Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-06-21
MOntesano will celebrate.
Centralia has a base ball club.

MOntesano will celebrate.
Centralia has a base ball club.
Kent is to have a new saw mill.
, Tramps are numerous in Wall;
4 Walla.
Blackberries are plentiful abou
Boisfort.
The wharves at Seattle are loaded
with freight.
i, Kittitas county cherry trees are load
ed with fruit.
Locust trees have been in bloom fol
some days at Walla Walla.
The wild fruit crop is very heav,
Throughout the new Territory.
The roads in Skagit county are rap
idly being put in good condition.
Milton will not celebrate, but will
Join Walla Walla on the Fourth.
i A tree was cut down at Orting a few
days ago that measured 30 feet.
| Pennsylvania parties are looking for
a bucket and tub factory at Kent.
| The Independent is urging the people
of Pomeroy to celebrate the Fourth.
| The cheese factory at Cotton con-
sumes 5000 pounds of milk per day.
The Tacoma News advocates a line
of steamers from Olympia to Whatcom.
An effort is being made to furnish
water to WhatcOm from Whatcom lake.
The gas company, at Seattle, began
Monday to supply its customers with
gas.
Civil service examinations for rail
way clerks was held in Seattle yester-
day.
Thistles are becoming troublesome
on the Beaver marsh and Swinomish
flats.
An effort will soon be made to raise
money to erect u Y. NJ. c. A. building at
Tacoma.
An effort is being made to establish
a stage line between La Conner and
Hamilton.
Freight cars for the Spokane and
Northern railway have arrived at Spo-
kane Falls.
The ladies of Montesano have pre-
sented the band of that town with a
silk banner.
An excursion of railroad employees
was made from Tacoma to Cen
tralia to day.
Walla Walla expects to ship, in a
few weeks, peaches ut the rate of fifty
tons per day.
Geo. Issit is under arrest at Walla
Walla for fast riding, and for running
over little boy.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Pres
bytery of the Walla Walla district is
in session in that city.
Frank Winslow, who has been IN
spector of customs at Port Townsend
for fifteen years, has resigned.
The Mayor OF Victoria, B. c., has
been invited to attend the Fourth oil
July celebration in Port Townsend.
Bucoda came very near having fire
last Monday evening. The subsiding
of the wind saved several residences.
The total internal revenue collec-
tions at Spokane Falls for the months
of April and May aggregated $l5,S14.S2.
The Puyallup valley has turned out
strawberries so large that only twelve
are needed to fill the regular sized box.
Smallpox is reported to be raging
among the Okanogan Indians. Physi-
Clans have been sent to vaccinate the
tribe.
1t is said that five sawmills and
seven shingle mills cannot supply the
demand for building lumber at Cen
tralia.
| The city assessment of Walla Walla
shows value of $780, 900, a gain OF
29O, 600, in the past year. The popu-
lation is $500.
A. S. Mercer, an old pioneer of Sc
attic, is in the East getting matter for
his forthcoming book on Resources
of Washington"
Preparations for the celebration of
the Fourth at Lcwisville are going
ahead, and there will be rousing time
on that occasion.
! Toledo is going to celebrate the 4th
OF July in grand style, having a bar
becue, to which everybody is invited,
and their friends.
On Saturday, the Sth, the voters of
Centralia voted to build second
school house in Railroad addition, to
cost at least $1,000.
In all directions in Clarke county
the bright roofs of new houses show
that many new settlers have COM
menced home making.
Puyallup orchards have been suffer-
ing from the ravages of a caterpillar.
The same pest has made its appear
ance i'll the White river valley.
The ship Hilma has just finished
loading 100000 feet of lumber at the
Tacoma mill for London, England,
and sailed Thursday. She flies the
Norwegian flag.
A wife-beater, named Perkins, has
been fined lightly, in a Walla Walla
justice court, but the general opinion
is that there should be whipping
post for such cases.
Strobe and Roundtree of Centralia,
returned Tuesday from u fifteen days
trip prospecting for gold and silver
near Mount Rainier, and bringing with
them some fiattering prospects.
| While young man named Smitil,
driver for the transfer company, was
driving along the Port Discovery road,
the other afternoon, blast was fired
in close proximity to his team. The
explosion was so great that his wagon
was overturned and the horse knocked
down and severely injured. The driver
was considerably bruised up.
The o. r. & N. Cos. fine sidewheel
steamer Olympian, which is at present
laid up for repairs, will not be ready to
resume her route for about month or
six weeks; as in addition to the gen.
eral overhauling which she is to receive,
new boilers and new paddle wheels are
to be put in. When the improve
ments and repairs are completed, her
owners expect that the steamer will be
able to walk away from any steamer
on the coast.
Marshall X. Smell was in consulta-
ton with Register Reed and Receiver
Hayden of the United States Land Of
flee yesterday, in Tacoma, regarding
the title to the lands of about 100 en-
trymen whom he represents, who paid
the entry fees to ex-Receiver Shields,
but which Colonel Hayden, the present
receiver, refuses to receive, as ex-Re-