Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-06-21
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

Chehalis sent $793 to the relief com
mittce at Seattle.
Seattle is to be repla.ted, the street
made wider and Strengthened.
The Stevens county court house 'ha,
a narrow escape from fire last Wednes
day.
Alex Helmund was adjudged insan
at Tacoma Monday and sent to Stella
cOOn., z7t -sAa3i
No wooden buildings will be con
structed at Seattle within the fir,
limits.
At Colfax, II. w. Livingston is pre-
pairing to sink an artesian well on hi
property.
The roundup in the Police court a
Tacoma Monday morning was an un
usually large one.
Customs Inspector l.. l.. Bower.
seized a quantity of opium at Stella
COON last Friday.
Seven hundred dollars and another
car OF flour were sent to Seattle, Tues
day, from Walla Walla.
There are only $4,000 Chinese on
the coast, OF which but a small percent
age are in Washington,
Walla Walla has forwarded $1,000
in money and car load of flour and
tents to Seattle sufferers.
Walla Walla has shipped straw.
berries this summer as far east as St
Paul, also to Des Moines.
The Agricultural Society of Column
bia county, will manage the Fourth OF
July celebration at Dayton.
The sawmill at Kent burned Wednes-
day. 1t was a mill of large capacity,
and valued at about 100000.
All the fish caught in the Colville
river thus far this spring have cost, on
an average, about 1888 apiece.
Mr.. r. Merchant, of Seattle, candy
manufacturer, is the first victim of the
fire to file articles of insolvency.
The Colville Mining company arc
now over 200 feet in the hill and expect
good showings in about 80 days.
At Ellensburg -four is selling at
$3.75 per barrel, eggs % cents dozen
and butter at 80 cents per two-pound
rolls.
The Constitutional Convention will
have quite a number of delegates who
will be ardent advocates of woman suf-
frage.
"Queena" was put on the stage at
Dayton by home talent, Wednesday
night, for the benefit of a public Ii.
brary.
James Parker sent from Spokane
Falls for bunkoing, has been pardoned
from the penitentiary by Governor
Moore.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Merchants National bank at Tacoma
the capital was increased from 100000
to $25O,O0O.
Miss Caroline DeSepine, of Walla
Walla, and C. B. DeAnin, of New York,
were married by moonlight at Tacoma,
Monday night.
The Journal and Watchman Office at
Walla Walla, caught fire last week
but was saved by the timely arrival OF
the fire company.
Benjamin NJ. Bradfeld, laborer
who came to Tacoma from Wisconsin
last winter, has been sent to the
asylum at Steilacoom.
The Tacoma mill is not running
this week. Every mill in the trust is
compelled to shut down one week
during the present month.
James McGaughey, of Seattle, who
was burned at the time of the fire,
while working to save the Collins
house, is almost recovered.
An inmate of the county Jail at Ia
coma, was locked in a dark cell for re-
fusing to aid the other prisoners to
whitewash the Jail buildings.
According to the Assessor, North
Yakima now has a population of from
2,7OO to 5000. Three years ago the
town had population of GOO.
Saturday night the Deputy Sheriff,
of Tacoma, with his six shooter in
hand, drove eleven tough characters
out of the city over the Steilacoom
road.
Some lumbermen from Michigan
have gone into the woods on the North
Fork of Lewis river, near Spelei creek
where they will put up mill, rafting
the cut lumber down the stream.
Mr.. Michael Schultheis, of Union
town, met with quite mishap on last
Friday while trying to separate lot of
young horses. He was pushed over
and had three of his ribs loosened.
The union stonecutters of Spokane
Falls have struck for reduction of
time to nine hours, at former prices, S.
per day. One firm acceded to the de-
mand and the men resumed work.
The large sawmill at Kent was
burned Tuesday afternoon, and the
flames catching to several surround
ing dwellings they were all burned.
The loss will amount to fully $50, 600.
The house of N. l.. Narragan was
entered by burglars at Ellensburg Mon
day night, and gold and silver watch
and some money stolen. Other rob
berries occurred in that place the same
night.
The Governor and County Commis-
stones Of Walla Walla county have
made an investigation of the charges
of inhuman treatment of prisoners in
that county. 1t is not believed that
the charges will be substantiated.
James Mccormick, the leader of a
surveying party that has been engaged
for some months past in the vicinity
of Gray's harbor, remarked that he
never visited a finer country than that
section. He says the timber growing
in the vicinity of where he was prin-
cipally occupied, to the south of the
harbor, is magnificent, in size and
quality. There are also good streaks
of promising country.
Mr.. Saml Collyer, of Tacoma, who
visited the Palouse section recently,
talked as follows toa Tacoma reporter
The acreage of wheat in the Colfax
district is II per cent. more than last
year. Farmers are pouring into that
country from all directions. The land
is easily cultivated. l had delight
full morning ride through part OF the
wheat district from Coliax to Garfield,
a distance OF about twenty miles. The
farms in that section look like eastern
farms. They are fenced and well i'm
proved.