, 1889-01-17
TERRITORIAL.

There are a national banks in
this territory.
Ellensburg put up 23O new build
inGs last year.
An Indiana man has established n
trunk factory at Tacoma.
Wheat sells for 81 cents a bushel
in eastern Washington.
sA Catholic school is about to be
established at Ellensburg.
WalIa Walla will petition congress
for Il government building.
The new Denny hotel at Seattle
will resemble feudal castle
Wichita and Topeka, Kansas, are
to send a colony to Ellensburgh.
Whatcom county had only one
Sheriff's sale during the last year.
Major Hilton. the temperance
evangelist. is working in Tacoma.
Adjoining Ellensburgh 24O acres
of land sold Saturday for $50, 100.
A Whatcom county farmer raised
500 bushels of onions from Il acres
Walla Walla at first had the ex-
ceedingly beautiful name of Steptor-
Vile
Washington territory at first in
cluded Idaho aud portion of Mon
tana.
During the last year LOG new
school houses wers built IL this ter
ritOry.
A new NJ. L. Church costing S45,-
900 will be built IN Tacoma in the
spring.
II. Peters, a piano dealer, has
skipped" from British Columbia to
the Sound.
WalIa Walla has raised the $780,
900 subsidy agreed upon for the
Hunt railroad.
Twenty seven cases OF insanity
before the probate court of Pierce
county last year.
The attorney general decides that
he terms of county superintendent
begins on March 4.
Mrs. j. Z. Shelton. Of Centralia,
Was the first white girl born north of
the Columbia river.
The Walla Walla Union prefers
Yakima for the name of the State il
Washington is discarded.
Sullivan and Kilrain have signed
articles to fight for the champion
ship of the world next July.
In 1885 the Hudson Bay Company
established d trading post near the
present site of the town of Wallula
Abraham Hunsaker, a prominent
Mormon, is dead. aged 76. He leave.
forty children and 130 grand child
rem.
A name has been suggested fol
our new state made from the name
of Seattle and Tacoma. tits Seat
coma.
Westward the star of Empir,
takes its course" The star has "go
there" and from present indication.
will remain.
Henry L Wilson, of Spokan,
Falls, stands an excellent chance tx
be Washington Territory's next U. S
Marshal.
Tho first step at actual settlement
of the Walla Walla country wa
made in 1886 by the Whitman mis-.
sionary band.
A Pendleton, Oregon, man has T.,
900 sheep on a range near Prosser IL
this territory which sneared 13 pound
of wool each last season.
The code commission will be il
session at Olympia most of thi.
month. 1t will require several week
yet to complete the work.
The Ottawa government will per
nit its fisheries trouble with tn
United States to rest until the ney
administration comes into power.
The Kershan wheat warehouse a
Tacoma Is to be protected from fir,
by steam fire engine connected
with the large boilers in the build
ing.
Hon. G. ii. Han:ord of Seattle
chairman of the republican centra
committee, is thought to be the com
ing man for chief justice when Judg'
Burke resigns.
People who get rich enough t
spend the winter away from home ar
also able thereby to shirk lots of thu
: work and expense necessary to keel
their town growing.
Plans for the now armored cruise
Texas have been examined by Secre
tary Whitney and approved. Thes
plans were made, it will be remem
bered, in England.
Gen. Harrison is reported to hav
said that he would not appoint cab
met officer from the Pacific coast un
less the republicans of that section
abandon the factional contests.
A Portland dispatch says that tn,
re election of Senator Dolph in Ore
gon is sure. The state Legislature
will meet next Monday. 1t con
sists of ~ republicans and Is demo
Gratis.
At Yakima a committee has beer
appointed to go to Washington tc
urge the opening of the Yakima Res
ervation. There are nearly a million
acres of the finest kind of agricultur.
al land in the reservation.
j. NJ. Buckley, assistant manager
of the Northern Pacific R. II. Co.
Pacific Division. has resigned. MIR
Buckley has been SO years engaged
in railroading, and is one of the most
efficient men in that line on the
coast.
The steamer Premier will be held
in quarantine at Esquimalt until the
Goth, but her temporary withdrawal
from service will not interfere with