Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-06-07

or Ellensburg.
The steamer Bee was burned sun
day noon at Seattle.
| Whatcom expects to soon have a
furniture factory.
New potatoes are appearing at Fern
dale, Wha com county.
Memorial Day was appropriately OBJ
served on Nashon island.
| Whatcom reports Strawberries as
large as Eastern tomatoes.
The Or, ing people are rrioicei over
their lately acquired water supply.
Chehalis will celebrate the coming
Fourth OF July in an appropriate man
ner.
The Point Hudson Ice Company ha-
commenced operations at Port Town
8 nd.
The Tacoma News has starte a re-
lief t, n for the Pennsylvania sui
erers.
Slaughter will have a new depot at
once to take the place of the on,
lurned.
The output OF butter at the Walla
Nalla creamery last week was 12,'r 0
pounds.
The Quincy cabs were out on the
streets at Tacoma, Thursday, for the
first time
Tacoma has several residents who
came from the deluged city Johns
town, Pa.
A California syndicate proposes to
build five or six miles of electric rail
way in Ellensburg.
Surveys OF the navy yard site at Port
richard have been ordered to be COM
menced Immediately.
A rich boly OF high grade ore was
struck last Monday at the Arlington
mine, in Ruby mountain.
A postoffice will soon be established
on Blakely Island on the route from
Port Townsend to Whatcom.
The finance committee at Seat IL
expect to raise $4,000 with which to
celebrate the Fourth of July.
The plans for Grace seminary a,
Centralia, a Baptist institution, we're
.'esIgned by r. l.. Robertson of Tacoma.
Seattle is ahead on hearses, having
received the handsomest and most
costly vehicle OF the kind in the North
west.
Harry A. Clark has taken charge OF
the Clerks office of the District Court
at Spokane Falls, relieving J. Kennedy
Stout.
Buildings whose cost will aggregate
over 81 5000 0 are in progress, or will
soon be under construction, at Port
Townsend
1t is said that 10000 sheep died by
reason of the late heavy rains and un-
favorable weather in the vicinity o:
Walla Walla.
Mrs Barrett, the original TOWNSHIP
owner OF Chehalis, will erect a SIC, 900
opera house at that place, with stores
on the first floor.
| The Blaine-Lynden plank road in
Whatcom county is not receiving
much encouragement from the farm
ers along the way.
The Port Townsend and Northwest
ern College is advancing in most en-
couraging manner, and the number of
pupils is increasing.
The family of Associate Justice Cal
kilns, of the Supreme Court have ar
rived at Spokane Falls, where they
will hereafter reside.
Mrs. p. Lewis, a new conner, WAS
taken suddenly sick at Spokane Falls
last week, and on the way to the hos
pital died in the carriage
The summer assembly of the Puget
Sound Chautauqua club will convene
on Vashon island June 10Th, and con-
tinue until the 18th of August.
A piece of land 96xIOO feet, at Pasco,
planted in melons last year brought
its owner 1924 cash, besides a great
many melons were given away.
Nelson Bennett says that Kalama.
has the best location in Southern Wash
ington, and within few years it will
be city of 10000 inhabitants.
Capt. J. II. Thomas has donated
plen,lid lot on Second street to North
fakima Tor municipal bull .ings, which
has been accepted by that city.
William McBain, Indian interpreter
at the Umatilla agency, has been
awarded nearly $500 damages for
property destroyed by Indians in 1855.
On Bellingham bay there are about
Is saloons wholesale and retail, IA of
which are in the city OF Whatcom,
paying 5000 per year license each.
There is scarcity of ice in Seattle,
he daily consumption being ten tons.
The local ice works turn out but five
ons daily, the deficiency being shipped
rom Portland.
The growth OF Kent is wonderfully
rapid, but the more that come the
more room there seems to be. There
is not man in town willing to work
who is idle.-Recorder.
Tom Armstrong, the proprietor of
saloon in Seattle, has been arrested for
ituffing the mouth OF drunken man
with paper and setting it on fire, just
o see the alcohol burn" The mouth
md throat of the victim were seriously
injured.
A large number of filings have been
made on lots in the TOWNSHIP OF Chelan.
II is laid off near the confluence of
Chelan lake and river, has command
ing view of the lake and is near the
immense water power made by the
rapid fall Of the river.
A man named Henderson jumped
or fell from scow at Ranke's brick
yard at Seattle Tuesday night and was
rowned. The boly was recovered a
short distance from where he fell in.
he rowling was the result o. an ac-
ilen., it is sal I.
The sloop Albatross, w. $. Thomp-
son, OF Seattle, George Wilson, master,
vas seized OIL Hoods canal at 9 o'clock
aturday morning by the revenue
cutter Wolcott. Accor, ing to report
> the vessel was engaged in opium SNUG
Cling, but the search revealed nothing
! The vessel has been suspected fox
some time