Port Townsend sub cribers to
the write-up in the Vest Shore maya
zine find considerable fault with the
manner in which the work was done.
A new broom sweeps clean. Chief
Willard, of Seattle, is making great
efforts to rid that city of the gamblers
and prostitutes who have overrun it OF
late.
A splendid specimen of a steam
launch arrived at Tacoma, yesterday,
from Waukegan, Michigan. 1t is
named Lake City, and is for use about
Seattle.
A syndicate OF Seattle real estate
men have purchased the Denny claim
near Fair Haven, 260 acres, for about
$1OO, O,OUO-the largest deal yet made in
one tract.
Captain P. B. johnson, Of the Walla
Walla Union, has just received u
voucher for $3.50 30 back pay due him
for services performed twenty-five
years ago.
The new city council, of Spokane
Falls, elected the old minor city Of
6cers, with the exception of DR.. Van
Zsndt as health officer and ]. w. Shack
city engineer.
Judge Rice, a prominent citizen of
Des Moines, Iowa, is travelling the
Sound over and will spend several
months in looking over the resources
OF Washington.
1t is announced that the Northern
Pacific Railroad company will establish
a steamer line between Tacoma and
Portland, in order to compete with the
o. r. & N. line.
Port Townsend has become dissatis-
fed with its electric light system, and
a company has been formed with a
capital stock of $4,000 to put in gas
works at that place.
A very strong petition has gone on
to Washington, indorsed by all the
business men Of Whatcom, asking for
a daily mail service between Seattle
and Bellingham bay.
The people of New Westminster
propose to vote 100000 to help the
Garfield railroad Company build a
steel bridge across the Fraser river in
the place Of the ferry.
Samuel Collyer, cashier of the Mer-
chants National bank of Tacoma, is at
Walla Walla in the interest of the
Chamber of Commerce in particular,
and that city in general.
Last Saturday R. A. Williams
brought to the Dayton Chronicle Office
a parsnip that measures five feet in
length. This demonstrates the depth
of the soil in this country.
The Northwestern Manufacturing
and Car Company have shipped all
their machinery and implements to
Portland and will di- continue business
at Dayton, Columbia county.
The counties OF Cowlitz, Lincoln,
Pacific, Wahkiakum and Yakima have
female County Superintendents.
Eight out of the forty-six graded
schools have female pri ncipals.
Welsh, the convict sent to the peni-
tertiary from Seattle for twelve ye rs,
for robbery, and from that institution
sent to the Hospital for the Insane,
died few days ag at Steilacoom.
The absence Of Register Baird from
his post of duty, at Seattle, has deferred
the opening of several townships on
the Skagit river to settlement. They
were advertised to be opened on the 23d.
The Seattle Lake Shore & Eastern
is preparing to divert its course little
and build 10 Davenport on its eastern
division. As first projected the road
would avoid the town by three or four
miles.
The plat Of Lake City, situated on
the borders of the American lake, has
been filed by the Lake City Land Com
pany, and the work of building a rail-
road to the lake will commence on
Monday.
A bar association has been formed
in Tacoma with the following officers:
T. L. Stiles, President; James NJ. Ash
ton Vica-president MarshaN X Smell