Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-31
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS

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Spokane Falls police are raidin;
Chinese opium dens.
Spokane Falls has strawberry 10.
inches in circumference.
J. NJ. Jones, n pioneer OF Spokan,
Falls died last Thursday.
Strawberries are now selling at ter
cents box at Walla Walla.
Port Townsend has recently organ
ized q Chamber OF -Cenrnaeraa----------
There is a mild epilemlc OF scarle
rash in the vicinity OF Coupeviile.
Seattle expects to have n more
commodious post office ere long.
Prisoners in the Tacoma Jail at
tempted to break out last Thursday.
Professional cracksmen, burglar,
and bank robbers have been doing Ia
coma.
The peach crop about Walla Walla
will be large. The trees now require
props.
The o OF. Lodge OF Gilman will
give the first grand ball in their hall
this evening.
The Bellingham and Fairhaven
townsites will probably be pooled for
booming purposes.
Hops are growing finely up the
Puyallup valley and are already nearly
to the top of the poles
The bank OF Shelton having proper
ly filed articles OF incorporation, is now
ready for business. Capital stock, $780,
90.
A new vein OF coal has been discov-
cred one mile from Durham, ON the
Northern Pacific Railroad in King
county.
Farmers near Waverly are expert.
menting with beets, to test the prac-
ticability OF raising sugar beets in this
Territory.
r. o. Dunbar will be candidate OF
the woman suffragists and prohibition
lists for President OF the Constitutional
Convention.
Milton's City Jail has had only one
prisoner within its walls so far during
the present year, and he was there for
being drunk.
1t is estimated that fully 10000
sheep in Walla Walla county, died by
reason OF the late heavy rains and un-
favorable weather.
The Gail notes the prospect Of the
completion OF the new brick United
States custom house at Port Town
send in an enlarged form.
At Seattle one night this week, two
men got into dispute over last weeks
election. A pistol was drawn, but for.
tunately there was no blood spilled.
Many anxious eyes are awaiting the
bitter contest soon to take place over
the location OF the State Capitol.
What's the matter with OlympiaY-
The World
Timber prOspectors report having
found the body OF man, with blank
cts, nineteen miles from Enumclaw,
King county, i'll the mountains, on the
Natchez trail.
The Little Pittsburg Gold Mining
Company, capital stock SOS 600, has
filed articles OF incorporation to do a
general mining and milling business
located at Walla Walla.
The Mckee company have fifteen
acres in tobacco this year. The pro
duct OF fifteen acres in Yakima is equal
to twenty-five acres in other tobacco
Yakima Herald.
No accident has happened on the
Yesler Avenue cable car line at Seat
tie since the opening OF the road last
October, which fact has called forth
a local mention by the Journal.
The body of man was found in
Lake Union near Seattle, Wednesday
morning. The deceased proved to be
Joseph Beckman, from Dakota, but
the cause OF his death is mystery.
The Blaine City Wharf, Land and
Water Company has been duly incor-
porated with capital stock Of no..
0 0, to construct and operate wharves
warehouses, ETC., in the town OF Blaine,
Vice-President Holcomb, OF the
Union Pacific, is on the way from
Omaha, with lot OF officials, to try to
obtain a lease OF the Northern Pacific
track between Portland and Tacoma
The Port Angeles Transportation
Company, capital stock $4,000, is
now duly incorporated to build and
operate vessels and conduct a general
transportation business at Port An
geles.
James Barry, the assistant light
house keeper near Port Angeles, wa;
capsized while crossing the bay Mon
day afternoon, and was rescued with
difficulty by men who put out from
shore in other boats.
Ellensburg New Era: A new use
has been discovered for the big tunnel
Travellers can now change their shirts
preparatory to entering Tacoma. 4
baker from Montana, although an ex
pert at the business, recently got left
Ex-Congressman Voorhees, denie
writing ex-Prcsident Cleveland, askini
him to make good Capt. H. E. Beecher'
alleged deficit in the management o
the Port Townsend Custom House, a
has been generally reported by tn
Territorial press.
Last Friday, in Wide Hollow, s vic
. ious COW attacked Mrs. Maywalt an
after getting the lady down, the brut
trampled on her and broke one bone Q
an arm and also broke her nose. Their
is no sermon in this for the co,
was a mooly-Yakima Farmer.
Mr.. P. NJ. Meeker, OF Puyallup. hu
purchased the interest OF Messrs. Fran
> and Byron Young in the Selah ditcf
and has invested $1,000 in other Yal
ina property. 1t is the intention {
: Mr.. Meeker to build residence i
G Yakima and make it his home.
The steamer Lucy Lowe, that is I
t run as a freight boat on the Scum,
9 failed to pass inspection because HI
|, boilers we're made in Victoria. Ne
ones are now being placed in her !
u Port Townsend and it will be fort
+ days before she will be ready for bus
l. ness.
# The recent rains have been Of in
mense benefit to crops in Walla Wal
county. Grain has outgrown Il
:. weeds and wild mustard, and now not
@ ing is seen but waving dark-gret
,e grain. 1t is reported that on the u
70 per fiat the average OF the fields W
exceed fifty bushels to the acre.