Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-10-11
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON TERRITORY FRIDAY EVENING" H. 1885,
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Two hundred and forty-nine pupils
were enrolled in the Colfax public
schools on the opening day.
The Tacoma and Seattle hook and
ladder teams are to contest each
others ability for 81 900 side.
About 100000 have been expended
this summer in Whatcom and Sehome
in grading and planking streets.
The first carload of hops ever sent
to San Francisco from Puget Sound
was shipped last Thursday from King
county.
The World is the name OF uew
paper published at South Bend, Pa
c!tic county, by R. E. Ferry and W. s.
Crouch.
Mr.. E. Ingle, a farmer living near
Walla Walla, has sold nearly $2,OOO
worth of fruit this year from fifteen
acre orchard.
Bricks are sold at the Walla Walla
penitentiary for $3.50 per thousand,
delivered on the cars. They are made
by the convicts.
The Centralia News has been pur-
chased by John A. Taylor, who for
merly owned it, and is now straight
Democratic in politics.
All the brick yards about Ellens-
burgh are running to their fullest ca
pacity, making 10000 brick daily and
still they are behind with their orders.
Carl Schurz and the silver
tongued" Dan Dougherty are spoken
of as possible candidates for the seat
in Congress left vacant by the death
of S. S. Cox.
There are 314 patients in the Terri
torial asylum at Stei,lcoom. OF males
there are 234; females 80. Western
Washington is represented by 2l4 and
Eastern Washington by 1OOpatients.
Henry Roch, of Diamond, picked a
ton of apples off of eight trees, this
season, or eleven tons to the acre from
eight-year-old trees; at two cents a
pound, equal to $44O.-CoJa1 Gazette.
Logging has resu med its former ac-
tivity in Mason county, but rather late
in the year to get out a heavy output
for this winter. The price is at the
old figure-$7 per thousand for good
logs.
The Congregational Church at Spo-
kane Falls has sold its old church
site for $4,000, and has procured an
other site for $4,000 and expects to
build $4,000 church as soon as pos
sible.
The sudden di appearance of Sheriff
Green, of Pacific county, eighteen
years ago, was explained a few days
ago by the finding of skeleton by the
constructing corps of a railroad neal
Shoalwater Bay.
At Walla Walla, last week
John Ryan stabbed Jacob Schwartz
through the cheek. producing a terri
BILE wound. Schwartz was endeavorine
to quiet Ryan, who was drunk and
noisy. He was arrested.
Attorney General Metcalfe has in.
vestigated charges against District At.
torney Newlin at Seattle and recon-.
mends that he be indicted. He is
charged with unlawfully dismissing
gambling cases a short time since.
1t is nov generally understood that
the so-called gold excitement is sim.
ply scheme of a number of we'll
known people to obtain possession oil
some of the most valuable property in
the neighborhood of Tacoma school
section sixteen.
The house of Thomas Lyttleton out
at Mason Lake, Mason county, was
broken down by tree the other day
and afterwards caught fire and burned
nearly everything the owner had
Mason Lake has numerous settlers
and they are doing considerable te
open up that locality.
Johnnie McCloud, who lives one
mile south of Tekoa, has just finished
threshing his grain On thirty-si1
acres he raised 13 500 bushels of wheat
(machine measuremenD an average O
over thirty-four and half bushels t.
the acre. For a general crop failure
this is not a very bad showing.
A proposition from two local capi
talists with reference to the building
of large hotel, has been made to the
citizens of Port Townsend. The par
ticulars are as follows: If an accepta
BILE block on the hill and $4,000 ir
money be donated by the people they
will cree! a hotel and furnish i
throughout at cost of not less thar
$150,OQO.
The wife of Alexander Vincent, {
pioneer ON Puget Sound, committed
suicide ON the 30th ult., at he
home, about mile and a half from
Port Townsend, on the Port Discovery
road. She was found lifeless by he
daughter and neighbor, suspended
by rope made Of strips of cloth, fas
tened by a loop and thrown over cor
ner of door standing slightly ajar.
Henry Day, of Dayton, recently solo
his entire band of 1O,357 sheep to Q
Mr.. William Biddell for $1.75 PEI
head. Mr.. Biddell is purchasing fol
an English syndicate which has Sc
cured control of an immense tract o.
land on the Canadian Pacific in Cana
da, and which they are stocking. The
syndicate expect to purchase 10000
sheep in that vicinity and in Whitman
county.
John Hutchins, a seaman in the
Marine Hospital, at Port Townsend
had leg amputated above the knee
by DR.. Glennan, of the hospital, three
weeks ago, and the limb is now com.
pletely healed. The doctor attributes
this remarkably rapid healing to the
climate of Washington and says that
he has never seen any climate in
which wounds heal so rapidly as here,
and he has been in all sections of the
Union.
A scow-load of brick from Japan,
the first ever brought to Puget Sound,
were lately landed at Seattle from
one OF the tea-ships, which brought
them for ballast. There were 100000
of them and each brick has the
name OF the maker stamped on it in
Japanese characters. The bricks are
one third larger than those made here,
and of excellent quality, but the
price $40. so per thousand is on cor
responding ratio.
Tho wayehouso m Copouarc;al