Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-10-18
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Although Seattle has over 200 law
yers, the number is constantly increas-
ing.
Klickitat county is the only county
yet heard from that gave a prohibition
majority.
A few acres of Puyallup hops were
not picked on account of the low
market price.
Sumner has an excelsior factory,
which turns out from cottonwood
several bales of first-class excelsior a
day.
The Walla Walla Union is the only
paper east of the Cascades that sup
ported Olympia for the Capital. And
it did it well.
The "Hotel Rainier" of Seattle,
will be formally opened about Novem-
Der 10Th. Its nickname will probably
be Tacoma"
Opium seized by the customs Off
! Gals at Port Townsend, SIT pounds,
has been sold at auction bringing.
nearly 81 900.
Z. Meeker is having painted thirty
six signs, each thirty-three feet long,
to be placed on the cars of his next
special hop train.
DIR. VIM. Munkler person of easy
address and much pretension, has
skipped out from Port Townsend,
leaving numerous creditors.
On account of the heavy rain dur
ing the last days of September, the di-
rectors of the Lewis county fair asso-
citation have postponed the fall fair
until next season.
Seattle capitalists have bought
ground ON which it is intended to
erect a magnificent theatre. to cost
5000, 600, and to excel anything now
in the Territory. 1t will be ready for
use by early summer.
The fair at Elma, Chehalis county,
last week was opened auspiciously
The first passenger train ever entering
Chehalis county reached Elma on that
day, amid the general rejoicing of the
people. The fair was success.
Gov. Moore has issued proclama-
Ftion calling for an election in Jeffer-
son county, November 2lst, to choose
a Representative. The election Oc-
ftober 1st, resulted in tie vote be-
tween Geo. II. Jones, Republican, and
HI. L. Tibbals Jr., Democrat.
| To-day, in the burnt district of
Ellensburgh, there are 4,5OO feet of
brick front buildings completed; this
means almost q mile. OF all these
buildings there is not two hundred
feet of one-story work-the majority
being two and three stories high.
The product of the Snoqualmie hop
ranch the present season is 26O tons,
while the yield along the line of the
Seattle and Eastern road will amount
to $50 tons. The 260 tons raised on
the big hop ranch, at low valuation
of Ii cents per pound, are worth $67, :
600.
Eleanor is the name of the new sta
ton between Winlock and Napavine,
on the Northern Pacific, where the
Union Pacific. road to be built between
Portlands and Port Townsend is to
cross the Northern Pacific track.
Workshops are to be erected there at
once.
Rev. d. E. Blaine, the pioneer
preacher of Seattle, built the first
church in Seattle with his own hands,
on the northeast corner OF Cherry and
Second streets, where Mr.. Horton is
now building fivc-story brick. These
four lots Mr.. Blaine sold at one time
for 81 900.
Over thousand tons of hay were
destroyed near La Grande recently by
tule fires which it is asserted were caused
by sparks from a passing engine. It
is said reclamation is to be made from
the o. r. & N. road. 1t was so ex-
ceedingly dry that the swamp lands
| burned down in many places several
feet deep.
A novel idea is to be carried into
execution for economically transport
ing brick by water from the island and
bay shores. A steam scow 12O feet
long and "a feet wide will be built,
capable of holding Al loaded brick
wagons, which will be driven on the
| scow and hauled off at Tacoma, saving
the large expense of handling brick
twice, besides being great saving in
time. 9.
Reports from the country back of
The Dalles, Arlington and Blalock's
are most discouraging. Farmers are
raising very little from their crops, in
many cases not one-tenth of crop
being obtained. DR.. Blalock, on his
big ranch back OF BlalOck's, obtained
only 1000 instead of $4,000 bushels as
anticipated. Stock is selling at any
price offered. This failure is caused
by the hot wind from the north that
came last spring while the grain was
green.
The "scholars" of Chief Moses
tribe say that "Okanikan"-now
anglacised into Okanogan-is an In
dian name meaning rendezvous"
and was applied to the Okanogan lake
the source of the river given the
same name-where the Indians of the
various tribes in Washington Terri
tory, British Columbia and even as
far north as Alaska, assembled in
potlatch," and secured their supply
of fish and game, custom they still
continue.
NJ. J. Cochran, the Republican who
was defeated on the face of the returns
in Pierce county for Representative, is
about to institute a contest for seat,
alleging fraudulent voting at one or two
precincts, which, if thrown out, will
elect him by small majority. He
was defeated by twenty-five votes, but
the Republican majority is so over
! whelming in the two houses of the
legislature that it is not supposed the
County Committee will stand by him
in the contest.
A correspondent of the .HpsRiam
Vashinqtonian, who is located at the
forks OF Humptulips river, twenty
miles above its mouth, or entrance
into Gray's Harbor, says that region Is
vet undeveloped, but contains thous-