Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-01-25

this week OF pneumonia, it being the
second death in the family within a
year. Other members in the family
are still ill.,
Washington Territory is pre-emi-
nently a county free from poverty.
1t has no poor people; she has a
wealth of land, water, forests and
mineral resources that is not equaled
by any other of the Union.
Orting has two drug stores, two
restaurants, three hotels, photograph
gallery, public hall, five general
stores, bakery, meat market, black
| smith and barber shops and physi-
clan, and live weekly paper.
The population of Snohomish has
doubled in the last twelve months,
it now being within the corporation
limits, 1900; within mile of the
business centre, 1900. During the
same period property has doubled and
in many places quadrupled in value.
Preparations are under way to
raise what remains of the steamer Susie
whose boiler exploded while the boat
was lying at the dock at the Pacific
Mill, Tacoma, about three weeks ago.
There are several hundred dollars
worth of white lead aboard the hulk.
The Bellingham Bay r. r. Co. re.
Gently paid into the Seattle Land
Office $S8,OOO for $50 acres of coal
land on the head of Anderson creek,
Nooksack, Whatcom county. On this
land there are two veins, one four and
the other six feet thick, to which the
railroad will be built in the spring.
The BeIlingham Bay school house
caught fire and was burned one night
last week. There had been a fire in
the stove during the day, which, it is
thought, in some way set fire to the
building. The school will have to be
kept in temporary quarters for the
present. A new building will be
erected in the spring.
The Whatcom RereiUe says Nelson
Bennett has purchased Harris Fair
haven townsite for $4,000, eight
blocks OF Robert Knox for $40, 900, the
Stenger Mil and five acres adjoining
Tor $4,000, 16O acres of George Mer-
RAM at the lower end of Lake What
com for $1,000, and ITO acres of Will
ID. Jenkins on Lake Padden for $500.
Porr Townsend erected l15 build
ings during the year, at cost of
$2OS,OOO. Electric light works were
put in at a cost of $4,000. which
light the streets both on the hill and
the lower town. A street railway
company is organizing, with a capital
OF $4,000. The population of the
town is estimated at 1900, gain of
1000 during the year.
The steamer Susie which was sunk
near the Pacific Mill, ut Tacoma,
about month ago by the explosion of
her boiler, has been raised and found
badly damaged. Her whole deck, ex-
cept small portion forward, was
completely blown away, and the port
side, opposite the boiler, was also de-
molished. Captain Higgins is of the
opinion that the damage can be re-
paired in short time.
| Louis Lopez was the name OF an in
mate of the asylum at Steilacoom who
wandered away from that institution
about six weeks ago, and was not
found until last week. He was lying
on his face dead about quarter of a
mile from the asylum. Coroner
Mccoy was summoned, but decided
that the man died of apoplexy, and
deemed an inquest unnecessary. The
man was Spaniard, and being harm
less was allowed the freedom of the
grounds.
| Col. J. C. Haines has ordered the
accoutrements of the First regiment
condemned and sold and to be re-
placed with new. Arrangem1 1nts are
being perfected for the annual en-
campment in July. Six days will be
spent in camp, but the date for going
into camp has not yet been fixed upon
nor has the place been selected. An
effort will be made 70 get the brigade
together, consisting of the First and
Second regiments, formed of twelve
companies, and company, of cav
airy
Senator Colon has presented a
petition to the Senate, which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Territories,
from the citizens OF Washington Terri.
tory, praying that, when Congress
passes the enabling acts for the ad-
mission OF the several Territories, they
will permit women to vote for the dele
gates to the Constitutional Convention
and the adoption OF the constitution,
in all the Territories, when the Legis-
lature have passed law providing
that women may vote, and such law
has not been repealed by subsequent
legislation.
Washington embraces all sorts OF
country-lofty mountains crowned
with perpetual snow and more i'm
pressivc than the Alps; enormous
forests of pine, fir and cedar; rich
rolling prairies, where more wheat is
grown to the acre than anywhere else
in the United States; extensive plains.
too dry for farming, but good for pas
turage; all ocean coast line of 800
miles and much longer coast line,
on navigable bays, on that beautiful
inland sea called Puget Sound; mines
OF gold and silver and big navigable
rivers. The climate is as mild in the
eastern part as that of Virginia, and