Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-06-14
Ellcnsburg has a candy factory.


l. at Walla Walla.
An early morning train killed {
pony at Puyallup, last Wednesday.
Twenty-Five Cinnamon are engaged
in washing gold between Yakima anc
l Ellensburg.
Twelve thousand acres OF new ground
is being broke up by one firm near
Pennington.
The Hoquiam Mill company has cut
during the past seven years, 9S,346, 401
r feet OF lumber.
Six saloons in Centralia, Lewis
! county, and more coming, and three
school houses.
Five of the six delegates from Whit.
man county are in favor OF electing all
officers this fall
Oregon and Washington horses are
being driven to Okanogan country for
summer pasture.
A number of ladies are soliciting
funds to build a temperance temple"
at North Yakima.
Worms have destroyed the foliage
and fruit of many of the Puyallup
valley fruit trees.
Mrs. p B. Egbert has been appoint
ed postmistress at Gle Elum, vice
James =. Smith, removed.
Twelve thousand acres of new
ground is being broken by one firm in
Whitman county, near Pennington.
The Tacoma mill company's old
store and Office buildings are being de-
molished, to make room on the wharf.
An artesian well at Pullman Whit
man county, is spouting GO gallons of
pure cool water minute, 1900 gal
Ions day.
NJ. d. Hawksworth, right -Of-way-man
for the Centralia & Gray's Harbor road,
has secured the right Of way for about
10 miles of the road.
The Ellensburg Board of Trade
have secured the finest rooms in Olym-
pia for their headquarters during the
sitting OF the Constitutional Conven-
ton.
Messrs. J. NJ. Baxter and Frank
Sharkey, of the lower Yakima, are
closing the contract for an irrigating
ditch to cover their several sections of
land.
Bishop Paddock when in Montesano,
Chehalis county, last week, expressed
n hope that he would soon be able to
establish an Episcopal society and
erect church building there.
The best steam and gas coal yet
found in Washington is within %
miles of the town of Snohomish. Iron
of the finest quality is untouched and
almost unknown, save to Il few in the
country.
The various cattle-men started from
Yakima Tuesday on their annual
roundup. They first go down the
Yakima on the north side of the river.
1t is estimated that month will be
consumed in the round up.
The contract for the erection of the
Farmers Bank building of Puyallup
has been let to 7. r. Jacobs, recently
from California, the contract price
being $14,675. Its dimensions will be
4Oxl0O feet, two stories high.
A cougar was caught carrying off
calf weighing 200 pounds up the river
on Dry creek, Whitman county.
Though the cougar weighed only 100
pounds he had carried the 200 pound
calf distance of over two miles.
The great mill combination that en-
forces an idleness Of all mills one day
in one week, one week in each month,
and one month in each year, is exer-
cising rather depressing influence
ON building in all the Harbor towns.
Messrs. Leilienthal & Co, hop mer-
chants, San Francisco, have decided to
build a large hop warehouse on their
lots just south of the depot at Puyul-
lup. 1t is expected that work will be
commenced on this building in a few
days.
The excavation OF the bluff at Ia.
coma for the Touring mill is very ex-
tensive, the earth taken out being
dumped on the beach to make a solid
foundation for the company's wharfs,
for which hundreds of piles are being
driven.
When Robt. MeCalley, Deputy As
SCISSOR, of Walla Walla county, called
upon DIR. Glove to consult with him in
relation to his earthly goods, and after
the Assessor got through, the doctor
, charged him $3.50 for consultation.
But" said the doctor, "Time with me
is money" and Bob had to bungle.
Lightning struck the residence of c.
I. Helm at Ellensburg, last Thursday.
1t entered the roof of the kitchen,
passed down the wall splintering the
boards, and through the floor. Mr.
Helms young daughter was in the
kitchen at the time, and was severely
shocked but not otherwise injured.
The street fakir again visited Yaki-
ma Wednesday and again the simple
minded parted with their dollars. A
bottle of water with the squirt of the
essential oils in it will always catch
the sucker, and he will always pay
fifty cents for what could be bought in
the drug stores for a dime-Herald.
st. John is a new town situated in
Pleasant Valley, in the Palouse coun-
try, on the O. q. & N. railway from
Portland to Spokane Falls. The town
site was selected three months ago,
and so lots have been sold and build
ings will be put up by nearly all the
purchasers as soon as lumber can be
had
There are four fish traps in Yakima
county and two in Kittitas, which eff
fectually close the streams, preventing
salmon from getting up to the spawn
ing ground. Unless the law is COM
piled with by the owners of these traps,
Prosecuting Attorney Snively pro-
poses to commence proceedings against
them.
Ed. Dugan, of Selig, Ohio was in
Yakima last week for tho purpose of
examining the tobacco in the interest
of large Ohio manufacturing house
Mr.. Dugan brought with him some
Burleigh tobacco seed, which he want.
ed Yakima to try. He thought that
valley would eventually be great to-
bacco-growing country.
Among the new towns that have
come into the Grand Coulee since the
railroads have made their appearance
are McInlee, located just where the
two railroads cross each other. Last
year the Northern Pacific did about
$4,000 worth of grading, just where
the town now stands, and the
Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern some