Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-04-26

II. w. Hunt and family arrived a
Wal'a Walla, Saturday night. MI
Hunt says he is abundantly suplie'
with funds to build all the contem
plated branches, which will be com
menced soon.
Jesse Johnson, lineman on tn,
Spokane & Ceur d'Alene telegraph
line, fell from pole Thursday. Pa
ralysis resulted, and it is thought hi
back is broken. There are no hope:
of his recovery.
The Northern Pacific has ordered
another steam shovel for the work a
the head of the bay at Tacoma, ant
will double the force OF workmen en-
|xaged IN filing in the tide fla:s for ths
terminal Improvements.
Cheney has organized a Board o.
Trade, has called a special election tC
vote for water works, and will seni 2O,.
600 four-page, eight-column boomers
to tn East for the purpose of raking
IN population of 25 600.
The fishing schooner c. H. White
a rived at 3 80 o'clock Friday after
noon at Seattle, from off Flattery
Banks. She made the larges. catch
ev, made at Seattle, bringing in over
$4,000 pounds of halibut.
The police of Seattle had busy day
Thursday. There were 80 arrests
made for the following offences
Eighteen for prostitution, nine for
vagrancy, four drunk and disorderly
and one for petty larceny.
The Wenatchee country promises
to develop some valuable coal mines
in the near future. Several discoveries
have recently been made and the rock
formation is said to be favorable to It's
existence in large quantities.
Mr.. r. A. Habersham, OF Portland,
left this morning to locate a line on
the Columbia River Valley and Gold
endale Railioad from Goldendale east
ward TO a juntion with the North Pa
cifc at Pasco, a distance of ITO miles.
On Monday last, Tom Roman left
Dayton for New York City with IA
head Of fine horses. He leased the
Burton stock car for the trip, going
via the Union Pacific. This is the
fir-t shipment in this style fiom the
Territory.
Whatcom has been holding a county
convention to consider the propriefy
of organizing a company to build a
plank road. The company will charge
q reasonable toll and surrender th-
road to the county at the expiration Of
ten years.
A Chinawoman from Victoria was
refused landing by customs officers at
Port Townsend, Saturday. A writ of
habeas corpus was sued out releasing
the woman on the ground of her being
The wife of a Chinese merchant in Sa
Francisco.
The Salvation Army having bonn
barded the fortress at Albany, Oregon,
for two years without capturing it,,
have raised the siege, "packed heir
duds" and have gone to attack the
devil in some place where he is not SO
strongly fortified.
The o. r. & N. Co., will hereafter
take grain, -four and milIstuffs to Sc
attic for the same rates they do to
Portland, by boat and rail. This will
be worth remembering, as such mer-
chandise brings a better price at Sc
attic than Portland.
Tn Sc who are inclined to worry
about the wood giving out in thi>
country may find comfort in the as
sertion of the Governor of Alask, /, who
says that there is enough coal in that
country to supply the whole Uni ed
States for centuries.
The Washington Navigation CON-
pany has incorpor ated. The line will
run from Hope, Idaho, through the
the Chloride mining district, taking in
Gray's landing, Marshal and
Webber and Chloride. They expect
to be open for business April 22d.
Articles of incorporation of the Sc
attic Savings Bank were filed in the
Auditors Office Friday. The incorpor-
ators are G. w. E. Griffith, of Kan
sas, L. H. Griffith and A. II. Root, of
Seattle. The capital stock will be $780,
600, divided into shares Of 500 each.
George Hammer, a German at Seat
tie, used abusive lsnguage to Mrs.
Stoke, wife Of blacksmith. The hus-
band learning of it proceeded to ham,
mer the German in u frightful man.
ner, and when arrested and the facts
were made known, was promptly ac-
quilted.
The o. r. & N. and the s. & L. s
have arranged to build union depot
and shops at Spokane Falls. Union
Pacific capital is to back the Seattle
and push it to completion at the
earliest date possible. No time will be
lost in building the o. R. & N. to Spo-
kane Falls.
Prospectors have discovered near
Sumner, what they claim is one OF the
richest veins of copper ore yet discov-
cred in the Territory. The ore will
run about SIS to the ton. The ore
will be easily handled on account of
the large proportion of sulphur con-
tanned in it.
The members of the Spokane bar
h ID recommended the appointment of
r. B. Blake, of that city to the posi-
tion OF Associate Justice in the place
If Judge Nash, and the news of Calk-
in's appointment created some sur
prise there and some expressions of
disappointment.
Joseph Hill, engaged in the Swauk
pl'cer mines, near Ellensburg, met
with an accident, Wednesday, by the
caving in of a mine. His arms and
legs were broken in several places and
he Was nwa'dly hurt. He was brought
to the E!lensburg hospital, but cannot
survive his injuries.
Sixty laborers went to work Satur-
day in laying ties for motor railroad
to run from the business part of Port
Townsend through the outlying dis
tricts about ten miles. A train load Of
steel rails will arrive shortly from the
East. The road will probably be CON-
pleted within ninety days.
The Palouse country is yet free
from those insects that make fruit-rais-
ing weariness of the spirit. No
moths, no bugs, no worms. Apples
raised there last year, according to the
Gazette, are yet sound and solid. The
ke. ping qualities of the standard va
rieties are simply astonishing.
The police continue their raid on
houses of prostitution in Seattle and
Thursday they made twelve arrests.
Fines paid by keepers of bawdy houses
in the police court on that day
amounted to 5000, and the total
amount collected from this source