Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-02-15
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Over 100000, acres of land hav
been entered or purchased in thi
Territory last year.
!, George Ross, an old resident of Por
Townsend, died Immediately after tn,
performance OF the ceremony of bap
tism.
james II. Smith has been appointed
postmaster at Clc-elum, Kittitas coun
ty, in place of James A. Wheelock, re
lsigned. 60 .---.---~~--
The Seattle Journal says the harbol
at Seattle is about ruined, owing tC
no system having been adopted in
building wharves.
Owing to the increase in business
four banks at Spokane Falls have
added over half Il million dollars to
their capital stock.
Chickens reared in the Yakima
valley carry from % cents to & dollar
OF gold dust in their crops-the clean
up OF the gravel they cat for foc,.
grinding.
A large number OF Seattle contrac-
tors and carpenters have entered into
an agreement by which nine hours
shall constitute a days work on and
after April 1st.
A memorial from the Bar Associa-
ton OF Washington Territory, asking
that library be provided for the
Territorial Supreme Court, has been
presented in the United States Senate.
Washington Territory with an acre
age of 1850 in hops, produced $4,000
bales this season, while Oregon, with
5000 acres produced $4,000 bales, and
California, with 4 ,416 acres, only 34,-
600.
Last week the Tacoma mill sawed
several sticks of timber 80 feet long,
23x24 inches square, and others 80
feet long and 22x22 inches square,
for shipment to the London exhibit
ton.
A horse-car line is to be built ut
Port Townsend, with an elevator, that
will lift car and horses upon a plat
form from the bottom to top Of bluff,
where they will connect with the car
tracks.
c. B. Hopkins of Colfax, has secured
the agency for the phonograph, the
new talking machine, in Eastern
Washington and Oregon and Idaho
Territory. He is now in Spokane
Falls, organizing company to intro
duce the machine.
According to the latest estimates
the population of the Territories is as
follows: Dakota, 100000; Utah. 2lO,.
coo; New Mexico, T5,OO0; Washing.
ton, 3O7 ,931; Montana, 10000; Ida.
no, 100000; Wyoming, $4,000; Alas.
ka, 1880; Arizona, $3.50,
The Secretary OF the Treasury has
appointed Robert l.. Miller, chief OF
the loan and currency division of the
Treasury Department, to be Deputy
Collector OF Customs at Port Town
send. Mr.. Miller has left Washington
with his family for his new field.
Senator Mitchell on the 9Th inst,
presented petition to the Senate,
which Was referred to the Committee
on Commerce, from citizens of Wash
ington Territory, praying for spec
ial appropriation by Congress for the
improvement OF the Okanogan river
at Cabinet, Rock Island, and inter-
mediate points on the Columbia riv er
where great boulders obstruct the
channel of the river.
The Regents of the University OF
Washington have concluded TO make
an effort to obtain the $4,000 per an
mum provided By the Hatch act, ap-
proved by President Cleveland March
2, 1887, for the support OF an agricul-
tural experimental station. Secretary
Whittlesey, of Seattle, has been in
structed to make immediate inquiry
into the status of the land reserved TO
Washington for university purposes,
and not yet sold by Territorial author
ity.
in. Bowlin, who resides near the
town limits on the west, last year
raised $74 worth of peas on a patch OF
ground 62x1lO feet. The ground was
plowed only once. The peas were in
the market six weeks in advance OF
the usual time for marketing such
products. At this yield an acre Of
land would have produced $3.50 worth
of peas. Do your own figuring if you
doubt the correctness OF this. How
many farmers in the East evel
equalled one-sixth of this yield in
coin?-Orting Oracle.
Washington Territory leads every
State and Territory in the Union in
the yield of wheat per acre. In the
official reports of the government, the
greatest yield OF any State is that o.
Oregon, placed at 1863 bushels pei
acre, and largest yield in the United
States is accorded to Washington
Territory, being 1875 bushels per acre
This is grand showing for the Terri
tory, coming as it does from the Com
missioner of Agriculture at Washing
ton, d. c., and tends to confirm the
amazing statement made by Henry
Willard, in which he predicted a pop
ulation of 2O,OO0,O0O people for Wash
ington Territory and Oregon, il
another generation.-St. Paul Press.
In Sioux Falls, Dakota, the ther
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