Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-03

Troop F. Sec. nd Cavalry, unde
, ON !, and o. Captain S. NJ. Swigert
ar we'd at Wslla Walla from For
Walla Wall on Fri'ay last and wi
10 stationed here. They occupy th'
quarters recently vacated by bait ~
f, Fir,t Artillery, which took 6 atior
IT the Preside some time ago.
Ch ef of Pulice Butterfield, OF Seattle
raided two gambling houses, the NJ
& N" and the Bank Ex hange'
saloons about 10 o'clock Thursday
nigh. In the first nam d place three
faro dealers were arrested and the
layou,s coniiscated. At the Bank
Exchange two faro dealers wer1 ar
rested, and one layout and near'y
81 600 in gold captured. The gamb.
leis were all released on $50 bail each
In 1868 there were five miles of rail-
road in Washington Territory, now
there are over 400 m les. Previous
to 1873 no ocean steamers We're en-
pl'' 'yed in the Territory's trade, now
they make up a fleet. Its saw mill
have incre sed their cut from 10000 to
10000 feet day twenty years ago, to
2,5OO,OOO feet at present. The one
coal mine of 1868 with a yield of fifty
tons a day, has been succeeded by a
dozen mines, with daily average out
put OF 1000 tons.
Major Il. II. Handbury, engineer OF
tha hirtaap,b l;uhtlouoo f1;Str; q,
on an inspection tour along the coast
of Washington Territory in the Man
zanits, He is ac ompanied by Mr.. A.
J. Brownie, superintendent of con-
sruction of lighthouses, and Mr.. H.
e. Gould, inspector Of construction.
They will visit Destruction Island,
where Mr.. Gould will remain till tn
Manzanita returns from the Sound.
The party will next proceed 10 Tat. osh
Light and then on to the Sound.
A Democratic convention was held
at the court house Thurday night at
Tacoma, when S. A. Wheelright, secre-
tsry of the Chamber of Commerce,
nd one Of the most p,pulsr men in
the city, was nominal. d for Mayor
Thomas Carroll, the pres mt occu pant
OF that roslt oa, for City Attorney, and
NJ. NJ Taylor, late occupant of that
position, for City Treasurer. These are
all strong nominations. George Balch
was nominated for City Surveyor, and
w. c. Smith for Street Commissioner.
Full OF age and honors our old-time
pioneer and fellow citiz-n A. H. Rey-
n Ids, passed over to the great ma
jority at midnight of Saturday and
April 21st. He had but
recently returned from Califo' MIA,
whittier he had gone in sea ch of
health and since had only been secn by
his NJ Arrest relatives. 1t has been inii.
mat d of late that he was i'll, but it
was generally considered IS one of the
natural ailments resulting from cd
ag =, therefore, 1t WI great surprise
on Sund y morning to earn th-t he
had died on the night previous.-W.
". Statesman.
There has been talk lately to the
effect that the Seattle & Southern rail-
road was II Southern Pacific enter
prise, but Leland Stanford, of Cali
fornia, being interviewed upon the
point said: "Our road ends ut Port
land. As to extensions and branch
lines of the Southern Pacific, / can
only say that the railroad business is
one that will not stand still, and we
will have to build branches. At
present we have no intention of going
to Seattle" Serator Stanford con-
tinuing said he thought a railroad to
Alaska would be built in a few years.
A correspondent writing to TIE
Oregonian SAYS: "I'he districting is
done for the Constitutional C Convention,
and not very satisfactory to a portion
OF i wis county. Three precincts
are carved out of Lewis and attached
to Thurston county, forming the oath
district, while the balance o! Lewis is
joined to the eastern portion of Pierce
or aro her district. Whether there
was any motive in thus slashing up
Lewis county remains to be seen
further Oh. Lewis has q population
sufficient for one district, which, of
course, would have insured US three
delegates in the convention, and Cen
tralia woal have had one. As it nov
stands we are at the mercy # th'
northern portion OF the district which
holds The balance of power against us.
We shall, however, claim the right to
one delegate and expect Olympia to
concede that right, We being the
second largest town in the district