Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-07-12
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS,

Orting is to have chair factory.
Ellensburgh is troubled with burglars
Eilensburg will buy steam fire
engine.
4 new coal vein has been discovered
near Tacoma.
A uniform lodge X. of p. has been
organed at Ellensburg.
Walla Walla cannot get brick fast
enough to supply the demand.
The Front street cable road, at Sc
attic, resumed operation last Thurs
day.
The Wallula people want the county
divided and that place made county
seat.
Port Townsend has a base ball
park that would do credit to n larger
place.
The assessment roll of Walla Walla
amounts to s2,S00, 900, and the popula-
is $500.
Since July LIST, the Seattle postoffice
has been first-class-the first in Wash
ington.
Walla Walla will have baby show
on the Fourth, over 80 having been re-
gistered
Near Walla Walla, last week, Grant
Copeland was killed by the bursting of
a circular saw.
The Plat-Alger party were in Port
Townsend yesterday, leaving last even.
ing for Alaska.
The Title Insurance Company OF
Spokane Falls has been organized with
a capital of 100000.
Officers Of the Union Pacific railway
were in Spokane Falls few days ago
to secure depot grounds.
VIM. Morish. who was bitten by a
hog in Eastern Washington two
months ago, has since dicd.
Puyallup orchards are being ravaged
by caterpillars. and the same trouble
exists in White river valley.
Five saw mills and seven. shingle
mills cannot supply the demand for
building lumber at Centralia.
George Reavy, insane from cigarette
smoking and alcohol, was sent to Stella
COON from Ellensburg last week.
G. M. Johnson, merchant OF Lopez
island, was in the Johnstown, Pa
flood and narrowly escaped drowning.
AT Spokane Falls, Tuesday, Elmer
Javett killed Albert Gradaway in a
quarrel. The Coroner's Jury justified
the killing.
The Walla Walla Journal says that
Vancouver, partly in ashes, will rise
again, clothed in brick walls, with iron
trimmings.
Spokane Falls has her new system ol
water works completed, giving them q
capacity OF over 100000 gallons ol
water per day.
1t is year since the business portion
of Goldendale was destroyed by fire
and the people have since put up
100000 worth of buildings.
The largest hop kiln in the Territory
has just been erected by NJ. J. Power,
at La Connor, and will dry from Is to
100 boxes of hops at time.
Wilson A. Law was robbed of $500 at
Port Townsend Sunday, by some one
entering the tent in which he is living
during his temporary absence.
Ellensburg has a population of wide
awake, enterprising citizens, and let
the result be as it may she will quickly
recover from the visit of the flames.
One of Cowlitz county's farmers saws
that from the milk of thirty-eight cows
from June lst to the middle of October
he has made 4 400 pounds of butter.
This was packed and large part of it
marketed in Portland. The farmers
generally sell their butter at from %
to 30 cents per pound.
The contract to construct the area
or foundation of the new Custom House
at Port Townsend has been awarded
Contractor Carkeek OF Seattle. The
bid was $23,750. Superintendent Scott
is in Washington and is expected to
return to Port Pownsend in a few days,
when work will be commenced.
There is an item from the Ellens-
burg State Register that isnot cred
ible or creditable: We have it on
good authority that the Northern Pa
cific railroad has caused to be shipped to
Olympia large amount of wine, liquors
and cigars to be used in their interest,
during the session OF the Constitutional
Convention.
Bids for the basement and area walls
Of the new custom house at Port Town
send have been opened by the supervis-
ing architect at Washington. L. l..
Leach, of Chicago, proposed to do the
work required for 50 SOD; c. P. Wake
man, OF Port Townsend, for $25 1927 !;
Oliver 4 Stokes, OF Port Townsend for
500 go and NJ. J. Carkcek, of Seattle,
for S23.75O.
The rains OF last week were hardly
sufficient for the need of the crops west
of the mountains. Some good was
done to late sown grain, and not q
large amount of hay was out to suffer
by it. East of the mountains, where it
has been unusually dry, the rain was
a soaker, and the fears of crop failure
have disappeared. In a few localities
only was it too late to do much good.
The Mayor of Spokane Falls has is.
sued an order to Immediately cause all
suspicious characters to move on, also
that man shall be stationed at each
hose house during the night to guard
the hose and apparatus OF the fire de-
partment, and man to be stationed
at the water-works to watch the ma
chinery, in order that there may be no
possibility of the failure of the same
in case of fire.
Invitations have been extended by
both Tacoma and Ellensburg to the
Executive Committee OF the Territorial
Press Association to hold their next
annual convention in their respective
cities. The Committee consisting oi
representatives from Eastern and
Western Washington were to have met
at Tacoma this week to arrange for
holding the next annual convention
which will convene in September.
The Chehalis Bee: washington
wants a simple document, containing
just as little as will make this State with
full power for the peoples sovereign
will to have full sway in future legisla
ton and not conflict with the constitu
ion OF the United States. We want no
side issues, no isms, no monkey" bust
ness, and ii the proposed constitution ii
hampered with these things it will be