Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-06-14
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

) The Wishkah is new steamer q
Aberdeen.
Aberdeen has baby seal, bought c
an Indian.
Much street grading is being done a
EllonShurg.
New brick at Fairhaven are sold 10
50 per thousand.
Three new saloons were started il
Whatcom last week.
Work will soon begin on the Por
Townsend Custom House.
The Seattle Southern railroad sur
veyors have passed Chehalis.
The temperature at Pomeroy ha
been 100 degrees i'll the shade.
The Gazette complains OF the ineiii
cheney OF the school at Sehome.
The First bank of Whatcom is cx
pectcd to soon become national bank
The Coupeville water works are now
laying pipes through the streets of thai
town.
Ground has been secured at Wall;
Walla upon which to erect a large
hotel.
The Pomeroy Independent has foul
typos, all ladies', one of them being
orewoman.
! Previous to the fire the Swedish resi-
dents of Seattle were intending to
build new church.
/ The Bellingham Bay cities have put
ont descriptive pamphlets printed in
the German language.
Hops are in good demand at Slaugh-
ter This week there were l6o IL tons
sold at ID cents a pound.
Nearly a million pounds of wool
have been shipped from the Walla
Walla region this spring.
. The Bellingham Bay cities are dis
cussing toll route through the Cas-
cadcs to the Okanogan mines.
Mrs. Jennie Wells, only sister OF
Mrs. Frank O. Neeker, of Puyallup,
was lost in the Johnstown floods.
DIR. Hiatt has successfully removed a
very bad canccrous tumor from the
jaw of Mrs. Lindsay, OF Nooksack.
An improved pen has been invented
by Henry Rcichling, of Wilkeson, and
he has secured patent for the same.
A fir tree fell upon a logging train
near Blanchard IA few days ago and
wrecked several cars. No lives were
lost
W. ii. Holiday Of Dayton, is mem
her OF the society OF California Pioneers,
having settled in that country August
/ II, lS49.
/ Walla Walla citizens have donated
! twenty tons of flour to the Pennsyl.
vania sufferers. 1t is being forwarded
on u special car.
! LaConner is already being visited by
many picnic parties, and the place is
constantly becoming more popular as
pleasure resort.
The city council OF Montesanc
passed an ordinance granting fran
chise to street railway company and
the Mayor vetoed it.
A game of base ball at LINDEN be
tween the club of that place and the
Ferndales resulted in a victory for the
latter by score. of IL to Is.
The O. Il. & n. Co. is considering
the project OF opening a coal yard il
Colfax and will do so ii the sale of sew
enty tons a year is guaranteed.
A subscription has been circulated
and signed at Sehomc, for the benefit
OF Mrs. b. s. Garfield whose husband
was killed by falling tree last week.
John Dacy is sentenced to the chair
gang at Tacoma for advising a man t.
not aid an officer to make an arrest
when requested to do so by the officer
A number of men are at work or
the new road, which is now graded fol
a distance OF two miles beyond the enc
Of the Orting& Southeastern railroad
nine miles south Of Orting.
Mr.. Chris Holtz, of the Muck district
has u body of land of about fifteer
acres under high cultivation on hi.
homestead. 1t is treat for a city
man to stop over night at that hospita
BILE home.
While handling a 45-calibre revolver
Monday, Dan McTaggart, of Sehome
received dangerous wound by the &C
cidental discharge Of the weapon
The bullet pierced his right shoulder
just missing the bone.
Last Tuesday Orting recorded tire,
accidents: Mr.. A. Rockwell broke hi,
thigh bone; Alpedro Noble was thrown
from his wagon, dislocating his ankle
and Frank Hodges received crushed
hand while loading logs.
The Orting Lumber Company has
just completed putting in dam acros.
the Carbon river in the vicinity of theil
mill. This will enable them to handle
logs to better advantage and will facili
tate work ut the mill immensely.
$. A. Tabcr, aged 26, was accident
ally drowned last week while working
on Il raft OF logs up the Hoquiam river
No one saw the accident, but it is sup
posed he slipped between the logs anG
was unable to find his way from under
/ the raft.
Several farmers about the Muck and
Leber districts i'll Pierce county are
having their land surveyed with view
/ to more complete and extensive devel
Opment of their farms. They report q
significant increase in travel and in.
Uuiry out there.
Whatcom has young man who ha.
again been taken into custody for per
scouting young lady with whom he
seems to be infatuated, but who prefer.
the society of another man. She
swore out a complaint against him foI
J threatening her life.
Geo. Barkhousen, who runs logging
camp on Fidalgo island, was brought
to LaConner, Monday evening, badly
wounded. 1t seems that Barkhausen
had had "A dispute with a swamper in
his employ and the latter stabbed him
in the side The wound is not neces
sarily fatal.
A. F. Baatz was chopping in the
woods near Fairhaven last week, and
while walking log, slipped off, strik
ing upon the stump Of a sapling which
entered his abdomen inflicting dan
gerous wound. He walked all the
way 10 Fairhaven to secure medical
attendance.
Seven or eight Germans were in Alb
erdeen last week from Port Townsend
They had come all the way from the
Sound to locate land, but had no idea
where the land was nor of what nature
Evidently they had been imposed upon