Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-02-22
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

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TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
The Territory is everywhere pros
porous.
A woolen mill is projected for North
Yakima.
A new sawmill has been just erected
at Ferndale.
Wild land near Bellingham Bay is
selling at $500 per acre.
James II. Smith has been appointed
postmaster at Cle-elum.
A movement is on foot to establish
a meat canning business at Weston.
About 300 men are engaged in rail-
road grading around Bellingham Bay.
Washington has had fifteen Cover
nors since it became Territory in
1853.
The estimated cost of the sewerage
system to be built in Walla Walla is
$155,OOO.
The Odd Fellows of Puyallup own
lot and are talking of building their
own hall.
Rabbits have become a great pest in
Palouse country since the coyotes were
killed off.
The Cheney Sentinel calls Washing
ton the bright land of the afternoon
sunshine"
Nelson Bennett was teamster ten
years ago. Now he is several times
millionaire
The Mayor of Spokane Falls has is
sued an order to prevent prize fighting
in that city.
The Wannacut lake district, on the
Upper Okanogan, is reported to be
rich in gold quartz.
Brick will be manufactured by
steam machinery at the Walla Walla
penitentiary this spring.
G. II. Lerimstea shot an uncommon
ly large wild cat at Ten Mile, What
com county, few days ago.
Sixty men are employed in Spo-
kane Falls on the Seattle, Lake Shore
and Eastern in construction.
Charlie Tiernan, of Lewiston, near
Walla Walla, died of hydrophobia, the
result Of bite OF q dog received last
fall.
There is great difficulty in land
ing provisions on Destruction island
to supply the men building the light
house there.
At Port Townsend block OF land
has been donated to the Catholic
bishop for the purpose of building n
sisters hospital.
F. NJ. Worthington has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Ladu, Lewis
county, in place of Mrs. 8. r. Hackett,
who has resigned.
Rumor has it that the Port Town.
send Southern railroad has purchased
the townsi:e of Union City, near the
head of Hoods canal.
Under the new management of the
school lands in Walla Walla county,
revenue OF nearly $4,000 is expected
for the benefit of the schools.
Immigration is pourin & into Walla
Walla so rapidly that the city hall
has been vacated and made into an
immigrants temporary home.
Chehalis and Centralia are two of
the liveliest towns in the Territory.
They are situated on the line OF the
N. p. Il. r. only four miles apart.
The Washington Territory pine
forests are estimated to contain l60,-
OCO, ,OOO,O 600 feet. This is more than
Michigan or Wisconsin ever had.
p. F. Johnson, of Aberdeen, charged
with burglary, reclines in the Monte
sano steel cage, in fault OF $500 bail for
appearance at the May term of court.
Frank I. and Henry Clayburg,
brothers, were killed on the I'd of this
month at Halton, Adams county, by a
we'll in which they were at work caving
in upon them, burying them beneath
Is feet of earth.
A proposition to erect cannery in
North Yakima was made to the Board
Of Trade Monday, by parties from
Ohio. The proposition was accepted
By the board, and work begins on the
buildings next week.
The creamery at Walla Walla will
begin work vigorously on the 18th.
The milk of ITO cows has already been
secured. Cream is paid for ut the
rate Of % cents for each gauge max
ing pound of butter.
While the passengers were being
landed from the steamer Wilduo0d
ut Port Townsend, Wednesday, in q
small boat, the craft capsized, empty
ing the people and the mails into the
water. No one was injured.
In publishing the report Of the COM
mittee concerning the orchard prize
offered by the editor of this paper
there was an awkward misprint last
Friday. The names of the gentlemen
composing the committee are K.
Meeker of Puyallup, ]. G. Swan of
Olympia and c. w: Lawton of Seattle.
-Intelligencer. Yes, and an equally
awkward" blunder is made in the
correction, leaving the reader in doubt
as to whether it is J. NJ Swan of
Olympia, or J. G. Swan OF Port Town