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

The assessment roll OF Walla Walla
amounts to ~ 2,SOO,OOO.
The foundation of the new court
house at Colfax has been laid.
DR.. r. b. Royd, an old pioneer OF
Washington, died at Whatcom, last
week.
Spokane Falls has set up a chain
gang and the result is immensely sat.
isfactory.
Spokane Falls real estate sales for the
first six months OF the year aggregate
80 90 100.
The business men of Cheney are
spending $l53,5OO on the erection OF
new buildings
Spokane Falls claims to be prepared
for fire, with daily water supply oI
10000 0 gallons.
A new brick school building in the
Weiser district has been contracted for
at a cost of $1,000
The population of Waitsburg is 500;
its wealth is $277 600, which is 1856. pa
for each inhabitant.
Five sawmills and seven shingle mills
cannot supply the demand for building
lumber at Centralia.
DIR. N. G. Blalock has been nom.
mated for Mayor by the Prog ressive
Club of Walla Walla.
The Agricultural Society of Columbia
county, managed the Fourth of July
celebration at Dayton.
Montesano is desirous OF securing for
herself the location of the State Normal
school when the time comes.
Cigarette smoking and gum chewing
after severe struggle has been aban-
doned at the Statesman Office at Walla
Walla.
The Pacific coast is being flooded
with counterfeit fifty cent pieces, and
many of them have reached Walla
Walla
The Wallula people are going to
make a determined effort to have the
county divided and that place made q
seat.
The Journal and Watchman Office at
Walla Walla, caught fire last week, but
was saved by the timely arrival of the
fire company.
James McGaughery, OF Seattle, who
was burned at the time of the FIRE, while
working to save the Collins house, is al
most recovered.
The school census of Walla Walla
shows that in district No l. there are
l,936 pupils as against 1903 in 1883,
and l,6l7 in 1887.
An inmate of the county Jail at Taco
ma was locked in dark cell for refus-
ing to aid the other prisoners to white
wash the Jail buildings.
Joe Wilson was found dead in his
cabin near Walla He was living
alone and his death is believed to have
resulted from heart disease
Edna Warrington, an inmate of
house of i'll fame at Tacoma, committed
suicide recently by placing revolver
to her temple and blowing her brains
out.
The Penitentiary expenses for the
Territory for the last quarter amount to
SS,Sl6 "a, and for running the hospital
for the insane for Eastern Washington
to $12, 2,59544.
The Seattle, Lake Shere & Eastern
Railway Company have rebuilt their
main road trestle as far as Madison
street and have relaid side tract for Yes
Ter Lumber Company.
The Pacific Coal & Mining Company
a new company started to develop the
mines east of Centralia, are to COM
mence operation as soon as the cars and
can be got.
Some lumbermen from Michigan
have gone into the woods ON the North
Fork OF Lewis, near Spelei creek, where
they will put up mill, rafting the cut
lumber down the stream.
The Tacoma Journal has a handsome
new head which improves its appear
ance very much. Mr.. Hobart the fig
ure head, is too handsome to be i'm
proved. So the journal is pre-eminent-
ly all right.
Seattle received the sum of $500 from
Tuscaro, New, the amount having
been raised for the Fourth of July eel
ebration there, but which was decided
should be sent to the rel.e. fund OF
the Sound city instead.