Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-03-29
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

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feet in size.
M. NJ. Murphy, desp p)pdent emf.
grant, committed suicide in Seattle
Wednesday.
The largest sturgeon canght in the
Columbia river tn season weighed
600 pounds.
There were nineteen applicants for
the Collectors hip of Gus oms Of Puget
S.und district.
Orting, o busy little city about 18
miles above Tacoma, has organized a
board of trade.
Much excitement prevails in Port
Townsend over the discovery Of anoth-
er bed Of coal.
A party of English gypsies are head
ed for Seattle, and are now encamped
near Walla Walla.
Two more car loads OF immigrants
arrived ut Walla Walla Monday from
Kansas and Nebraska.
Wahkiakum has 1000 inhabitants,
but has no physician. Here is an open
ing for medicine man.
Farmers up the river from Snoho-
mish ara preparing for raising a larger
crop of hops this season.
B. d. Crocker and Ed. Ross are APP
plicants for the posi- ion of Register Of
the WallA Walla land Office.
Davenport, w. T., is building q
hotel to cost $4,000. 1t will be
r, ady for occupancy, June 1st. y
Sheriff McGraw of Seattle, has a
sore ankle, the result of an attempt to
clear too much mud at one leap.
The line Of the Spokane & Northern
has been located to the little Spokane
river and the grading is progressing
rapidly
T. c. Naylor, agent of the Coast
Seaman's Society on Puget Sound, has
resigned his position, and will go to
California. s4-
Whatcom now sports daily paper,
the Bulletin. 1t is small, to be sure
but it shows energy and thrift and de.
serves success. rs e' 8.
A split in the w. C. T. u, Walla
Walla, has caused nu...bcr of its
members to secede. They will form O
prohibition party, -
Contracts have been let for. the con.
struction Of large sawnnill and other
buildings at Kingsboro, in virtue Of the
railroad to that place. 5 3 -ass'
It is generally conceded now that
the death of E. v. Kimhall, of Orting
was an accident and not suicide. Hi
body was taken to Salt Like for burial
| The false framework of the nes
Monroe street bridge over the Spokane
river was carried away recently by the
high water. The loss is estimated al
$1,000.
F. J. Parker, of the Walla Walla
Statesman, is projecting a business
enterprise which win perhaps take
him to japan and Chill the coming
summer. Er j. @s ~
A new Episcopal church will soon
be built A. Blaine, Whatcom county
E. A. Boblette having donated the
lots and the necessary money has been
subscribed. go SAB
Pat Wallace, q train man, was 90
verely injured at Sprague last weel
by freight train jumping the track
He was taken to the hospital at Spo.
kane Falls. ~
Frank Kane has been arrested and
committed to jail at Spokane Falls, on
a charge OF burglarizing the house oI
John q. Myrtles, and obtaining gun
q lot of blankets, wagon cover, etc. /,
Peter Schumacher who twice defeated
]. II. Faulkner, of San Francisco, in
wrestling matches, has arranged con.
test with Pietro Arena, who claims to
be the champion Of Italy. The match
is for $500 . side. ~ sfsa
On Monday w. Kirkman, Of Walls
Walla, shipped two carloads of fai
cattle to Olympia and on Tuesday he
shipped three carloads to Tacoma and
Seattle. The first lot consisted Of 4(
head, the last of 60.
The Gray's Harbor Mill Company
launched their new steamer Montesa
no last Saturday. This is the finest
steamer that has ever been built on
Gray's Harbor. 1t will be finely fitted
up and richly furnished.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce
is trying to raise $500, 900 to buy the
bonds of the West Coast railroad to Sc
cure the construction of said road from
Seattle to the Canadian Pacific via the
No0ksack Valley route.
The American ship Gen. cClellan
Captain Morine, lumber laden for Bue.
nos Ayr, has, returned to Port Town.
send, leaking. The crew complained
that they had ben badly treated and
shanghied aboard the vessel. Y
The hummer. element here is fast
decreasing. True, there are always a
lot Of non-producers, who live by the
sweet and earnings of their fellow-men
but that ilk is gradually pressed to the
wall-Walia Ralla Chronicle. @
The two maple trees to which How.
ard Sullivan and Payne were hung on
June I'd, 1882, are to be cut down.
Various superstitions that these trees
never thrived after that event is extani
to tome extent in that city.
The body of John Kramer, q shoe
maker, was found in the river at Spo.
kane Falls On the 18th inst. with his
skull fractured, and the body showed
signs of violence. 1t is believed the
man was murdered and the body cast
into the river. $50 s21et
The members OF the Plymouth Con-
gregational Church of Seattle, held q
meeting on Monday evening and ex.
tended a call to the pastorate to the
Rev. Edwin L. Teed, of Boston, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Henry 8. Bates. ssa4
The identity of Murphy, who COM
mitted suicide recently in the railroad
lodging house, at Seattle, has not been