Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-04-26

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on the LaConner route and will prob
ably continue to do 50 until the Has
salo's repairs are completed.
The members of Company F, VIII
do not know that the coming encamr
ment of the National Guards of Wash
ington is compulsory affair, shoult
make arrangements to attend, for sucl
is fact. Get ready, for you may b.
rushed off in the heat of the day with
out even change of foot rags.-Day
ton Chronicle.
Corporal Oscar Nixon, of Company
II, Fourth United States Infantry
stationed at Fort Sherman, Ceul
d'Alene, blew the tepof his-lfsad OFF II
a bathhouss Saturday morning. HI
was treasurer Of literary association
and couldn't account for the funds
This is the third soldier suicide at Fort
Sherman in three weeks.
The term OF Office OF Mrs. Hattie
Dennison, post mistress at Vancouver
expired in February. Mr.. w. p. Hid.
dleson was appointed by Cleveland to
the Office, but as yet there is no report
OF lis confirmation, or of any other ap.
poIntment being made 10 this Office by
President Harrison. Who can explain
Why it hangs fre?-Vancouuer Register.
The south fork OF the Puyallup is
becoming a fruitful field for the skill
full trapper. Two trappers report a
catch of nearly 5000 dollars worth of
beaver, otter and mink along the banks
Of that stream. The otter caught
were OF the black kind, whose coats
are of the finest found anywhere.
This catch was the result of three
weeks work.
Peter Kirk, the iron manufacturer,
formerly of the Moss Bay Iron Works
of England, who intends starting the
i'm nense iron works at Kirkland, on
Lake Washington, near Seattle, will
arrive back from Europe in few days
with unlimited English capital, to
commence the construction of the
largest steel and iron works on the
Pacific coast.
The coal output at the Roslyn
mines, owned by the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company, amounted to q, :
574 tons during the month of March.
The output for April will average 1000
tons per day. The coal from the
Roslyn mines supplies the railroad
requi' 'ements on he Pacific division to
Portland and the Eastern divisions as
far as Spokane Falls.
Mine are passing through Ellens-
burg for the Salmon river mines in
large numbers. Ten passed through
there in one party last Wednesday.
They spent that afternoon. examining
specimens rom the new strikes, which
hey pronounce very rich in gold and
silver. They were surprised to hear
OF tie extent Of the lodges and the
magnitude of the mining district.
On the line of the Northern Pacific
Railroad from Puyallup to the Stam-
pede tunnel, the road is lined with
tramps, who are daring in their impor-
tunities, and when begging at the
farm houses refuse food but demand
money. Many an old shotgun has
been taken down and overhauled, then
loaded with a good load of bird-shot to
be in readiness for an extraordinary
occasion.
Preparations are active for the Grand
Army OF the Republic Territorial en-
campment at Spokane Falls, April oath
and 18th. The first day there will be
grand parade, address of welcome by
C. r. Conners, grand campfire at night,
speeches by Mayor Fourth, John L.
Wilson, General Sprague, Colonel Hol-
comb, Colonel F, ,ighan. Second day
Business meeting, election OF officers,
and in the evening a banquet and
ball.
The powder house of the Burlington
mine at Burlington, w. T., was discover
ed to be on fire Sunday. The magazine
containing large amount of caps and
giant powder. The alarm was quickly
given, and every inhabitant of the
town fled to the hills adjoining for
safety. Soon terrible explosion took
place which produced shock like an
earthquake. The new public school.
house situated near the magazine, was
badly wrecked, and window glass was
broken all over town.
A force of forty men will begin grad
ing the roadbed for the Tacoma &
Lake City railroad next Monday. The
work will be under the supervision of
r. B. Mullen, the well-known contrac-
tor, who has been elected Assistant
General Manager of the road. The
road will be narrow gauge, e1 tending
from Tacoma to American Lake, dis
tance of about nine miles. The Ia
coma terminus will be on the western
borders of the city limits, in section 6,
near the western end of Eleventh
street.
The Bellevue, Idaho, Herald says:
A novel team stopped in front Of our
Office this morning. 1t was composed
of four cows and was hitched to
wagon ticking mover and his outfit to
Washington Territory. They had
come from Nebraska, a distance of
over l 600 miles. The cows were in
good condition, except that they were
foot-sore and needed shoeing. The
rancher carries with him his wife and
six children, supply of milkpans and
a churn. The revenue from butter
made on the wing supplies the party
with refreshments"
Captain White, who suddenly left
Port Townsend one year ago while
master of the steamer Premier, and
was reported to have absconded with
$4,000 of the Canadian Navigation
Company's money, has returned from
San Francisco. He has been absent,
sailing around the world, gong to
New York, thence TO London and
home to the Pacific coast via China.
The best detectives on the coast we're
employed to trace him, but not word
was ever heard from him until now.
White has shipped as first officer on
the steamer Libby, recently purchased
by Captain H. Beecher, late Treasury
agent, and will run on the Sound.
Au unsuccessful party started out
last Tue day night to charivari young
couple in Reeds addition, but instead
OF surprising anybody, they were sur
prised, for as they stood brayely be-
ne tn the second story window some
thing came down on their precious
heads. which paralyzed two of the
musicians completely. One is now
laid up with a scalded head and the
other had to 60 home and change his
clothes, but it will be a week before he
can get the smell out OF them again.
However, it serves them right. Chari-
varies are nothing but crude insults,
and those who deem it sport and in