Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-01-25
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
There are ~ National banks in tn
Territory.

Territory.
C. S. Johnson, Il colored barber
died at Tacoma, from smallpox.
Whatcom county had only one
sheriff's sale during the last year.
The temperance people OF Spokane
Falls are to build $20, 600 temple.
During the last year l0G new school
houses were built in this Territory.
\ Whatcom county farmer raised
500 bushels OF onions from l acres.
A heavy fruit crop is promised this
year from the vicinity of Walla Walla.
A new NJ. E. church costing $45,-
600 will be built in Tacoma in the
-sisSssses.>
Alfred Dodge, a. smallpox patient
at Seattle, died in the pest-house there,
this week.
Twcntyseven cases OF insanity be-
fore the Probate Court OF Pierce coun-
ty last year.
The first National Bank of Van
couver, begins allowing interest on
time deposits.
In 1885 the Hudson Bay Company
established a trading post near the
present site of Wallula.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany will soon build new depot and
roundhouse at Chehalis.
Coal was quoted in Walla Walla the
other day at $l9 ton, and not much
to be had at that price.
A. NJ. Stokes, of Canada, is in Spo-
kane Falls, with view of establishing
a woolen mill at that place.
More than 100000 acres of land
have been entered or purchased in
this Territory this last year.
Yakima is about TO offer bonus
for Il sugar refinery. The soil there
is said to be excellent for the beet.
Chehalis is about to have furni-
ture and box factory erected there by
S. Livingstone, lately from Kansas.
The experiment of towing logs from
Puget Sound to San Francisco and
South American ports is soon to be
tried
George Ross, an old resident of Port
Townsend, died Immediately after the
performance of the ceremony of bap-
tism.
A petition has been sent to Con-
gress, from Walla Walla, asking for
the erection of a government building
i'll that city.
One piece of land at Ship Harbor,
comprising about GO acres, is bonded
for $4,000; presumably for townsite
purposes.-SkagH News.
1t is said that Mayor Hayden OF
Olympia desires to have the position
in the Seattle Land Office now occu-
pied by Receiver Shields.
a railway mail service has been es-
tablished on the route from Wood
vile to Snohomish, six times week
to take effect from the 2Sth.
Jimmy" Johnson, one Of the Oldest
sailors on Shoalwater Bay, was
drowned last week while returning
from Willapa to Oysterville.
VIM. T. Newell has resigned the
position of Clerk to the Penitentiary
Commission, and John G. Swash has
been appointed in his place.
The body of Hilaire Colbert, who
disappeared from Seattle three weeks
ago, was found few days ago, be-
tween the logs in the harbor.
Tide fiat jumping by lantern light
is the latest from Whatcom. Town
lots are staked off in all directions as
far out as bottom can be found.
A case of smallpox was discovered
in mining camp at Gilman Monday
night and the entire number of work
men, IA, have been quarantined.
The Walla Walla Statesman has
just completed its twenty-seventl
year. Excepting the STANDARD it is
the Oldest journal in the Territory.
Walla Walla Union: Mr.. Hunt has
IN contemplation the erection of q
hotel and other buildings in connec-
ton with his depot to cost $260,O00.
Several ladies were baptized at Med
ical lake the other day, hole being
cut in the ice to accomplish the act
The same thing happened at Moscow
Hon C. III. Hanford, OF Seattle
chairman of the Republican Central
Committee, is thought to be the com
ing man for Chief Justice when Judge
Burke resigns.
A Portland paper intimates thai
Col. p. B. Johnson, of the Walls
Walla Union has gone East to get the
position of Register of the Land Office
at Walla Walla.
Since the first OF the year, sever
large mogul engines have been re
ceived at the railroad shops at Taco
MA, from the Baldwin Locomotive
works in Philadelphia.
The open season for the following
game closed in this Territory on Dec
3lst: Quail, pheasant, partridge, sage
grouse, sharp-tail grouse, prairie
chicken, mountain sheep, deer, elk and
moose.
Spokane RerieW: Actual measure
ments made by City Engineer Ashley
show that $4,000 cubic feet of watel
per minute passes any given point il
the falls at this place, which cover /
distance OF about one mile, within the
limits of the city OF Spokane Falls
The total fall in that distance is 15(
feet, perpendicular measurement