Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-10
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

Inere are now I6l convicts in the
penltentiary, the largest number yet
confined.
The government proposes TO stock
the streams of Walla Walla valley with
Eastern trout
Walla Wallians can now buy coal
IN carload lots at 81 ton. The former
price was $l3 a ton.
A half interest in the Delmonico
hotel building at Walla Walla has
been sold to James Chadsey for 49,
600.
Two hundred tons of Roslyn coal,
experimentally delivered at Walla
Walla recently, proves most satisfac-
tory.
The Walla Walla creamery churns
every day, turning out 500 pounds
OF butter, which has ready sale at 80
cents.
1t is said that the circus could not
obtain ground for the erection of their
tent at Whatcom, the town was grow
ing SO fast.
Ii Seattle's trade continues to in
crease in the present ratio, it will not
be many months before her steamboat
fleet is doubled.
While digging a we'll near Walla
Walla a few days ago, man I'M
earthed the skeleton of large animal
at depth of IS feet.
Austin Meyers and John A. Shoudy
are the candidates for the Constitu-
tional Convention on the Republican
ticket at Ellensburgh.
News has reached Tacoma that Nc
Cormick, who skipped with 1000, is
in Victoria, he having been seen there
by resident of that city.
The Odd Fellows and Masons of Col
fax, will shortly begin the erection Of =
building SOxSO feet, three stories, Of
brick, and to cost $24 600.
A tailor named Leopold Steiner
was killed at Spokane Falls, Monday
night, by falling under the wheels of a
moving train while drunk.
The Steuben lodge of Odd Fellows
has been organized at Tacoma, is conf
posed of Germans, with John Geijscn-
heimer as noble grand.
Forty-eight voters of Artondale at a
meeting passed resolutions in favor Of
electing woman suffrage delegates to
the Constitutional Convention.
The new steamer Fair Haven will
soon be completed. 1t is expected
that she will be launched about tho
10th Of this month, at Tacoma.
Capt. J. J. Holland has returned
from Pasco, where he went to launch
the new steamer Thomas r. Billings
She will run on the Columbia river.
p. B. johnson and d. J. Crowly have
been nominated by the Republicans
of Walla Walia as candidates for cleo
ton to the Constitutional Convention.
The Port Blakely saw mill is the larg-
est in the world. At the present
time thirteen vessels from various parts
of the world are loading lumber at
that mill.
The sales for April by the Northern
Pacific land department at Tacoma,
were the largest ever realized in q
single month by the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company.
The large boarding house at Fort
Simcoe, Yakima county, was destroyed
by fire recently. Three Of the Indian
children in the upper story came near
being burned to death.
The Kelso Courier says that from
April LIST to April Goth, the Freeport
cheese factory received 600 pounds
OF milk, for which one cent q pound
was paid, amounting to $67O.
Shelton's two logging railroads, the
Satsop and the Mason County Cen
trail, while not working very hard, are
putting into the bay as many logs as
any outfit on the Sound at the present
time.
A Seattle party OF young men pro-
poses to ascend Mount Tacoma (Rai-
nier in Seattle) and burn red fire on
its summit during the night of July
4th. All right boys, proceed with the
show.
People over on Shoalwater bay and
along the Willapa river are excited
over report that the Northern Pa
cific will build branch down the
river to the bay, leaving tho main line
at Winlock.
James w. McCabe, in charge of the
statistical bureau of the custom house
at Port Townsend has b, en- dismissed
from the service for characterization,
subject to approval of the Secretary
Of the Treasury.
John Larson, one OF the crew OF the
bark Canada, now loading piles at Gig
Harbor, sustained q broken leg below
the knee Monday, by pile falling up
on it. He was taken to the Fanny
Paddock hospital at Tacoma.
Inspector of Customs, c. ]. Mulkey
resigned Tuesday to accept the position
of special agent OF the customs service
for the Pacific coast, with headquarters
at San Francisco. He will 60 to San
Francisco by the next steamer.
Assessor Custer, of Whatcom, says
there are 1865 population within the
limits of ono mile square, now being
Incorporated as city by the Blaine
people. The Blaine people are also
lighting to keep out the saloons.
Mr.. w. s. Adams, on the Guide Mer-
idian road, near Whatcom, has well
which sucks and emits air Mt intervals.
The volumes of air pass in and out
of the well like the ebb and flow of the
tide. Who can explain the mystery?
Seattle is one of the very few cities
in the world which have extensive
street Car systems and in which there
are no horse car lines. Seattle has be-
tween twelve and fifteen miles Of
street railway, and. notNa single herse
tear. q. sf-
Mr.. Du Bray of Walla Walla, better
known under the nom de plume OF
"Gaucho," recently Issued challenge
to anybody in Washington, Oregon or
Idaho territory to shoot an all-around
} match with rifle, revolver and shot
gun. So
Philip Wells, an insane negro, was
brought from Puyallup this week to
Tacoma, and transferred to the insane
asylum at Steilacoom. He has o hal
lucination that he is being tried for
terrible crime, and he tObs and cries
piteously.
i At Tacoma, Tuesday, the annual
city election was held, and it resulted
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