Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-07-19

| The Stevens county court house hat
a narrow escape from fire last Wednes
day
Somebody wants new county
carved out of Pierce. King, Kitsap ant
Mason.
Pullman will either have street car.
ora street sprinkler. 1t don't know
yet, which.
The citizens of Spokane Falls are
justly proud of the horse that bears the
name of their town, -,..------- --
The new Aberdeen paper is to be
called the Bulletin and will be pub
lished by the Bulletin Publishing Co.
A new brick school house to cost
$4,000 is to be built at North Yak
ina. This is the second one in four
years.
A number of young men of Cosmop-
Oils, have organized dramatic club,
with James Buckles President, and DR..
Overmeyer Secretary.
Ex-Governor Ferry says it is not true
that lie has proposed himself for the
gubernatorial chair of the new state,
but he isin the hands of his friends.
A large delegation of Eastern capi-
talists, representing millions of dollars,
will soon arrive for the purpose of in
vestigating the resources of the Sound
cities
A Puyallup farmer has sold $3.50
OF vegetables from three-fourths of an
acre, and he thinks that his sales will
amount to 81 600 by the close of the
season.
Several new residences, a Catholic
church, a brewery, a harness shop. and
probably bank are projected for Cotton
w. T., this year, before the leaves begin
to fall
George Ohse, of Snohomlsn, was mar
ried yesterday to Miss Gussie Z. Perry,
OF FL Paso, Tex, who he secured for his
wife by means of ia matrimonial adverti-
sement.
The contract for the Denny hotel,
which is to be the largest and finest in
the west, was signed Tuesday. The
structure is to be completed in ten
months.
The Yakima Indians celebrated the
Fourth at Fort Simcoe. with speaking
singing, feats of horsemanship and
other exercises. The whites were in
vited to participate.
Mr. Alfred Holman, editor of the Post
| JY,fa -l.,h hoe l,n I'll d.
land for the last week, has so far re
covered that he hopes to return to his
duties in a few days.
The residents of Black Diamond cele
brated the Fourth in an appropriate
manner, holding their exercises in /,
shady grove, having music, addresse
and literary exercises.
Mr.. Langston and two ladies wer
wrecked in a sail boat on the rocks a
Port Blakely during hard blow yester
day. They were rescued by q passin,
vessel, but their boat was total loss
A man near Ellensburg, w. T., har
vested 46O gallons of strawberries from
seven-eights of an acre Of ground, ant
sold them at so cents per gallon. A fail
return from less than an acre of land
Last Saturday night, the 9th, tn,
store of Duffy Bros, in Aberdeen. wa.
forcibly entered and jewelry to the
amount of 81 ,OUO was stolen. No clue
to the burglars has yet been obtained
Cosmopolis now has fire company
a board of trade, first-class water work.
with stand pipes, the best town site and
the best mill and wharf, and the mosl
efficient mill company ON Gray's Har
Dor.
The regular summer assembly con
vened at Chatauqua on the 10th inst
During the assembly, prominent min.
listers, lecturers and educators from
various parts of the United States will
take part in the exercises
The CosmOpolis fire department has
completed its organization, the city
furnishing them with three common
and one extension ladders, two dozen
wood and one dozen rubber buckets
and one dozen pick axes, etc.
DR.. E. p. French, of Elma, has sold
his drug business at that place to a
gentleman from Portland, and leased
mis- store building for a year. The
Doctor will remove to Montesano and
will reside there permanently.
The Seattle Press has been sold to
Leigh Hunt, owner of the =. L., and its
influence will be used to assist him
into the Senatorial chair. Fraser, late
ly of the Budget, will be its editor, and
| 4 more competent man could not have
been selected.
Wallula Herald: Mr.. Frank Brown,
a passenger brakeman, met with an
unfortunate accident last Thursday.
He had his left hand severely mashed
while coupling cars near the freight
depot. His hand and fingers were ter
ribly lacerated, and it was found nee
essary to amputate the thumb.
f. L. Swartz was horsewhipped on
Howard street at Spokane Falls, on
the 9th, by woman named Watkins,
who accused him OF having made i'm
proper proposals to her on the Fourth,
at Ceur d'Alene city. The affair at
tracted considerable attention, Swartz
being prominent business man and
Assistant Chief of the fire department
both parties were arrested and will
have trial.
Colfax Gazette: In Whitman coun-
ty there are 113 sections, or 1890
acres of school lands, of which about
81 ,l2O acres or nearly S14 sections have
been leased by the county commission
ers. These lands have been leased at
the rate of $40 section per year and
yield an annual. revenue of 1920
Divided into small tracts, the school
lands in Whitman county would make
$50 farms OF l60 acres each.
Centralia Nems: There was an In
dian in town on Wednesday we'll known
to number of old residents here, who
until recently has been a true Siwash
copper color like unto his brothers and
sisters and cousins and aunts, etc. Re-
Gently he has presented peculiarly
mottled appearance, and now he is get
ting to be quite white. J. Buchanan,
who has known him for years, says he
is full blooded Indian and has no trace
of white blood in his veins.
Come to Washington-where peace
means plenty; where industry means
wealth where wonders cease to aston
ish; where wheat has royal record !;
where orchards, diary and garden pro-
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